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Best movie ever!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

When a fall guy who's been set up to have his identity stolen by a gangster, spends time at an isolated resort, it gradually becomes clear that some of the other residents also have issues concerning their identities. A wealthy young woman who's operating under a false name is not what she appears to be, a chess-playing writer turns out to be an ex-Nazi plastic surgeon and a seemingly drunken pilot is actually a very sober Federal Immigration Officer who's working on an investigation. In "His Kind Of Woman", however, the identity changes don't stop there as this is a movie that starts out as a routine crime thriller but then suddenly turns into a comedy send-up in the third act. Whilst the confused identities of the characters add a great deal of intrigue to the plot, the movie's overall change of identity is a much more qualified success.Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) is a professional gambler with more debts than he can handle so when he's mysteriously offered $50,000 to leave the United States for a year, he doesn't feel in any position to refuse. Following instructions, his first stop is Nogales, Mexico where he meets a beautiful singer called Lenore (Jane Russell) and shares a chartered flight with her to Morro's Lodge in Baja, California. Milner is strongly attracted to Lenore but soon discovers that she's having an affair with a famous Hollywood star, Mark Cardigan (Vincent Price), who's also staying at the resort. Milner has no idea what he's expected to do for the money he's been promised and so has to wait patiently until someone contacts him with further instructions.When he overhears part of a hushed conversation involving two other guests, Milner starts to become suspicious of what they might be planning and his concerns seem to be confirmed when an apparently reckless pilot called Bill Lusk (Tim Holt) lands his plane nearby in the middle of a storm. Lusk, who works for the Immigration Service, tells Milner that Nick Ferraro (Raymond Burr), a deported gangster, is desperate to return to the United States and plans to kill Milner, undergo plastic surgery and use his identity to achieve his objective. Shortly after, Milner and Lenore discover Lusk's dead body and three men forcibly take Milner by boat to Ferraro's yacht nearby.Lenore Brent exhorts Mark Cardigan to help Milner who's obviously in great danger and this provides the movie star with the opportunity he's longed for to indulge in some real-life adventure of the type that he normally acts out on the silver screen."His Kind Of Woman" mixes murder, beatings and violence with comedy, romance and songs and unsurprisingly, there are moments when some of these elements don't combine successfully. The impact and suspense that would normally be generated by some of the more brutal scenes involving Milner and Ferraro are dissipated by other moments in which Cardigan is seen clowning around hilariously and similarly, the whole tone of the scenes in which Milner is being tortured and threatened is incongruous with those in which Cardigan indulges in some very broad comedy.Despite the aforementioned problems, there is still much to enjoy in this movie. Its shady characters and interesting story are particularly enjoyable and Vincent Price is extremely funny as the self-absorbed, Shakespeare-quoting film star who thinks that his experience of acting in adventure movies makes him qualified to be a real-life hero. Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell are also very well cast in their roles and work brilliantly together particularly when they're indulging in their witty repartee.

His kind of Woman is a curious thriller noir with lashings of comedy and a few musical numbers thrown in. The plot involves Robert Mitchum as Dan Milner a gambler lured by mobsters to travel to a luxury Mexican holiday resort which is full of various émigrés from the USA, rather a few with something to hide.Milner immediately meets and falls for Lenore (Jane Russell) who is the mistress of ageing ham matinée idol Mark Cardigan (Vincent Price in a rare heroic role.)It soon becomes evident that Milner's life is in danger as many characters in the resort are just too jealously guarded. The man pulling the strings and who wishes to re-enter the USA under Milner's identity is a deported and ruthless gangster.Mitchum easily looks like a no nonsense character with a big physical presence, he very much reminds me of Philip Marlowe but as a shrewd gambler rather than a hard boiled detective. Interestingly Mitchum would play Marlowe later in life. But Milner also has a tender side which he shows helping someone win his money back in a game of cards.Russell is the romantic interest for both Mitchum and Price. The film was produced by Howard Hughes and he makes sure she looks like a knockout and you wonder how the censor approved some of those costumes which displayed some of her physical assets.Vincent Price provides the laughs as the actor awaiting a divorce, a hunter who likes to shoot animals, who wants to be adored for his films and takes a chance to be a hero in real life as he sets out to rescue Milner with a gang of misfits whilst quoting bad Hollywood lines. In fact he very much reprised this role with more macabre tones in Theatre of Blood some years later. Watching Price here you wished he did more of these comedic roles.Lastly Raymond Burr turns up as a villain, another actor with a big physical presence and he uses it well here, this is a tough and ruthless guy and you soon know it and as does Milner. It reminds you that before Perry Mason and Ironside, this was an actor who played bad guys and was good at it.Yet the plot of the film is slight, rather humdrum, but for its stars who make the film shine the film is rather pedestrian.

A down-on-his-luck Mitchum is bribed to go to Mexico where he meets an assortment of characters, including a menacing Raymond Burr.According to TMC, studio honcho Howard Hughes was greatly impressed by Vincent Price and insisted that his part be expanded. It was, in spades, resulting unfortunately in two movies in one. The first half is pretty fair noir with the two icons Mitchum and Russell traipsing around a sound-stage Mexico. The second half, however, is little short of a mess, due to Price who appears to have been ordered onto the wrong set with the wrong script. Somehow, Russell has dropped out of sight, and in her place we get a Shakespeare spouting slice of ham, Price, who I guess is supposed to be funny. The intercutting between Mitchum being tortured and Price doing slapstick is almost like sticking the Three Stooges into the middle of a Nazi interrogation. If this is supposed to be clever satire of movie heroics, as some apologists claim, then I wish I could stop cringing.It might be interesting to know what the screenwriters originally had in mind (apparently, there were six of them, probably four doing re-writes to please kingpin Hughes). But the result is near incoherence and the waste of a noir icon and an Amazon princess. More damningly, it's the best argument I've seen in awhile for keeping the suits in their offices and as far from the set as possible.

I found - then watched this movie by accident on TCM last night - and so very happy I did so. The crew and cast must have had a ball making it. I laughed several times during viewing the movie. The wonderful sinking of the 'rescue' life boat looking like Washington crossing the Deleware River gone very wrong is a classic. And that is just one of many scenes that are truly inspired. And the Mitchum and Russell banters throughout the movie were wonderful. What a great pair of actors complimented by the performances of Vincent Price, Raymond Burr and Tim Holt - among many others. Howard Hughes must be smiling "down from heaven"? at the fine movie he produced. He deserves our thanks for the final product.