During his 40-year career, Houston worked alongside acting greats including Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, John Wayne, Dirk Bogarde and Clint Eastwood.

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At the risk of tasking you with my infantile fantasies, I was, for a period of hours, John Wayne or Robert Mitchum or James Stewart.

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But just as I made my way around the pole nearest to her seat, she looked up at me, jumped up like Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter and ran off the car.

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Robert Mitchum plays a moonshine runner.

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He's no Robert Mitchum.

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