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This movie, a fitful action adventure starring an excellent Robert Mitchum, must first explain all about the Yakuza to uninitiated Westerners, so that the whole opening seems like an orientation course. The plot that has been contrived to go along with all this Yakuza lore is not a wieldy thing either. It has to do mostly with layers of intrigue and betrayal that end when Mitchum and a single ally (the engagingly somber Takakura Ken) take on what looks like the entire criminal population of Tokyo. This face-off makes for a bloody and modestly spectacular finale...
...Longest Day [1962]. Account of the Normandy Invasion starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, and Rod Steiger. Interesting cast, adapted from a strong novel. Ch. 4, 8 p.m. B/W, 3 hours...
...flew in from Switzerland a few months ago to endorse Ramsey Clark's Senate bid in New York and had people wondering why The New York Times was running Pacino's picture on the front page. Eddie Coyle, about the life of lower-echelon thugs in Boston, stars Robert Mitchum and is surprisingly well done...
...everything in every movie; he even breathes half-sarcastically, jaded beyond belief. Here it's not a world-wise jaded: the landscape of his face is as dissipated as the roads and stations--all blear, stare, and past-drunk. This is the heavy-lidded look of a Robert Mitchum, except that his moves are quicker: he's dead and jaunty at the same time. The adroitness comes from doing everything with ceremony: never has anyone ever used a napkin with more style, only the style is devilish and cynical. He's got class with a seventies lack...
...location in Japan to play a detective in Sydney Pollack's Japanese mobster movie The Yakuza, Old Pro Robert Mitchum, 56, himself was mobbed. Strolling through the Gion, Kyoto's geisha district, the star found himself surrounded by geisha pleading, "Please, Kirk Douglas-san, your autograph." Regretfully rubbing his chin, which is as deeply dimpled as Kirk's, Mitchum resolved that future excursions would have to be incognito. Next day on the set, he inspected a possible disguise: the beehive headgear originally worn by jobless, mendicant samurai trying to hide their shame...