Robert Mitchum

Robert Mitchum

Birthday: 1917-08-06

Place of Birth: Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

Biography: Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, author, composer and singer. He was ranked #23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Dead Man
Dead Man

On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepa...

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Out of the Past
Out of the Past

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and f...

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Cape Fear
Cape Fear

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,...

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The Night of the Hunter
The Night of the Hunter

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...

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The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep

Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a ri...

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Farewell, My Lovely
Farewell, My Lovely

Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge d...

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River of No Return
River of No Return

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged hu...

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Angel Face
Angel Face

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayn...

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Where Danger Lives
Where Danger Lives

A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the dea...

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5 Card Stud
5 Card Stud

The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one....

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Second Chance
Second Chance

A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico....

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Cape Fear
Cape Fear

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 y...

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Midway
Midway

This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a tu...

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The Wonderful Country
The Wonderful Country

Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady t...

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El Dorado
El Dorado

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together...

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The List of Adrian Messenger
The List of Adrian Messenger

Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help ...

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The Red Pony
The Red Pony

Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Sal...

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What a Way to Go!
What a Way to Go!

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich ...

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Holiday Affair
Holiday Affair

Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, ...

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Macao
Macao

Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an ...

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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Friends of Eddie Coyle

An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on s...

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The Grass Is Greener
The Grass Is Greener

Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours...

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The Racket
The Racket

The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanl...

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The Longest Day
The Longest Day

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...

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His Kind of Woman
His Kind of Woman

Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself...

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When Strangers Marry
When Strangers Marry

A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a m...

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Scrooged
Scrooged

Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature ...

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Man with the Gun
Man with the Gun

A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He al...

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Pursued
Pursued

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighb...

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Crossfire
Crossfire

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And...

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The Yakuza
The Yakuza

When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and Georg...

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Anzio
Anzio

American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to ...

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Blood on the Moon
Blood on the Moon

Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispu...

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The Way West
The Way West

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to...

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Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

A Roman Catholic nun and a hard-bitten US Marine are stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island...

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The Sundowners
The Sundowners

In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep dro...

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The Lusty Men
The Lusty Men

Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the...

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Rachel and the Stranger
Rachel and the Stranger

A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger ...

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The Enemy Below
The Enemy Below

The crew of the American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes, detects a German U-Boat—resulting in a pr...

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The Locket
The Locket

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters....

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The Last Tycoon
The Last Tycoon

Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the whi...

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Bandido!
Bandido!

American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the "regulares" in the 1916 Mexic...

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Undercurrent
Undercurrent

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his...

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La Classe américaine
La Classe américaine

George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an ...

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Cry 'Havoc'
Cry 'Havoc'

The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A ...

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The Human Comedy
The Human Comedy

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family ...

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Leather Burners
Leather Burners

As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Johnny sends for his friend Hoppy, Hoppy arrives an...

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To the People of the United States
To the People of the United States

World War II public education film about sexually transmitted diseases focused on syphilis....

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Aerial Gunner
Aerial Gunner

Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman....

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Mr. Winkle Goes to War
Mr. Winkle Goes to War

Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the...

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The Dancing Masters
The Dancing Masters

The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ba...

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The Hunters
The Hunters

With its electrifying flight sequences and high-powered cast, The Hunters is a mesmerizing film base...

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Marilyn
Marilyn

This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in...

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Ryan's Daughter
Ryan's Daughter

In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affai...

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Story of G.I. Joe
Story of G.I. Joe

War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its wa...

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Young Billy Young
Young Billy Young

A peace-loving man named Ben Kane takes a job as deputy marshal of Lords, in the old West. Kane is n...

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Gung Ho!
Gung Ho!

A true-life epic that revolves around an exclusive bataillon of the U.S. Marine Corps during World W...

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The Wrath of God
The Wrath of God

Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible fr...

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Villa Rides
Villa Rides

Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins band...

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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret ...

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Thunder Road
Thunder Road

Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liq...

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False Colors
False Colors

Before he was killed by Mark Foster's men, Bud Lawton willed part ownership in his ranch to Hoppy an...

