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Robert Mitchum

About: A classic tough guy with an inimitable laid-back style, Robert Mitchum was born in Bridgeport, Conn., on August 6, 1917. He spent his early years wandering the country working odd jobs as a boxer, bouncer and laborer. He tried his hand at acting with the Long Beach Theater Guild in 1942.Bitten with the bug, he made a 1943 film debut as a villain in Hoppy Serves a Writ, the first of 18 film roles that year. A natural for Westerns and war films, Mitchum earned raves and his first and only Oscar nomination for The Story of G.I. Joe (1945).He played a career-defining, film noir antihero in Out of the Past (1947), and despite a notorious 1948 jail stint for marijuana possession, his star continued to rise with films such as Night of the Hunter, Thunder Road, The Sundowners (1960), Cape Fear, Ryan's Daughter, Farewell, My Lovely and TV's The Winds of War miniseries. He died on July 1, 1997.

Hopalong Cassidy: Undercover Man / Three Men From Texas / Stick to Your Guns / The Dead Don't D

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About: This video includes five classic Westerns featuring Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd). In Undercover Man, Hopalong and Gonzales get caught up in a robbery plot; Three Men from Texas finds Hoppy with a new sidekick, California Carlson; Stick to your Guns sees California and Hoppy infiltrating a gang of cattle rustlers; in The Dead Don't Dream, Hoppy must solve a string of murders; and in Colt Comrades, Hoppy's taken by a crooked landowner.
URL: Hopalong Cassidy: Undercover Man / Three Men From Texas / Stick to Your Guns / The Dead Don't D

The Story of G.I. Joe

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About: Ernie Pyle (portrayed by Burgess Meredith) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who lived with American soldiers on the front lines during World War II. This film tells Pyle's story as he travels with Capt. Bill Walker (Robert Mitchum) and the men of Company C from North Africa to Southern Italy. The film -- which employs many real veterans of the Italian campaign as actors -- presents an unvarnished portrait of the life of the soldier.
URL: The Story of G.I. Joe

What a Way to Go!

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About: A frazzled widow tells her psychiatrist the unbelievable circumstances that made her a multimillionaire in this star-studded comedy. In a series of flashbacks, Louisa (Shirley MacLaine) recalls her four very different husbands (Dick Van Dyke, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum and Gene Kelly) -- all of whom she married for companionship, and all of whom died rich, but prematurely, from ironically bizarre circumstances. Dean Martin also stars.
URL: What a Way to Go!

Hopalong Cassidy: The Silent Conflict / Hoppy Serves a Writ / Secrets of the Wasteland / Mystery Man

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About: This video includes five classic Westerns featuring Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd). In The Silent Conflict, Lucky and Hoppy's friendship comes under fire; in Hoppy Serves a Writ, Hoppy's buddy California is held up by robbers; Secrets of the Wasteland finds Hoppy looking for ancient gold; in Mystery Man, Hoppy faces off with criminal Bud Trilling; and in Hoppy's Holiday, California becomes the No. 1 suspect in a robbery.
URL: Hopalong Cassidy: The Silent Conflict / Hoppy Serves a Writ / Secrets of the Wasteland / Mystery Man

Maria's Lovers

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About: When her teenage sweetheart Ivan (John Savage) returns home from WWII, Maria (Nastassja Kinski) eagerly accepts his marriage proposal, looking forward to a lifetime of happiness. But her joy is short-lived when Ivan's dark past shrouds their wedding night in misery, driving a wedge between them that neither knows how to remove.
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Hopalong Cassidy: Border Patrol / Doomed Caravan / Fool's Gold / Forty Thieves / Hidden Gold

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About: In this quintet of Hopalong Cassidy films, we find Hopalong (William Boyd) doing his habitual best to save the day. In Border Patrol, Hopalong solves a mine owner's murder; Doomed Caravan finds a wagon train taken over by a phony cavalry; Hopalong helps out an old friend in Fool's Gold; a corrupt sheriff faces off with Hopalong in Forty Thieves; and Hopalong must save the town from traveling gunmen in Hidden Gold.
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1969

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About: Veteran marshal James Flagg (Robert Mitchum) and his long-time nemesis, gunslinger Big John McKay (George Kennedy), team up to prevent a train robbery in this comic Western. Flagg's been forced to retire by an arrogant mayor, and young hotshot outlaw Waco (David Carradine) has put McKay out to pasture. With the clueless town politicians refusing to heed their warnings about the pending crime, the unlikely duo takes matters into their own hands.
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle

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About: Crime may pay, but it doesn't necessarily pay well -- at least not for small-time hood Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum), who's about to be hauled off to jail for gunrunning, leaving behind a wife and kids but not a penny to his name. Desperate to salvage his freedom, Coyle begins serving two masters -- the cops (as a snitch) and his criminal associates (as a weapons supplier) in this 1970s gem helmed by Peter Yates.
URL: The Friends of Eddie Coyle

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