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When film historian/author Joseph McBride was writing his book on Howard Hawks, Hawks on Hawks , he asked the famed filmmaker about working with Robert Mitchum in 1967’s western El Dorado . McBride recalled telling Hawks: “Mitchum is extraordinarily good in El Dorado , but he tends to be a sort of lazy actor, doesn’t he, if you don’t push him?” Hawks wasn’t sure, noting that “When the picture was half over, I said [to Mitchum], 'you know you’re the biggest fraud I’ve ever met in all my life…you pretend you don’t care a damn thing about a scene, and you’re the hardest-working so-and-so I’ve ever known.'" Mitchum’s response to Hawks? “Don’t tell anybody.” The Aero Theatre is celebrating the 100th birthday of the slow-eyed, barrel-chested tough guy with a five-movie festival “ Tough Guys Finish First: A Robert Mitchum Centennial ." The retrospective kicks off Friday with David Lean’s 1970 romantic epic Ryan's Daughter,  in which Mitchum plays against type as a meek I...