cult film freak: June 2026

Written by James M. Tate / 6/12/2026 / No comments / action , don siegel , film noir or melodrama , forties , howard hughes , jane greer , patric knowles , ramon navarro , robert mitchum , william bendix , wrong man

ROBERT MITCHUM, WILLIAM BENDIX & JANE GREER 'THE BIG STEAL'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj26U7Cn9ci5Ci9cNDPpqjfwbEzOIISqr97_Fga8hQWusf2b1zC6CP-vpuAop8ToA0tn9AeuhF0KVnSBUYxB9NXIFeutKijtsZp78f51LAtDs4ho2tkN4cb_QQI4qRYnv98sh606fJI3WFqid15er8yfLkOoGQDjc7WnljRIouP5LhA43BOEaNqNCZv-BG4/s2070/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-12%20at%203.06.46%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1330" data-original-width="2070" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj26U7Cn9ci5Ci9cNDPpqjfwbEzOIISqr97_Fga8hQWusf2b1zC6CP-vpuAop8ToA0tn9AeuhF0KVnSBUYxB9NXIFeutKijtsZp78f51LAtDs4ho2tkN4cb_QQI4qRYnv98sh606fJI3WFqid15er8yfLkOoGQDjc7WnljRIouP5LhA43BOEaNqNCZv-BG4/s320/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-12%20at%203.06.46%20PM.png" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1949 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In one scene towards the end of director Don Siegel's THE BIG STEAL, Robert Mitchum and reunited OUT OF THE PAST starlet Jane Greer are pulled over in their Mexico-traipsing vehicle, and have some snappy dialogue with some Spanish locales... and there's finally some chemistry between the two leads... </p><p></p><p>Otherwise STEAL... which is only a film noir in that Mitchum's wrong man American lieutenant is falsely accused of murder,... s more of an action crime caper that, while semi-decently flowing from one fast-paced scene to the next and featuring William Bendix as a cop following Mitchum's cop, has way too many distracting (and cheap-looking) rear-projection scenes during perpetual car chases... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, don siegel, film noir or melodrama, forties, howard hughes, jane greer, patric knowles, ramon navarro, robert mitchum, william bendix, wrong man

ROBERT MITCHUM, WILLIAM BENDIX & JANE GREER 'THE BIG STEAL'

Year: 1949 Rating: **1/2 In one scene towards the end of director Don Siegel's THE BIG STEAL, Robert Mitchum and reunited OUT OF THE PAS...

ROBERT MITCHUM & WILLIAM BENDIX IN 'MACAO' W/ JANE RUSSELL

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUbTAzzW1PtuwWX5-xycDq9CfdhrGEHxZhc_vGDiycniXoL3PXfPWfjpD_oJ2SOQY4y6bkj4doDKrYKZqAAnwOZ2c0C-44DG6YvHDkEEs9A1xO1ofPNNn0Y5pq2pgigF35ikYSfCcymjcBxmxyVySYESvxOLuogo_-6LT5KPoYFfta5HwY0kYjN0Pt7d4c/s1666/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUbTAzzW1PtuwWX5-xycDq9CfdhrGEHxZhc_vGDiycniXoL3PXfPWfjpD_oJ2SOQY4y6bkj4doDKrYKZqAAnwOZ2c0C-44DG6YvHDkEEs9A1xO1ofPNNn0Y5pq2pgigF35ikYSfCcymjcBxmxyVySYESvxOLuogo_-6LT5KPoYFfta5HwY0kYjN0Pt7d4c/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MACAO Year: 1952 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Produced at the same time as HIS KIND OF WOMAN, another Robert Mitchum adventure-noir opposite RKO owner Howard Hughes's in-house starlet Jane Russell, and both mostly taking place on a large boat...<br><br>There it's Mexico and here it's the titular Asian sampan-filled location of MACAO, which is mostly viewed through a vast number of rear projected shots as Mitchum meets fellow lonesome-traveler William Bendix, his co-star from THE BIG STEAL, while Russell... again a lounge singer... is involved with a nightclub's seedy yet sophisticated owner...</p><p><span></span></p>

brad dexter, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gloria grahame, howard hughes, jane russell, robert mitchum, thomas gomez, william bendix

ROBERT MITCHUM & WILLIAM BENDIX IN 'MACAO' W/ JANE RUSSELL

Title: MACAO Year: 1952 Rating: **1/2 Produced at the same time as HIS KIND OF WOMAN, another Robert Mitchum adventure-noir opposite RKO own...

