Robert Mitchum 1971 Part 1

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[@pythonbyte]

His performance in the Night of the Hunter was a tour de force and he was a much more sinister Max Cady than De Niro who was almost comical in his portrayal.

[@Bigfrank88]

“Almost comical” was intentional though

[@tr7b410]

Mitcham went to Vietnam in 1966 & 1968 to touch base with the troops.Took phone numbers from the soldiers to relay information to their loved ones.He called every soldiers relative,& there were hundreds...classy guy.

[@MarkHarrison733]

The US invasion of Vietnam was illegal under international law.

[@tommypetersen2540]

When you think of who has an Oscar ( anyone!) and Mitchum doesn't it's maddening. The man was Deniro before Deniro was Deniro. He is considered a "naturalistic" actor ( and he was) but he also could do flawless accents and had a huge range. He also worked a lot harder than he wanted to admit. This interview shows just how articulate and quick he really was. Also Cavett is just great. He actually LISTENS to his guests. (Larry King are you listening?)

[@jackierave]

Tommy Petersen Oh so true !! Nice to see somoene young that recognizes the talent of this fine actor !!

[@tommypetersen2540]

+Jackie Rave Thanks for the kind words! I'm. a huge John Wayne fan and it was rare that anyone could " out charisma " Duke Wayne, but in El Dorado Mitchum matches Wayne step for step without "hamming " it up. ( well, maybe a teeny bit) Regardless he was just great and Night of the The Hunter is Mitchum's The Searchers. Like Wayne, he gave a Performance that I can't see anyone else doing. An Oscar would still not be enough for that role. ( also scared the stuffing out of me)

[@elvicare35]

+Tommy Petersen You gotta love Robert, and he's so humble and of course, cool, not to mention funny at times!!!!!

[@evagolob4148]

Tommy Petersen

[@deanodegaard6902]

Tommy Petersen 76”q1

[@fredbazoo]

What a totally underated talent.....They would always cast him as tough brute or something, but hes got more charm and humour then anyone. A great interview

[@scottmunsey7075]

Mitchum looks sharp as a tack! so cool

[@TravelerKM]

I think he's honestly one of the coolest people ever. And I want those glasses.

[@37Dionysos]

He's wearing his "Just Smoked A Joint" glasses....

[@gordonm.7387]

Only Sterling Hayden was baked more often than Bob. Fuck the government. Enjoy life? Yes. Fuck off, jobs.

[@jbb6131]

Hahaha totally

[@homeyginomolly]

You got it!

[@SDSen]

The best entrance i ever seen for an actor, that walk and the accompanying music is so apt for a guy like Mitch.

[@scottmunsey7075]

Smooth as butter. what a legend, & probably one of the funniest . Love Mitchum

[@corycg1956]

I wish he had his own radio show I could listen to Robert talk all day loved his voice.

[@zyxmyk]

this guy is so cool he makes me feel cool. I believe him when he says he likes to hide--I think sunglasses are good to hide out behind--people can't see your eyes.

[@philiphalpenny9761]

Happy birthday to the peerless Robert Mitchum. Born on this day 100 years ago today.

[@jameselixson5907]

No way Mitch could make it in Hollywood today with its politically correct, left-wing orthodoxy and the constant scrutiny. He'd have squished one of these wussy Brad Pitt-types and gone back to the machine shop. Except there's no machine shops anymore.

[@bearriver666]

Am sure you have trouble getting erections .........

[@tyrozinehappykitchen]

Yeah how are your erections?

[@stanleyjensen1950]

I've never seen Cavet that nervous! Cool dude, this Mitchum.

[@LaurelDenver]

Be honest. Have you ever seen a cooler man? No you have not.

[@luthienrocks]

+Laurel Denver Anthony Hopkins

[@lewislakin2358]

peter sellers

[@Ace1King1]

Gilbert Godfrey

[@tyrozinehappykitchen]

I'm sleepy

[@SDSen]

Never!

[@daviddoherty4429]

This is what Robert Di Niro whants to be like when he grows up

[@midmodgal]

Damn ,Mitch looks sexy in those shades.

[@mvies77]

Mitchum is beautiful in those shades. A real man of which there are none today. Highly intelligent and absolute naturally great at ease actor. What a presence and that walk! So missed!

