{"id":1507,"date":"2008-12-23T12:46:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T11:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2015-03-26T14:58:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T14:58:53","slug":"robert-mulligan-brought-out-the-best-in-his-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"Director Robert Mulligan dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/love-with-the-proper-stranger-x650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6109\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/love-with-the-proper-stranger-x650.jpg\" alt=\"love with the proper stranger x650\" width=\"650\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/love-with-the-proper-stranger-x650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/love-with-the-proper-stranger-x650-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n<p>LONDON \u2013 American director Robert Mulligan, who has died aged 83, never matched his 1962 classic &#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird&#8221; but he was always able to draw out fine performances from his actors.<a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Robert-mulligan-1-sized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6110\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Robert-mulligan-1-sized.jpg\" alt=\"Robert-mulligan-1-sized\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but Elmer Bernstein provided wonderful scores to many of his films including &#8220;Mockingbird&#8221; and four other Mulligan pictures that registered strongly with me as a young man:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fear Strikes Out&#8221; (1957) with Anthony Perkins as a troubled young baseball player with an overbearing father (Karl Malden);<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Rat Race&#8221; (1960), which Garson Kanin adapted from his own play, showing a new side to Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Love With the Proper Stranger&#8221; (1964) starring Steve McQueen and Natalie Wood (pictured), who copped a best-actress Oscar nomination for her performance as\u00a0a woman who becomes pregnant after\u00a0a one-night stand;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Baby, the Rain Must Fall&#8221; (1965) with McQueen opposite Lee Remick in a sensuous tale set against Texas honky-tonks based on a play by Horton Foote.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Mulligan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/23\/movies\/23mulligan.html\">obituary<\/a> in The New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett LONDON \u2013 American director Robert Mulligan, who has died aged 83, never matched his 1962 classic &#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird&#8221; but he was always able to draw out fine performances from his actors. Not only that, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1507\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[552,1029],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-notes","tag-elmer-bernstein","tag-robert-mulligan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6111,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/6111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}