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...promisingly as a character study of tensions among the hard-riding, hard-living members of the broken-bone-and-bandage set, but soon falls into a conventional movie mold. A Texas cowhand (Arthur Kennedy) becomes a champion rider with the help of a has-been rodeo ace (Robert Mitchum). But Kennedy has a beautiful red-haired wife (Susan Hay-ward). So just as much action begins to develop outside the rodeo arena as inside when the two men tangle over the lady. The gustiest characterization in The Lusty Men is provided by Arthur Hunnicutt as a punchy ex-broncobuster with...
...Minute to Zero (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio) finds sleepy-eyed Robert Mitchum, as a U.S. infantryman, helping outmaneuver the Reds in Korea in 1950. Colonel Mitchum knocks out a Communist supply route and turns the U.S. defensive into an offensive on the eve of the Inchon invasion. As a result, he is promoted to general and wins the love of Ann Blyth. a cute member of a U.N. health & sanitation team in Korea...
...Minute to Zero has the regulation quota of action scenes and combat heroics. One sequence, in which Mitchum orders the shelling of a civilian refugee column that harbors Communist guerrillas, was found objectionable by the Department of Defense. The producers of the picture refused to eliminate the scene, and it remains the only unusual feature in a formula film...
Jane sings One for My Baby in a gold gown, You Kill Me in a white, off-the-shoulder number, and clinches with Mitch-urn on a sampan, a yacht and a bed. Mitchum rescues Jane from an overly amorous admirer, stalks danger along the waterfront and over rooftops, avenges Bendix' death and bares his torso to the camera. During all this activity, Jane rolls her eyes at intervals and effectively registers two moods: petulance and boredom. Meanwhile, Mitchum maintains his sleepy-eyed deadpan...
Sternberg as if it mattered. Sample bit of dialogue as Mitchum ogles Jane. She: "Enjoy the view?" He: "It isn't the Taj Mahal or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon...