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...Derived from Cézanne’s statuesque “Bather” and a photograph of actor Robert Mitchum in 1942, this figure in swimming trunks stands in uneasy, incongruous relationship with the cold, washed-out landscape....
...Robert Mitchum lured from sleepy east California back to his dark past by Kirk Douglas via Jane Greer, playing one of the most fatal of femmes fatales....
...Soon Greta Garbo, Robert Mitchum and Jacques Cousteau were visiting. In September 2017, nine years after Rémy died, Hurricane Irma struck St Barths....
...One of Doig’s latest series of paintings is of Robert Mitchum on the beach in Trinidad, and he tells me that the film star had made a “not bad” album of calypso songs based on his stay there in the 1950s...
...Today, through almost no distinguishing achievement of my own, I bathe in reflected glory among star-struck friends or strangers by saying, yes, indeed, I once met and chatted with Robert Mitchum, Olivia...
...The subsequent popular TV mini-series, starring Robert Mitchum as Pug Henry, was a further embellishment....
...Harry Belafonte recorded a calypso album; so, more surprisingly, did Robert Mitchum....
...Mitchum in the 1957 Trinidad-shot film Fire Down Below — contributed to the image....
...He wasn’t a sleepy-macho hunk like Robert Mitchum — another half-breed of outdoors and indoors — nor a piece of noble-savage driftwood floated in from Method Land like Marlon Brando....
...In the 1978 remake, Robert Mitchum’s Marlowe is even seen playing out moves on a miniature board while on stake-out. Chandler, in turn, was friendly with James Bond creator Ian Fleming....
...Robert Mitchum and James Stewart died on successive days in 1997. Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni died on the exact same day (July 30 2007)....
...The voice is still a phenomenon, though: that seat-rumbling basso slur that can make Robert Mitchum sound like Alvin Chipmunk. The film has a plot, but you have to work at it....
...Men, particularly stars – Robert Mitchum, Marlon Brando, Paul McCartney and Richard Burton among them – flock to O’Brien throughout the pages of Country Girl but, in the case of Law, something has changed...
...With a couple of scenes so unnerving that they’ll make you yelp, and the most villainous preacher since Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter, it’s an electrifying debut....
...He ignored a boozy Robert Mitchum at a neighbouring table, as the American actor – well past his prime – boorishly recalled the director’s snail-paced perfectionism while filming Ryan’s Daughter....
...While we were filming Thor, Anthony Hopkins once leant over and whispered, “You know, all the great actors – James Mason, Robert Mitchum, Peter O’Toole, Richard Burton – they were all such open, charming...
...A lot of good actors do this: Robert Mitchum, Marlon Brando....
...The scale and budgets of the miniseries, coupled with the vast audiences he could muster for them, meant that stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Mitchum and Johnny Cash would appear in at least cameo...
...Reading through his whole body of work, it is as if the young Robert Mitchum grew up into a middle-aged Cary Grant....
...The most obvious was Charles Laughton’s 1955 classic The Night of the Hunter, from which Lee took Robert Mitchum’s infamous love-hate speech and gave it to one of his own protagonists, Radio Raheem, the...
...Robert Mitchum’s terrifying psychopath calling to the children from the top of the stairs in The Night of the Hunter represents this kind of evil presence....
...An actor directing; a famous film critic (James Agee) scripting; a notorious hellraiser (Robert Mitchum) spellbinding in the lead role....
...Here is Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, a Mumbai Robert Mitchum, shooting his latest movie, an all-star action thriller about a true-life police siege....
...Quite simply one of the great films noirs, Out of the Past (Universal) drips with atmosphere and is held together by Robert Mitchum’s laconic turn in the lead role, treating each plot twist with brilliant...
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