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We could list more than one Robert Mitchum movie that gets our pulses pumping.
That bedroom-eyed, barrel-chested stud (and a splendid actor, even if he said he
was sleepwalking most of the time) is such a perfect combination of swagger,
drollness and romance that we have a hard time disliking him even when he plays
a psycho (as in "Cape Fear"). We're allowed to like him in Jacques Tourneur's seminal, moody noir "Out of the Past" -- a film that pits Mitchum against the
overwhelming charms of Jane Greer. She will prove to be a
baddie, and in this famous scene, she's all but warning him to run away from
her. But oh so lyrically, Mitchum murmurs, "Baby, I don't care." We're just
speechless. And we really wish more people would utter that sentiment.
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