Robert Mitchum proves to be both sexy and funny in his conversation
with Cavett. Absentmindedly flicking his cigarette lighter open and closed,
he somehow manages to swagger even while sitting. He nonchalantly
discusses his pre-stardom life in a Georgia chain gang ("It was all we had
- we called it home"), the reason he would never go into politics ("I have
vices enough"), the key to a thirty year marriage ("Deviousness"), and his
days of working with ill-tempered horses with "piano key teeth" in old
Hopalong Cassidy flicks.

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