[@DINOLOVER6717]

Robert Mitchum is hilarious! Why didn't he do comedy?! He's so smooth but so...like, witty. It's great.

[@nelsano3]

Mitchum is the coolest dude ever, you can tell he lit up right before he came on stage!

[@lorenzbroll101]

A great man who never made a bum film.

[@EgbertWilliams]

Roberto Benigni has an Oscar and Mitchum doesn't. Takes about three seconds to realize that people like Mitchum are bigger than the Oscars.

[@davemojarra4734]

Cuba Gooding won an Oscar.

[@bigbadbill0071]

oscars mean shit

[@Ace1King1]

Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize

[@jochenstossberg5427]

Both actors are exactly the same off screen as they are on it.

[@JSB1882]

Robert Mitchum seemed like a really down to earth, no BS guy.

[@kincaide67]

I love this interview...I don't know what he's taken to "chill" but it must've been good...real good...but Mitchum is awesome! Dig Cavett, too

[@Mississippi_Boomer]

Reds. Seconal

[@homeyginomolly]

Nah he was a pot head​@@Mississippi_Boomer

[@dickieboner5889]

What a cool guy ! They don't make them like this anymore. Great actor as well. He is one smooth dude.

[@fredbazoo]

Mitchum is part of a lost generation of American Gentleman. They were the children of the Great Depression. Self reliant, good men, with a tough exterior which they needed to survive, but with a heart of gold.

[@jonathanlane4496]

Wonderful interview. Probably the coolest guy I’ve ever seen.

[@corycg1956]

I always loved his voice he had that narrators voice.

[@MoveOverCasanova]

"...deviousness i should think" -- he is so wonderfully dry and much too laid back to pretend anything ))

[@MetalizedButt]

Why did Larry King say this guy was the worst guest

[@homeyginomolly]

Larry King can't interview. He wants to talk over everyone. One look from Mitchum he probably shit himself.

[@barblessable]

Get a copy of his biography" Baby I dont Care"he was quite a guy, amazing that he lived to be 80 the book title is a line he says in the film noir" Out of the Past"aka Build my Gallows High.

[@paul-johnramos9907]

Dick Cavett held a broadcast-long interview with Robert Mitchum in 1971. It stands today as one of the great conversations in entertainment history. This upload in seven parts was by babyidontcare23.

[@jochenstossberg5427]

I always loved him on the screen but he's pretty unpleasant off it. And he's not getting the jokes. Cavett was a very witty man, and Mitchum isn't getting the jokes at all. And then there are the sunglasses - inside. It tell you a lot.

[@homeyginomolly]

Yeah he's stoned and Dick knows it and isn't offended

[@chimptor50]

Robert Mitchum was a man's man. Down to earth, blunt, tough, honest, charming, pick an agitative and it'll fit.Here he goes on the Dick Cavett show and he's drunk!!! That takes major stones to be stoned on national TV and not care, yet, pull off a brilliant interview. He was old Hollywood at it's most excessive and it's most vulnerable. God Bless Ya Robert Mitchum!!! We need more real men like you right now, except without the excessive boozing.

[@SDSen]

Nah man, the excessive boozing is all part of the coolness! He couldhandle the drink his drinking levels were legendary he could drink excessively and still appear to be quite normal this interview is one example. unlike say Oliver Reed who would make a joke of himself he couldn't handle that much like Mitch could.

[@PinkPoodleSkirt77]

I think he is one of the most REAL actors I've ever listened to... I really like this guy... I watched a few interviews with him and was a bit put off at first and thought he was arrogant and difficult... I have completely changed my opinion about him.... his reply to what's the key to a 30 yr marriage is CLASSIC! LOL

[@whiskeywhiskeyromeo3730]

He literally was speaking "Deviousness ".....when I was reading your reply.......over 30 here.....he ain't lying.....lol

[@glennkavanagh6266]

Cool guy...the old days, The honest "street poet" he lived...he went without, he gave it back!!! That's Mitchum. Rip xxx

[@Glenn1441]

Robert was part of the infamous 'studio system,' and studios like RKO would purposely put big, award-winning stars in crap films, just to make a cheap buck. The studios KNEW the film was crap, but they were in the business of putting out volume. In fact, after making 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' Monroe was 'stuck' in a film she hated, with Mitchum (the two were old friends), 'River of No Return.' Monroe, like Bette Davis, loathed the studio system because she wanted quality, not quantity.