ROBERT MITCHUM SPIRALS THROUGH 'THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGezKvjTKktFfWcNKdwmyOjuy6EVpYjPCEq8J8wvCCzGAkK4nXfTCURsKJ42o9JVwiVDKgWYsU1Agn1ltrC2saDfAaePXnL8_GIH-zyWq8qIOVFyC9fomG8yoKz5pXDevGTtZ8zk5mSlAbnG75qCJrsCvB-KVP6NxirwepV9TBoSVLIG65LRDqX1hzPKAV/s2102/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-08%20at%2010.40.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="2102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGezKvjTKktFfWcNKdwmyOjuy6EVpYjPCEq8J8wvCCzGAkK4nXfTCURsKJ42o9JVwiVDKgWYsU1Agn1ltrC2saDfAaePXnL8_GIH-zyWq8qIOVFyC9fomG8yoKz5pXDevGTtZ8zk5mSlAbnG75qCJrsCvB-KVP6NxirwepV9TBoSVLIG65LRDqX1hzPKAV/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-08%20at%2010.40.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Year: 1955 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The summary promises that Robert Mitchum plays a con-artist with a background of swindling women, specifically widows, and that he's also a self-professed preacher in THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER... </p><p>Since that first type of villain is always sneakily two-faced and entertainingly unpredictable, when we catch a glimpse of Mitchum's convict Harry Powell talking to himself about how only God can set him free, any mystery's quickly lifted — we're experiencing a genuinely pathetic sociopath whose supposed charm is limited to how he'll broadly carry himself throughout an excruciatingly long 90-minutes...</p><span></span>

charles laughton, corey allen, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gloria castillo, peter graves, robert mitchum, shelley winters, thriller

ROBERT MITCHUM SPIRALS THROUGH 'THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER'

Title: THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Year: 1955 Rating: ** The summary promises that Robert Mitchum plays a con-artist with a background of swindl...

