One of the lesser holiday movies, this 1949 comedy stars Janet Leigh as a war widow who can't afford to buy her son a toy train for Christmas. A veteran (Robert Mitchum) who happens to be standing by in a department store overhears her plight and offers to purchase the toy, thus setting into motion a series of funny complications. Wendell Corey plays Leigh's suspicious, condescending boyfriend, ...
Manufacturer: Turner Home EntStarring: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey, Gordon Gebert, Griff BarnettDirected By: Don Hartman
John Huston was eager for a lightweight lark, and The List of Adrian Messenger was just the project he needed. Philip MacDonald's upper-crust British murder mystery allowed Huston to work close to his Irish estate, including fox hunting and quail shooting well suited to Huston's lord-of-the-manor lifestyle. The mystery itself is clever enough: As a former MI-5 agent, George C. Scott is ...
Manufacturer: Universal StudiosStarring: George C. Scott, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Tony CurtisDirected By: John Huston
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Gloria Grahame, Broderick CrawfordDirected By: Stanley Kramer
Most critics couldn't get behind Bill Murray's modern retelling of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, finding it too unfocused at times and not nearly wicked enough. Still, if you're a Murray fan, you have to enjoy his deliciously nasty portrayal of the world's meanest TV executive, who has his cathartic moment one cold Christmas night in New York City. The various ghosts lead him on a ...
Manufacturer: ParamountStarring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bob GoldthwaitDirected By: Richard Donner
El Dorado doesn't quite have the scope or ambition of Howard Hawks's greatest Westerns, Red River and Rio Bravo. But this relaxed picture, made near the end of Hawks's marvelous career, still shows the steady, sure hand of a master. Hawks reunites with John Wayne, playing a hired gun mixed up in a range war; Robert Mitchum is Wayne's old pal, now a sheriff in the midst of a ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Paul FixDirected By: Howard Hawks
Of all the Philip Marlowes, Robert Mitchum's in Farewell, My Lovely resonates most deeply. That's because this is Marlowe past his prime, and Mitchum imbues Raymond Chandler's legendary private detective with a sense of maturity as well as a melancholy spirit. And yet there's plenty of Mitchum's renowned self-deprecating humor and charismatic charm to remind us of his own iconic presence. ...
Manufacturer: Avid Home EntStarring: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Anthony ZerbeDirected By: Dick Richards
Manufacturer: Turner Home EntertainmentStarring: Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum, Gary Gray, Tom TullyDirected By: Norman Foster
After seeing Saving Private Ryan, this epic tale about the Normandy invasion will look sanitized. But in its re-creation of events leading to the epochal battle, the film is captivating and grand, and the parade of famous actors who cross the screen naturally give the already charged action even more of a boost. Three directors worked on it: Ken Annakin (Battle of the Bulge), Andrew ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century FoxStarring: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda, Robert MitchumDirected By: Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck, Ken Annakin
There is no more ringing title among World War II movies than Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, and the mission it celebrates was unquestionably historic: a 400-mile bombing raid to carry the war to Japan itself mere months after that nation's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Yet the film is less memorable than many WWII pictures with less exalted factual basis. At the time, critic James Agee ...
Manufacturer: Mgm EntertainmentStarring: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock, Scott McKayDirected By: Mervyn LeRoy
In the entire history of American movies, The Night of the Hunter stands out as the rarest and most exotic of specimens. It is, to say the least, a masterpiece--and not just because it was the only movie directed by flamboyant actor Charles Laughton or the only produced solo screenplay by the legendary critic James Agee (who also cowrote The African Queen). The truth is, nobody has ...
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn VardenDirected By: Robert Mitchum, Charles Laughton
