Robert Mitchum: "Baby I Don't Care"

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. Exhaustively researched it makes use of thousands of rare documents from around the world and nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with Mitchums family friends and associates (many going on record for the first time ever) ranging over his seventy-nine years of hard living. Written with great style and vividly detailed this is an intimate comprehensive portrait of an amazing life comic tragic daring and outrageous.