Happy Birthday, Robert Mitchum

Happy 98th Birthday to ROBERT MITCHUM. The noir icon and all-around tough guy was born August 6, 1917 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. TCM is celebrating his birthday a few days late (August 12) with a full day of movies dedicated to him as part of their Summer Under the Stars series. Set those DVRs since many of these films aren't on DVD or Blu-ray.

AUGUST 12 on TCM (Times are for East Coast):

6:00 AM: Till The End of Time (1946)
8:00 AM My Forbidden Past (1951) buy dvd
9:15 AM The Sundowners (1960) buy dvd
11:45 AM Rachel And The Stranger (1948)
1:15 PM Blood On The Moon (1948)
2:45 PM The Lusty Men (1952)
4:45 PM The Hunters (1958) buy dvd
6:45 PM The Dick Cavett Show: Robert Mitchum (1971)
8:00 PM Home From The Hill (1960) buy dvd
10:45 PM Thunder Road (1958) buy blu-ray
12:30 AM The Yakuza (1975) buy dvd
2:30 AM Ryan's Daughter (1970) buy dvd

Mitchum to Be Inducted into The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's Hall of Fame

ROBERT MITCHUM will be inducted into the the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City as part of its annual Western Heritage Awards, which will be held on Apri 20.

The black-tie affair honors stars in 16 categories of Western music, literature, television and film. For induction into the Hall of Great Western Performers, actors must have made significant contributions to the perpetuation of the Western film, radio or theatre. The inductee must project the traditional Western ideals of honesty, integrity and self-sufficiency.

Mitchum's many westerns include El Dorado with John Wayne, Track of the Cat, Blood on the Moon, the noir-western Pursued, The Red Pony, River of No Return with Marilyn Monroe and the rodeo film The Lusty Men. His first film role was a villain in 1943's Hoppy Serves a Writ and his final theatrical film was the 1996 indie western Dead Man, with Johnny Depp.

Also being inducted this year are and Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carillo, who played TV's Cisco Kid and his sidekick Pancho, and The Last of the Mohicans star Wes Studi

For reservations call (405) 478-2250, Ext. 219 or visit their site. Source: BAM's Blog.

Robert Mitchum Western Series at UCLA

Mitchum in 'Blood on the Moon'

Great news for LA-based ROBERT MITCHUM fans: UCLA is screening 10 of his westerns in a series called Tracking the Cat: Robert Mitchum in the West.

The series runs from July 8 through July 30 and includes both well-known westerns like El Dorado and some much more obscure cowboy flicks, like West of the Pecos. 

Films in the series include several great films not on DVD, like Blood on the Moon, The Lusty Men, as well as Pursued, The Sundowners (which apparently counts as a western even though it's set in Australia), Track of the Cat, Rachel and the Stranger, River of No Return and The Wonderful Country.


Overview of Mitchum's westerns.