James Stewart, Robert Mitchum: The Two Faces of America

"James Stewart, Robert Mitchum: Two Faces of America" is a documentary that's aired on TCM and features interviews with a variety of folks...including a daughter of Jimmy Stewart as well as Robert Mitchum. I enjoyed the interviews of the daughters very much and it left me wanting to hear more from them about their lives with their famous fathers. As for the theme of the documentary, it just didn't work for me. It felt as if the filmmakers were trying to create some theme by using the two actors but the comparisons and differences seemed unimportant...as well as their context with recent US history. It almost felt as if their choices of actors to talk about was purely because the daughters knew each other and liked each other...but Robert Mitchum and Jimmy Stewart themselves didn't seem to have much in common OR much that was all that different. At times interesting, but as I said above, I just wanted to hear more from the daughters and less from everyone else.

By the way, there was a factual error I noticed in one interview. A guy was trying to say that WWI and WWII were different because in WWI there was no draft in the USA...because so many people volunteered. But in actuality, 2.8 million men were drafted in WWI...and 2.8 million is pretty significant compred to zero.