On this day in movie history - Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

Farewell, My Lovely

directed by Dick Richards,

written by David Zelag Goodman,

based on the novel by Raymond Chandler,

was released in the United States on August 8, 1975.

Music by David Shire.

Cast:

Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Anthony Zerbe, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack O’Halloran, Joe Spinell, Sylvester Stallone, Rainbeaux Smith, Kate Murtagh, John O’Leary, Walter McGinn, Burton Gilliam, Jim Thompson, Jimmie Archer, Ted Gehring.

Born on this day – Robert Mitchum:

Robert Mitchum

Actor

August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997

Credits:

100 Years of the Hollywood Western (1994); 28' (2021); 5 Card Stud (1968); A Bigger Splash (2015); A Coffee in Berlin (2012); A Family for Joe (1990); A Killer in the Family (1983); A Movable Feast (1970); A Movable Scene (1970); A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011); A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers (2009); ABC Stage 67 (1966); Aerial Gunner (1943); AFI Life Achievement Award (1973–1984); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001); African Skies (1992–1994); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); America on the Rocks (1973); American Grindhouse (2010); Àngel Casas Show (1988); Angel Face (1952); Anzio (1968); Apropos Film (1985); Asteroid City (2023); Backfire! (1995); Bandido! (1956); Bar 20 (1943); Becoming Mike Nichols (2016); Berkeley in the Sixties (1990); Betty Hughes and Friends (1970); Beyond the Last Frontier (1943); Biography (1995–2002); Blood on the Moon (1948); Border Patrol (1943); Bored to Death (2011); Breakfast with Hunter (2003); Breakthrough (1979); British Academy Awards (1991); Broken Noses (1987); Brotherhood of the Rose (1989); Callow's Laughton (1987); Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia (2007); Cape Fear (1962 / 1991); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Charles Laughton Directs 'the Night of the Hunter' (2002); Chop Suey (2001); Cinema (1972); Cinema 3 (1988); Cinéma cinémas (1982–1990); Cinema mil (2005); Cinépanorama (1957); Climax! (1956); Colpo di scena (2014); Colt Comrades (1943); Compression (2023); Corvette K-225 (1943); Crossfire (1947); Cry 'Havoc' (1943); De l'autre côté du lit (2008); De película (1988–1989); Dead Man (1995); Dean's Place (1975); Desire Me (1947); Doughboys in Ireland (1943); Dynamite Chicken (1971); El Dorado (1966); Entertainment Tonight (1995); Escarnio (2004); Evocator (2009); False Colors (1943); Farewell, My Lovely (1975); Festival de Cine de San Sebastián (2005); Film '87 (1987); Film Fanfare (1956); Film Night (1969–1970); Film Profile (1955); Fire Down Below (1957); Follow the Band (1943); Foreign Intrigue (1956); Gilmore Girls (2004); Girl Rush (1944); Going Home (1971); Good Morning America (1985); Gran premio internazionale della TV (1991); Grass (1999); 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders (1943); Haunted Hotels of Hollywood (2018); Heart of the Festival (2002); Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957); Here's Hollywood (1961); His Kind of Woman (1951); Holiday Affair (1949); Hollywood Exclusive (1954); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hollywood Rebellen (2013); Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987); Hollywood's Make-Up Magic (1942); Home from the Hill (1960); Hometown Legend (2002); Hoppy Serves a Writ (1943); Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies (2000); Howard Hughes: The Inside Story (1983); Inèdits (2022); Jake Spanner, Private Eye (1989); James Dean: Race with Destiny (1997); James Stewart, Robert Mitchum: The Two Faces of America (2017); Jane Russell - Der Star aus dem Heu (2006); Jayne Mansfield: La tragédie d'une blonde (2013); Jett (2019); Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1995); John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988); Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1944); La classe américaine (1993); Late Night with David Letterman (1985); Le journal de 20 heures (1989–1991); Leather Burners (1943); L'énigme Charlotte Rampling (2023); Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1978); Les sept péchés capitaux (1992); Macao (1952); Man with the Gun (1955); Maria's Lovers (1984); Marilyn (1963); Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986); Matilda (1978); McLean and Company (1970); Midnight Ride (1990); Midway (1976); Minesweeper (1943); Mister Moses (1965); Mitchum in Marlowe Country (1978); Moving Pictures (1995); Mr. North (1988); Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944); My Forbidden Past (1951); My Music: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (2010); Nevada (1944); Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (2018); Nightkill (1980); North & South: Book 1, North & South (1985); Not as a Stranger (1955); Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997); On Location with 'The Sundowners' (1960); One Minute to Zero (1952); One Shoe Makes It Murder (1982); Out of the Past (1947); Pancho Villa: Myth or