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With his blond, surfer-boy looks, Jan-Michael Vincent seemed destined to be a leading man, but with his tough demeanor and bad-boy eyes, he usually essayed men with an edge, misunderstood except by the women who love them. In real life, Vincent has
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An article in my newspaper (yes, I still read one daily) about tattoo shops caught my attention the other day. It seems that, despite or possibly because of the current embarrassment of the economy, they are multiplying like, well, the tattoos on the
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Movie from 1947, Robert Mitchum and Richard Hart are both after Greer Garson's affections
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Iconic: Robert Mitchum enjoys a smoke during the film The Longest Day
It is an iconic image of movies and real life - a battle-weary GI sits down during a lull in the fighting and sucks on a calming cigarette.
It has endured through two world wars, and
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The same I can't say for "Angel Face," which starred Robert Mitchum and a mousy Jean Simmons. I haven't seen a lot of films starring Mitchum, but it's easy to understand why actors today like Johnny Depp and Sean Penn refer to him as an inspiration.
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Simmons, 80, and the tough-guy actor had acted together in the Fifties in films such as Otto Preminger's 'Angel Face' and Stanley Donen's 'Grass Is Greener'.
The actress had previously spoken only about her fondness for her late co-star, but she now
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his home studio that Lemmon developed his comic persona and honed his skills in a series of richly evocative if modestly budgeted films.
In a career that spanned almost 50 years, Jack Lemmon was seldom a soothing presence. Sweaty, stammering and
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...for her late co-star, but she now has revealed that there was more than just friendship between them. "All right, then - Robert Mitchum," the Daily Express quoted her as saying when asked if she had off-screen dalliances. "He was a real man. He was a ladies'...
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Made virtually synonymous with voluptuousness by Hollywood publicists and press in the 1940s and 1950s, Jane Russell’s talents as a dramatic actress and musical performer were given significantly less attention than her statuesque figure. She was
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IN a career that spanned almost 50 years Jack Lemmon was seldom a soothing presence. Sweaty, stammering and hyperactive, Lemmon seemed to embody the countertype of the monumental, granite-jawed leading men of the 1950s stars like John Wayne, Robert
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BAR NONE: Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum) drowns his sorrows in The Friends of Eddie Coyle.
DEFIANCE (2008). The 1970s TV miniseries Holocaust and the 2002 theatrical release The Grey Zone touched upon the topic, but Defiance might be the first celluloid
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Robert Mitchum, though older and even occasionally tired, could still kick the ever-lovin' sin out every man in the room in 'The Friends Of Eddie Coyle'
Selling out is never as easy as you're led to believe.
Seriously. If you decided right now, as you'
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who was a nun. John himself had studied briefly for the priesthood under the Christian Brothers, but was expelled at 15, charged with smoking. There was also some discussion that during his service as the supervising altar boy, certain wedding and
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The criminally lucrative CSI television franchise has popularized what I like to call the “easter egg” (in the pre-DVD sense of that term) style of crime drama. As in a children’s easter egg hunt, the producers and scriptwriters carefully place
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Editor's note: I am very pleased to welcome Tom Piccirilli to Crimespree Cinema. Upon learning Tom was a fan of The Friends of Eddie Coyle, I asked him if he would be willing to offer up his thoughts on this fine film. He has generously agreed to share
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El Dorado was directed and produced by legendary director Howard Hawks and stars western great John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. It is one of a just a few oaters that Hawks would work on; three others starred Wayne as well: Red River, Rio Bravo, and Rio
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El Dorado has its considerable charms, not least for the partnership of the Duke and Robert Mitchum, plus the addition of a very young James Caan, as a roving gambler named Mississippi with irregular taste in headgear – who is also absolutely hopeless
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Tom Cruise stars as German Col. Claus von Stauffenberg in Valkyrie, about Nazi officers who plot against Hitler.
This week's picks include a Van Morrison concert exclusive, a WWII drama and a Robert Mitchum classic. Also due are Tom Cruise's WWII
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series to chew on
"A Bug's Life" on Blu-ray: Beautiful high-def transfer of the lively 1995 Pixar computer-animated tale of a free-thinking ant (voiced by Dave Foley) who leaves the colony and — in a kind of homage to "The Magnificent Seven" —
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“Paul Blart: Mall Cop” (PG): Sitcom stalwart Kevin James stars and co-writes this comedy about a mild-mannered single dad trying to make ends meet as a New Jersey mall cop forced to take on insidious Santa’s Helpers.