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Riders of the Deadline
Riders of the Deadline

When Ranger Hoppy's falsely accused young ranger friend is killed while supposedly trying to escape ...

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Foreign Intrigue
Foreign Intrigue

Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secr...

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Bar 20
Bar 20

Stagecoach robbers take the money Hoppy was going to use to buy cattle so Hoppy, California and Lin ...

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Chop Suey
Chop Suey

A homage to Bruce Weber's Favourite things, these being mixing film, photography and classic movies....

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The Big Steal
The Big Steal

Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic ...

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Showbiz Goes to War
Showbiz Goes to War

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War ...

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Secret Ceremony
Secret Ceremony

A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed ...

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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

An aging lawman and an aging outlaw join forces when their respective positions in society are usurp...

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Woman of Desire
Woman of Desire

A yacht captain, Jack Lynch, is accused of murdering his boss and raping the victim's wife, Christin...

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Fire Down Below
Fire Down Below

Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. Th...

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Not as a Stranger
Not as a Stranger

Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He cour...

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Two for the Seesaw
Two for the Seesaw

After leaving his wife, lawyer Jerry Ryan moves from Omaha, Nebraska to New York City to start a new...

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Mr. North
Mr. North

Mr. North, a stranger to a small, but wealthy, Rhode Island town, quickly has rumors started about h...

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Track of the Cat
Track of the Cat

A family saga: In a stunning mountain valley ranch setting near Aspen, complex and dangerous family ...

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Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother,...

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The Last Time I Saw Archie
The Last Time I Saw Archie

Two Air Force friends have fun during their enlistment....

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Maria's Lovers
Maria's Lovers

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers t...

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The Amsterdam Kill
The Amsterdam Kill

Former DEA Agent Quinlan, removed from the force some years earlier for stealing confiscated drug mo...

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Till the End of Time
Till the End of Time

Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss o...

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Going Home
Going Home

After doing 13 years in prison for the murder of his wife, mechanic Harry Graham is out on parole an...

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Home from the Hill
Home from the Hill

The wealthiest man in a Texas town decides to teach his teenage son how to hunt to make a man out of...

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Matilda
Matilda

A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping...

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My Forbidden Past
My Forbidden Past

An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune....

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The Angry Hills
The Angry Hills

In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morr...

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Rampage
Rampage

In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash ov...

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West of the Pecos
West of the Pecos

Heading west for his health, Colonel Lambeth takes his daughter Rill along. Lost on the desert they ...

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She Couldn't Say No
She Couldn't Say No

An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town....

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Man in the Middle
Man in the Middle

In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier ...

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Backfire!
Backfire!

Just as Jeremy Jackson attempts to become the first male firewoman in New York, fires begin mysterio...

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White Witch Doctor
White Witch Doctor

Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native...

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That Championship Season
That Championship Season

It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their basketball coach and ended up in r...

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A Terrible Beauty
A Terrible Beauty

In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O...

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The Making of 'Cape Fear'
The Making of 'Cape Fear'

A short documentary with interviews explaining how the classic film "Cape Fear" was filmed....

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A Killer in the Family
A Killer in the Family

Three teenage boys break their father out of prison only to discover that he is a murderous sociopat...

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The Ambassador
The Ambassador

An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventi...

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One Minute to Zero
One Minute to Zero

An idealistic United Nations official learns the harrowing truth about war when she falls in love wi...

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Nightkill
Nightkill

The wife of a wealthy industrialist finds herself caught-up in a web of intrigue & murder which ...

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Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore

A young girl rents an apartment from a man who has recently enlisted in the Marines. The trouble is ...

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Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies

A reclusive millionaire who owed his fortune to his father, Howard Hughes staked his fame on many th...

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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally ...

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James Dean: Race with Destiny
James Dean: Race with Destiny

Casper Van Dien of Starship Troopers stars as James Dean, whose remarkable talent and rebel attitude...

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Agency
Agency

A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, ...

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Thompson's Last Run
Thompson's Last Run

A hardened con being transferred from a federal penitentiary to a Texas institution to finish a life...

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Desire Me
Desire Me

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death....

