The 20 Best of Robert Mitchum
The twenty best films of acting legend Robert Mitchum.
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- DirectorRay EnrightStarsRandolph ScottAlan CurtisNoah Beery Jr.The true story of Carlson's Raiders and their World War II attack on Makin Island.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsWilliam BoydAndy ClydeGeorge ReevesStagecoach robbers take the money Hoppy was going to use to buy cattle so Hoppy, California and Lin go after them.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsWilliam BoydAndy ClydeJimmy RogersWhen Hoppy's falsely accused young friend is killed while supposedly trying to escape from jail, an embittered Hoppy is blamed and drummed out of the Texas Rangers.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsEddie DewSmiley BurnetteLorraine MillerThe Rangers are after Hadley and his men and have planted Johnny Revere into his gang to warn them of his raids. But Hadley realizes he has a spy in his group and gets Trigger Dolan to join the Rangers. It's not long before Trigger spots Johnny as the spy. Johnny is captured and a fatal accident is planned to finish him off.
- DirectorJean YarbroughStarsLeon ErrolMary Beth HughesEddie QuillanA farmer goes to New York to become a singer, has success and marries his neighbor's girl-friend.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsKenny BakerJeff DonnellLynn MerrickBand leader and singer Danny O'Keefe, is drafted into the U.S. Army, along with three members of his orchestra, Chuck, Corny and Tiny, known as 'The Jesters.' Danny is unhappy because he has to leave the band's beautiful vocalist, Gloria Gold, behind. But he goes off happy since she promises be be true blue while he is serving his country. Danny spends every spare minute writing letters to Gloria, which she turns over to her elderly secretary to answer. Danny and his friends are stationed somewhere in Ireland. He is on guard duty when Molly Callahan comes driving up in a donkey cart, and he demands that she leave. She tells her father, Michael, who rounds up all the Callahan clan, and the result is that every American solder who looks at an Irish lass is beaten up. Danny's top-sergeant demands that Danny square himself and the other Americans with Molly and the Callahans, and he does so by the singing of Irish ballads. Molly falls in love with Danny, but Gloria shows up as part of a U.S.O tour.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyTrudy MarshallTwo bumbling dance teachers help an awkward inventor sell his new invention and facilitate his romance with a beautiful socialite.
- DirectorRay TaylorStarsJohnny Mack BrownTex RitterFuzzy KnightRancher Blaze Barker returns to Dead Falls after being framed by land-grabbers and spending two years in jail. Paroled, he can't wear a gun, but is aided by Marshal Fargo Steele. The gang is out to gain control of all of the valley land before a dam is constructed. When Blaze raises the money to pay off the taxes on his ranch, he finds it has been marked to incriminate him.
- DirectorJohn RawlinsStarsRichard QuineAnne GwynneMartha O'DriscollWWII morale film for Texas A&M graduates fighting overseas. Young Brad Craig (Langton) enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which Mitchum and other upperclassmen quickly knock off. Once adjusted, Craig falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter, only to find she is in love with his roommate, played by Noah Beery. In the meantime, Craig associates with Japanese spies (including William Frawley of "I Love Lucy") bent on stealing a secret chemical compound being worked on a the University. But is he one of them, or a double agent for his country?
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsWilliam BoydAndy ClydeJay KirbyWhile oil drilling, Hoppy and California discover an underground well - a potential threat to Jebb Hardin's monopoly on water in the region.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsWilliam BoydAndy ClydeJay KirbyWhen three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the mines of Silver Bullet, they are framed for murder by the town's corrupt sheriff.
- DirectorJoseph HenaberyStarsWilliam BoydAndy ClydeJay KirbyAs rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Bar 20 ranch hand Johnny Travers sends for old friends Hopalong Cassidy and California Carlson.
- DirectorRichard RossonHoward HawksStarsRandolph ScottJames BrownElla RainesThe story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsMickey RooneyFrank MorganJames CraigTeenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsWilliam BoydAndy ClydeJay KirbySheriff Hoppy has to find a way to bring the bad guys, headed by Tom Jordan, to justice in the Lone Star state. The problem is that they are hiding out beyond his jurisdiction, in Oklahoma.
- DirectorWilliam BerkeStarsRichard ArlenJean ParkerRussell HaydenAfter deserting from the U.S. Navy in the 1930s, an officer re-enlists under a fake name after Pearl Harbor and serves on a minesweeper.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsMargaret SullavanAnn SothernJoan BlondellA chronicle of the experiences of a mixed group of Army hospital volunteers stationed in Bataan during World War II.
- StarsMax FactorRobert MitchumA demonstration of various make-ups and the techniques used with them in the productions of movies. Among the demonstrations: an unknown by the name of Robert Mitchum has his chest hair shaved and then replaced with a chest hairpiece.