Robert Mitchum News

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.

Am I the only person in the western hemisphere who's never been able to sit through the whole of "Gone With the Wind"? Molly Haskell, on the other hand, is a devotee, as she demonstrates in her new book, reviewed in the TLS .

WATCH: "THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE" Martin Scorsese's 2006 Oscar-winner "The Departed" owes a notable debt to Peter Yates' great, Boston-set-and-shot 1973 crime noir "The Friends of Eddie Coyle." Based on a novel by Boston reporter-turned-novelist George V. Higgins, the film tells the semi-tragic tale of Eddie "Fingers" Coyle and presages the whole ...

Quail Ridge Books & Music - Eve Kosofsky Sedwick has described James Morrison's writing style as "somewhere between Proust and David Sedaris." In his new collection of short stories, Said and Done , the former NCSU English professor and award-winning Indy film reviewer produces densely textured prose that blurs the line between realism and ...

After years of keeping mum, Hollywood legend Jean Simmons has admitted she had an affair with tough-guy actor Robert Mitchum.

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.... Made virtually synonymous with voluptuousness by Hollywood publicists and press in the 1940s and 1950s, Jane Russell's talents ...

Last week, we were talking about this week's release of the remake of the 1974 heist flick 'The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3.' We wanted to know which '70s Hollywood star played Denzel Washington's role as a policeman in the original.

"Westerns are timeless. The soundtracks rarely are." Lileks tweeted that pithy two-liner a few weeks ago, and I've been thinking about it ever since.

During the weekend, as the world observed the 65th anniversary of D-Day, when the Allied forces launched the long-anticipated, yet still surprising, assault on the beaches of France, I made sure to watch The Longest Day.

In that '50s-'60s movie Western dreamland we know so well, aging sure-shot hero John Wayne, recovering drunk Robert Mitchum, cocky kid James Caan and colorful old coot Arthur Hunnicutt are besieged in the town jail by a corrupt rancher's hired guns, just as Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan once were in Howard Hawks' pop classic ...

In the pantheon of movie tough guys, it's tough to top Robert Mitchum. Whether playing a world-weary private eye in "Out of the Past," a vengeful ex-con in "Cape Fear" or a murderous preacher in "Night of the Hunter," Mitchum was the guy you didn't dare mess with.

Wherein our movie critic periodically shares what DVDs he's been viewing in his spare time ... "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" : A terrific, taut crime drama about informers and their pals.

This week's picks include a Van Morrison concert exclusive, a WWII drama and a Robert Mitchum classic.

The premise -- fanboys on a road trip to George Lucas' ranch -- sounds promising, but there is little that is inventive or funny in Fanboys .

Cool it, slick. If Judge Clark Douglas says he can get it by Thursday, you'll have it Thursday.

Here are the DVDs releasing this week, Tuesday, May 19. 2009. A big TV on DVD week as the seasons are coming to an end.

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 the late, great George V. Higgins, brought to the screen by Paul Monash in "Eddie Coyle." "The ...

Tom Cruise stars as a Nazi colonel involved in a plot to kill Hitler. My Bloody Valentine 3D Fun slasher flick with characters and a story involving cheating spouses and a mad miner.

Rated: R ; DVD Release Date: May 19, 2009; Genre: Drama ; With: Peter Boyle and Robert Mitchum By Chris Nashawaty Chris Nashawaty Chris Nashawaty is a senior writer for EW, and author of EW.com's DVD Insomniac column Long available only on cruddy bootleg discs, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is one of the best crime films of the '70s - a decade that ...

Our review of El Dorado , published April 4th, 2000, is also available. Cole: "I just hope you're good enough." JP: "So do I. So do I." Howard Hawks was responsible for "a great film in almost every genre," according to author Todd McCarthy.