 Robert
Mitchum Collection
Synopsis: Pack Info: Angel Face Count:
1, DVD | Standard | Super Slim Case. Good Guys & the Bad Guys, The Count: 1, DVD
| Widescreen | Super Slim Case. Home from the Hill Count: 1, DVD | Widescreen |
Super Slim Case. Macao Count: 1, DVD | Standard | Super Slim Case. Sundowners,
The Count: 1, DVD | Widescreen | Super Slim Case. Yakuza, The Count: 1, DVD |
Widescreen | Super Slim Case.
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Six Milestones in a
Legendary Career
ROBERT MITCHUM:
THE SIGNATURE COLLECTION
Angel Face ~ Macao ~
Home from the Hill ~
The Sundowners~ The Good Guys & the Bad Guys ~ The
Yakuza
Six New to DVD Titles
January 23 Featuring Never-Before-Seen Bonus Footage, Vintage Featurettes,
Commentaries and More
 Burbank,
Calif. October 16, 2006 – On January 23, Warner Home Video celebrates the career
of a classic Hollywood anti-hero with the
Robert Mitchum: The Signature Collection
featuring six new to DVD titles including Angel Face, Macao, Home from the
Hill, The Sundowners, The Good Guys & the Bad Guys and The Yakuza.
The Collection includes never-before-seen bonus footage, vintage featurettes and
commentaries and includes such co-stars as Jane Russell, Jean Simmons, Deborah
Kerr and David Carradine in films directed by Sydney Pollack, Fred Zinnemann and
Vincente Minnelli among others. Robert Mitchum: The Signature Collection
giftset will be available in superslim packaging for $59.92 SRP and the
individual titles will be available for $19.97 SRP. Orders for all are due
December 12.
Mitchum was one of
Hollywood’s most durable leading men, with a career that spanned more than 50
years and over 120 films.
“His laconic, heavy-lidded
manner was deceptively casual, disguising a potent screen presence.” (appbio.net)
An icon of Film Noir, his career peaked from the late ‘40s through the early
‘60s and his versatility showed equally well in westerns and romantic dramas.
Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on August 6, 1917, Mitchum was frequently in
trouble as a youth and left home in his teens. He first worked at various jobs
including coal miner, ditch digger, professional boxer, among others, before
discovering acting at the Long Beach Theater Guild in 1942. Soon after, he
debuted in films as an extra. He found superstar success in his roles of macho
heroes and villains who talked tough and lived rough, with appeal to both men
and women who loved his physical presence, deep resonant voice and sexy bad boy
demeanor.
In addition to those in the
Collection, Mitchum’s most notable films included Out of the Past,
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, Night of the Hunter, Friends of Eddie Coyle, Farewell
My Lovely and The Big Sleep (as Philip Marlowe), Mr. North,
Cape Fear and Dead Man. His notable television appearances included
the mini-series The Winds of War and its sequel, War and Remembrance.
Angel Face (1952)
Otto Preminger, who showed how
to mix a beautiful woman with murder in the landmark Laura, directs this
tale of a passion gone haywire. Frank’s (Robert Mitchum) a regular guy with a
steady girl and a dream of owning his own garage when he crosses paths with
Diane (Jean Simmons). She wants him. Or does she want a fall guy to blame when
Diane’s stepmother plunges off a high cliff and leaves her fortune to Diane?
Alibis, betrayals, courtroom thrills and the fire of a woman too dangerous to
trust and too alluring to resist make Angel Face a film-noir
classic. His pairing with Simmons was the first of three.
DVD Special Features:
·
Commentary by
author and historian Eddie Muller
·
Subtitles:
English (feature film only)
·
Languages:
English, Français
Macao (1952)
Robert Mitchum’s the cool male
-- broad shoulders, hooded eyes and laconic wit. Jane Russell’s the incendiary
female -- voluptuous curves, lushly lipsticked mouth and sardonic comebacks.
Together they’re two dead-on talented and drop-dead gorgeous stars who brought
out the best in each other in His Kind of Woman and Macao,
the two gutsy film noirs they made together. In Macao, directed by
the legendary Josef Von Sternberg, audiences know they’re in for a dynamite ride
from the moment he saves her from a lecherous goon – and she picks his pocket.
The story, set in the exotic East Asian port, involves stolen diamonds,
undercover New York cops, mistaken identities, double crosses and murder.
DVD Special Features:
·
Commentary by
author and historian Eddie Muller, screenwriter Stanley Rubin and actress Jane
Russell
·
TCM Private
Screenings with Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell, hosted by Robert Osborne
·
Subtitles:
English (feature film only)
Home from the Hill (1960)
Wade Hunnicutt is a big man who
casts a big shadow, one that looms over the Texas backwoodsmen who work his
land…over the beautiful, embittered he wife cheats on…and over the sons – one
from marriage and one illegitimate – who strive for their father’s respect.
Robert Mitchum “gives one of his greatest performances” (Michael Barson, The
Illustrated Who’s Who of Hollywood Directors) as Wade, and Vincente Minnelli
directs this sprawling, emotionally volatile tale of an epic clash between
generations. In early-career roles, George Peppard and George Hamilton costar as
Wade’s sons, determined to be their own men, yet in danger of repeating their
father’s life-crippling legacy of lust and violence.
DVD Special Features:
·
Theatrical
trailer
·
Languages:
English & Français
·
Subtitles:
English, Français & Español (feature film only)
The Sundowners (1960)
Four-time Academy Award® winner
Fred Zinnemann directs this warm-hearted tale of 1920 Australia. Robert Mitchum
and Deborah Kerr play Paddy and Ida, a devoted couple suddenly at odds. Ida and
her son, Sean (Michael Anderson Jr.) want a farm of their own. But settling down
is more than Paddy’s untethered spirit can bear. The Sundowners
earned five Oscar® nominations including Best Picture, won Kerr the New York
Film Critics Best Actress Award and made Mitchum the National Board of Review
Best Actor choice for this and Home from the Hill.
DVD Special Features
·
Vintage
featurette On Location with The Sundowners
·
Theatrical
trailer
·
Languages:
English & Français
·
Subtitles:
English (feature film only)
The Good Guys & the Bad Guys
(1969)
Robert Mitchum and George
Kennedy ease into their roles like long-time saddle pals in this western comedy
directed by Burt Kennedy (Support Your Local Sheriff). One (Mitchum) is
dedicated to the law, the other (Kennedy) to lawbreaking. Each has seen better
days. And each gets to relive them when they team to stop ice-blooded Waco
(David Carradine) and his gang of gold thieves.
DVD Special Features:
·
First-Time
Widescreen video release [16x9 2.4:1]
·
Vintage
featurette The Good Guy from Chama
·
Theatrical
trailer
·
Languages:
English & Français
·
Subtitles:
English (feature film only)
The Yakuza (1975)
Robert Mitchum is Kilmer in
this haunting East-meets-West head-on thriller powered by a team of heavy
Hollywood hitters: writers Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver) and Robert Towne
(Chinatown) and director Sydney Pollack (The Interpreter).
Co-starring Japan’s Takakura Ken and veteran character actor Brian Keith,
The Yakuza is a modern film noir in which honor and loyalty
become issues of life and death. Violence erupts with the speed of a Tokyo-bound
bullet train. And the last thing to die is tradition.
DVD Special Features:
·
Commentary by
director Sydney Pollack
·
Vintage
featurette Promises to Keep
·
Languages:
English & Français
·
Subtitles:
English (feature film only)
ROBERT MITCHUM: THE
SIGNATURE COLLECTION
Street Date: January 23,
2007
Order Due Date: December 12,
2006
Catalog #: 11394
Pricing for Collection:
$59.92 SRP; Individual Titles: $19.97 SRP
All Titles Not Rated
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Angel Face
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Catalog #: T7781
B&W |
Macao
Run Time: 81 Minutes
Catalog #: T7782
B&W |
|
Home from the
Hill
Run Time: 150
Minutes
Catalog #: 79539
Color 2.0 Stereo
Audio
16x9 anamorphic 2.40 |
The Sundowners
Run Time: 133
Minutes
Catalog #: 111348
Color
16x9 anamorphic 1.77
|
|
The Good Guys
& The Bad Guys
Run Time: 90
Minutes
Catalog #: 111347
Color
16x9 anamorphic 2.40 |
The Yakuza
Run Time: 112
Minutes
Catalog #: 75315
Color 16x9
anamorphic 1.77 |
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Company, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video
marketplace. Warner Home Video's film library is the largest of any studio,
offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros.
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Our Review of the Robert Mitchum
DVD Collection
This DVD has some of the seminal movies in his
career. The five movies can be separated into three separate stages.
The first two films, from 1952 (Angel Face and Macao), provide a
look at his roles for the movie genre, film noir, he first became famous
for. The next two 1960 movie's show the post film noir Mitchum, showing
the extent of his talents with other genres in films such as The Sundowners
and The Good Guys & Bad Guys - both roles garnished NBR Best Actor nods
for Mitchum. The last movie, The Yakuza, from 1975 shows a return
to the film noir/crime drama movies for Mitchum. The collection is missing
his Oscar nominated role in The Story of G.I. Joe, but it still a solid
collection of movies showing the talents of a great actor in Hollywood's
hey-day.
In addition to these movies are a number of bonus
features on each of the DVDs. However, there are two which are must see -
the featurette entitled Promises to Keep on The Yakuza DVD and the TMC Private
Screenings with Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell and hosted by Robert Osborne.
This is a great collection for any fan of Robert
Mitchum or the film noir genre.
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