101 thoughts on “Robert Mitchum Movies”

1. Robert Mitchum, is the # 34 most connected actor of the 1960’s, and the # 52 most connected of the 1970’s.

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2. Earle Hodgins was in 10 films with Bob.

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   1. Hey Dan. Thanks for this information on Robert Mitchum and Earl Hodges and their movies together.

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3. 1 HI MO I have said before that I watched a TV interview one time in which Jim Mitchum discussed the powerful screen presence of his brother Bob. Jim told of how Howard Hawks allowed him onto the set of the 1967 El Dorado to watch Bob and the Duke doing a scene in which they walked down the street side by side towards the cameras.

   2 Jim was stationed behind the cameras and in the interview he said “Such was the joint physical presence of brother Bob and John Wayne that I almost had the impression that three men were walking towards me instead of only two.” [Even Mickey Rooney and Alan Ladd couldn’t have matched that iconic impact!]

   3 Best POSTERS in ENTRIES 1- 26 were I thought Rachel and the Stranger, Midway with Chuck taking centre stage, Holiday Affair [one of my own 3 fave Xmas movies] The Lusty Men, the run of posters for Home from the Hill, the 3 for Heaven Knows Mr Allison, Pursued, The Enemy Below [I remember standing in a queue for that one in 1957/58 and a few yards away directly across the road was another queue for Mr Mumbles’ Sayonara. It was like finding oneself in the Land of the Legends!] the foreign language one for the 1962 Cape Fear, and the entire set for El Dorado.

   4 The following were the STILLS I most liked (1) Big Bob with Jane Russell (2) The Yakuza (3) Mitch as Marlowe (4) the 3 Roberts in Crossfire (5) with the Duke in El Dorado (6) with Jane Greer in 1947’s Out of the Past who was the only actress who stood by him after he was jailed for marijuana whilst other actress distanced themselves from him. Jane Greer and he therefore made their 2nd film together, The Big Steal in 1949.

   5 Overall a 98% rated presentation in my own book.

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   1. Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating, info and comment, much appreciated.

      Glad the posters and stills met with your approval.

      I saw photos of Mitchum mopping up the corridors in prison. “The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I’ve spent more time in jail.”

      Five films scored 10 out of 10 in Mitchum’s filmography, they are – Ryan’s Daughter, El Dorado, The Longest Day, Out of the Past and Night of the Hunter. My top 5.

      Three more scored 9 – Crossfire, Eddie Coyle and G.I. Joe.

      Number 1 and 2 on both IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes is Night of the Hunter and Out of the Past. They are also no.1 & 2 on Bruce’s Critics chart.

      The Longest Day tops the UMR chart but not the adjusted grosses chart, the top spot goes to an older war movie Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, oooh!

      “I came back from the war and ugly heroes were in.”

      “Movies bore me; especially my own.”

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      1. 1 Thanks for the feedback on my Mitchum posts.

         2 I meant to say that Bruce and you agree on 7 out of the 10 best reviewed films but are miles apart [no pun intended] on Ryan’s Daughter which was your No 5 and his No 35 with 62%. IMDB gives it 75% rating.

         3 I have not seen that movie myself but I gather that in it Big Bob’s love making isn’t satisfactory to Sarah Miles and I watched a TV interview in which two critics discussed it and one said the story was far-fetched. When the other asked him why, he retorted “Robert Mitchum not good in bed. Nonsense!”

         4 However Mitch’s apparent predicament in Ryan’s Daughter is consistent with what some film historians have described as, especially in those early noirs and westerns, a world-weary “loser”. One historian reckoned that in Pursued Mitchum’s character was one of the most victimised ever seen on the screen while another observer remarked how in Macao Big Bob was such a “loser” that he couldn’t even win at cards with a marked deck!

         5 Also the closing scenes in Not as a Stranger showed us one of the biggest
         humiliations ever suffered by a Classic Era Hollywood hero. Robert’s “loser” obsession on screen reminds one of McQueen’s preoccupation with “escaping” in his movies. However Big Bob may have liked being a “loser” in real life too because he is on record as saying “I enjoyed being in jail.”

         PS I invite any of your own viewers who are surprised at for example my picking Lamour over Ava to go through their films carefully and note who had the best stand-alone box office record.

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4. Bob, I’ve been posting a lot of comments today, making up for going AWOL yesterday I suppose. Thanks for reviewing the first half of my Robert Mitchum supersized video.

   Glad you liked the posters and stills.

   I agree on Fire Down Below. I had high hopes with Mitchum, Lemmon and Hayworth starring but it all fell apart in the second half. especially with that protracted, disastrous climax.

   “Years ago, I saved up a million dollars from acting, a lot of money in those days, and I spent it all on a horse farm in Tucson. Now when I go down there, I look at that place and I realize my whole acting career adds up to a million dollars worth of horse sh*t.”

   “People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I’m just trying to hold my gut in.”

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   1. HI STEVE

      1 Yes it was a relatively long absence for you.. In fact there has been so much AWOLing across the board that I began to think Bruce had taken over your activities as well as his own !!!

      2 I liked the story of Big Bob and the horses and in a way it reminds me of the country and western son that I’ve mentioned before about the cowboy who goes to the big city for a new life but the woman whom he meets there jilts him at the alter and the singer wails in the final verse –

      “So I’m going back to Texas
      To my herds of cows and grass.
      I’m going back to Texas
      To be one more horse’s a**”

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5. 1 MO In Sept 1997 I attended the graduation of my daughter in Glasgow, Scotland and I’ve mentioned before that as I was queuing outside the university waiting to get in to the ceremony I bought a newspaper which told me that Mitchum and Jimmy Stewart had just died within hours of each other. Slightly ironically a week later I watched on television a film starring an actor who had co-starred with both Stewart and Mitchum, Richard Widmark in the aptly titled When the Legends Die [1972].

   2 POSTERS that on balance are my favourites –White Witch Doctor, Wrath of God, foreign language ones for Fire Down below and Good Guys and the Bad Guys The Racket [I simply love that tagline] Macao with Jane’s obvious attributes dominating the poster, 5 Card Stud, with Dino and Big Bob squaring off, Track of the Cat, two great ones for River of No Return with my Rory getting good feature billing, Secret Ceremony, Thunder Road, Where Danger Lives, the 1st, highly original, one for Not as a Stranger, and par excellence The Way West’s poster [10 years earlier Burt using his own production company planned to do that one with Kirk, Jimmy Stewart and Burt himself].

   3 Another fine run of stills in Part I and I liked (1) the opening one of Mitch relaxing (2) a scene from White Witch Doctor (3) from Fire Down Below – saw it again recently, awful film and I thought Lemmon actually dominated both Mitch and Rita (4) Big Bob with Marilyn (5) a very young Mitch with gun and (6) the “Big 3” in The Way West.

   4 Great stuff so far – Part 2 in morning.

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