Showing posts with label Robert Mitchum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Mitchum. Show all posts
10 July 2009
It’s raining Robert Mitchum
As for me, I long for the days of… Robert Mitchum
I know, he was a little beefy and soft
But when he took it all off
He was… bitchin'
Robert Mitchum song from Naked Boys Singing!, an off-Broadway musical.
09 July 2009
Leaning
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms by Robert Mitchum and Lilian Gish.
Scene taken from The Night of the Hunter. Song written by Anthony J. Showalter (1887).
Motionless Gish awaits the next move from the children hunter. The hunter sings.
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms
Midway into the song, Gish – the children protector - joins in singing.
Lean on Jesus, lean on Jesus, safe and secure from all alarms
Lean on Jesus, lean on Jesus, leaning on the everlasting arms
A magnificent scene of fearless good facing fearsome evil.
It is the evil that sings the true lines.
The devil has the best tunes.
08 July 2009
Lullaby
Once upon a time
There was a pretty fly
He had a pretty wife
This pretty fly
But one night
She flew away
Flew away
She had two pretty children
But one night
These two pretty children
Flew away
Flew away
Into the sky
Into the moon
A haunting lullaby, opening the scene at 0:30.
The Lullaby, appearing later in the scene at 3:50, is sung by Kitty White. Walter Schumann, the composer, reportedly personally discovered her in a nightclub.
The scene is taken from The Night of the Hunter (1955), a cult film directed by Charles Laughton and starring an unforgettable Robert Mitchum.
And a child shall lead them.
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