Man? (1968); Panorama (2020); Parkinson (1972); Pebble Mill at One (1986); Personnel et confidentiel (2007); Présumé dangereux (1990); Private Screenings (1996); Promises to Keep (1985); Pulp Cinema (2001); Pursued (1947); Rachel and the Stranger (1948); Rampage (1963); Reflections on the Silver Screen (1991); Rembob'Ina (2024); Remembering Marilyn (1988); Reunion at Fairborough (1985); Richard Petty: The Legend (1992); Riders of the Deadline (1943); Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop (1988); River of No Return (1954); Robert Mitchum, le mauvais garçon d'Hollywood (2018); Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (1991); Ryan's Daughter (1970); Saturday Night Live (1987); Screen Snapshots, Series 27, No. 8: Hollywood Honors Hersholt (1948); Screen Snapshots, Series 30, No. 3: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950); Scrooged (1988); Second Chance (1953); Secret Ceremony (1968); Severance (2025); She Couldn't Say No (1953); Showbiz Goes to War (1982); Squzz Corn N' Ole Scratch (2012); Stage Show (1955); Story of G.I. Joe (1945); Strictly Courtroom (2008); Supernatural (2015); Talking Pictures (2014); TCM Remembers 2025 (2025); That Championship Season (1982); The 10th Annual American Cinema Awards (1994); The 11th Annual People's Choice Awards (1985); The 13th Annual People's Choice Awards (1987); The 15th Annual People's Choice Awards (1989); The 18th Rudolph Valentino Awards (1990); The 2nd Annual People's Choice Awards (1976); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The 33rd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1976); The 39th Annual Academy Awards (1967); The 46th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1989); The 49th Golden Globe Awards (1992); The 4th Annual American Cinema Awards (1987); The 55th Annual Academy Awards (1983); The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998); The 8th Annual People's Choice Awards (1982); The 9th Annual People's Choice Awards (1983); The Agency (1980); The Ambassador (1984); The Amsterdam Kill (1977); The Angry Hills (1959); The Annual Waldorf Gala Salute to Myrna Loy (1985); The Big Picture (1967); The Big Sleep (1978); The Big Steal (1949); The Boys (2022); The Celebrity Game (1965); The Century: America's Time (1999); The Confession (2018); The Côte d'Azur: Love, Luxury, Passion (2021); The Dancing Masters (1943); The David Frost Show (1970); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Discovery of Marilyn Monroe (1991); The Ed Sullivan Show (1954–1963); The Enemy Below (1957); The Equalizer (1987); The Eyes of War (1989); The Factor (2012); The First 40 Years (1980); The Frank Sinatra Show (1958); The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973); The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969); The Grass Is Greener (1960); The Hearst and Davies Affair (1985); The Human Comedy (1943); The Hunters (1958); The Jim Stafford Show (1975); The Jimmy Durante Show (1956); The King of Queens (2005); The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961); The Last Tycoon (1976); The Legend of Marilyn Monroe (1965); The Linkletter Show (1967); The List of Adrian Messenger (1963); The Locket (1946); The Lone Star Trail (1943); The Longest Day (1962); The Lusty Men (1952); The Making of 'Midway' (2001); The Marshal (1995); The Marty Stuart Show (2013); The Merv Griffin Show (1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1970–1976); The Night Fighters (1960); The Night of the Hunter (1955); The Pat Sajak Show (1989); The Players (2012); The Racket (1951); The Red Pony (1949); The South Bank Show (1988); The Sundowners (1960); The Sunset Boys (1995); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1965–1988); The Way West (1967); The Wild West (1979); The Winds of War (1983); The Winston Affair (1964); The Wonderful Country (1959); The Wrath of God (1972); The Yakuza (1974); Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944); This Is Your Life (1994); Thompson's Last Run (1986); Thunder Road (1958); Till the End of Time (1946); To the People of the United States (1943); Tombstone (1993); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1981); Track of the Cat (1954); Tribute to Trevor Howard (1986); TV's Funniest Game Show Moments (1984); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Two for the Seesaw (1962); Undercurrent (1946); Villa Rides (1968); Waiting for the Wind (1991); War and Remembrance (1988–1989); War and Remembrance: A Living History (1988); WatchMojo (2018); West of the Pecos (1945); We've Never Been Licked (1943); What a Way to Go! (1964); What's My Line? (1957–1965); When Strangers Marry (1944); Where Danger Lives (1950); White as Snow (2010); White Witch Doctor (1953); Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995); William Holden: The Golden Boy (1989); Woman of Desire (1994); Young Billy Young (1969).

On this day in movie and book history - El Dorado (1966)

El Dorado

directed by Howard Hawks,

written by Leigh Brackett,

based on the novel The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown,

was released in the United States on June 30, 1967.

Music by Nelson Riddle.

