Robert Mitchum

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

Dir. Charles Laughton · With Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.

Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

Dir. Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton · With John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

Dir. Jacques Tourneur · With Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

Dir. Howard Hawks · With John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange

On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover

In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.

Dir. David Lean · With Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum

An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.

Dir. Peter Yates · With Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan

Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.

Dir. Richard Donner · With Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe

A Roman Catholic nun and a hard-bitten US Marine are stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific during World War II. Under constant threat of discovery by a ruthless enemy, they hide in a cave and forage for food together. Their forced companionship and the struggle for survival forge a powerful emotional bond between them.

Dir. John Huston · With Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum

The crew of the American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes, detects a German U-Boat—resulting in a prolonged, deadly battle of wits.

Dir. Dick Powell · With Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison

When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Eiji Okada

This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.

Dir. Jack Smight · With Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

Dir. Otto Preminger · With Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

Dir. Otto Preminger · With Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun

Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle.

Dir. Stanley Donen · With Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum

Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.

Dir. Dick Richards · With Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?

Dir. Edward Dmytryk · With Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan

Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.

Dir. Don Siegel · With Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.

Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen · With Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark

Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.

Dir. Elia Kazan · With Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum

Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.

Dir. Michael Winner · With Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone