"The Night of the Hunter (film) The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American thriller directed by Charles Laughton, and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel of the same title by Davis Grubb. The plot focuses on a corrupt minister-turned-serial killer who attempts to charm an unsuspecting widow and steal $10,000 hidden by her executed husband. The novel and film draw on the true story of Harry Powers who was hanged in 1932 for the murder of two widows and three children in Clarksburg, West Virginia."
"Mister Roberts (1955 film) Mister Roberts is a 1955 American Warnercolor in CinemaScope comedy-drama film directed by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy and features an all-star cast including Henry Fonda as Mister Roberts, James Cagney as Captain Morton, William Powell (in his final film appearance) as Doc, and Jack Lemmon as Ensign Pulver. Based on the 1946 novel and 1948 Broadway play, the film was nominated for the three Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Sound, Recording (William A. Mueller), with Jack Lemmon winning the award for Best Supporting Actor. In the waning days of World War II, the"
"of the 1920s. Laughton's directing style was supportive and respectful of the actors' input and several of the actors have said it was among their favorite professional experiences. Laughton considered casting Gary Cooper as Harry Powell, but Cooper did not accept the role as it might be detrimental to his career. Laurence Olivier and John Carradine expressed interest in the role of the reverend. Robert Mitchum was eager for the part of the preacher. When he auditioned, a moment that particularly impressed Charles Laughton was when Laughton described the character as ""a diabolical shit"" and Mitchum promptly answered, ""Present!"" Shelley"
"one season, and the film was remade for television in 1984 as a live telecast shot mostly in the form of a stage play. Mister Roberts (1955 film) Mister Roberts is a 1955 American Warnercolor in CinemaScope comedy-drama film directed by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy and features an all-star cast including Henry Fonda as Mister Roberts, James Cagney as Captain Morton, William Powell (in his final film appearance) as Doc, and Jack Lemmon as Ensign Pulver. Based on the 1946 novel and 1948 Broadway play, the film was nominated for the three Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best"
"to ""Peeping Tom"" (1960). He received a BAFTA nomination for ""The Bedford Incident"" in 1965. Listing of films: 1942 The Foreman Went to France 1943 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1944 This Happy Breed 1944 The Way Ahead 1945 They Knew Mr. Knight 1946 A Matter of Life and Death 1947 Black Narcissus 1948 The Red Shoes 1950 Gone to Earth 1950 The Elusive Pimpernel 1951 The Tales of Hoffmann 1952 Folly to Be Wise 1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merry Men 1953 Twice upon a Time 1953 Front Page Story 1954 The Constant Husband"
"chance that Zender is Holman's lawyer, so she tries to warn Tolliver. Tollinger kills his would-be killer, but is shot in the shoulder by Holman. Castle kills Holman. Nelly and Tollinger, who says he is getting out of the business, kiss and are reconciled. ""The New York Times"" reviewer called the film ""an engrossing adventure"" and ""several cuts above the norm for this genre."" Man with the Gun Man with the Gun is a 1955 black and white Western film starring Robert Mitchum. The film was released in the United Kingdom as The Trouble Shooter and is also sometimes entitled"
"""The plot was changed greatly, and not for the better."" The Hunters (1958 film) The Hunters is a 1958 American DeLuxe Color CinemaScope war film adapted from the novel, ""The Hunters"" by James Salter. Produced and directed by Dick Powell, it stars Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner as two very different United States Air Force fighter pilots during the Korean War. Major Cleve ""Iceman"" Saville (Robert Mitchum), a veteran World War II fighter ace, returns to combat, eager to fly an F-86 Sabre fighter. His commanding officer, Colonel ""Dutch"" Imil (Richard Egan), assigns him command of a flight. Among his"
"The Trouble with Harry The Trouble with Harry is a 1955 American Technicolor black comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes was based on the 1950 novel by Jack Trevor Story. It starred Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Jerry Mathers and Shirley MacLaine in her film debut. ""The Trouble with Harry"" was released in the United States on September 30, 1955, then re-released in 1984 once the distribution rights had been acquired by Universal Pictures. The action in ""The Trouble with Harry"" takes place during a sun-filled autumn in the Vermont countryside. The fall"