ROBERT MITCHUM BUSTING ROBERT RYAN THROUGH 'THE RACKET'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN_MwZkYPi3o1d3NfCNCWtpJqRfdhzHR9Zouri9kYQarZOcb-iJybj1A10UaaO2h05KypREwsvWNfv64s-w20G4g0k65kS7aq9GbDHxAGcM6JJQsAw6ueaKC1irb5VA2UptOVxS1UMSHepXizDBogiUfCM-NplLy9BPZZsbf4b79IfQg7Bkdktdohb4510/s1486/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.54.39%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN_MwZkYPi3o1d3NfCNCWtpJqRfdhzHR9Zouri9kYQarZOcb-iJybj1A10UaaO2h05KypREwsvWNfv64s-w20G4g0k65kS7aq9GbDHxAGcM6JJQsAw6ueaKC1irb5VA2UptOVxS1UMSHepXizDBogiUfCM-NplLy9BPZZsbf4b79IfQg7Bkdktdohb4510/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.54.39%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><p>Based
 on a let's-fight-city-corruption picture from 1928, and remade to 
center on a then-current anti-mafia-probe, it's no wonder that RKO's THE
 RACKET plays out so deliberately over-the-top, where Robert Ryan not 
only openly admits to being the head of an illegal/totally corrupt 
syndicate, but shoots and kills an honest lawman right inside a police station... 
with a cub reporter witness only inches away...<br /><br />In that, Ryan gets 
most of the praise for a performance that's more 1930's teeth-clenching 
gangbusters than subtle 1950's noir, which, for the lack of alleyway 
shadows and femme fatales, many claim this feature as being something 
other than... <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZJPXYN0Tfu2zScGp59R0YYNB_OVF2twXyCrld1tTbkSXthSvojmDbRAmZ1Bhyphenhyphen-ga5NyESJ8kPp6JaNvavNtGZ2FnIGf9OqgTvMC89f_xgHN0wO2A-xZZfzjy3T-qMXkMYHQBEc86an_YUKYigvxz_kP_952H2CUz5zl6LZyk49xNpMTGJ96fF1S-oIDEZ/s1128/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.33.40%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="1128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZJPXYN0Tfu2zScGp59R0YYNB_OVF2twXyCrld1tTbkSXthSvojmDbRAmZ1Bhyphenhyphen-ga5NyESJ8kPp6JaNvavNtGZ2FnIGf9OqgTvMC89f_xgHN0wO2A-xZZfzjy3T-qMXkMYHQBEc86an_YUKYigvxz_kP_952H2CUz5zl6LZyk49xNpMTGJ96fF1S-oIDEZ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.33.40%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Which
 is an ongoing/never-ending debate on any b-crimer that isn't dreamily 
melodramatic the likes of OUT OF THE PAST... segwaying into the other 
Robert here in Robert Mitchum, the star of several Howard Hughes 
productions, where, on the heels of playing likable losers in THIS KIND 
OF WOMAN and THE BIG STEAL, this is his most solidly straightforward 
performance... <br /><br />As a police chief the syndicate moves around in 
order to never press permanent charges, and with scene-stealing/ideal-driven good cop William Talman by his side, Mitchum doesn't simply breeze around with his handsome slow-burn cool, but really fits the part with 
both feet planted firmly on the ground...  </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYr3JQVCeCOLim5s1d9fJ3V_XHcxgnKzRzkKv62HNg9kjZw51DMcmCNExC74cV4VA_KXb4SNr3sSX0OT4mMMw8SlJKgtGL3Hp_fBICplJL75kov754bRmv9jJ6ZQpckAyeHEGJNm56wink2Nj_oLHRGOOBE-ftqytGrtR_SmsFNaXTnowYQ5Y1gIyzuu_P/s1428/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.35.28%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYr3JQVCeCOLim5s1d9fJ3V_XHcxgnKzRzkKv62HNg9kjZw51DMcmCNExC74cV4VA_KXb4SNr3sSX0OT4mMMw8SlJKgtGL3Hp_fBICplJL75kov754bRmv9jJ6ZQpckAyeHEGJNm56wink2Nj_oLHRGOOBE-ftqytGrtR_SmsFNaXTnowYQ5Y1gIyzuu_P/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.35.28%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The
 biggest problem (besides pretty Lizabeth Scott in a 
throwaway nightclub canary/dame role) is that everything's too up-front, particularly with Ryan's scrunched-up mug exploding into
temper-tantrums.... <br /><br />In one reaction shot, Mitchum 
seems to intentionally smirk at Ryan's overacting: playing more of a 
head gangster's viciously lethal thug than any kind of realistic big boss, making 
