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Robert Mitchum
born 6 august, 1917 in bridgeport, connecticut; died 1 july, 1997 in montecito, california, of lung cancer and emphysema-related complications.
first achieved fame as a child poet in his native new england. he was a teenage hobo during the great depression and served time on a georgia chaingang for vagrancy.
began his hollywood career in the hopalong cassidy 'horse operas' before graduating to full features and howard hughes' rko studio. was infamously arrested for possession and use of illegal narcotics in 1948, although this was later expunged from his record and he was cleared of all charges.
although he had a reputation as a fighter, womaniser, drug-taker and drunkard, mitchum was highly regarded in hollywood, not least for his high level of professionalism on set, and for his willingness to stand up for his supporting cast and crew.
he appeared in approximately 120 movies, notably ' Out Of The Past' (1947), ' The Night of the Hunter' (1955), 'heaven knows, mr allison' (1957), ' Thunder Road' (1958), ' The Sundowners' (1960), both versions of ' Cape Fear' (1962 and 1991), 'ryan's daughter' (1970), ' The Friends of Eddie Coyle' (1973), and the tv miniseries 'north and south' (1985) and 'war and rememberance' (1988-89).
he never won an oscar but was nominated as best supporting actor in 1945 for his role in 'the story of g i joe'. shortly after his death, fellow actor Jack Nicholson dedicated his oscar to mitchum.
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Robert Mitchum - what members say
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Gripping 27 February 2005
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A descent ripoff of Rio Bravo 8 July 2004
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Fantastic remake 3 November 2004
Robert Mitchum - filmography
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War and Remembrance, Parts 1-7
(2004)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Victoria Tennant, Hart Bochner
Director: Dan Curtis
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The continuation of Herman Wouk's epochal saga that began with "The Winds of War" (1983). This sequel begins one week following the bombing of Pearl Harbor and recreates the events of World War II. The actions of real historical figures are intertwined with those of fictional characters who are ..read more »
 
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from 32 members
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Dead Man
(1995)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Gabriel Byrne
Director: Jim Jarmusch
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William Blake (Johnny Depp) set out on an exciting journey to start his life over in a new town with a new job. He never could have prepared himself for what was to come. Through a mysterious chain of events, he becomes involved in a love triangle that ends in a double murder--with him as the ..read more »
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from 5,905 members
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Cape Fear - Blu-ray
(1991)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 film is a stylish, taut thriller. Public defender Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) served as the attorney for brutal rapist Max Cady (Robert De Niro) at his arraignment. Shocked by the violence of Cady's crime, Sam duplicitously withheld information ..read more »
73%
from 121 members
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Cape Fear
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 film is a stylish, taut thriller. Public defender Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) served as the attorney for brutal rapist Max Cady (Robert De Niro) at his arraignment. Shocked by the violence of Cady's crime, Sam duplicitously withheld information ..read more »
70%
from 17,938 members
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The Brotherhood Of The Rose
(1989)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Peter Strauss, Connie Sellecca
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
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Peter Strauss and David Morse play polar-opposite CIA agents, code names Romulus and Remus. Their superior-and father figure-is crusty CIA official Robert Mitchum. Though Romulus and Remus are devoted to Mitchum, he is only concerned with the greater good of the service-a philosophy that has become ..read more »
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from 8 members
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Scrooged
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Alfre Woodard
Director: Richard Donner
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A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard of ..read more »
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from 12,734 members
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Agency
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Lee Majors, Valerie Perrine
Director: George Kaczender
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The world of advertising is the setting for a brilliant scheme to influence and control the minds of millions of people exposed to the media. Based on the novel by Paul Gotlieb.
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from 34 members
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Nightkill
(1980)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jaclyn Smith, Mike Connors
Director: Ted Post
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Eternally cool Robert Mitchum plays a world-weary private investigator hired by a wealthy industrialist's wife (Jaclyn Smith) to locate her missing husband. The woman seems anxious about her husband's disappearance but in reality knows more than she is letting on about his whereabouts--it was she ..read more »
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from 142 members
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The Amsterdam Kill
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Richard Egan, Leslie Nielsen
Director: Robert Clouse
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After being kicked off the force for stealing drug money, former DEA Agent Quinlan is hired by the leader of an Amsterdam drug cartel. Quinlan takes on the job to "do right" by the DEA, but when his first tip offs end up in the death of DEA agents, questions are asked about his trustworthiness.