"1955 Oh... Rosalinda!! 1955 Richard III 1956 The Battle of the River Plate 1956 Sea Wife 1956 The High Terrace 1957 Hour of Decision 1957 Seven Thunders 1958 Harry Black 1959 The Devils Desciple 1960 Sink the Bismarck 1960 Cleopatra 1960 Peeping Tom 1961 The Valiant 1962 The Very Edge 1962 Vengeance 1962 H.M.S. Defiant 1963 The Leather Boys 1963 Hornblower 1965 The Bedford Incident 1965 Called in to assist in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines 1966. The Blue Max...Travelling mat expertise 1966 Binddle (One of Them Days) 1967 The Double Man 1968 The Lost Continent 1968 Midas"
"South"" with Patrick Swayze and the 1989 miniseries ""Brotherhood of the Rose"" with Connie Sellecca. He had a reoccurring role in the TV series ""A Family for Joe"" (1990) and ""African Skies"" (1992). Robert Mitchum filmography Robert Mitchum was an American actor who was in over 110 films and TV series over the course of his career. He is ranked as #23 on the American Film Institute's list of the 50 greatest American screen legends of all time. His first credited named role was as Quinn in the 1943 film ""Border Patrol"". That same year he appeared in the films"
"Michael Powell Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. Through their production company ""The Archers"", they together wrote, produced and directed a series of classic British films, notably ""49th Parallel"" (1941), ""The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"" (1943), ""A Matter of Life and Death"" (1946, also called ""Stairway to Heaven""), ""Black Narcissus"" (1947), ""The Red Shoes"" (1948), and ""The Tales of Hoffmann"" (1951). His later controversial 1960 film ""Peeping Tom"", while today considered a classic, and a contender as the first ""slasher"", was so"
"River of No Return River of No Return is a 1954 American Western film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. The screenplay by Frank Fenton is based on a story by Louis Lantz, who borrowed his premise from the 1948 Italian film ""Bicycle Thieves"". It was made in Technicolor and CinemaScope and released by 20th Century Fox. Set in the Northwestern United States in 1875, the film focuses on taciturn widower Matt Calder (Robert Mitchum), who has recently been released from prison after serving time for killing one man while defending another. He arrives in"
"Clifton Powell Clifton Powell (born March 16, 1956) is an American actor, who primarily plays supporting roles in films, such as in ""Ray"" (2004), for which he received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture nomination. Powell has appeared in more than one hundred films, beginning in the 1980s. His credits include ""Menace II Society"" (1993), ""Dead Presidents"" (1995), ""Why Do Fools Fall in Love"" (1998), ""Rush Hour"" (1998), ""Next Friday"" (2000), and its 2002 sequel, ""Friday After Next"", ""Woman Thou Art Loosed"" (2004), and ""Ray"" (2004). He played Martin Luther King, Jr. in the"
"1955."" The film's length, 106 minutes, is A level, but its star, Ralph Meeker, had previously appeared in only one major film. Its source is pure pulp, one of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels, but Robert Aldrich's direction is self-consciously aestheticized. The result is a brutal genre picture that also evokes contemporary anxieties about what was often spoken of simply as the Bomb. The fear of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, along with less expressible qualms about radioactive fallout from America's own atomic tests, energized many of the era's genre films. Science fiction, horror, and various hybrids of the"
"The Hunters (1958 film) The Hunters is a 1958 American DeLuxe Color CinemaScope war film adapted from the novel, ""The Hunters"" by James Salter. Produced and directed by Dick Powell, it stars Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner as two very different United States Air Force fighter pilots during the Korean War. Major Cleve ""Iceman"" Saville (Robert Mitchum), a veteran World War II fighter ace, returns to combat, eager to fly an F-86 Sabre fighter. His commanding officer, Colonel ""Dutch"" Imil (Richard Egan), assigns him command of a flight. Among his pilots is a new replacement, talented but brash Lieutenant Ed"
"dramas. He played the alcoholic hero's barman in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's ""The Small Back Room"" (1949). His first major comedy role was in ""The Lavender Hill Mob"" (1951): with Alfie Bass, he made up the bullion robbery gang headed by Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway. In the same year, he also appeared in ""Lady Godiva Rides Again"" and ""The Galloping Major"". In 1953, he appeared as Harry Hawkins in ""The Titfield Thunderbolt"", and also had a major, starring role in ""The Wedding of Lilli Marlene"". In 1956, he appeared in ""Trapeze"" (1956) as Harry the snake charmer, a"
"14, 2002. It is in anamorphic widescreen format with audio tracks in English and French and subtitles in English and Spanish. River of No Return River of No Return is a 1954 American Western film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. The screenplay by Frank Fenton is based on a story by Louis Lantz, who borrowed his premise from the 1948 Italian film ""Bicycle Thieves"". It was made in Technicolor and CinemaScope and released by 20th Century Fox. Set in the Northwestern United States in 1875, the film focuses on taciturn widower Matt Calder (Robert"
