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

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

David Lean's 1970 film "Ryan's Daughter" airs today on TCM at 10:45 pm PT as part of their St. Patrick's Day ode to Irish films. It stars ROBERT MITCHUM as an Irish schoolmaster who takes a much younger bride (Sarah Miles) who soon falls for a British officer. The film, which is set in 1916, is loosely based on Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary. John Mills won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the film and Freddie Young won a Best Cinematography Oscar.

Behind-the-Scenes Footage Shot by 'Ryan's Daughter' Stand-In to be Shown for First Time

An Irishman who served as a stand-in for ROBERT MITCHUM on "Ryan's Daughter" has just donated the on-set home movies he made during the film's shoot. That behind-the-scenes footage from the David Lean film will be screened for the first time March 17.

Tom Fitzgerald, who went on to become a Fianna Fail senator, earned £96 a week. He put part of that new salary towards a Super X 8mm camera and began filming, often without the crew's knowledge. "For film people, this is of huge interest. I was the only one with a movie camera at the time so there's no other archival material like it around," he told the Independent

Fitzgerald has donated his original reels to the RTE Archive, who then transferred the original to DVD. He gave a copy to the Dingle Film Festival, which will screen his footage for the first time in public in St James' Church on March 17.

Festival director Maurice Galway said it would be a unique opportunity for the town to celebrate its association with "Ryan's Daughter."

Via Irish Independent

"Ryan's Daughter" Sequel

Story @ Independent UK

The critics loathed it, and the public just ignored it. When Ryan's Daughter was released in 1970, it proved such a box-office dud that many blame it for stalling the director David Lean's career for 10 years. Now it is considered one of the British director's best and most popular films. It is an unrepeatable classic – only now they want to do it again.

Sarah Miles, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role as Rosy Ryan, is writing a script and undertaking research in Ireland for a sequel. Yesterday her agent said: "She is writing a script and there is a producer for a film, but it's very early days."

‘Ryan’s Daughter Doc’ Nominated for Rose d’Or

Story from IFTN (Irish Film and Television Network)

The RTÉ documentary ‘A Bit of a Fillum: Ryan's Daughter in Dingle’ has been nominated in the Arts Documentary Category for the Rose d'Or International Television Competition 2009 to be held May 2-5, 2009 in Lucerne, Switzerland.

The Rose d’Or, held annually in Lucerne, offers four days of viewing the best in entertainment and television programming from around the world. ‘A Bit of a Fillum: Ryan's Daughter in Dingle’ documentary which screened on RTÉ One, 25th December last year, goes behind-the-scenes of the making of David Lean’s 1969 feature ‘Ryan's Daughter’ in Kerry and explores the effects of the arrival of an all star cast including ROBERT MITCHUM, Sarah Miles and John Mills had on the Kerry natives and the local economy. The documentary features footage from the RTÉ Archive and from the UCLA Ethnographic Program.