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31 August 2008 9:59 AM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

Wait. I find myself listening to a chorus of children singing in a haunting, eerie melody. I must’ve gotten lost somewhere. I’m supposed to be watching The Night of the Hunter, a film where Robert Mitchum, well— he loves hate and hates love. But here I am, and instead there are children ...

Conrad Rothbaum

26 June 2008 8:37 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Release year: 1962

The players: Director: J. Lee Thompson, Writers: John D. McDonald, James R. Webb, Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin

The plot: After being released from prison, an ex-con terrorizes the family of the attorney who helped put him behind bars.

Modern thoughts on a classic movie: The original version of “Cape Fear” is a basic tale of good versus evil, pitting Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum against one another in a battle of brains and nerves.

Peck plays attorney Sam Bowden, whose testimony sends Mitchum’s Max Cady to prison for eight years. In those eight years, Cady loses his family, and upon his release, he is determined to make Bowden suffer the same way. What ensues is a gripping story that shows how far one man will go for his revenge and what the other man will do to protect his loved ones from a madman.

Rachel Thuro

26 March 2008 10:04 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Art Aragon, the handsome boxer known as "The Golden Boy," who inspired thousands of women to join their husbands and beaus at Southern California arenas in the late '40s and '50s, died Tuesday in Northridge, Ca at age 80 following a stroke on March 15. In the 1960s Aragon was romantically linked to such actresses as Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Mamie Van Doren and Jayne Mansfield. Although he never held a title, he had an impressive career, recording 90 wins, 61 by knockout, 20 losses, and 6 draws. Following his career in the ring, he became a bail bondsman and frequent actor, appearing in dozens of films and TV shows and counting Bob Hope, William Holden, Robert Mitchum and Sammy Davis Jr. among his close friends. Note:In Tuesday's edition of Studio Briefing, we referred to a statement by the family of the late Bob Marley that it has a policy of not licensing Marley's music for any project, but that it had made an exception in the case of Martin Scorsese's upcoming documentary about the singer. Several readers have pointed out that a Marley recording figured prominently in last year's I Am Legend.

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3 articles from 2008