"1951) and extra roles before gradually receiving bigger character parts. He supported his more famous brother on several occasions, and became known as the friendly, food-loving Inspector Frank DiGiorgio in the first three ""Dirty Harry films"". Mitchum was one of only four actors to appear in more than one film in this series (the others being Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino and Albert Popwell), and with Eastwood and Guardino, he was one of only three actors to play the same character in each appearance. His character was killed in the third film, ""The Enforcer"". In 1958, Mitchum was cast in two"
"The cast and crew totaled 220, and of that number, 91 had developed some form of cancer by 1981, and 46 had died of cancer by then, including Powell and Wayne. He directed Allyson opposite Jack Lemmon in ""You Can't Run Away from It"" (1956). Powell then made two war films at Fox with Robert Mitchum, ""The Enemy Below"" (1957) and ""The Hunters"" (1958). In the 1950s, Powell was one of the founders of Four Star Television, along with Charles Boyer, David Niven, and Ida Lupino. He appeared in and supervised several shows for that company. Powell played the role"
"action films like ""The Lineup"" (1958) and ""Hell Is for Heroes"" (1962), as well as the original ""Invasion of the Body Snatchers"" (1956). He later directed five films starring Clint Eastwood, including ""Dirty Harry"". In New York City's Spanish Harlem, police detectives Dan Madigan and Rocco Bonaro break into a sleazy apartment and arrest Barney Benesch, a hoodlum wanted for questioning by a Brooklyn precinct. Momentarily distracted by the suspect's nude girl friend, the two detectives are outwitted by Benesch, who escapes with their guns. When it is discovered that Benesch was wanted for homicide, Madigan and Bonaro are reprimanded"
"for Best Supporting Actor. Not as a Stranger Not as a Stranger is a 1955 American drama film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, and Frank Sinatra, and based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Morton Thompson. The romantic melodrama novel was widely popular, topping that year's list of bestselling novels in the United States. Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum) is a brilliant and dedicated medical student who has aspired to be a doctor since childhood. His mother is dead and he is estranged from his alcoholic father, who has squandered the"
"the affairs of his brother (Robert Taylor) and his brother's suspicious wife (Katharine Hepburn). John Brahm's ""The Locket"" (1946) featured Mitchum as bitter ex-boyfriend to Laraine Day's femme fatale. Raoul Walsh's ""Pursued"" (1947) combined Western and noir styles, with Mitchum's character attempting to recall his past and find those responsible for killing his family. ""Crossfire"" (also 1947) featured Mitchum as a member of a group of World War II soldiers, one of whom kills a Jewish man. It featured themes of anti-Semitism and the failings of military training. The film, directed by Edward Dmytryk, earned five Academy Award nominations. Following"
"best-known of these are ""The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"" (1943), ""A Canterbury Tale"" (1944), ""I Know Where I'm Going!"" (1945), ""A Matter of Life and Death"" (1946), ""Black Narcissus"" (1947), ""The Red Shoes"" (1948), and ""The Tales of Hoffmann"" (1951). In 1981 Powell and Pressburger were recognised for their contributions to British cinema with the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the most prestigious award given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Michael Powell was already an experienced director, having worked his way up from making silent films to the First World War drama ""The Spy in"
"films such as, ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951), ""Dial M For Murder"" (1954) with Ray Milland, ""Rear Window"" (1954) and ""Vertigo"" (1958). Non-Hitchcock thrillers of the 1950s include ""The Night of the Hunter"" (1955)—Charles Laughton's only film as director—and Orson Welles's crime thriller ""Touch of Evil"" (1958). Director Michael Powell's ""Peeping Tom"" (1960) featured Carl Boehm as a psychopathic cameraman. After Hitchcock's classic films of the 1950s, he produced ""Psycho"" (1960) about a lonely, mother-fixated motel owner and taxidermist. J. Lee Thompson's ""Cape Fear"" (1962), with Robert Mitchum, had a menacing ex-con seeking revenge. A famous thriller at the time"
"Villains. He provided the voice of the famous American Beef Council commercials that touted ""Beef ... it's what's for dinner"", from 1992 until his death. A ""Mitchum's Steakhouse"" is in Trappe, Maryland, where Mitchum and his family lived from 1959 to 1965. Notes Bibliography Robert Mitchum Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer. Mitchum rose to prominence for his starring roles in several classic ""films noir"", and is generally considered a forerunner of the antiheroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s. His best-known"
