And he did it freakishly well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8poH4WgZvI
Posted on 08/13/2017 6:17:09 AM PDT by Twotone
Cape Fear...[shiver]
I hadn’t heard that line, but it’s funny! And it sounds just like him.
“When Hollywood men were men.”
With a name like ROCK Hudson, you just know he’s a real man.
Two Tone wrote: “Compare Mitchum’s role in El Dorado to Dean Martin’s in Rio Bravo (essentially the same movie done twice). The latter was far superior.”
Well, considering the latter came first, and was thus the former, that’s saying a lot.
And he did it freakishly well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8poH4WgZvI
In the service, one must always choose the lesser of two weevils.
At one point Mitchum also did a month or so in jail for marijuana possession. When released he was asked what it was like. He replied:
Just like Palm Springs, but with a better class of people.
Haha!!! Great scene with the doctor!!!!!!!
channel 9 in LA used to run The Million Dollar movie every night during prime time. The same movie for 5 days. Night of The Hunter was on when i was about 15. I was a fairly tough kid and a football player but that movie scared me because there was no monster ghost just a very creepy guy. My mother loved Mitchum and she said “I hate that man” But she must have watched the movie 3-4 times. i watched it twice.
Great presence and strength and looked to me to be a man’s man and a lady’s one too.
Also like was it The Big Sleep?
Why do you call me names and try to twist my words?
I remember a Mitchum comment about death:
he didn’t want to die, but if he had to, he wanted to die last. (I stole that from him a long time ago)
John Wayne’s box office appeal is enduring....
in 2016, the annual Harris poll of top 10 America’s Favorite Movie Stars listed John Wayne as #5.
One of my favorite lines from Out of the Past
Let’s go down to the bar. We can cool off while we try to impress each other
Mitchum is alleged to have said to his wife when heading to Hollywood - “Stick with me baby. I’ll have you farting through silk in no time!”
They called Steve McQueen the “King of Cool”, but IMHO, Mitchum had him beat.
And he pulled off the role of Pug Henry in The Winds of War/War of Remembrance, although he was probably about 20 years too old for the role.
How could Mark get through all that verbiage without mentioning “Thunder Road?” which included Mitchum’s son in the cast and the unlikely Keely Smith who looked like a plumper version of Shelley Duval. Mitchum wrote, produced, and is said to have directed the movie.
Somewhere (IMDB I think) it was mentioned that Mitchum had a photographic memory. He’s get a script, thumb through it muttering “Uh huh, uh huh”, put it down and never refer to it again, and flawlessly deliver his lines.
In some other report, a critic sniffed that he wasn’t a real actor as he was “just being himself” - as if that was a bad thing.
He allegedly went to a costume party dressed as a hamburger - wearing only ketchup.
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