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Mitchum just OOZES sexuality in this,doesnt he?

posted 14 years ago by Brandos_Bitch
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My oh my!I may be going straight to hell after saying this,but am I the only one who was rather turned on by his character?Hes a sick perverted rapist beast,and his actions are despicable,and I tremble when hes on screen,but its NOT just from fear,if you know what I mean.Most specially the scene with Sams wife in the kitchen.Hes bare-cheasted,dripping wet and facing his enemys wife for the first time,only inches away from her.Then he starts to speak to her in a very soft,almost tender voice,then BAM,snaps that egg in half and very very gently starts smearing the egg on her chest,while he continues to threathen her in that soft,soft voice.I just loose it.Its both scary and sexy in equal measure.The scene is a monument to sexual tension in films,and should be studied by anyone trying to achieve it.

[–] zoolzool 14 years ago

Yes he was very sexy in this movie!

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[–] by_candlelight 14 years ago

Oh yes! He would be an animal in the sack!

[–] zoolzool 13 years ago

Hehe, how do you know?

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[–] joekeck7 14 years ago

I'm a guy, so I can't pick up the eroticism you speak of directly. However, I know women. Note that I do not say I understand them. Just know them. So I do understand what you're saying. And, your description above is precisely why I don't, nor will anyone else-EVER! understand women.

But yes, you are right on the money, honey. Remember the line from Angel Heart? "A bad boy always makes a girl's heart beat faster" or something like that.

Fascinating. It's things like that, along with their luscious bodies, that keeps me insanely and ever hopelessly heterosexual.

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[–] tstraton 14 years ago

I don't like to be around people who OOZE.

[–] HoferPM-1 14 years ago

Yep, Mitchum was very sexy. He had a way about him that would attract any woman, and just a little rough around the edges isn't too bad ! LOL

[–] toshguy 14 years ago

Mitchum was very masculine here and he didn't need to be fit to achieve it, like many actors do (or think they do) today and back then for that matter. When I think of oozing filthy sex appeal, I think of Marlon Brando in The Nightcomers. He's gloated as hell and going bald in that and his character is a sexually perverted sadist and yet his let-down sweaty body just oozes an irresitable sex appeal from in the sex scenes. You know what I'm talking about, Brandos_Bitch!

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[–] Brandos_Bitch 13 years ago

Lol,hell yeah!And in Last Tango in Paris its the same.Its all in the way a man walks,moves and looks at you that makes him sexy.Its animal magetissm,and one thousand times more effective than just a good body.

[–] Bloom6000 13 years ago

I agree! That scene of him approaching Sam's wife is scary and sexy at once.

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[–] desert_rose123 12 years ago

I know this post was two years ago but I totally agree. The scene that I find Mitchum sexiest in is when he was in the house boat trying to get Peck's wife. He breaks an egg with his hand and it splatters across her chest, then he brushes his hands across her chest to clean the egg off. Mitchum was so hot in this.

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[–] FranLovesBetteD 11 years ago

No, you're not the only one.

I must confess that once that put his shirt off, many times through the movie, I practically lost concentration on the rest of the scene, LOL. In a way, his sexiness was quite distracting. And I agree that when he's shirtless AND wet in the last part of the movie, OMG...

Last night, I saw Cape Fear for the very first time, but I must confess I've always found Robert Mitchum to be one of the hottest men in Hollywood history, even with clothes on.

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[–] kindheart02 9 years ago

I must confess that once that put his shirt off, many times through the movie, I practically lost concentration on the rest of the scene, LOL. In a way, his sexiness was quite distracting. And I agree that when he's shirtless AND wet in the last part of the movie, OMG.

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I could not agree more. I always found him to be very hot and sexy. Even when I couldn't understand my feelings, as I was reaching puberty, I knew there was something very special about him, dangerous even, that the pretty boys Rick Nelson and Troy Donahue lacked, despite their dreamy attractiveness. Right up until Mitchum was in his 50's and I would've been in my young 20's I could still work up a sweat watching him. He had a certain swag that wasn't present in many actors. Not before and not since. Will always appreciate his contribution to movies.

And yes, Brando in Streetcar....wow.
And I loved young pre-plastic surgery Mickey Rourke.
And it goes unsaid, Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.......same thing.

[–] FranLovesBetteD 9 years ago

Beautifully expressed! I'd rather have him over any other conventionally pretty boy out there  Before his time, there was another one that always made me sigh the same way and for the same reasons: Brian Donlevy. Both gentlemen certainly were one of a kind...

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[–] kidjay83 11 years ago

Mitchum is sexy and dangerous like a wild animal .

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[–] blondcutie1972 10 years ago

I thought he was strangely sexy yes. I love guys with hairy chests and he definately has some kind of animal magnetism.

[–] practicepiano 9 years ago

Ew, ew, ew, ew -- no! 

Mitchum, I think, does a fine job of portraying one of the most frightening, and, to me, least sexy characters in the history of film.

[–] ecarle (14979) 7 years ago

I liked his interaction with sexy Barrie Chase early in the movie.

First, he tells her (even as cops are taking him out of the bar for questioning): "I'll give you one hour to get rid of this guy"(thumbs at the man who is talking to her.)

Later, SHE tells him: "I like you because I can't get any lower." Hmmm.

And then he reveals himelf in the bedroom to be a monster.

Compare this to Ileana Douglas flirting with DeNiro in the remake. She lacks Barrie Chase's sex appeal and(directed by then-boyfriend Scorsese) elects to play the scene laughing and laughing like an idiot. DeNiro's fast-tawkin psycho hillbilly "lands her" but they both seem like a couple of dimwits. And then -- worse than Mitchum in the original -- DeNiro in the bedroom with her, elects to bite a piece of cheek out of the woman. (The cannibalistic psychopathy of this addition to the remake always bothered me -- you could use that to PROVE how nuts Cady was, and to his face, too.)