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Robert Mitchum and other old badasses (NRR)

shawnald_reaganshawnald_reagan 318 Posts
edited April 2009 in Strut Central
I just watched this movie:and it was great. As I wasn't around when Robert Mitchum and other dudes like Steve McQueen were making their mark in film I have no idea what they did that was good. I enjoyed Mitchum in this one as the tired old man that gets dragged back to Japan to kick a little ass once more time. What I want to know is, what other movies/main characters like this should I see?I've never seen Bullitt so I guess that's a good place to start.Any other suggestions? I want to see some ass kickin movies like they did before 1980. Any suggestions?
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  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts


    See this now.
  • hertzhoghertzhog 865 Posts
    I just watched this movie:


    and it was great. As I wasn't around when Robert Mitchum and other dudes like Steve McQueen were making their mark in film I have no idea what they did that was good. I enjoyed Mitchum in this one as the tired old man that gets dragged back to Japan to kick a little ass once more time. What I want to know is, what other movies/main characters like this should I see?
    I've never seen Bullitt so I guess that's a good place to start.
    Any other suggestions? I want to see some ass kickin movies like they did before 1980. Any suggestions?

    My favorite Mitchums:

    Out of the Past
    Friends of Eddie McCoyle (probably the kind of film you're looking for, except Mitchum is more tired than kick-ass in this one)
    Night of the Hunter

    McQueen-- yeah, Bullit's cool. Getaway is fun and entertaining. I quite like Junior Bonner, too, but it's quite low-key for a McQueen film.
  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
    For Steve McQueen goodness, check out The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven. Charles Bronson is also in both of those. For Mitchum, 100% cosign on Out of the Past. Also check Angel Face and Where Danger Lives.
  • tripledoubletripledouble 7,636 Posts
    a cameo role...but its in my favorite movie. 51 seconds in
  • 3RD_Man3RD_Man 213 Posts


    See this now.

    Then follow up with this for the perfect double bill...



  • CosmoCosmo 9,768 Posts
    The Great Escape is the greatest movie ever made, like seriously, better than any other movie in history.
  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    The Great Escape is the greatest movie ever made, like seriously, better than any other movie in history.


  • shawnald_reaganshawnald_reagan 318 Posts
    3rd Man, I get a broken image for the movie you mentioned for the double feature. What was it?
    I just reserved Get Carter from the library and will work on seeing the others. Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Keep 'em coming.
  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
    The Great Escape is the greatest movie ever made, like seriously, better than any other movie in history.

    DUDE. Steve McQueen on the motorcycle. Sayin'.
  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
    Oh, and don't front on Clint Eastwood. All of the spaghetti Westerns are money.
  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    3rd Man, I get a broken image for the movie you mentioned for the double feature. What was it?
    I just reserved Get Carter from the library and will work on seeing the others. Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Keep 'em coming.

    Just be sure you don't get the crappy sly stalone remake of carter from a few years back. Yuck.
  • CosmoCosmo 9,768 Posts
    The Great Escape is the greatest movie ever made, like seriously, better than any other movie in history.

    DUDE. Steve McQueen on the motorcycle. Sayin'.

    The fact that dude insisted that he do all his own stunts for that is the one single thing that separates him from the crop of the rest of the real tough guys. There's some real bad ass dudes from back in the day, then there's McQueen, the Cooler King.

  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    The great escape should really have its own thread.

    Donald Pleasence had served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He was shot down and spent a year in a German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft 1. James Garner was a POW during the Korean War and was a scrounger during that time.[1] Screenwriter James Clavell served in the Royal Artillery and was captured by the Japanese. He was interned in Java and later the notorious Changi Prison camp in Singapore. In an archival interview in the DVD special, Pleasence said the prison camp was sufficiently realistic and that it was upsetting at first. Hannes Messemer was also a real-life World War II prisoner of war, a German soldier captured by the Soviets
  • CosmoCosmo 9,768 Posts
    The great escape should really have its own thread.

    Make it and I will go there.

    Also, straight the F*ck up, don't sleep on motherfucking Richard "The Motherfucking Man" Attenborough.
  • 3RD_Man3RD_Man 213 Posts
    3rd Man, I get a broken image for the movie you mentioned for the double feature. What was it?
    I just reserved Get Carter from the library and will work on seeing the others. Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Keep 'em coming.

    Just be sure you don't get the crappy sly stalone remake of carter from a few years back. Yuck.

