Essentials by Actor: Robert Mitchum
After Robert Mitchum received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for
The Story of G.I. Joe
(1945), he soon established himself as the perfect
film noir
leading man. Through the '50s and '60s he took on more varied
roles, from romantic leads to chilling villains, demonstrating with every scene
that there was much more to a Mitchum performance than learning lines
and following orders.
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El Dorado
(1967)
John Wayne
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March 21, 2000
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El Dorado doesn't quite have the scope or ambition of Howard Hawks's greatest Westerns, Red River and Rio Bravo. But this relaxed picture, made near the end of Hawks's marvelous career, still shows the steady, sure hand of a master. Hawks reunites with John Wayne, playing a hired gun ...
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The Night of the Hunter
(1955)
Don Beddoe
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January 25, 2000
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In the entire history of American movies, The Night of the Hunter stands out as the rarest and most exotic of specimens. It is, to say the least, a masterpiece--and not just because it was the only movie directed by flamboyant actor Charles Laughton or the only produced solo ...
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Thunder Road
(1958)
Robert Mitchum
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April 25, 2000
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The preeminent moonshine movie, the 1958 Thunder Road stars Robert Mitchum as a backwoods bootlegger in Tennessee, getting squeezed by both the federal government and organized crime. Mitchum had a big hand in creating this cult favorite (which reportedly played in drive-ins around America for years), writing the script, ...
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Cape Fear
(1962)
Gregory Peck
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September 18, 2001
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Superior to Martin Scorsese's punishing 1991 remake, this 1962 thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson (...
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The Yakuza
(1975)
Robert Mitchum
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January 23, 2007
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Complex to the point of being pleasingly convoluted, this Sydney Pollack film (from a terrific script by Robert Towne and Leonard and Paul Schrader) is an intriguing blend of Western and Asian sensibilities. Mitchum, in one of his best roles of the 1970s, ...
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The Story of G.I. Joe
(1945)
Burgess Meredith
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May 23, 2000
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As they march into yet another devastated Italian town, one of the soldiers of Company C neatly sums up the average infantryman's experience of World War II: "When this war's over, I'm gonna buy me a map and find out where I've been." Released less than th...
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The Big Sleep
(1978)
Robert Mitchum
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April 23, 2002
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Robert Mitchum is back as the legendary private investigate, Philip Marlowe. This adaptation of Raymond Chandler's classic hardboiled detective mystery features an all-star cast, including Richard Boone, Joan Collins, Sir John Mills, James Stewart and Oli...
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The Sundowners
(1960)
Deborah Kerr
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January 23, 2007
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An episodic account of a family of roving sheepherders in Australia. Paddy Carmody (Robert Mitchum) loves being "someone whose home is where the sun goes down," but his wife (Deborah Kerr) and teenage son are tired of the nomadic life and want to settle do...
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Crossfire
(1947)
Robert Young
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Turner Home Ent
July 5, 2005
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Crossfire was nominated for the 1947 Best Picture Oscar won by Gentleman's Agreement. Gentlemen may propose, if not agree, that Crossfire was better. Like its upscale rival, the film noir raises the specter of anti-Semitism in America: just after World War II, an affable Jew (Sam Levene) is beaten ...
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