[@G0K3001]

.........ultra cool............

[@opencurtin]

A great raconteur interviewed by a man who knew how to get the best out of his superstar guests ...

[@christull6572]

Bloody hell he is stoned ..legend

[@seanfitzpatrick4730]

Better actor the John Wayne deserves more credit

[@frannyzooey11]

Why is he so cool ? He has a wonderful sense of humor.

[@AWonderingWarrior]

Because he didn't try too hard. That's why he's so cool and smooth.

[@romas1995]

He was a very simple man. Not modest, but simple. He didn't overcomplicate things which was good, it's one of the things missing in our time and movies.

[@hotquebec]

That interview guy is useless.

[@geoffowen4158]

Brilliant in Cape Fear.

[@peaceandmetal88]

Such an amazing actor, but I would've been terrified meeting him in real life.

[@paulorlando5877]

He's talking about Macao with Jane Russell,good movie imo.

[@jaboujs337]

seriously, a time when men were men - even actors.

[@massapower]

EXACTLY !!

[@hysterical-queer]

What a dreamboat and an incredible actor. Robert Mitchum rules.

[@OrphanSeasun]

I love his jazzy way of talking - "later fo' that quitin'"

[@geoffowen4158]

And Ryan's Daughter

[@GaZonk100]

and arrived looking sharp

[@opencurtin]

Into the past a great Mitchum Noir movie from the 40s with Jane Greer , stunning looking couple together on screen.

[@STILLDecibel]

I love Dick Cavett as a host/ interviewer so respectful you don't see that kind of respect, politeness these days...

[@barblessable]

STILLDecibel D.C. is nervous about Mitchum's reputation .

[@STILLDecibel]

jock barblessable Back in the day you would be in front of an icon ...I bet it would have felt worse if Marlon Brando had been in that seat he he

[@CesMan83]

Ahh, the good old days when male Hollywood stars were real men...I can't really think of any actor today that could properly walk in Robert Mitchum's shoes...except perhaps Michael Madsen

[@ashleyschultz3217]

Tom Brady is good, as is Robert Downey Jr.

[@EmilyHartley25989]

@Ashley Schultz They aren’t “real men”.

[@KipJordy1]

Mitchum is loaded from the start, yet he keeps his cool throughout the whole interview. Few actors would/could do that these days. Once he made his stake, much like Brando, I don't think Mitchum gave a fuck about Hollywood or how the producers "wanted" him to act. That's what makes these guys cool.

[@RaveDave871]

He's tanked

[@JRobbySh]

Not at all like the impression I get from his movies. Very mercurial, highly intelligent. Reminds me of Dean Martin here.

[@RaveDave871]

He's blotto

[@suziemills2201]

cool cool cool

[@shanehenderson8756]

The American version of Oliver Reed, or Oliver Reed is the English version of Bob Mitchum ?

[@MrHajuebe]

Mitch was the kind of male actor I enjoyed identifying with, even as a boy. Guys like Brad Pitt, Leo DeCaprio, etc. just don't do it for me. I find it difficult to take them seriously as a male lead, too boyish looking.

[@chrisd8902]

Here from Larry king interviewing Eric Andre

[@tammybettiga3390]

HE IS STONED....

[@michaelligue3842]

One of my favorite actors , interviewed by my favorite interviewer .

[@catherinemorand500]

What a fantastic guy!

[@diankreczmer6595]

You can see the emphysema difficulty breathing starting. Rip. Mr mitchum

[@babyidontcare23]

@Niiiiiiiiizette Honestly I would find someone who speaks English very well to help you. Even with subtitles there's alot of vocabulary and idioms that only a native speaker would get.

[@megapopcorn93]

WHAT A WALK! RAWR

[@Satchel334]

He did comedy. He hosted Saturday Night Live and he was in the film Scrooged.

[@wlljohnbey1798]

It's hard to believe there was a time when men were just men, without apology. My dad's generation...Loved this interview.

[@tyrozinehappykitchen]

wlljohn bey you talk like you only have missionary sex

[@RCGoetzke]

Like Steve McQueen, Robert Mitchum oozed masculine coolness.

[@marclaw4511]

He is his own man and a nightmare for any interviewer.

[@cob1965]

If there was a legend, this guy was one.

[@johncopeland3826]

Burlington Bertie , drunk at 10 thirty !!!

