Great article. Thanks for posting. I knew Steyn was a good music critic, but didn’t know he reviewed actors and movies. I haven’t seen Out of the Past — have to add it to my Netflix queue.
Really liked his The Night of the Hunter and Cape Fear.
Mitchum sure had an interesting life pre-actor.
Yep, Steyn covers a lot of territory. Here’s a previous column about Jack Lemmon...
https://www.steynonline.com/7014/dads-on-screen-on-stage-and-off
Cape Fear...[shiver]
channel 9 in LA used to run The Million Dollar movie every night during prime time. The same movie for 5 days. Night of The Hunter was on when i was about 15. I was a fairly tough kid and a football player but that movie scared me because there was no monster ghost just a very creepy guy. My mother loved Mitchum and she said “I hate that man” But she must have watched the movie 3-4 times. i watched it twice.
Great presence and strength and looked to me to be a man’s man and a lady’s one too.
Also like was it The Big Sleep?