ROBERT MITCHUM: UNLIKE TRUMPTY DUMPTY, A REAL TOUGH GUY!

If you thought Robert DeNiro was menacing and and just plain wrong when playing the role of Max Cady, especially in that memorable scene where he asks actress Juliette Lewis, playing the underage Danielle in the remake of “Cape Fear”, let’s just remember that he was playing the role originally created by Robert Mitchum.

One of the greatest film noir actors ever, Robert Mitchum had a disdain for Hollywood pretentiousness and would have had for breakfast some of the pomposity and sea of shallowness some of us might have encountered.

He spat on power and power brokers and was successfully sued for millions when throwing a basketball at a female reporter and knocking her out along with two of her teeth.

He was, as they say, a real man’s man- aloof, had apparently been found in the possession of marijuana, and simply didn’t suffer fools gladly.

Though rather surprisingly making two calypso records on which he sang, one wouldn’t have expected the chain smoking actor to appear on a talk show and especially not on ‘live’ television in America in the Seventies.

Though host Dick Cavett was always wonderfully smart and knew when not to cross the line with his guests, and even succeeded in thawing out a clearly bored and monosyllabic George Harrison, Robert Mitchum was a different kettle of halibut.

With fans like Frank Sinatra, Charles Laughton, film critic Roger Ebert and the inspiration for the new generation of actors like Clint Eastwood and then DeNiro et al, Robert Mitchum would have made horse trainer Maureen Haggas blush and become all coy and girlie as he was the complete opposite of ever being called a “big sissy”.

Watch and learn why this real life Hollywood tough guy who is said to have wooed every actress worth wooing, but stayed with his wife Dorothy for 57 years, is someone who could have single-handedly taken on a wimp like Trump and his goons along with winning the respect of the Mossad and could have made this uncool world cool again.