Robert Mitchum

[Researcher]

Just got back from a meeting, turned on the tube, checked out AMC, then TMC and WHAM! The Night Of The Hunter followed by Tobacco Road.
Mitchum, a real-life tough guy. An M-A-N. If he were in his prime today, and he sneezed, he'd sprain Tom Cruise's back.
Oh yeah, after Tobacco Road? The Caine Mutiny!

[Hexexis]

Just got back from a meeting, turned on the tube, checked out AMC, then TMC and WHAM! The Night Of The Hunter followed by Tobacco Road.
Mitchum, a real-life tough guy. An M-A-N. ...

Er, I think that was "Thunder Road." Saw bits & pieces. There was also a pop guy novel called Thunder Road.

But anyway: Cape Fear. Nobody played better twistoids than big Bob. Incidently, Night of the Hunter was the only movie directed by actor Chas. Laughton.

[NOTAGUNNUT]

Thunder Road is and AWESOME film!

http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/ea...s/bthundrd.wav

[Apexbud]

Bob Mitchum liked to hunt and fish. He came to the Eastern Shore back in the late '50 to do just that.
My uncle had just got back from a hitch in the Army in Germany and somehow they met and hit it off.
Uncle Bill would show him the ways of the water around The Chester, The Narrows and down Eastern Bay and Crab Alley.

He was alot like Bill.
Big. Quiet. A hard look in his eyes at times, but also a mischevious twinkle there too.
I remember him eating a soft crab for the first time. He gave it a funny look at first, but when he saw my grandmother eating one, he could not back out. Once he tasted it, of course he was hooked.

He seemed to fit the role of a waterman, and they accepted him as well.
He always had a kind word to the small wide-eye kid.....me.

[NOTAGUNNUT]

Bob Mitchum liked to hunt and fish. He came to the Eastern Shore back in the late '50 to do just that.
My uncle had just got back from a hitch in the Army in Germany and somehow they met and hit it off.
Uncle Bill would show him the ways of the water around The Chester, The Narrows and down Eastern Bay and Crab Alley.

He was alot like Bill.
Big. Quiet. A hard look in his eyes at times, but also a mischevious twinkle there too.
I remember him eating a soft crab for the first time. He gave it a funny look at first, but when he saw my grandmother eating one, he could not back out. Once he tasted it, of course he was hooked.

He seemed to fit the role of a waterman, and they accepted him as well.
He always had a kind word to the small wide-eye kid.....me.

Great story.

[Scaggsville]

Bob Mitchum liked to hunt and fish. He came to the Eastern Shore back in the late '50 to do just that.
My uncle had just got back from a hitch in the Army in Germany and somehow they met and hit it off.
Uncle Bill would show him the ways of the water around The Chester, The Narrows and down Eastern Bay and Crab Alley.

He was alot like Bill.
Big. Quiet. A hard look in his eyes at times, but also a mischevious twinkle there too.
I remember him eating a soft crab for the first time. He gave it a funny look at first, but when he saw my grandmother eating one, he could not back out. Once he tasted it, of course he was hooked.

He seemed to fit the role of a waterman, and they accepted him as well.
He always had a kind word to the small wide-eye kid.....me.

Very cool!

Guess he was only here in MD a few years before he moved back to Lala land?

[Apexbud]

Very cool!

Guess he was only here in MD a few years before he moved back to Lala land?

He had a place somewhere near Grasonville on the water that he would stay in for a few months then back to LA for work.

I think he liked it here because everyone treated him like a regular guy, not like a movie star. Everyone knew who he was, just didn't show it.

I think a lot of famous people hunger for that quiet privacy that we all take for granted.
I spent a great evening drinking beer and talking about race cars at Summit Point with Paul Newman.
Another great guy!

[hst2]

Ever see the photo of Robert Mitchum getting out of jail after getting busted for pot? Its in the book,Hollywood Babylon. He's looking at the camera as if to say, "what's all the fuss about?" A great shot.

Check out Out of the Past. Remade as Against All Odds, with James Woods.

And then there's his rendition of an older Phillip Marlowe in a remake of Farewell, My Lovely.

[Scaggsville]

He had a place somewhere near Grasonville on the water that he would stay in for a few months then back to LA for work.

I think he liked it here because everyone treated him like a regular guy, not like a movie star. Everyone knew who he was, just didn't show it.

I think a lot of famous people hunger for that quiet privacy that we all take for granted.
I spent a great evening drinking beer and talking about race cars at Summit Point with Paul Newman.
Another great guy!

I believe his place was down in Trappe, MD.

My ggrandparents owned a place in Bozman back in the 50s and 60s. My dad and I were recently talking about this because someone very prominent now owns it. I asked my dad if he knew any good Robert Mitchum stories and he said that he loved to party and was always having problems keeping his car on the narrow rural roads after tieing one on.

[Tidewaterbound]

His wife's parents were from DE, and yes he had a place near Trappe. My dad used to fix their furnace. That's why Robert Mitchum was familiar with the area.

My dad said he was really nice, casual, not full of himself at all. He's also one of my all-time favorite actors.

[Duke of Earl]

I liked him, especially in “Enemy Below” and “Heaven Knows Mr. Allison." Great in a cameo as General Norm Cota in "the Longest Day."


My dear grandmother use to call him a “dope fiend.”