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Robert Mitchum Signature Collection

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ST. CLAIR's "signature" series each consist of three public domain films (on a single DVD) that are good, but not necessarily the featured artist's best work-- sometimes the actor is far from the lead character (such is the case with two of these titles).

CONTENTS:

AGENCY-- A millionaire buys an advertising agency and replaces personnel with allies chosen to subliminally slant product ads to further the owner's political aims and beliefs. A copywriter catches on to this scheme and ends up dead. 1970s cynicism is reflected in this mediocre Canadian-made whodunit.

GUNG HO! -- Mitchum is a lowly 10th banana here. A decent cast in an idealized rendering of a WWII true event: the Marine assault of a Japanese-held island that occurred two months after Pearl Harbor.

AERIAL GUNNER-- This one's even less of a Robert Mitchum film. He gets no screen credit for a bit role in this dual/genre WWII-era tale of a training camp love triangle and Pacific airwar story.

For a similar set, check out the RONALD REAGAN SIGNATURE COLLECTION, also from St. Clair.

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Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.

(5.2) Agency (Canada-1980) - Robert Mitchum/Lee Majors/Valerie Perrine/Saul Rubinek

(6.0) Gung Ho! (" 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders") - (1943) - Randolph Scott/Noah Beery Jr./J. Carrol Naish/Sam Levene/Robert Mitchum/Rod Cameron (Chet Huntley-narrator)

(5.8) Aerial Gunner (1943) - Chester Morris/Richard Arlen/Lita Ward/Jimmy Lydon (uncredited: Robert Mitchum/Jeff Corey/John Hamilton)

BONUS: Robert Mitchum Poster Gallery

There are 3 movies in this DVD, the last two are really good, the first one is only average.