 Robert Aldrich (qv) earned so much money off the back of his film  _Dirty Dozen, The (1967)_ (qv) that he was able to buy his own film  studio and make the kind of films he wanted to make. Unfortunately  the first three that he made independently  (_Killing of Sister George, The (1968)_ (qv),  _Legend of Lylah Clare, The (1968)_ (qv) and  _Too Late the Hero (1970)_ (qv)) were all box office flops. When  this movie also crashed and burned at the box office in 1971,  Aldrich was forced to sell his studio and go back to being a  director for hire.