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Mister Moses
Mister Moses

A con man on the run in Africa aids a minister's daughter by helping lead a local tribe to their new...

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Believed Violent
Believed Violent

Having developed a revolutionary device that puts water in the mouth of all secret services in the w...

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Girl Rush
Girl Rush

During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by b...

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The Distant Drummer: A Movable Scene
The Distant Drummer: A Movable Scene

Robert Mitchum narrates an anti drug propaganda film....

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We've Never Been Licked
We've Never Been Licked

Young Brad Craig enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which upperclassmen quickly ...

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Nevada
Nevada

Just as Nevada wins $7000 in yellowback bills, Ben Ide takes his $7000 and heads out to buy mining e...

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Midnight Ride
Midnight Ride

A house wife just left her cop husband, when she picks up Justin McKay she'll wish she never did as ...

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The Sunset Boys
The Sunset Boys

Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they...

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Beyond the Last Frontier
Beyond the Last Frontier

Beyond the Last Frontier was the first entry in Republic's "John Paul Revere" western series. Journe...

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Hoodwinked
Hoodwinked

Burnt-out private dick Jacob Aloysius Spanner teams up with his brother to help an old adversary tra...

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Tombstone
Tombstone

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue...

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Breakthrough
Breakthrough

Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut ...

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The Hearst and Davies Affair
The Hearst and Davies Affair

Dramatization of the scandalous, long-time love affair between the powerful but married publisher an...

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The Lone Star Trail
The Lone Star Trail

Rancher Blaze Barker returns to Dead Falls after being framed by land-grabbers and spending two year...

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William Holden: The Golden Boy
William Holden: The Golden Boy

It was said of him that in more than 70 films, he never once gave a bad performance....

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Reunion at Fairborough
Reunion at Fairborough

World War II vets travel to England for a reunion at their old base. Stars Judi Trott, Barry Morse, ...

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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highl...

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Follow the Band
Follow the Band

A farmer from Vermont travels to New York and becomes a successful singer in a nightclub....

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Doughboys in Ireland
Doughboys in Ireland

According to Doughboys in Ireland, there were those who sang their way through WW2. Radio tenor Kenn...

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Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

Documentary exploring the career of noted film directer William A. Wellman....

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Hoppy Serves a Writ
Hoppy Serves a Writ

Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outl...

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Minesweeper
Minesweeper

A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II b...

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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scen...

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A Family for Joe
A Family for Joe

To keep from being separated, four orphans get a homeless maverick to pose as their guardian....

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Border Patrol
Border Patrol

When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the min...

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Colt Comrades
Colt Comrades

Hoppy, California and Johnny partner up with brother and sister ranch owners, two of several who are...

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Corvette K-225
Corvette K-225

The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain....

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Promises to Keep
Promises to Keep

An aging cowboy returns to the family he abandoned 30 years ago with a terrifying secret....

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Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America

With his naïve air, his rangy and reassuring silhouette, James Stewart symbolizes success, someone w...

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Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'

Short documentary about Charles Laughton's 1995 film "The Night of the Hunter," with interviews with...

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Robert Mitchum, le mauvais garçon d'Hollywood
Robert Mitchum, le mauvais garçon d'Hollywood

A rhapsodic drawing of life by the man who scared the life out of music players and audiences....

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One Shoe Makes it Murder
One Shoe Makes it Murder

Robert Mitchum stars as a down-and-out ex-cop whose entanglement with a shady casino owner leaves hi...

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Les Sept Péchés capitaux
Les Sept Péchés capitaux

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The Flapper
The Flapper

The buoyant energy of a modern woman who bobs her hair and dances to jazz is too often objectified a...

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Private Screenings: Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell
Private Screenings: Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell

Co-stars and lifelong friends Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell recall their careers....

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America on the Rocks
America on the Rocks

Robert Mitchum, an admitted alcoholic, narrates this U.S. government short documentary on the danger...

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Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert...

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Dynamite Chicken
Dynamite Chicken

A collection of subversive comedy sketches and routines relating to the peace movement....

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Waiting for the Wind
Waiting for the Wind

Young Charlie adores his grandfather Walter. Walter, who is dying, is building a sailing vessel on h...

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