Is this really Robert Mitchum talking, or an AI Mitchum bot of some kind? He conveys some great observations, but it doesn’t sound like him. It does and it doesn’t. It sounds like he’s reading from a script.
Film-quality-wise, Mitchum peaked in the ’40s and ’70s, but a bit less so in the ’50s, ’60s and ’80s. Herewith are his 17 best films — the very best in boldface:
1940s (4): Till the End of Time (1946), Pursued (1947), Crossfire (1947), Out of the Past (1947)
1950s (6): His Kind of Woman (1951), The Racket (1951), Macao (1952), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Thunder Road (1958)
1960s (3): The Sundowners (1960), Cape Fear (1962), The Longest Day (1962)
1970s (3): Ryan’s Daughter (’70), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (’73), The Yakuza (’74)
1980s (1): That Championship Season (’82)