"than 30 combat missions as a navigator on board B-17 bombers from their base in East Anglia, the United Kingdom. He earned a second degree from the Yale School of Drama following the end of the war. Powell's film credits included ""The Mating Game"" (1959) with Debbie Reynolds, ""In the French Style"" (1963) with Jean Seberg, and ""The Thomas Crown Affair"" (1968), the latter in which he played Abe, a bank robber, opposite Steve McQueen. In 1975, Powell appeared in ""The Reincarnation of Peter Proud"" with Michael Sarrazin, and played a rogue CIA officer in ""Three Days of the Condor"","
"with Sean Connery in the leading role. Bond, portrayed by Connery, was selected as the third-greatest hero in cinema history by the AFI. After The Beatles films ""A Hard Day's Night"" (1964) and ""Help!"" (1965), it became standard for each new pop group to have a verité style feature film made about them. Michael Powell's hugely controversial thriller/horror film ""Peeping Tom"" was released in 1960, which is today considered a classic, and is regarded as a contender for the first ""slasher"" film. ""The Ipcress File"" (1965) stars Michael Caine as Harry Palmer, a British Army sergeant with a criminal past"
"""The Pickwick Papers"" (1952). Due mostly to ""The Sound Barrier"", exhibitors voted Patrick the seventh most popular British film star with the public, in 1952. Patrick was in ""Grand National Night"" (1953) and was the ninth most popular British star. On stage he was in ""Escapade"" (1953) and ""Birthday Honours"" (1953). The following year he was in ""Forbidden Cargo"" (1954) and was one of several British stars in ""The Sea Shall Not Have Them"" (1954). He supported Richard Widmark in ""A Prize of Gold"" (1955) for Warwick Films, who announced Patrick might direct ""In All Dishonesty"" for them on stage."
"was unavailable for nearly 30 years, other than a showing on NBC's ""Saturday Night at the Movies"" network television broadcast in the early 1960s. After protracted negotiations with the Hitchcock estate, Universal finally reissued it in 1984, along with four others, including ""Rear Window"" and ""Vertigo"" which in turn led to VHS and eventually DVD and Blu-ray versions for the home video market. The Trouble with Harry The Trouble with Harry is a 1955 American Technicolor black comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes was based on the 1950 novel by Jack Trevor Story. It"
"actor. He was forced to take on assignments that did not appeal to him, such movies as ""American Guerrilla in the Philippines"" (1950) and ""Pony Soldier"" (1952). In 1950 he traveled to England to play the title role in ""Mister Roberts"" on stage at the London Coliseum, bringing in sellout crowds for twenty-three weeks. Another disappointing role for Power, ""Diplomatic Courier"" (1952) is a cold war drama, directed by Henry Hathaway, but received very modest reviews. It took its place among several other American spy movies, released previously, with similar material. Power's movies had been very profitable for Fox in"
"Not as a Stranger Not as a Stranger is a 1955 American drama film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, and Frank Sinatra, and based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Morton Thompson. The romantic melodrama novel was widely popular, topping that year's list of bestselling novels in the United States. Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum) is a brilliant and dedicated medical student who has aspired to be a doctor since childhood. His mother is dead and he is estranged from his alcoholic father, who has squandered the family's money, leaving Lucas"
"Rogue series. Powell took a break from tough guy roles in ""The Reformer and the Redhead"" (1950), opposite then-wife June Allyson. Then it was back to tougher movies: ""Right Cross"" (1950), a boxing film, with Allyson; ""Cry Danger"" (1951), as an ex con; ""The Tall Target"" (1951), at MGM directed by Anthony Mann, playing a detective who tries to prevent the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He returned to comedy with ""You Never Can Tell"" (1951). He had a good role in MGM's popular melodrama, ""The Bad and the Beautiful"" (1952). His final film performance was in a romantic comedy ""Susan"
"1982 autobiography. Fernandez befriended Allyson on the set and after production ended, she and her husband, actor/director Dick Powell invited the ace and his family to their California ranch. There, Pete shared his battle experiences with filmmaker Powell, whose next project was a Korean War air combat picture titled ""The Hunters"", starring legendary actor Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner. Powell's final film was released to good reviews in 1958, and it contains much more realistic combat sequences than ""The McConnell Story."" Fernandez and two other top Korea aces, James Jabara and Royal N. Baker, attended the movie premiere. In 1956,"