Turner Classic Movies has a Robert Mitchum film noir double feature on Saturday, January 23, 2021.
The TCM schedule for Saturday, January 23, 2021, includes these two film noir classics starring Robert Mitchum:
8:00 pm Out of the Past (1947)
10:00 pm The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Times above are ET. For more details visit: TCM Daily Schedule
Both films are considered classics, and both appear in IMDB’s Top 50 Film Noir Movies.
In Out of the Past (1947), Mitchum stars as an on-the-run former private investigator hiding from a gambling kingpin – Kirk Douglas, in one of his earliest roles. Starring as the femme fatale is Jane Greer. The film was directed by Jacques Tourneur.
Critics and film historians consider Out of the Past a superb example of film noir. Roger Ebert wrote:
“Out of the Past” (1947) is one of the greatest of all film noirs, the story of a man who tries to break with his past and his weakness and start over again in a town, with a new job and a new girl.
The movie stars Robert Mitchum, whose weary eyes and laconic voice, whose very presence as a violent man wrapped in indifference, made him an archetypal noir actor.”
Showing next on TCM is The Night of the Hunter (1955), in which Mitchum stars as a corrupt, deadly minister who marries an unsuspecting widow – Shelly Winters – in an attempt to find $10,000 that was stolen and hidden by her executed husband. Famed actor Charles Laughton directed the film from a script by James Agee.
Night of the Hunter has a near-perfect Meta Score of 99 from IMDB and is on the “greatest” lists by some critics. Roger Ebert wrote:
“Charles Laughton’s “The Night of the Hunter” (1955) is one of the greatest of all American films, but has never received the attention it deserves because of its lack of the proper trappings. Many “great movies” are by great directors, but Laughton directed only this one film, which was a critical and commercial failure long overshadowed by his acting career. Many great movies use actors who come draped in respectability and prestige, but Robert Mitchum has always been a raffish outsider. And many great movies are realistic, but “Night of the Hunter” is an expressionistic oddity, telling its chilling story through visual fantasy. People don’t know how to categorize it, so they leave it off their lists.”
Below are clips from both films, starting with Out of the Past.
https://youtu.be/y7oTM9oaDmI
Below is a clip from Night of the Hunter featuring Mitchum’s famous “Right Hand, Left Hand, Love and Hate” scene.
