Movies pick up on it

“I don’t think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.’’

— Robert Burgess Aldrich (1918-1983), scion of a very rich and powerful Rhode Island WASP family, he was a film director, writer and producer.

His movies include

Vera Cruz (1954), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), Autumn Leaves (1956), Attack (1956), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), The Dirty Dozen (1967) and The Longest Yard (1974).