    I remember putting this on at work when it came out, I worked at a video shop... didn't last 10 minutes...

    btw... the movie was "Point Blank" w/ Lee Marvin... more then enuff flix with him that are similarly badass... the colour remake of The Killers (Ronny Reagan plays the villain to boot!), Prime Cut, etc...

    Speaking of which, there was a whole trend back in the late 60's to early 70's of these 'men on a mission' type flicks with lots of these gritty characters played by the grittiest of actors, no surprise that some actors already mentioned in this thread feature prominently in these films.... Dirty Dozen with Marvin, Charlie Bronson, Jim Brown, etc... Kelly's Heroes with Eastwood and Telly Savalas... Where Eagles Dare, again with Eastwood plus many many more...

    Now Clint Eastwood is really a whole 'nother topic...
  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
    On the samurai tip, Toshir?? Mifune is the motherf*cking man. Yojimbo, Hidden Fortress, Rashomon, Seven Samurai. etc.

  • 3RD_Man3RD_Man 213 Posts
    Also, for an international selection check Alain Delon, especially the stuff he did with Jean-Pierre Melville...

    See "Le Samourai" first though (John Woo remade it as The Killer)...

  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    Mr.3RD Man got at two I was going to mention - Marvin and Delon.

    Two other guys with faces that just exude bad news are Lee Van Cleef and Richard Widmark - very good bad guys.
  • strikerstriker 146 Posts
    Cosine on Richard Attenborough for Brighton Beach, that film is hard.
  • SaracenusSaracenus 671 Posts
    On the samurai tip, Toshir?? Mifune is the motherf*cking man. Yojimbo, Hidden Fortress, Rashomon, Seven Samurai. etc.


    x1000

    Akira Kurosawa who directed those films has been the inspiration of so many American directors it is not even funny.

    Yojimbo = A Few Dollars More (Spaghetti Western)= Last Man Standing
    Seven Samurai = Magnificent Seven
    Hidden Fortress = Star Wars

    I also highly recommend the Manchurian Candidate (the original) which features the first martial arts fight in an American film between Frank Sinatra and Henry Silva. It also features a thoroughly evil Angela Lansbury.

    As for Western bad assery Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch starring bad ass William Holden is hard to beat.

    Also catch Holden in Stalag 17, more German Prison Camp goodness.
  • Lucious_FoxLucious_Fox 2,479 Posts



  • The_NonThe_Non 5,691 Posts
    Jack Palance
  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts
    Mitchum must-sees:

    Out of the Past
    Cape Fear
    Night of the Hunter
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    Thunder Road

    and on Christmas watch Holiday Affair

    seriously, before any other Mitchum movies, you MUST watch 'Out of the Past'
  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,085 Posts
    40s and 50s: Neville Brand always plays a sadistic villian.
    60s and 70s: Tomas Milian is cold as ice in a lot of roles and comes correct with the one-liner smart assery. Cosign on Henry Silva, too. Check "Johnny Cool" with him, Elizabeth Montgomery and Telly Savalas
  • Lucious_FoxLucious_Fox 2,479 Posts



  • m_dejeanm_dejean Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut. 2,946 Posts
    I've never seen "Yakuza", but another Paul Schrader-related flick with an old badass you might enjoy is:



    George C. Scott plays a Christian conservative patriarch who finds out his runaway teen daughter has gone deep into the porn biz. Bent on rescuing her, he goes undercover in the seedy world of smut peddlers.



    "I'm Big Dick Blaque. I can come 10 times a day. I can keep it hard for 2 hours at a time. I'm a woman's dream. I got a dick hung on me 9 inches long."
  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
    Mitchum must-sees:

    Out of the Past
    Cape Fear
    Night of the Hunter
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    Thunder Road

    and on Christmas watch Holiday Affair

    seriously, before any other Mitchum movies, you MUST watch 'Out of the Past'

    And for a change of pace, the noir comedy His Kind of Woman is a nice twist on the genre. Vincent Price is quite good in it as well.
  • The_NonThe_Non 5,691 Posts
    Hardcore is a good gritty movie...
  • SaracenusSaracenus 671 Posts
    If we are just naming names:

    James Coburn
    Lee Marvin
    Kirk Douglas
    Humphrey Bogart
    Edward G. Robinson
    Richard Widmark

    Basically if you want consistent badassedness you need to get a grip on the Film Noir canon and then caper movies of the 60s and 70s.
  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    I found Hardcore to be as gritty as cold cream - did I see a cut version?
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