Robert Mitchum

Charles Laughton 's 1955 drama is the movie freak's definitive love machine: maligned when first released, hopelessly out of synch with American postwar sensibilities, so aberrant and singular it may properly be called the first Hollywood cult movie. Read More

Growing up, to me "cool" meant someone that people were instinctively drawn to, but who kept themselves slightly apart. Read More

One summer afternoon in the mid-1970s, I was walking about 30 yards behind a guy heading east on the 800 block of West Grace Street. Read More

Adapting Davis Grubb's novel (with film critic James Agee as screenwriter) into an expressionistic children's fairy tale/nightmare, Laughton not only directed a movie, but cast an elegiac spell over the audience with dreamlike, angled compositions (by cinematographer Stanley Cortez), chilling religious motifs, dark humor, disturbed perversity and pure horror. Read More

August 31 is the 243rd day of the year (244th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . Read More

On Aug. 31, 1948, actor Robert Mitchum was arrested during a Hollywood drug raid. Read More