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Interesting Facts About ‘Night of the Hunter’ Actor Robert Mitchum You Probably Didn’t Know


You probably didn't know these facts about actor Robert Mitchum, who appeared in classic films like The Night of the Hunter, The Story of G.I. Joe and more.

He spent his early years in Connecticut before making his way to Hollywood, earning the attention of director Mervyn LeRoy and catapulting to fame. I look around the stairway, and I see Al Capone and another guy sitting in the living room having a beef about ‘receipts.’ I knew enough to go back upstairs,” he recalled about his stepdad’s associates. Mitchum was initially cast as Captain Tom Wilder in 1955’s Blood Alley, but an altercation on set got him booted from the role.

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