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from 83 members
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Matilda
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Elliott Gould, Robert Mitchum, Harry Guardino
Director: Daniel Mann
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Several enterprising fellows come up with the idea of training a kangaroo named Matilda to box in championship matches, and the marsupial pugilist turns out to throw a mean punch.
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from 319 members
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The Last Tycoon
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan directed this curiously constipated film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, about Monroe Starr, a brilliant and efficient studio executive (based upon Fitzgerald's experiences with MGM wunderkind Irving Thalberg). Robert De Niro plays Monroe Starr in a cool and ..read more »
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from 430 members
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The Big Sleep
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone
Director: Michael Winner
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A faithful remake of the 1946 original in which private eye Philip Marlowe finds himself involved in murder, blackmail and violence when hired to protect a General's young daughter.
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from 784 members
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The Yakuza
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directed this action drama in which a Yakuza boss has kidnapped the daughter of a shipping executive named George Tanner, believing that he has cheated him in a gun deal. Tanner (Brian Keith) enlists the aid of his old army buddy, Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum), to go to Japan and ..read more »
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from 332 members
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Farewell My Lovely
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland
Director: Dick Richards
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This remake of the 1944 film, 'Murder, My Sweet,' also based on the Raymond Chandler novel, concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty criminal just out of prison. Marlowe finds that he is forced ..read more »
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from 777 members
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
(1973)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan
Director: Peter Yates
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Based on the best-selling novel by George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle chronicles the last days of a weary Boston-based weapons dealer. Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum) doesn't want to serve a life sentence in prison, so he becomes an informant for both the police and the treasury department. ..read more »
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from 9 members
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Young Billy Young
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker Jr.
Director: Burt Kennedy
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Ben Kane is a peace-loving man, but he takes the job of Deputy Marshall in order to settle a score with the chief trouble-maker. He soon has to deal with others in the town who are looking to create trouble for him, like Billy, a young sharpshooter, and Lily, a saloon dancer.
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
(1969)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, David Carradine
Director: Burt Kennedy
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Marshal Flagg, an ageing lawman about to be retired, hears that his old nemesis, the outlaw McKaye, is back in the area and planning a robbery. Riding out to hunt down McKaye, Flagg is captured by McKaye's gang and finds out that McKaye is no longer the leader of the gang, but is considered just an ..read more »
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Five Card Stud
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Inger Stevens
Director: Henry Hathaway
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A stranger is caught cheating in a game of five card stud in a Rincon, Colorado saloon in 1880. Van Moran (Dean Martin) unsuccessfully tries to save the gambler's life as the other five players lynch the cheat. Meanwhile, a gold rush has brought a group of outsiders to Rincon, like gun-toting ..read more »
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from 309 members
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Anzio
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Arthur Kennedy
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Classic World War II story of the Allied landing at Anzio Beach in Italy, the first and most costly battle of the Italian Campaign. Robert Mitchum stars as an American news correspondent covering the landing, under fire, of British and American troops. Based on a novel by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas.
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from 850 members
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El Dorado
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan
Director: Howard Hawks
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Having struck pay dirt with his 1958 western Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks more or less remade the picture twice in the 1960s. The first of these rehashes was El Dorado, with Rio Bravo star John Wayne back for more. Wayne plays a gunfighter who rides into El Dorado to link up with his old pal, sheriff ..read more »
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What A Way To Go
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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A classic of 60's film decadence, WHAT A WAY TO GO stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa, a widow four times over who is left with more money than she knows what to do with. When she signs an unsolicited, multimillion-dollar check over to the IRS, however, officials in high places begin to doubt her ..read more »
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from 221 members
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The List of Adrian Messenger
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, George C. Scott, Dana Wynter
Director: John Huston
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Messenger asks a friend to check into a list of names before leaving on a trip. When his plane is blown out of the sky, the matter becomes more serious. As his friend checks into the list, each seems to have died in mysterious circumstances. As he goes down the list, the deaths become more recent ..read more »
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from 281 members
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The Sundowners
(1960)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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Garnering an impressive five Oscar nominations and containing a starring role for Robert Mitchum, THE SUNDOWNERS is a drama weaved around the daily lives of the Carmody family. The family members work together as sheep herders and find themselves constantly travelling in order to find further ..read more »
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from 30 members
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The Grass Is Greener
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Donen
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When American millionaire Charles Delacro (Robert Mitchum) stumbles into the private quarters of Victor (Cary Grant) and Hilary (Deborah Kerr), an English aristocratic couple who allow public tours through their stately mansion, he brings a whirlwind of trouble with him. Hilary's dissatisfaction ..read more »
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from 242 members
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Sink The Bismarck!
