Silver Screen Icons: Robert Mitchum

Out Of The Past (1947)

Scuffling P.I. Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) finally got a sure-money job from shady high-roller Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas): Track down and retrieve the mistress (Jane Greer) who skipped with $40,000 of his money. Finding his prey in Mexico, Bailey falls for her, but his plan to make them new lives leads to stunning betrayals. Jacques Tourneur's exemplary film noir co-stars Steve Brodie, Rhonda Fleming, Dickie Moore. 97 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Angel Face (1952)

Director Otto Preminger's noirish thriller stars Robert Mitchum as Frank Jessup, an ambulance driver who catches the eye of a wealthy femme fatale Diane Tremayne (Jean Simmons). Hired as a chauffeur for Diane's family, Jessup quickly becomes caught up in her devious schemes to kill her father and stepmother so she can inherit their fortune. Mona Freeman, Herbert Marshall, Barbara O'Neil, Kenneth Tobey co-star. 91 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Home From The Hill (1960)

The womanizing ways of wealthy Texas landowner Wade Hunnicutt (Robert Mitchum) drive his wife Hannah (Eleanor Parker) into the arms of his illegitimate son, Rafe Copley(George Peppard), who then clashes with his half-brother Theron, (George Hamilton), first over the affair with his mother and then over the love of the same girl (Luana Patten). Vincente Minnelli’s potboiling take on the William Humphrey novel also stars Everett Sloane, Constance Ford. 150 min. BW/Rtg: NR

The Sundowners (1960)

Robert Mitchum stars as Paddy Carmody, the patriarch of a sheepherding family on the frontier of 1920s Australia, who finds his desire to maintain a nomadic lifestyle putting a strain on his relationship with his wife (Deborah Kerr) and teenage son (Michael Anderson, Jr.), who want him to settle down and buy their own farm. Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Chips Rafferty also star in director Fred Zinnemann's lush drama, based on the novel by Jon Cleary. 133 min. C/Rtg: NR

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