Cast:

John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix, Arthur Hunnicutt, Michele Carey, R.G. Armstrong, Edward Asner, Christopher George, Marina Ghane, Robert Donner, John Gabriel, Johnny Crawford, Robert Rothwell, Adam Roarke, Victoria George, Jim Davis, Anne Newman Bacal, Diane Strom, Olaf Wieghorst, Richard Andrade, Danny Borzage, Charlita, Don Collier, Enrique Contreras, Chuck Courtney, Linda Dangcil, Alphonso DuBois, Nacho Galindo, Joe Garcio, Betty Jane Graham, Robert ‘Buzz’ Henry, William Henry, Lars Hensen, Riley Hill, Chuck Horne, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Bonnie Charyl Josephson, Joe King, Mike Letz, Frank Leyva, Myra MacMurray, John Mitchum, Ruben Moreno, Deen Pettinger, Jose Portugal, Lee Powell, Chuck Roberson, Anthony Rogers, Danny Sands, Robert Shelton, Dean Smith, John Strachen, Rosa Turich, Ralph Volkie, Christopher West.

Recommended reading:

The Stars in Their Courses

by Harry Brown.

Filmed as El Dorado (1966), directed by Howard Hawks.

ASIN: B0011N3WI2

Published by Jonathan Cape.

Published 1960.

Description:

The epic novel of the old west, a living legend of lust, doom, death, of tall strong men, golden women and towering passions!

On this day in movie history - The Big Steal (1949)

The Big Steal

directed by Don Siegel,

written by Gerald Drayson Adams, Daniel Mainwaring and Geoffrey Homes,

was released in the United States on June 29, 1949.

Based on the short story The Road to Carmichael’s by Richard Wormser,

published in The Saturday Evening Post (1942).

Music by Leigh Harline.

Cast:

Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Patric Knowles, Ramon Novarro, Don Alvarado, John Qualen, Pascual García Peña.

On this day in movie and book history - The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

directed by Peter Yates,

written by Paul Monash,

based on the novel by George V. Higgins,

was released in the United States on June 27, 1973.

Music by Dave Grusin.

Cast:

Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco, Joe Santos, Mitchell Ryan, Peter MacLean, Kevin O’Morrison, Marvin Lichterman, Carolyn Pickman, James Tolkan, Margaret Ladd, Matthew Cowles, Helena Carroll, Jack Kehoe, Jan Egleson, Jane House, Michael McCleery, Alan Koss, Dennis McMullen, Judith Ogden Cabot, Robert Anthony, Gustave Johnson, Sheldon Feldner, Ted Maynard, Lloyd Bremseth, Ben Lautman, Bobby Orr, Falko Schilling, Donald Warnock.

Recommended reading:

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

by George V. Higgins.

Filmed as The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), directed by Peter Yates.
Introduction by Dennis Lehane.

Published by Picador.
Pubished 1970.

ISBN-10: 9780312429690
ISBN-13: 9780312429690
ASIN: 031242969X
 
Description:

George V. Higgins's seminal crime novel is a down-and-dirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and cops on the mean streets of Boston. When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he's looking at three years in the pen – that is, unless he sells out one of his big-fish clients to the DA. But which of the many hoods, gunmen, and executioners whom he calls his friends should he send up the river? Told almost entirely in crackling dialogue by a vivid cast of lowlifes and detectives, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is one of the greatest crime novels ever written.

On this day in movie and book history - Dead Man (1995 and 2000)

Dead Man

directed and written by Jim Jarmusch,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 27, 1995.

Music by Neil Young.

Cast:

Johnny Depp, Mili Avital, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Eugene Byrd, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne, Jared Harris, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Mark Bringelson, John North, Peter Schrum, Mike Dawson, Billy Bob Thornton, Michelle Thrush, Gibby Haynes, Richard Boes, George Duckworth, Thomas Bettles, Alfred Molina, Daniel Chas Stacy, Todd Pfeiffer, Leonard Bowechop, Cecil Cheeka, Michael McCarty, Steve Buscemi, John C. Carlucci.

Recommended reading:

Dead Man

by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Published by British Film Institute.
Published 2000.
 
ISBN-10: 0851708064
ISBN-13: 9780851708065
 
Description:

“The book follows the narrative and picks out some of the stand-out cameos as well as some of the choice of dialogue, music, style and violence within. Just another good choice from the BFI/Palgrave on another solid film with heavy content.” – Filmwerk.

When it was released in 1995, Dead Man puzzled many audiences and critics. Jim Jarmusch's reputation was for directing slick, hip contemporary films. And Dead Man was a black-and-white Western. As time has passed, though, the number of its admirers has grown rapidly. Indeed, Dead Man, with its dark and unconventional treatment of violence, racism and capitalism, may be Jarmusch's finest work to date.

This is Jonathan Rosenbaum's view. For him, Dead Man is both a quantum leap and a logical next step in Jarmusch's career. Starring Johnny Depp as the uprooted accountant William Blake and Gary Farmer as his enigmatic Native American companion, Nobody, and with startling cameos from Robert Mitchum, John Hurt and Iggy Pop, Dead Man is by turns shocking, comic and deeply moving. This book explores and celebrates a masterpiece of 1990s American cinema.