THE RACKET more a good vs evil fable than either noir or your typical standard 
detective story. <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgUDk0PshNV3iwPnV0vusOVjeg_W47qEl0VTlceP-Z4vWrLUsADoxhvVyxEJZLt-2nt3Hg5iBEwtnAhKSpjwfHUSHj7T1RLq_yDkz6fUvC1PQxtZOIhKGlGhvG5BkFdKtr9ppv0SlR_-oLPgRyM3TItzC_8JtcHo6nJeHgSIUKTeKqwAQ6XyX9iUZXzUE3/s1110/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.37%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="1110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgUDk0PshNV3iwPnV0vusOVjeg_W47qEl0VTlceP-Z4vWrLUsADoxhvVyxEJZLt-2nt3Hg5iBEwtnAhKSpjwfHUSHj7T1RLq_yDkz6fUvC1PQxtZOIhKGlGhvG5BkFdKtr9ppv0SlR_-oLPgRyM3TItzC_8JtcHo6nJeHgSIUKTeKqwAQ6XyX9iUZXzUE3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.37%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBbYSCSQDg33oGhBZ21z6A3BoO8cuSxpJNOg9Dc-NVrcLPhZ29q_O5wbSr6Z0Yogo48pHzeyTYoT2Fh6GHX3fET3gQFSGXDrS81elr7cS0-3eVwd3aYuBIGRlbIFdQkAIx3WAfpx6jc3HXPt6vq1wx4dyWk9Q10vZIZGs98XeQ0LiEF45f3uSooHbvMQZ/s1026/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.45%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="1026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBbYSCSQDg33oGhBZ21z6A3BoO8cuSxpJNOg9Dc-NVrcLPhZ29q_O5wbSr6Z0Yogo48pHzeyTYoT2Fh6GHX3fET3gQFSGXDrS81elr7cS0-3eVwd3aYuBIGRlbIFdQkAIx3WAfpx6jc3HXPt6vq1wx4dyWk9Q10vZIZGs98XeQ0LiEF45f3uSooHbvMQZ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.45%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ray Collins in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnyK_eSCd6nA_iTar0lOCOBUIGrFNNmbpa829i1SlBVo2H1dxGK7aSRXYbP6bNEdwAQN5jfLnaRoptcKRyvbsUjVsVECD3fEmA1hTvq4mC1LRRwj-ov_h9C91sshVSqiZBH_7zKE8fat170ykBPf91fG0yBrzEVQ8Qgi99tFppt4MscjiVrYSJ2mURhd5K/s1032/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.59%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnyK_eSCd6nA_iTar0lOCOBUIGrFNNmbpa829i1SlBVo2H1dxGK7aSRXYbP6bNEdwAQN5jfLnaRoptcKRyvbsUjVsVECD3fEmA1hTvq4mC1LRRwj-ov_h9C91sshVSqiZBH_7zKE8fat170ykBPf91fG0yBrzEVQ8Qgi99tFppt4MscjiVrYSJ2mURhd5K/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.59%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwYKZnG2xMyFoJNVwsL1g4BCYjSODePH7mGV7SoLwH19nFddIpbudevFuaHZahkqwR0j5qGL7wY5W2pueB_LwNb4gpCQe_dFEo14XARW4pcsOB7rH4eeSd05qGR8ydSjMlnvZeJRVB73acsImZ04-dSC-G48pup_E0RMABNuWBu8HQ6Z6C86FMBipKhWzU/s1080/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.48%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwYKZnG2xMyFoJNVwsL1g4BCYjSODePH7mGV7SoLwH19nFddIpbudevFuaHZahkqwR0j5qGL7wY5W2pueB_LwNb4gpCQe_dFEo14XARW4pcsOB7rH4eeSd05qGR8ydSjMlnvZeJRVB73acsImZ04-dSC-G48pup_E0RMABNuWBu8HQ6Z6C86FMBipKhWzU/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.48%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Talman and Virginia Huston in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbIJxtz4FJiTjw_OrcDetQ1S4w_MYg2Bp4iFIOTN3sx1quq23VmLxiTKGg_zbafKr3OhG876HsklinmznEr7iyByhyuqTjNem2hv_fjfnAnSdRfjA_N5gdyiaBx3vJJwJNBRxSzfQsp6Sew_oKe1MqFjkpnxInXFJ2kqrxq2yh0PhpXlzGL9WbAMurCa0Q/s1256/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.57%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbIJxtz4FJiTjw_OrcDetQ1S4w_MYg2Bp4iFIOTN3sx1quq23VmLxiTKGg_zbafKr3OhG876HsklinmznEr7iyByhyuqTjNem2hv_fjfnAnSdRfjA_N5gdyiaBx3vJJwJNBRxSzfQsp6Sew_oKe1MqFjkpnxInXFJ2kqrxq2yh0PhpXlzGL9WbAMurCa0Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.57%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Virginia Huston