Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America

The read

It runs a compact 57m.

Synopsis

With his naïve air, his rangy and reassuring silhouette, James Stewart symbolizes success, someone who everybody wants to look like. Behind his legendary nonchalance, Robert Mitchum is the figure of the bad boy, the kind-hearted hooligan who anyone would like to have for accomplice. What is the legacy left by these two big myths of the Hollywood cinema and in which way they fed the American dream?

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Key crew

• Grégory MonroDirector

Cast

• James StewartSelf (archive footage)
• Robert MitchumSelf (archive footage)
• Dick CavettSelf
• Hedy LamarrSelf
• Leonard MaltinSelf
• Victoria TennantSelf
• Petrine Day MitchumSelf
• Leo BraudySelf
• Joseph McCarthySelf (uncredited)

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