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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mitchum is an American who killed his first man at the age of 13 to avenge his father's death. He ran away to Mexico and grew up a pistolero in the service of a provincial dictator. While he says he is from Missouri, he sounds like an Aztec exchange student after six terms at C.C.N.Y. He fords the Rio Grande on a mission to the U.S. for his Chihuahuan master (Pedro Armendariz). There he breaks a leg, is forced to stay over for two months, and suddenly he is the most sought-after man in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...rest of the plot is as snarled as a ball of tumbleweed. The major and his wife turn up in Mexico on a junket intended to promote the building of international roadbeds, and there, at a fiesta, stands Mitchum. Woofs the hero to the lady, amid the confusion of wild music and whirling skirts: "Let's get out of here." Her response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Apaches take care of the major. Mitchum takes care of the Apaches. By this time, at least 48 subplots are in sore need of resolution. Mitchum takes the only way out, crosses the Rio Grande again, leaving behind him a western that is more woolly than wild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...Dublin midnight in Groome's Hotel, a haunt of actors and other free souls, the grog flowed as from a well. Then Cinemale Robert Mitchum, in Ireland to star in an Irish Republican Army epic titled A Terrible Beauty, walked in. The facts were hard to come by, but burly (220 Ibs.) Bob Mitchum hazily allowed that he had been approached by an insistent autograph hound. Heavy-lidded ex-Truck Driver Mitchum scrawled a mild obscenity and got socked squarely in the eye for his unfriendly inscription. The story grew hazier from then on, but most agreed that Mitchum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...Enemy Below. One of the best movies ever made about naval warfare-the story of a duel between a U.S. destroyer escort (Robert Mitchum) and a German sub (Curt Jürgens) in the South Atlantic (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHOICE FOR 1958: American | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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