in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwsjTMWqFvHAoojyrqwnZTD8lc9S1tEIqeRZPwy_ajJUTPQjpAUVOJ4ncyWP85gQUJTWZoX5tSpwfkIBS0RGWpsVFZ47a4TkHgOG_ObXKFCSJl7VAPYewWsY20Q0Ym6d4GfkY8sOVdLc1c3IvRtAS2_rKp7eN5Dpq2PJzSsGV56J4H3NGBxGn8L7n_dK9b/s902/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.18%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="902" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwsjTMWqFvHAoojyrqwnZTD8lc9S1tEIqeRZPwy_ajJUTPQjpAUVOJ4ncyWP85gQUJTWZoX5tSpwfkIBS0RGWpsVFZ47a4TkHgOG_ObXKFCSJl7VAPYewWsY20Q0Ym6d4GfkY8sOVdLc1c3IvRtAS2_rKp7eN5Dpq2PJzSsGV56J4H3NGBxGn8L7n_dK9b/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.18%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdOp-aRtqZxSikROH4ceskc39jYQz4EtgF9ajX9YiQtIPdKTtYoCEWT6R6cC4cs3x5qzyAX84N2t2kBF-AsCyI4sIwQYOwpE_-0zVSl2IlNM25K43BIvi78IssI8Emo5kmiErOZFfjeJWQ-3fl6dvcV3uGW9s6ztROYfd7KjMQqRQt8qrcX4oEvr-liBjy/s942/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.27%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="942" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdOp-aRtqZxSikROH4ceskc39jYQz4EtgF9ajX9YiQtIPdKTtYoCEWT6R6cC4cs3x5qzyAX84N2t2kBF-AsCyI4sIwQYOwpE_-0zVSl2IlNM25K43BIvi78IssI8Emo5kmiErOZFfjeJWQ-3fl6dvcV3uGW9s6ztROYfd7KjMQqRQt8qrcX4oEvr-liBjy/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.27%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Conrad in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhicwM7vQ4gM62JEkkexYqRs6FoWcYhQ9ADBhx3F4wHywvg6hdpND2__9QhMI-FzN8QkXzmVS9jL48W4CH-XVvRuYHbAzv9XSoTthzchAlqQCzOdxvWHxn79IZKJ7b6hSPk6FwAaAehYvZ61rYAa6KLJo60MPncX-mScCiUuJibTkSbNoykPbZE1GtyBXJK/s1186/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.35%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhicwM7vQ4gM62JEkkexYqRs6FoWcYhQ9ADBhx3F4wHywvg6hdpND2__9QhMI-FzN8QkXzmVS9jL48W4CH-XVvRuYHbAzv9XSoTthzchAlqQCzOdxvWHxn79IZKJ7b6hSPk6FwAaAehYvZ61rYAa6KLJo60MPncX-mScCiUuJibTkSbNoykPbZE1GtyBXJK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.35%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Talman in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWV7UxVVnXQI7i6W-mvLFz8gWEksD8DCOuV5zEDcZ-7RI0ys9xwiw-Sv_0Tjm3u9ekxVaN_yfPZhS2GADO_gi35syshgC9_u_3qpzKAsKpYQ0DXTVEGPv-dzZn7j9V1v_kpeqkEVJ3zw-4uZ2fzmwsanpQEZ30EX7Z74ynzmC95JXBcMgB3ER0FvmMn006/s1312/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.43%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWV7UxVVnXQI7i6W-mvLFz8gWEksD8DCOuV5zEDcZ-7RI0ys9xwiw-Sv_0Tjm3u9ekxVaN_yfPZhS2GADO_gi35syshgC9_u_3qpzKAsKpYQ0DXTVEGPv-dzZn7j9V1v_kpeqkEVJ3zw-4uZ2fzmwsanpQEZ30EX7Z74ynzmC95JXBcMgB3ER0FvmMn006/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.43%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Conrad in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwRaSQMHgcu23jiiJSRwW56Quaq90T0CcuJQyVAr9-ZDVv1CEfDF2DeetfaLcAG6D0X2q5TfK6b_l9iaatxgeFsoY6HomXGrmo4qhsuXcEBmbiyxNssAap5rpSjUhqpsdJnzoBhMkAaAZwXVJi6W1yH2QeToIon0NV0KSy5WO4M6GUT_jt4PkjFkLcZz_/s1278/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.51%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="1278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwRaSQMHgcu23jiiJSRwW56Quaq90T0CcuJQyVAr9-ZDVv1CEfDF2DeetfaLcAG6D0X2q5TfK6b_l9iaatxgeFsoY6HomXGrmo4qhsuXcEBmbiyxNssAap5rpSjUhqpsdJnzoBhMkAaAZwXVJi6W1yH2QeToIon0NV0KSy5WO4M6GUT_jt4PkjFkLcZz_/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.51%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lizabeth Scott and Robert Hutton in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinS_R03nwaqK4XZZdmxiRM8Mp-apraT9vBNOeAfZhuA0YU4HFDW9x_69UsJeqeGSoHJfMZAzaKCtem8dQvkH_1lerLREc_b8p4KhXWssfQWrLQL_5npKxenzd_agbACYKGv6h-PXE-j8qkLuy9LHE2smXMt4AlSKQojoxRSnc6HNIFpezK2WRK616TsTSn/s1830/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%201.04.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1284" data-original-width="1830" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinS_R03nwaqK4XZZdmxiRM8Mp-apraT9vBNOeAfZhuA0YU4HFDW9x_69UsJeqeGSoHJfMZAzaKCtem8dQvkH_1lerLREc_b8p4KhXWssfQWrLQL_5npKxenzd_agbACYKGv6h-PXE-j8qkLuy9LHE2smXMt4AlSKQojoxRSnc6HNIFpezK2WRK616TsTSn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%201.04.40%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br />

