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With fine performances from its stars - Mitchum, Russell and Raymond Burr, this knowing noir also sees Vincent Price give one of the performances of his career, says David Parkinson.
Howard Hughes hoped to turn Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell into RKO's Bogart and Bacall and it's a great shame they only teamed on Macao (1952) after this knowing noir.
Meeting up in Mexico, where Mitchum's indebted gambler is laying low on the orders of mobster Raymond Burr as part of a plastic surgery scam, the pair begins trading quips from the get-go, with Russell's savvy chanteuse giving as good as she gets in exchanges that were frequently improvised, as the production rather spiralled out of control under director John Farrow and the uncredited Richard Fleischer.
Yet, even though their dialogue drips with cynicism and innuendo, Mitchum and Russell are upstaged by Vincent Price, who gives one of the performances of his career as the ham actor who becomes an accidental hero after Burr and his cohorts start playing hardball. Price's Shakespearean quotations and Russell's musical numbers up the camp quotient. But this also has its darker moments, most notably when Mitchum suffers a humiliating beating. Slick, idosynctratic and sexy, this is a compelling curio.
A tense melodrama, His Kind of Woman features electrifying performances from its stars - Raymond Burr, Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell.
Deported gangland boss Nick Ferraro (Raymond Burr) has hatched a scheme to re-enter the States and take charge of his crime racket. Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) is a professional gambler who is roughed up by Ferraro’s hoods and then offered $50,000 to leave America and head to the remote Mexican resort of Morros Lodge. En route, Milner bumps into the beautiful Lenore Brent (Jane Russell), a nightclub singer and mistress of Hollywood star Mark Cardigan (Vincent Price). As Milner settles into the rich playground of Morros Lodge, his every move is watched by Thompson (Charles McGraw), one of Ferraro’s henchmen. Realising that he may be in over his head, Milner decides to make his own enquiries as to the identity of his paymaster. But Nick Ferraro is not the type of man to be investigated...
