Robert Mitchum talk + Cape Fear (15)

Mr Bad Taste Weekend

Talk
“Some English writer asked, ‘Do you follow the Stanislavski method?’ I said, ‘I follow the Smirnoff method.” (Robert Mitchum).

Despite the success of Mitchum’s 54 year screen career his early life is cloaked in mystery, the truth hidden within conflicting tales of time spent as a prizefighter, escaped felon and secret poet.

Lloyd Robson’s recent book Oh Dad, A Search for Robert Mitchum (Parthian Books) was the result of his four year search for the legendary tough-guy - perched somewhere between the bar stools of biography, travelogue, gonzo journalistic search and an attempt to define masculinity in the modern age. Lloyd will raise a glass to Mitchum, relate some of his own experiences researching the book, and introduce a special screening of Cape Fear (15).
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Cape Fear film screening
Mitchum at his nastiest; Max Cady, a cruel ex-convict, is ravenous for the ruination of a Georgia lawyer (Gregory Peck) who eight years earlier sent him to prison for the brutal assault of a young woman. Cape Fear was the first movie that proved Mitchum’s worst critics wrong and still holds you on the edge of your seat to the very end.

Link here for info on the Mitchum Double Bill screening on Sun 5 Oct. 

Dir. J Lee Thompson USA 1962 1h 45m

Drinks sponsored by Smirnoff.

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