fifties, film noir or melodrama, howard hughes, joyce mackenzie, mob, ray collins, robert mitchum, robert ryan, virginia huston, william conrad, william talman

ROBERT MITCHUM BUSTING ROBERT RYAN THROUGH 'THE RACKET'

Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2 Based on a let's-fight-city-corruption picture from 1928, an...

Written by James M. Tate / 6/03/2026 / No comments / claude rains , faith domergue , fifties , film noir or melodrama , harry shannon , howard hughes , road movie , robert mitchum , sherry jackson

ROBERT MITCHUM AND FAITH DOMERGUE IN 'WHERE DANGER LIVES'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91S1vpDvPPIZt5BJDqdsNE0y3ACG22LACv7ogGOe68BjJgdtEs9LcUIa1bSerPksR2pBOK6LIpPWXHwncxJ7u0-BoL1xyYJQ3IfYR0-jcuZ4E86GUxl8acLesxZs3mHyAt-yEue8Exr7YiNRKcw6PT4p246rtAijhz38yEZA0HT-5p5pat2C3L4R1WDrE/s1168/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-03%20at%203.04.28%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="1168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91S1vpDvPPIZt5BJDqdsNE0y3ACG22LACv7ogGOe68BjJgdtEs9LcUIa1bSerPksR2pBOK6LIpPWXHwncxJ7u0-BoL1xyYJQ3IfYR0-jcuZ4E86GUxl8acLesxZs3mHyAt-yEue8Exr7YiNRKcw6PT4p246rtAijhz38yEZA0HT-5p5pat2C3L4R1WDrE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-03%20at%203.04.28%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: WHERE DANGER LIVES Year: 1950 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>From HIS KIND OF WOMAN to THE BIG STEAL, Howard Hughes's RKO Pictures usually had Robert Mitchum on the run into Mexico wherein WHERE DANGER LIVES is the most lackluster, providing the sleepy-eyed sex symbol a role that didn't technically suit him at all...</p><p></p><p>As a doctor performing surgery on a little girl (Sherry Jackson), Mitchum's mile-high pompadour above the surgical mask is unintentionally hilarious... and yet his usual low-key performance somewhat carries him through the initial set-up where, after quickly falling in love with gorgeous yet troubled (and secretly suicidal) patient Faith Domergue, the usual noir-device of the old/rich husband being murdered by the young lover happens in an accidental flash...</p><p><span></span></p>

claude rains, faith domergue, fifties, film noir or melodrama, harry shannon, howard hughes, road movie, robert mitchum, sherry jackson

ROBERT MITCHUM AND FAITH DOMERGUE IN 'WHERE DANGER LIVES'

Title: WHERE DANGER LIVES Year: 1950 Rating: ** From HIS KIND OF WOMAN to THE BIG STEAL, Howard Hughes's RKO Pictures usually had Robert...

ROBERT MITCHUM AND JANE RUSSELL IN 'HIS KIND OF WOMAN'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EJPrKLzaVooOX8W6aJEY0W-sq36IwpUnFOrgD7HQEdV6Cq9ebQpe-sItzEWyeRUUIKSYKNVatjTk9zXUWpjVi4PUUOCgzBkXhe7vi7qrLz_tziIrrILs6AKzZPw7mOP-VjyUx1ZwU8-vnaUgWAXwF2gaXRJq0C5fKFx5QsH2bboXKDvTQzHJxFjuOMNx/s2102/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1270" data-original-width="2102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EJPrKLzaVooOX8W6aJEY0W-sq36IwpUnFOrgD7HQEdV6Cq9ebQpe-sItzEWyeRUUIKSYKNVatjTk9zXUWpjVi4PUUOCgzBkXhe7vi7qrLz_tziIrrILs6AKzZPw7mOP-VjyUx1ZwU8-vnaUgWAXwF2gaXRJq0C5fKFx5QsH2bboXKDvTQzHJxFjuOMNx/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in HIS KIND OF WOMAN Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Legendary eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, after buying RKO Pictures, exploited discovered leading lady Jane Russell's ample bosom in THE OUTLAW while, almost a decade later, he put even more time and money into Robert Mitchum's handsome, slow-burn cool for HIS KIND OF WOMAN...<br><br>Despite Russell's character being part of the title, she really has little to do here but hang around a plush Mexican resort where Mitchum's affable gambling loser is sent so that chief mobster Raymond Burr... who replaced original director John Farrow's original villain Lee Van Cleef followed by Robert Wilke... to be able to immigrate back to America... or something...<span></span></p>