One of the movies greatest actors and most colorful characters, a real-life tough guy with the prison record to prove it, Robert Mitchum was a movie icon for an almost unprecedented half-century, the cool, sleepy-eyed star of such classics as The Night of the Hunter Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison Cape Fear The Longest Day Farewell, My Lovely and The Winds of War. Mitchums powerful presence and simmering violence combined with hard-boiled humor and existential detachment to create a new style in movie acting the screens first hipster antihero-before Brando, James Dean, Elvis, or Eastwood-the inventor of big-screen cool.Robert Mitchum Baby, I Dont Care is the first complete biography of Mitchum, and a book as big, colorful, and controversial as the star himself.
