In this film, Robert Mitchum played the Dean Martin role, Arthur Hunnicutt the Walter Brennan character and James Caan the Ricky Nelson role.

Mitchum and Kerr reunited for the Fred Zinnemann film, The Sundowners ( 1960 ), where they played husband and wife struggling in Depression-era Australia.

* The city is mentioned as a former bootlegging city by the character played by Robert Mitchum in the film Thunder Road.

In his film career, he played the grandfather in The Red Pony ( 1949 ), adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck and starring Robert Mitchum, and the spy boss of Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic Notorious ( 1946 ).

On two facing walls are large photos of fists with the words " LOVE " and " HATE " written on them, a reference to the preacher played by Robert Mitchum in the film, The Night of the Hunter, who had similar tattoos on his knuckles.

She appeared in films from time to time for the rest of her life, notably in Night of the Hunter ( 1955 ) as a rural guardian angel protecting her charges from a murderous preacher played by Robert Mitchum.

" Pug " Henry ( played by Mitchum ), in two ABC miniseries, The Winds of War and its sequel, War and Remembrance.

In common with Humphrey Bogart, Elliott Gould and Robert Mitchum, who have played Raymond Chandler's private eye detective Philip Marlowe, Glover played the role in the episode " Red Wind " of the Showtime network's 1995 series Fallen Angels.

He played opposite Robert Mitchum, Jan Michael Vincent, Deborah Winters and Ali MacGraw in what became in ' 83, the second most watched miniseries of all time ( after Roots ).

Robert Mitchum played Marlowe once again in Farewell, My Lovely ( 1975 ), perhaps the most faithful adaptation of this often-filmed book.

He proceeds to give Catlett a tongue-in-cheek lecture setting the facts straight, pointing out that El Dorado was essentially a remake of Rio Bravo, with Robert Mitchum playing the role of Dean Martin's drunk, James Caan doing Ricky Nelson's role, and that the only person playing the same role in both movies was John Wayne: " he played John Wayne ".

Kirkland based the design of Colt on Robert Mitchum, who, in addition to being a film noir actor, played a detective in the 1991 film Cape Fear.

Homer surprising Bart with his new hockey mask recalls the film Friday the 13th Part III and Sideshow Bob's tattoos on his knuckles are similar to those of Robert Mitchum's character in The Night of the Hunter ( Mitchum also played the villain Max Cady in the original 1962 version of Cape Fear ).

Mitchum was 60 at the time, far older than Chandler's 33-year-old Marlowe ( or the 1946 film's 38-year-old Marlowe played by a 46-year-old Bogart ).

Working with Lance Henrickson, Robert Mitchum, John Hurt, and Eugene Byrd, Wincott played a comedic role.

" In the film The Longest Day, Cota ( played by Robert Mitchum ) actually delivers another famous quotation attributed to Colonel George A. Taylor: " There are only two kinds of people who are staying on this beach: those who are already dead and those that are gonna die.

Takakura gained international recognition after starring in the 1970 war film Too Late the Hero as the cunning Imperial Japanese Major Yamaguchi, the 1975 Sydney Pollack sleeper hit The Yakuza with Robert Mitchum and is probably best known in the West for his role in Ridley Scott's Black Rain ( 1989 ) where he surprises American cops played by Michael Douglas and Andy García with the line, " I do speak fucking English ".

In the film The Longest Day General Cota ( played by Robert Mitchum ) was given Taylor's line.

* Max Cady ( as played by Mitchum ) ranks number 28 on the American Film Institute's list of the top 50 movie villains of all time.

Boetticher had planned the film for Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr, who had played a man of action and a nun in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison.

In her last made for television movie, she played the mother of three young men manipulated into breaking their father ( Robert Mitchum ) out of jail in A Killer in the Family ( 1983 ).

He appeared in several films, including Operation Crossbow and The Grass Is Greener, in which he played opposite Robert Mitchum and Cary Grant.

Before his famous role as Jeff Miller in the first Lassie television series, Rettig also appeared in about 18 feature films including So Big, The 5, 000 Fingers of Dr. T ( written by Dr. Seuss ) and River of No Return with Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum.

Arriving in town, Blake discovers that his position has already been filled, and is driven from the workplace at gunpoint by John Dickinson ( Robert Mitchum ), the ferocious owner of the company.

Set in New Mexico around the turn of the 19th to 20th century and told in flashback, the film tells the story of Jeb ( Mitchum ) whose entire family was slaughtered when he was a young boy.

Korean War veteran Lucas Doolin ( Robert Mitchum ) works in the family moonshine business — delivering the illegal liquor his father distills to clandestine distribution points throughout the south in his souped-up hot rod.

After 20 years in show business, he got his television break on Who Do You Do ?, an ITV showcase for impressionists, where they impersonated a host of stars, including Robert Mitchum and Mick Jagger.

Produced at a cost of almost $ 9 million with a high-profile cast including John Hurt, Gabriel Byrne and, in his final role, Robert Mitchum, the film marked a significant departure for the director from his previous features.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

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.

When he was 12, his mother sent Mitchum to live with his grandparents in Felton, Delaware, where he was promptly expelled from his middle school for scuffling with a principal.

Mitchum arrived in Long Beach, California, in 1936, staying again with his sister Julie.

Mitchum then got a steady job as a machine operator with the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.

After impressing director Mervyn LeRoy during the making of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Mitchum signed a seven-year contract with RKO Radio Pictures.

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.

After serving a week at the county jail, ( he described the experience to a reporter as being " like Palm Springs, but without the riff-raff ") Mitchum spent 43 days ( February 16 to March 30 ) at a Castaic, California, prison farm, with Life magazine photographers right there taking photos of him mopping up in his prison uniform.

Mitchum walked off the set of the third day of filming Blood Alley, claiming he could not work with the director.

However, the film was not well received, with most critics pointing out that Mitchum, Frank Sinatra and Lee Marvin were all too old for their characters.

Following a succession of average westerns and the poorly received Foreign Intrigue ( 1956 ), Mitchum starred in the first of three films with British actress Deborah Kerr.

The John Huston war drama Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison starred Mitchum as a marine corporal shipwrecked on a Pacific Island with a nun, Sister Angela ( Deborah Kerr ), being his sole companion.

Mitchum also co-wrote ( with Don Raye ) the theme song, " The Ballad of Thunder Road.

The movie stars Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov, with a supporting cast including Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Michael Anderson, Jr., and Chips Rafferty.

He was replaced by Robert Mitchum, who agreed to work on the film for a chance to appear opposite Deborah Kerr, with whom he had become good friends while making Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison together.

In the film, Mitchum drove a souped-up 1951 Ford 2-door sedan hot-rod with a custom tank in the back for moonshine and later a 1957 Ford coupe with the same alterations.

Throughout the 1950s, Winters continued in films, including Meet Danny Wilson ( 1952 ) as Frank Sinatra's leading lady, most notably in Charles Laughton's 1955 Night of the Hunter, with Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish, and the less successful I Am A Camera starring opposite Julie Harris and Laurence Harvey.

However, prior to filming she made Secret Ceremony in England with Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Mitchum.