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Kenneth More, Kenneth More, Dana Wynter
Director: Lewis Gilbert, Dick Powell
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The story of one of World War II's most furious sea battles is brought to the screen in this exciting, semi documentary style movie. In the spring of 1941, Nazi Germany's greatest battleship the Bismarck, scourge of Atlantic shipping, is pinned down at her anchorage in Norway. Making a break for ..read more »
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The Hunters
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner
Director: Dick Powell
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This classic war film features the talents of Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner. Mitchum is Major Cleve Saville and Wagner is Lt. Ed Pell, two pilots with differing demeanours. Mitchum is more reserved, while Wagner is cockier. Amidst the drama of war, romance rears its head, giving the soldiers ..read more »
60%
from 276 members
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Thunder Road
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Keely Smith
Director: Arthur Ripley
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A father comes home to Tennessee from the police action in Korea to take over operation of the family moonshine making operation, but runs afoul of some gangsters who want in on the action.
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from 236 members
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Enemy Below
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Curt Jurgens, David Hedison
Director: Dick Powell
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Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens star in this gripping World War II drama about an American destroyer and a German U-boat stalking each other at sea. As both men try to outthink and outmanoeuvre each other, the chase becomes a deadly game in which any mistake can bring instant defeat and death. ..read more »
69%
from 923 members
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Fire Down Below
(1957)
Starring: Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon
Director: Robert Parrish
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Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a ..read more »
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from 7 members
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Heaven Knows Mr Allison
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
Director: John Huston
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A two-person character study directed by John Huston, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison stars Robert Mitchum as a World War II Marine sergeant and Deborah Kerr as a Roman Catholic nun. Both nun and sergeant are marooned on a South Pacific island, hemmed in by surrounding Japanese troops. Mitchum does his ..read more »
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Foreign Intrigue
(1956)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Genevieve Page, Geneviève Page
Director: Sheldon Reynolds
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Dave Bishop's employer, a mysterious multi-millionaire living on the French Riviera, dies and suddenly everyone is extremely interested to find out what his last words were. Traveling the length and breadth of Europe in search of clues to his boss's past, Bishop is pulled into a plot involving ..read more »
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The Night of the Hunter
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Director: Charles Laughton
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Adapted by James Agee from a novel by Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter represented legendary actor Charles Laughton's only film directing effort. Combining stark realism with Germanic expressionism, the movie is a brilliant good-and-evil parable, with good represented by a couple of farm kids ..read more »
72%
from 7,504 members
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Man With The Gun
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jan Sterling, Karen Sharpe
Director: Richard Wilson
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Clint Tollinger (Robert Mitchum, Cape Fear, The Night of the Hunter) has a gun for hire. Any western town with an excess of untamable rough and tough bad guys can rely on him to quiet things down.
Tollinger, who watched his unarmed father die because he couldn’t defend himself, is ruthless and ..read more »
63%
from 32 members
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River of No Return
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum, Rory Calhoun
Director: Otto Preminger
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A western tale, set in the days of the California Gold Rush, in which Miss Monroe appears as a saloon singer who falls into the capable arms of Robert Mitchum after she is cruelly abandoned by her husband, Calhoun.
