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Crossfire **** (1947, Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Paul Kelly, Sam Levene, William Phipps) – Classic Movie Review 2171

Director Edward Dmytryk’s gripping and intelligent 1947 low-budget film noir crime thriller Crossfire is a flashback-told conscience-raiser about the hate murder of a Jewish man in a New York hotel. Apart from being a fine thriller, […]

Feb, 12

The Big Steal **** (1949, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Patric Knowles, Ramon Novarro) – Classic Movie Review 2170

After 1947’s Out of the Past, Robert Mitchum partners entrancing femme fatale Jane Greer again in director Don Siegel’s commendably taut, fast-paced 1949 film noir thriller The Big Steal. Mitchum plays an army lieutenant called […]

Feb, 12

The Racket **** (1951, Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, Ray Collins, William Talman) – Classic Movie Review 2166

Director John Cromwell’s tough and gritty 1951 gangster thriller The Racket boasts a great cast headed by stars Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, Ray Collins and William Talman. It is all that is hoped […]

Feb, 11

Macao **** (1952, Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix) – Classic Movie Review 1679

‘Everybody’s lonely, worried, and sorry. Everybody’s looking for something.’ – Jane Russell. Director Josef Von Sternberg ties his steamy, sultry 1952 film noir up in a tidy knot. This underrated, very likeable thriller boasts two scintillating performances […]

Sep, 16

The Grass Is Greener *** (1960, Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 1455

Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1960 release is a stagey but pleasing and enjoyable, old-style sub-Noel Coward drawing-room comedy of marital infidelity along the lines of Private Lives as Cary Grant’s marriage to Deborah Kerr is threatened by Jean Simmons […]

Jul, 20

His Kind of Woman **** (1951, Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Raymond Burr, Vincent Price) – Classic Movie Review 1257

Jane Russell is on her best form as Robert Mitchum’s kind of woman, in the delirious 1951 black-and-white film noir thriller His Kind of Woman (1951). Director John Farrow’s 1951 delirious black-and-white film noir thriller […]

May, 26

Track of the Cat **** (1954, Robert Mitchum, Tab Hunter, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn, William Hopper, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 1148

Director William A Wellman’s 1954 Western stars Robert Mitchum as Curt Bridges who is hunting a symbolic panther in this beautiful and splendidly haunting Eugene O’Neill-style drama about a squabbling, snow-bound 1880s northern California farming […]

Apr, 26

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