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One of the lesser known aspects of Robert Mitchum's career was his forays into music. His voice had long been used instead of the professional singers when characters portrayed by Mitchum sang in his films. Notable productions featuring Mitchum's own singing voice included Rachel and the Stranger (1948), River of No Return (1954) and The Night of the Hunter (1955). After hearing traditional calypso music and meeting artists such as Mighty Sparrow and Lord Invader while filming Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison in the Caribbean island of Tobago, he recorded Calypso — Is Like So . . . in March of 1957. On the album, released through Capitol Records, he emulated the calypso sound and style, even adopting the style's unique pronunciations and slang. A year later he recorded a song he had written for the film Thunder Road, titled "The Ballad of Thunder Road."
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In this comic western, Flagg (Robert Mitchum) is a veteran marshal forced to retire by the pompous Mayor Wilker (Martin Balsam). McKay (George Kennedy) is a wily gunslinger. The two combine forces to stop a young band of outlaws from robbing the train when it pulls into the station. Flagg warns the mayor of the upcoming attempt but is not taken seriously by the town politician. McKay and Flagg ride out to warn the train of the impending crime, which finds McKay facing members of his own gang in a traditional western showdown. David and John Carradine appear in this feature along with Tina Louise and Lois Nettleton.
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Robert Mitchum had a ''face marinated by life,'' says director Sydney Pollack in a commentary on his movie The Yakuza (1975), one of six new-to-DVD titles in Robert Mitchum: The Signature Collection. Well, that's one way to describe the sleepy yet steely-eyed paradox of Mitchum's face, with its laid-back but vigilant gaze, its sleazy but sly smile. Another commentator, film-noir historian Eddie Muller — who supplies endless amounts of inside info on two other movies, Angel Face and Macao (both 1952) — cuts to the chase when he calls Mitchum, simply, ''the original hepcat.''
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Unlike most celebrity vocalists, Robert Mitchum actually had musical talent. Music was never anything more than an occasional sideline to his acting career, but he recorded sporadically throughout the ...Read full review
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Robert Mitchum returned to true film noir in 1949's The Big Steal, pairing Mitchum and Jane Greer once again in an early Don Siegel film. In Where Danger Lives (1950) he played a doctor who comes between a mentally unbalanced Faith Domergue and cuckolded Claude Rains. The Racket was a noir remake of the early crime drama The Racket and featured Mitchum as a police captain fighting corruption in his precinct. The Josef von Sternberg film Macao (1952) saw Mitchum a victim of mistaken identity at an exotic resort casino, playing opposite Jane Russell. Otto Preminger's Angel Face saw the first of three collaborations between Mitchum and British stage actress Jean Simmons. In the film, Simmons plays an insane heiress who plans to use young ambulance driver Mitchum to kill for her.
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Robert Mitchum's first lead role casts him as a gold-seeking cowpoke whose shady past comes into play when he's mistaken for the murderer of a homesteader. Can Mitchum clear his name before he's executed? And can he find the real culprit? This Zane Grey story ... stars Anne Jeffreys, Nancy Gates and Craig Reynolds. 62 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; featurettes.
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