50 Years Later-Thunder Road

and Keely Smith singing "Whippoorwill"

Robert Mitchum = ultimate coolness.

i knew you'd dig it dys

I understand the Colonel rejected the lead in West Side Story for him, too. In favor of Pioneer Go Home. That's hearsay, by the way.

The movie did very well without Elvis. Robert Mitchum had it goin on in this as most of his other films.

hearsay....gossip....i love it all

yeah...under appreciated and even forgotten...but a man's man and even his own man in Hollywood...not easy

Look at that filmography:

Hoppy Serves a Writ (1943)
The Human Comedy (1943)
Aerial Gunner (1943)
Border Patrol (1943)
Follow the Band (1943)
Leather Burners (1943)
Colt Comrades (1943)
We've Never Been Licked (1943)
Lone Star Trail (1943)
Beyond the Last Frontier (1943)
Corvette K-225 (1943)
Bar 20 (1943)
Doughboys in Ireland (1943)
False Colors (1943)
Minesweeper (1943)
The Dancing Masters (1943)
Cry Havoc (1943)
Riders of the Deadline (1943)
Gung Ho! (1943)
Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More (1944)
Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)
When Strangers Marry (1944)
Girl Rush (1944)
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944)
Nevada (1944)
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
West of the Pecos (1945)
Till the End of Time (1946)
Undercurrent (1946)
The Locket (1946)
Pursued (1947)
Crossfire (1947)
Desire Me (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
Blood on the Moon (1948)
The Red Pony (1949)
The Big Steal (1949)
Holiday Affair (1949)
Where Danger Lives (1950)
My Forbidden Past (1951)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
The Racket (1951)
Macao (1952)
One Minute to Zero (1952)
The Lusty Men (1952)
Angel Face (1952)
White Witch Doctor (1953)
Second Chance (1953)
She Couldn't Say No (1954)
River of No Return (1954)
Track of the Cat (1954)
Not as a Stranger (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Man with the Gun (1955)
Foreign Intrigue (1956)
Bandido (1956)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
Fire Down Below (1957)
The Enemy Below (1957)
Thunder Road (1958)
The Hunters (1958)
The Angry Hills (1959)
The Wonderful Country (1959)
Home from the Hill (1960)
A Terrible Beauty (1960)
The Sundowners (1960)
The Grass Is Greener (1960)
The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
Cape Fear (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Two for the Seesaw (1962)
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
Rampage (1963 film)
Man in the Middle (1963)
What a Way to Go! (1964)
Mister Moses (1965)
El Dorado (1966)
The Way West (1967)
Villa Rides (1968)
Anzio (1968)
5 Card Stud (1968)
Secret Ceremony (1968)
Young Billy Young (1969)
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Going Home (1971)
The Wrath of God (1972)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
The Yakuza (1974)
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Midway (1976)
The Last Tycoon (1976)
The Amsterdam Kill (1977)
The Big Sleep (1978)
Matilda (1978)
Breakthrough (1979)
Agency (1980)
Nightkill (1980)
That Championship Season (1982)
One Shoe Makes It Murder (1982) (TV)
The Ambassador (1984)
A Killer In the Family (1983) (TV)
The Winds of War TV mini-series (1983)
Maria's Lovers (1984)
Remembering Marilyn (1987) (documentary)
Mr. North (1988)
Scrooged (1988)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989) (documentary)
Midnight Ride (1990)
Supposedly Dangerous (1990)
Cape Fear (1991)
The Seven Deadly Sins (1992)
Woman of Desire (1993)
Tombstone (1993) (narrator)
Backfire! (1995)
Dead Man (1995)
Waiting for Sunset (1995)
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996) (documentary)



[edit] Short subjects
The Magic of Make-up (1942)
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950)
Waiting for the Wind (1990)

wow...you think his marijuana arrest affected the quality of roles he was offered?

I can't respond to that. It was a highly unusual story when he was arrested. No other drug arrest hit the media that way in those days.

yeah...it was really a black-ball in a way and it affected his ability to receive the choice roles

Everybody else had to deal with McCarthyism while he was the bad boy with drugs.

that be truth;;;
goodnight my friend

Good night Panzade.

He was Hollywood's bad boy of the time and it wasn't just drugs.
I was always a consensus in the industry that he was one of the most underrated star in film history. He turned in many exceptional performances which made up for the B movies.

the wiz has weighed in...this thread is complete and ready to be tucked into bed...

In the morning? Before the tucking, "Night of the Hunter" and "Cape Fear" and "GI Joe" are three excellent performances. He never won the Oscar, of course, and was only nominated once in 1945 for supporting actor in "GI Joe." Eisenhower would not allow his films to
screen in the White House for the duration of his Presidency because of the marijuana conviction. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, 1980 Career Achievement Award and the National Board of Review, USA 1991 Career Achievement Award. Why no Oscar career achievement? So AMPAS didn't give him a lifetime Oscar because of the leftover notoriety of the conviction, and I should mention the Hollywood party where he stripped, laden himself down with catsup and came out as a hamburger. Did his agent make him wealthy by giving him constant work but not always the best films. Gee, what do I remember about what parts Oscar winners take just after their award?

Halle Barry "Catwoman"

Judi Dench "GoldenEye"

Helen Mirrin "National Treasure II"

That's unfortunately typical.

i was goading you into more input...it worked

if Cape Fear don't win an Oscar....WTF?