The Greatest Mother of 'em All
The Greatest Mother of Them All is a 1970 short film made by Robert Aldrich.
Plot
A Hollywood director, Sean Howard, lives with a teenage girl and has to deal with the girl's mother.
Cast
- Peter Finch as Sean Howard
- Alexandra Hay as Dolly Murdock
- Ann Southern as Tricia Murdock
- Katherine Woodville as Eva Frazer
- Barry Russo as Gene Frazer
Production
The film was inspired by the relationship between Errol Flynn and Beverly Aadland. Aldrich said in 1972 they made the film "just at the time that everybody was getting very sanctimonious about sex pictures. It's a half-hour movie, like a long trailer, and I think it's pretty good. But nobody wanted this thing about a broken-down Hollywood director who found a 16 year old girl and shacked up with her and had a heart attack, etc. We spent $90,000 getting it mounted to show people what it was all about, which I thought was an ingenious piece of showmanship, but nobody else agreed with me. I also think that it was very stupid timing. If I had been bright enough, I would have known that the cycle had passed. Whereas a year before that picture would have sold like hotcakes. So no more war pictures and no more "Hollywood" pictures for a while. I'm a sucker for them. I can't find any; and I'm trying not to look."[1]
References
- ^ mr. film noir stays at the table Silver, Alain. Film Comment; New York Vol. 8, Iss. 1, (Spring 1972): 14-23.
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