Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

writers_reign One of the first things I noticed about this entry was its running time. Weighing in at just on two hours it's considerably longer than other Mitchum films of the time, genre, and RKO titles in general, for example the follow-up teaming of Mitchum and Russell, Macao, the following year was much shorter as were Out Of The Past and The Big Steal. Fortunately it's not ALL flab but there's no hiding that Hughes shot it three times before achieving something he wanted to release. The result is a weird blend of two genres one anticipating My Favorite Year features a picture stealing Vincent Price as a blend of Errol Flynn and Jack Barrymore whilst the other is a bod- standard noir with spin in which Raymond Burr plays a Lucky Luciano type mafioso in exile who has eyes to get back to the States and hatches a plan that requires only a patsy of similar build, height, etc, from whom a plastic surgeon can graft the face onto Burr. Enter Mitchum's easy-come, easy-go gambler. Thow in the likes of Marjorie Reynolds, Charles McGraw, and Jane Russell and you have an elegant noir on your hands. Well worth a look.

Leofwine_draca HIS KIND OF WOMAN is an off-beat noir flick featuring the unmissable teaming up of two Hollywood legends, Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell. Mitchum plays a down-on-his-luck gambler who's paid a substantial amount of money to take a year-long trip to Mexico in order to help out an associate. He soon arrives at a resort populated by bizarre characters, including a wannabe actor, and discovers that he's involved in a plot surrounding a kingpin with aspirations to return to the USA.The set-up of the story is fairly bog standard, but this film really hits its stride in the second half. Mitchum reported that the story was made up as they went along, but this gives it some of its quirky charm. Basically there are a bunch of characters at a sprawling resort, half of them being villains and the other half the good guys, and they constantly interact and throw insults at one another.Mitchum is on good physical form here, especially when he's stripped and shows his mettle in the latter stages of the production. The voluptuous Russell is underutilised and only appears in a handful of scenes. Raymond Burr is a typically imposing character, but the real scene stealer is Vincent Price as the actor; he ends up taking over the movie and providing a ton of comic relief as he quotes various lines constantly. It's a neat foreshadowing of his later role in THEATRE OF BLOOD and it made the film for me.

seymourblack-1 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.

l_rawjalaurence Filmed by RKO during its period of ownership by Howard Hughes, HIS KIND OF WOMAN exists - as many films did - to show off the twin talents of Jane Russell. Never a great actress, she nonetheless commands attention in a series of revealing costumes, and even gets to sing a couple of songs (albeit unmemorably). Set in a relentlessly studio-bound Mexico, with stock footage to set the scenes, John Farrow's thriller centers on a professional gambler Dan Miner (Robert Mitchum), who becomes involved in a film noir-esque plot involving money, sex and illegality. The plot negotiates its usual twists and turns, with Mitchum fulfilling his familiar tough-guy role. Even during his prime as an actor, he seldom deviated from this stereotypical role, even though he was extremely good at it. This movie's stand-out performance comes from Vincent Price as a smarmy socialite, the kind of person in whom one would never place one's trust. He towers over Mitchum - which is no mean feat - but we know that he will never be a match for the star in a fist-fight. In terms of line-delivery, the two actors couldn't be more different: Mitchum mumbles his lines through his teeth in familiar film noir style, while Price's dialog is full of stresses and forced emphases - the kind of technique you'd expect from an old-style Shakespearean actor. It's highly entertaining; and helps to explain why Price was one of Hollywood's most bankable supporting actors, even before he found belated stardom in Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe cycle in the early Sixties.