In “Valkyrie” (PG-13), Tom
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Peter Yates is a director with a fairly simple and somewhat ordinary
resumé. His films are mostly straightforward crime films and dramas that
provide reasonably satisfactory entertainment. Yates' relaxed sense of cool
realism works remarkably well
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CANNES -- The entire world saw "La Vie en Rose," but producers
didn't always see Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf -- that took an
entire year of convincing by the film's casting director, Olivier
Carbone.
"Investors didn't think she
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Long before there was Jack Nicholson in "The Departed," there was Robert Mitchum in "The Friends of Eddie Coyle." Long before there was the Oscar-winning screenplay by Boston local Bill Monahan for "The Departed," there were the untouchable words of
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From the opening scenes which find the sheriff heading into the saloon
washroom to meet his old friend, there's a great rapport between John Wayne and
Robert Mitchum, supported by the fast Howard Hawks quips that are fired more
often than bullets.
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For decades, it was a byword for glamour. But in the Fifties and Sixties, Cannes, the setting of the world's most star-studded film festival, really DID have class.
Not now. These days, it is a magnet for the tawdry riff-raff of the porn industry,
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Another must have in Paramount’s Centennial Collection; this time Paramount drags Howard Hawks penultimate film from the archives for our enjoyment.
After a montage of western art used as the backdrop for the opening credits we are greeted with the
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ABOUT "ABOUT LAST NIGHT" AND ITS AUTHORS
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ABOUT "ABOUT LAST NIGHT" AND ITS AUTHORS
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ABOUT "ABOUT LAST NIGHT" AND ITS AUTHORS
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ABOUT "ABOUT LAST NIGHT" AND ITS AUTHORS
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The Broadway season is over at last, and in today's Wall Street Journal I review the last two shows to open in 2008-09, Waiting for Godot and 9 to 5: The Musical. One is better than the other. Guess which? Here's an excerpt.
It says much about
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LOS ANGELES — Ken Annakin, the British-born director whose credits included the World War II epics "Battle of the Bulge" and "The Longest Day" and the family classic "Swiss Family Robinson," has died. He was 94.
Mr. Annakin died Wednesday night at his
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ABOUT "ABOUT LAST NIGHT" AND ITS AUTHORS
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Broadway hoofer, dramatic talent, spiritual figure, eccentric, activist, Oscar winner. Over the course of a varied and distinguished career, actress Shirley MacLaine earned these titles many times over. A former ballerina hopeful-turned-chorus girl,
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ABOUT "ABOUT LAST NIGHT" AND ITS AUTHORS
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ABOUT "ABOUT LAST NIGHT" AND ITS AUTHORS
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ABOUT "ABOUT LAST NIGHT" AND ITS AUTHORS
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Robert Mitchum, as gangster Eddie Coyle, explains to a guy how he got crippled for life. It's one of the greatest scenes in film history.
my rendition of robert mitchum's rendition of from a logical point of view
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Yes, I an interviewer should be impartial, but I am beginning to see what the iconic Natalie Wood saw in Robert Wagner.
Some say Wagner, as Wood put it before she fell for him, is 'sweet but boring'. Quelle erreur! It is nine in the morning and Wagner
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Disney and Universal's Jack Dunham (here at 95 yrs old) recounts meeting Robert Mitchum at the at Bing Crosby's Research Foundation's Inventor's New Product Show in 1948 while at Jack's trailer. Mitchum, a former boxer knocks out a pushy drunk while they go grab a drink at the Pan Pacific Hotel bar.
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Robert Mitchum plays a man whose long-gone days as a private detective finally catch up with him in 1947’s “Out of the Past.” Jane Greer co-stars in the stylish thriller, which will open the Film Noir Festival in Los Angeles on
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Spring has sprung (or is springing), and like squirrels in the forest, once again we peak our heads out of our warm places of hibernation, and drink in a more hospitable and welcoming outside world. Suddenly we feel eager for adventure, excited to
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After the screening of "Fired Up!," one of my colleagues grimly observed that "Dead Man" was a better cheerleader movie. That was, you will recall, the 1995 Western starring Johnny Depp, Robert Mitchum, Billy Bob Thornton and Iggy Pop. I would give
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When the César awards (the French Oscars) are presented Friday night at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, “Mesrine” and “Séraphine,” two films going head to head with 19 nominations between them, will represent the visceral and cerebral extremes of
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