The Night They Raided Minsky’s

…died in 1967 while filming The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968), in which he played a burlesque veteran.

Equally ambitious was The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968), a lively comedy about an innocent Amish girl who becomes a burlesque dancer in 1920s New York City. Friedkin earned generally positive reviews for The Boys in the Band (1970), a controversial drama that presented a frank look at…

…the West (1968), William Friedkin’s The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968), and Sam Peckinpah’s The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970). Robards later earned two consecutive Academy Awards for his subtle, well-modulated performances as The Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee in All the President’s Men (1976) and