Robert Mitchum Interviewed by Roger Ebert
Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter
Via Rogerebert.com:
"He [Robert Mitchum] was my favorite movie star, and my favorite interview. He would tell you anything. He fearlessly maligned his directors, co-stars, even actors he had never worked with. ([Steve] McQueen? ‘He doesn’t bring much to the party.’) He was once called ‘the embodiment of film noir,’ and that was about right.
"In ‘From the Archives’ this week, I’m reprinting four of the seven or eight interviews I did with Mitch. The first three take place between 1969 and 1971, during and after he made Ryan’s Daughter. The fourth is at a tribute some 20 years later. You get a sense of his irreverence, his refusal to take himself seriously, [...]
by Andre Soares | December 6, 2007
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Tags: Charles Laughton, Classic Movies, Deborah Kerr, Out of the Past, Robert Mitchum, Robert Wise, Roger Ebert, Shirley MacLaine, The Night of the Hunter, The Sundowners
THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY, HONDO, McLINTOCK!: John Wayne on DVD
Paramount Home Entertainment and Paramount’s Worldwide Television Distribution, in association with John Wayne’s old Batjac Productions, will be distributing several Wayne titles on DVD beginning in spring 2005.
The upcoming releases include:
Island in the Sky (1953), a rarely seen adventure film about a plane crash in sub-Arctic Canada;
Hondo (1953), a Western based on a story by Louis L’Amour, who was erroneously nominated for an Academy Award in — and was later withdrawn from — the Motion Picture Story category; additionally, Hondo earned Geraldine Page her first Academy Award nomination (as best supporting actress);
the comic Western McLintock! (1963), partly inspired by Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, and co-starring Maureen O’Hara and Stefanie Powers;
and a fully [...]
by Andre Soares | October 24, 2004
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Tags: Adventure Movies, Claire Trevor, Classic Movies, DVDs, John Wayne, McLintock, Plunder of the Sun, Robert Mitchum, The High and the Mighty, Track of the Cat