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from 489 members
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Track Of The Cat
(1954)
Starring: Robert Mitchum
Director: William A. Wellman
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In this experimental 1954 Western, director William Wellman uses black-and-white backgrounds with occasional splatches of color on certain characters' bodies and clothes. On a snowbound ranch in northern California, the Bridges family is trapped by winter weather and its own internal conflicts. It ..read more »
60%
from 61 members
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Angel Face
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
Director: Otto Preminger
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Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons team in this outstanding example of classic Noir. Directed by Otto Preminger (Laura, The Man with The Golden Arm). Mitchum is at his best as Frank Jessup, an ambulance driver, driven and ensnared by Simmons who demonstrates her own brilliant talents in this ..read more »
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from 265 members
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The Racket
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Lizabeth Scott
Director: John Cromwell
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Mobster Nick Scanlon (Robert Ryan) has bribed several local government and law-enforcement officials to make it easy for him to carry out his rackets; and those that can’t be bought, are ruthlessly rubbed out. But the arrival of a new police captain, the maverick, incorruptible Tom McQuigg (Robert ..read more »
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from 43 members
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My Forbidden Past
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Robert Stevenson
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Barbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800s. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted. Barbara's family is of the high society stratum, but her late grandmother was not in fact the connection with her ..read more »
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from 13 members
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Holiday Affair
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
Director: Don Hartman
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War widow Janet Leigh hasn't the money to buy the model train that her son Gordon Gebert wants for Christmas. Robert Mitchum overhears the boy's plight, and offers to purchase the train for him, even though it will deplete his own money supply. This little gesture of kindness from Mitchum snowballs ..read more »
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Blood On The Moon
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston
Director: Robert Wise
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Unemployed cowhand and one-time rancher Jim Garry answers his friend Tate Riling's call to help him out in a dispute between a group of homesteaders and cattle rancher John Lufton. What Garry learns is that his old friend has cooked up a scheme with the local Indian agent to cancel Lufton's ..read more »
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Out Of The Past
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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Curious tale of a private eye who is hired by a villain to find his homicidal girlfriend. But the story takes a twist when he tracks her down and promptly falls in love with her.
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from 1,280 member
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Crossfire
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Robert Young, Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime, there's motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating the beating death of a man. The man was killed because he was a Jew. "Hate," Finlay says, "is like a gun."
Robert Young portrays Finlay, Robert Mitchum is a ..read more »
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The Locket
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Laraine Day, Brian Aherne
Director: John Brahm
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Nancy (Laraine Day) appears to be the perfect bride for her fiancée John Willis (Gene Raymond) and everything is set for a perfect wedding ceremony... until her former husband Harry Blair (Brian Aherne) approaches Willis and explains how Nancy ruined his life, eventually leaving him ..read more »
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from 32 members
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West Of The Pecos / Nevada
(1944)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Hale, Richard Martin
Director: Edward Killy
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A box set comprising of 'West Of The Pecos' based on the novel by Zane Grey. This is the story of Colonel Lambeth and his daughter Rill who head west and become lost in the desert. They are saved by Pecos and Chito and soon become involved in Peco's troubles... and 'Nevada' which is the story of ..read more »
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Gung Ho!
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: Alan Curtis, Grace McDonald, Robert Mitchum
Director: Ray Enright
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GUNG HO! is the true story of a special battalion picked from the toughest men in the U.S Marines and given the dangerous mission of recapturing Japanese-held islands in the South Pacific during World War II. Hollywood tough guy Randolph Scott stars as their commander, Colonel Thorwald, who ..read more »
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The Story of GI Joe
on DVD
Starring: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele
Director: William A Wellman
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Burgess Meredith plays Ernie Pyle, a real life War correspondant, to screen legends Robert Mitchum's Lt. Captain Bill Walker, an officer leading his men through war-torn Europe. Meredith narrates the Pulitzer prize-winning story of the GI, portraying the everyday trials and tribulations of warriors ..read more »
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John Mills - Centenary Collection Vol.2
(7 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Noelle Middleton, John Mills, Elizabeth Sellars
Director: Anthony Asquith, Ralph Thomas, Robert Hamer
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This second volume in the JOHN MILLS CENTENARY COLLECTION features eight films starring the iconic British actor. Includes CAR OF DREAMS, FOREVER ENGLAND, THE WAY TO THE STARS, THE LONG MEMORY, ABOVE US THE WAVES, THE VICIOUS CIRCLE, TIGER BAY and RYAN'S DAUGHTER.
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