Archive for the 'Mitchum' Category
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Mitchum| No Comments »This is THE text book film noir. It is the standard by which all others were made and measured up to. I know that this is a bold statement and borderline crazy but all “film noirs” leading up to this picture are funneled into this picture. The femme fatal in the extreme […]
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Mitchum| No Comments »I know that this is a long post but I do not want to cut it. Back in the mid late 1980’s when I first began working at Movie Place,we had a customer who knew of my longtime obsession with Robert Mitchum. Nothing wrong with that. This customer had also been the […]
Rachel
Mitchum| No Comments »An underated western with subtle comic overtones and elements of suspense. This picture has a great script by Waldo Salt, One of the “Hollywood Ten”. David Harvey (William Holden) is a widower with a young son, Davey. They live on an isolated Ohio farm. He wants his son to be raised in the […]
Holiday
Mitchum| No Comments »Strategically realeased on Christmas Eve in 1949, it is one of those slightly better than B pictures that RKO produced so many of ; they only did 6 big pictures a year and this was not one of them. The story is familiar, two strangers meet and though it seems that they will never […]
His
Mitchum| No Comments »This is one of the best films that Howard Hughes tried to ruin.� The principal photography was completed but Mr. Hughes kept asking for more scenes to be shot. Scenes of Robert Mitchum getting beaten up in various stages of shirtlessness and scenes of Jane Russell heaving her bosom in various stages of costume […]
