Robert Mitchum is my personal favorite classic movie star. I set a life goal to see every one of his movies, watching every one I could get my hands on. I have seen 78.
My personal favorites are Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, His Kind of Woman, The Longest Day, Enemy Below, The Lusty Men, Out of the Past, Thunder Road, and The Racket.
"Out of the Past" is impressive, but for me "Night of the Hunter" beats it.
_________________ The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls who, when he found an especially costly one, sold everything he had to buy it.
I have done this exercise with Humphrey Bogart films. It was quite an education since he early movies are around pre-code era, so his career really ran the full gamut of Hollywoods early days and middle age.
I have done this exercise with Humphrey Bogart films. It was quite an education since he early movies are around pre-code era, so his career really ran the full gamut of Hollywoods early days and middle age.
Whereas Mitchum started as a recurring player in those "oaters," the hour long cheap westerns that came out every week at the movies. He actually filmed one every week. It wasn't until The Story of GI Joe that he got discovered and started making what we would think of as real movies. So you have to sort of ignore a lot of his early films.
Robert Mitchum in B westerns? That's kind of hard for me to picture. It's not that surprising that he started out in them, I guess. Their ubiquity meant that a lot of actors started there.
_________________ The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls who, when he found an especially costly one, sold everything he had to buy it.
Robert Mitchum in B westerns? That's kind of hard for me to picture. It's not that surprising that he started out in them, I guess. Their ubiquity meant that a lot of actors started there.
The kind of westerns he was in were like letter H. They were the equivalent of cheap TV shows, often less than an hour. The film elements are mostly lost. He was not usually the lead.
Slang for the very low grade, cheap westers that were being churned out in the 1930's and 1940's. Hopalong Cassidy would be an example. They were sort of on the same production value level as the serials. They kept audiences coming back like a television show.
Ah, thank you both for the explanation. I'd never heard the term before.
I guess the idea was that the biggest expenditure for that kind of movie was the oats that they fed the horses that appeared in them.
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