THE  MOVIES 1943-1959

``Hoppy Serves a Writ''-- 1943
``The Leather Burners''-- 1943
``Border Patrol''-- 1943
``Follow the Band''-- 1943
``Colt Comrades''-- 1943
``The Human Comedy''-- 1943
``We've Never Been Licked''-- 1943
``Beyond the Last Frontier''-- 1943
``Bar 20''-- 1943
``Doughboys in Ireland''-- 1943
``Corvette K-225''-- 1943
``Aerial Gunner''-- 1943
``Lone Star Trail''-- 1943
``False Colors''-- 1943
``The Dancing Masters''-- 1943
``Riders of the Deadline''-- 1943
``Cry Havoc''-- 1943
``Gung Ho!''-- 1943
``Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More'' -- 1944
``When Strangers Marry''-- 1944
`The Girl Rush''-- 1944
``Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo''-- 1944 ``Nevada''-- 1944
``West of the Pecos''-- 1945

`` Locket''-- 1946
``Pursued''-- 1947
``Crossfire''-- 1947
``Desire Me''-- 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
``Second Chance''-- 1953
``Angel Face''-- 1953
``White Witch Doctor''-- 1953
``She Couldn't Say No''-- 1954
``River of No Return''-- 1954
``Track of the Cat''-- 1954
``Not as a Stranger''-- 1955

``Man With the Gun''-- 1955
``Foreign Intrigue''-- 1956
``Bandido''-- 1956

 

 

``Fire Down Below''-- 1957
``The Enemy Below''-- 1957

 THE  MOVIES 1960 - 1995

``Home From the Hill''-- 1960
``The Sundowners''-- 1960
``The Night Fighters''-- 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
``Man in the Middle''-- 1964
``What a Way to Go!''-- 1964
``Mister Moses''-- 1965
``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''--69
``Ryan's Daughter''-- 1970
``Going Home''-- 1971
``The Wrath of God''-- 1972
``The Friends of Eddie Coyle''-- 1973 ``The Yakuza''-- 1975 ``Farewell, My Lovely''-- 1975 ``Midway''-- 1976
``The Last Tycoon''-- 1976
``The Amsterdam Kill''-- 1977
``Matilda''-- 1978
``The Big Sleep''-- 1978
``Sergeant Steiner'' (also called ``Breakthrough'')-- 1979
``Agency''-- 1981
``That Championship Season''-- 1982
``The Ambassador''-- 1985
``Maria's Lovers''-- 1985
``Mr. North''-- 1988
``Scrooged''-- 1988
``Cape Fear''-- 1991
``Midnight Ride''-- 1992
``Tombstone''-- 1993
``Woman of Desire''-- 1993
``Back Fire!''-- 1995

TV MINISERIES

``The Winds of War''-- 1983
``North and South''-- 1985
``War and Remembrance''-- 1988

A remake of--Rio Bravo, with Mitchum replacing Dean Martin as resident drunk and John Wayne's sidekick. Director Howard Hawks pitched it to Mitchum like this, "Story, there's no story. You and Duke play two old cowboys."

As the murderous preacher Harry Powell, Mitchum scored one of his finest performances. Charles Laughton atmospheric eerieness and sinister build-up helps tilt the reality axis into nightmare. Mitchum's villain is way over the top and using his deep voice for chill, his very voice pursues the two children all through the day and all through the night. "Don't he ever sleep?" wonders the boy he's hunting. No, son, I don't think he does.

Jane Greer and Mitchum in this  top-notch noir, in what may be the best noir of all --that down and-dirty quality, that edge of  threat. Mitchum the ideal film noir protagonist finding his own way and doing  things according to his own inner promptings and tossing off the best lines of his career. This hero is never a true believer. The ever-riveting Kirk Douglas crackles as his rival; each trying to underplay the other. The luminous and savvy Jane Greer plays Kathie Moffett, the woman they both want. Careful what you wish for.

 Why didn't Oscar smile at Mitchum for his oh - so - convincing  Marine?   Perhaps it's because Mitchum's gift  was to make it all  look so natural. If       you never saw another one of  Mitchum's films, you'd swear he was merely a military grunt. Deborah Kerr was Oscar - nominated for her portrayal of  a no-nonsense nun. The Oscar that year went to another military hero, Alec  Guinness in Bridge on the River Kwai. This was  Mitchum's personal favorite.

``The Hunters''-- 1958
``The Angry Hills''-- 1959
``The Wonderful Country''-- 1959

Although Mitchum never directed, this is his most personal film. He came up with the story idea, wrote and recorded the title song (it was a minor hit), and cast his son Jim as his brother. This tale of moonshiners in the deep South trying to outrun the "revenuers" is still as good a B-movie as you'll ever see. Rent it with an Elvis movie, say, Kid Creole or Roustabout.