But Mr. Mitchum's and the audience's attention is directed to Miss Monroe through frequent and liberal posing of her in full and significant views.

He finished the year off with a western ( West of the Pecos ) and a story of returning Marine veterans ( Till the End of Time ), before filming in a genre that came to define Mitchum's career and screen persona: film noir.

The arrest did little to affect Mitchum's career in the long term, but was seen as an embarrassment by his studio, who ordered Mitchum to clean up his act.

One of the lesser known aspects of Mitchum's career was his forays into music, both as singer and composer

During the difficult shoot, Preminger also had to contend with frequent rain, Mitchum's heavy drinking, and an injury to her ankle that kept Monroe off the set for several days.

Kerr's character was a member of the Mexican aristocracy escaping the vengeance of the Mexican Revolution, with Mitchum's cowboy protecting her as he led her to safety to the United States.

Undercurrent, another of Mitchum's early noirs, featured him playing against type as a troubled, sensitive man entangled in the affairs of his brother ( Robert Taylor ) and his brother's suspicious wife ( Katharine Hepburn ).

Mitchum's performance as the menacing southern rapist Max Cady in Cape Fear ( 1962 ) brought him even more attention and furthered his renown as playing cool, predatory characters.

In El Dorado starring John Wayne, cayenne pepper, mustard ( the hot kind ), ipecac, asafoetida, croton oil, and gunpowder are the ingredients in an emetic administered to Robert Mitchum's drunken sheriff to sober him up and prevent him from drinking for the foreseeable future.

Shepherd went to Los Angeles and read with John Ritter, and with Robert Mitchum's son as well as Jeff Bridges and Timothy Bottoms.

Along with Wayne and Elam, this movie starred Mexican film star Jorge Rivero ( as Frenchie ), Christopher Mitchum ( Robert Mitchum's son ) and Jennifer O ' Neill.

Throughout Mitchum's childhood, he was known as a prankster, often involved in fistfights and mischief.

By Mitchum's own account, he escaped and returned to his family in Delaware.

Joe was nominated for four Oscars, including Mitchum's only nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

John Brahm's The Locket ( 1946 ) featured Mitchum as bitter ex-husband to Laraine Day's femme fatale, while 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.

Mitchum's voice was often used instead of that of a professional singer when his characters sang in his films.

Notable productions featuring Mitchum's own singing voice included Rachel and the Stranger, River of No Return and The Night of the Hunter.

The role of Robin Doolin, Lucas's younger brother, was originally written for Elvis Presley per Mitchum's request.

Mitchum's son James got the part, which worked well due to the close physical resemblance.

The movie's theme song, " The Ballad of Thunder Road ", was later recorded by Mitchum and became a popular single record, although Mitchum's rendition is not the one in the film itself.

The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Mitchum's only nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Mitchum's character, Capt.

Other appearances included his iconic role as the father of Natalie Wood in the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause ( 1955 ), as Robert Mitchum's ill fated brother Arthur in the William Wellman adventure Track of the Cat ( 1954 ), and as the often absent father Col. Kenneth Penmark in The Bad Seed ( 1956 ) also starring Nancy Kelly and Patty McCormack.

Ms. Botz's pursuit of Bart into the cellar is reminiscent of Robert Mitchum's pursuit of a young boy in the film The Night of the Hunter.

Robert Mitchum's role was originally meant for Frank Sinatra but Sinatra suddenly wanted several times more money than what the other male leads received.

Rattfink was, however, a cynical, mischievous, negative and malicious man ( appearing older than Roland ) out to destroy anything happy or positive.

The cynical attitude toward recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814 ; however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than " food for powder " was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in Henry IV, Part 1.

The film portrays General Allenby as cynical and manipulative, with a superior attitude to Lawrence, but there is much evidence that Allenby and Lawrence respected and liked each other.

Her polished manners and superior attitude make her no friends among the rest of the aspiring actresses living there, particularly her new roommate, flippant, cynical dancer Jean Maitland ( Ginger Rogers ).

* Peter McVries-Peter McVries is a well-muscled and athletically fit young man with a sardonic sense of humor and a cynical attitude.

In 1498 ( fifteen years after the death of Louis XI of France ), Commines's work was completed ( first published in 1524 in Paris ), and is considered a historical record of immense importance, largely because of its author's cynical and forthright attitude to the events and machinations he had witnessed.

With its explicit language and cynical attitude to politicians, it roused one British Member of Parliament's ire at the magazine's partial funding by the British Arts Council.

Starring Chita Rivera, Jerry Orbach and Gwen Verdon in her last Broadway role, it suffered from a cynical attitude, which contrasted with the record-breaking popularity of A Chorus Line.

Sihanouk's attitude toward the left was often cynical.

The frequent exposure to death and hardship often leads to a cynical and callous attitude as well as a character trait known today as post-traumatic stress characterizes many hardboiled protagonists.

Clifford's attitude to McCloud became one of cynical antagonism, bordering at times on extreme rage, but usually tempered with a grudging respect for McCloud's ability to solve the most difficult of cases.

The usual subject matter of the group includes: environmentalism, poverty, anguish and family troubles, as well as the denouncing of consumerism, exploitation, state-controlled gambling, cynical government attitude and political apathy.

Despite this cynical and childish attitude, Beetlejuice prove to be a profound and insightful person, frequently reciting quotes of philosophical and humanitarian importance ( but of course, Beetlejuice rarely follow his own lessons and lectures ).

In his anti-Napoleonic pamphlet " De Buonaparte et des Bourbons ", published in 1814, he criticized the cynical attitude towards recruits, that prevailed in the end of Napoleon's reign: " On en était venu à ce point de mépris pour la vie des hommes et pour la France, d ' appeler les conscrits la matière première et la chair à canon " — " the contempt for the lives of men and for France herself has come to the point of calling the conscripts ' the raw material ' and ' the cannon fodder.

Iyall was observed by Mother Jones to be among a new group of female fronted rock bands that displayed a " tough, wry, street-wise, cynical " attitude and sought to redefine the role of women in rock music.

Fleming also displayed a somewhat cynical attitude to the business community, dismissing appeals to the common good with the remark " the end of every private merchant is not the common good but his particular profit ".

Greek frappé coffee | Frappé coffee is often a symbol of a cynical attitude.

Although he opposed The Beast, Spider is not loyal to any political party or organization, and his initial support of The Smiler was tinged with contempt at his cynical attitude and false altruism.

He also has a significantly gruffer and more cynical attitude, partly because, as the villain Rebel insinuates, Damage was left badly scarred, but alive, by Zoom.

The film's amoral characters and cynical attitude toward violence ( including a scene where Lancaster's character threatens to murder child hostages ) were considered shocking at the time and influenced future Westerns such as The Magnificent Seven, Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, and the films of Sergio Leone.

Always acting cool, his cynical personality and his " always get the job done " attitude can make him seem like a very cold and dark character.

She grew up with a neglectful, alcoholic, adoptive mother and a sexually abusive, alcoholic stepfather which gave her a cynical attitude and a pessimistic view on life.

Kaori has a cynical, no-nonsense attitude to life, which many students interpret as a cold nature.

Despite Gert's cynical attitude, she rarely argued with Nico's decisions and was usually prepared to stand by her friend.

Gert's cynical attitude breaks when after resuscitating Chase from drowning ( after their last encounter with the Pride ), she shares a passionate kiss after he awakens ; it's generally accepted that Chase and Gert become a couple at this point.