Robert Mitchum Articles

Jane Greer, Robert Mitchum, Ramon Novarro in Don Siegel's The Big Steal Judy Garland would have turned 89 today. It goes without saying that Garland is one of the stars featured in the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation's June 2011 schedule. Unfortunately, the Garland screening of For Me and My Gal took place yesterday. So, it's too late for me to [...]

Directed by Edward Dmytryk, written by John Paxton, and produced by Adrian Scott, Crossfire (1947) will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees from Hollywood’s Dark Side” on Monday, August 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Crossfire, which stars Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert [...]

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. [...]

William A. Wellman's aviation drama The High and the Mighty 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 [...]