[@Alexander-ef4ln]

Just watched his interview with Eric Andre

[@DINOLOVER6717]

@raybradburywriter Totally agree. I love his dry humour!

[@MrCommonlawyer]

"The privilege of anonymity...."

[@davemojarra4734]

He smoked and drank during this interview.

[@jimmy27paul]

So?

[@EmilyHartley25989]

@Dave Mojarra wasn’t so unusual then.

[@huntersimmons7304]

What kind of sunglasses is he wearing?

[@dl7694]

After way too much research, I am betting Dior Homme black tie frame with prescription lenses. Vintage Sunglasses website and ebay have them. Cheers

[@jimimonterey67]

The definition of unrepentant cool

[@MrSnaketoe]

'out of the past' is the film to check

[@barblessable]

MrSnaketoe aka "build my gallows high" , film noir at its best .

[@GreenCloudArtOrg420]

@DINOLOVER6717 reminds me of Bill Murray

[@allengreene9954]

Michael Madsen before Michael Madsen.

[@homeyginomolly]

Yes!!! I'll bet Madsen worshipped him

[@KidMillions]

He had an affair with Joan Rivers in the 80s.

[@jojogunn7077]

+KidMillions Robert Mitchum also once admitted to eating Moms Mableys snatch.

[@KidMillions]

It's actually true what I said, Joan Rivers talked about it on Howard Stern. She was hosting the Tonight Show and after one appearance they went to a hotel room together etc... She just said he was "a real man".

[@johnlewis9158]

@@KidMillions According to some of my old friends in the black cab Business here in London He also gave Shirley Maclaine and Jean Simmons a good going over

[@calahann]

coolest cat ever

[@johnlorberter506]

Robert Mitchum, is one of.my favorite Actors. He, seems like he's really down too Earth. The night of the Hunter. What a film. Thunder road Was, was a cult classic. I always Thought he was really Cool. John Lorberter

[@seddimoussavi3721]

One of the best.

[@ReductioAdAbsurdum1]

wtf is this intro?

[@shanehenderson8756]

Last of a kind ?

[@jeffjones4729]

He's stoned.

[@RaveDave871]

He's sloshed

[@hughjones6300]

I picked up a book about WW11 in the library. There was a picture of some Russian officers in a room. One officer stood out. He was a dead ringer for Robert Mitchum a true doppelganger. Mitchum made it look easy.

[@gerardfoo7336]

It's a beautiful lesson from the character of this man ,cool,( keep cool man) even with e.g.a kettle with its water boiling still manage to whistle .when discovering the unfaithfulness of. his wife (Ryan's daughter) I love the story.Thanks for the video.

[@babyidontcare23]

@DINOLOVER6717 He's did a few but most aren't well-known films. I'll be posting a clip of one of my favorite comedies he did, The Last Time I Saw Archie.

[@majapamic1579]

Who would have thunk it??? Seems like Robert Mitchum is really Joaquin Phoenix, but "back to the future" sort of.....SUCH A SIMILARITY!!!! particularly in common with Mr Phoenix's David Letterman interview, "with the beard"..... Natch, Mr Mitchum seems more mature...but the similarity is there, if you have the time to look...

[@MillieonaVespa]

Man I just loved him as a kid my first crush ! ……he was so good in everything….

[@zisoul]

Hey @DINOLVER6717,R MITCHUM did some comedies and did funny stuff in some. He and GEORGE KENEDEY did a Wesrten Film called Good Guys & Bad Guys in '69 and there is funny parts in it.He stared in A Family For Joe 1990 to '94 on tv and it was a comedy.You'll find them on KZbin. Peace.

[@babyidontcare23]

@DINOLOVER6717 The Archie clip is already up. I'm in the process of posting another bio tonight so look for that as well.

[@whiskeywhiskeyromeo3730]

Like a sip of whatever is in his coffee cup he brought out with him.... lol

[@frickadele]

Mitchum looks like John Lennon

[@oza8578]

Lennon circa late 65-early to mid 66.

[@EmilyHartley25989]

@frickadele You must be kidding

[@homeyginomolly]

​@@EmilyHartley25989 they both have a "dry" personality. But look! Ah, no way.

[@DINOLOVER6717]

@babyidontcare23 Oh that would be soo awesome! Please do! Thanks again, if i hadn't said it before, for posting this one! I love it!