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29 August 1951 (USA) moreTagline:
They were two of a kind ! ...and bound to meet, but neither of them knew what such a meeting would mean!Plot:
A deported gangster's plan to re-enter the USA involves skulduggery at a Mexican resort, and gambler Dan Milner is caught in the middle. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
The first great anti-noir? moreUS TV Schedule:
| Tue. July 21 | 11:00 AM | TCM |
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Robert Mitchum | ... | Dan Milner | |
| Jane Russell | ... | Lenore Brent | |
| Vincent Price | ... | Mark Cardigan | |
| Tim Holt | ... | Bill Lusk | |
| Charles McGraw | ... | Thompson / Narrator | |
| Marjorie Reynolds | ... | Helen Cardigan | |
| Raymond Burr | ... | Nick Ferraro | |
| Leslie Banning | ... | Jennie Stone (as Leslye Banning) | |
| Jim Backus | ... | Myron Winton | |
| Philip Van Zandt | ... | Jose Morro | |
| John Mylong | ... | Martin Krafft | |
| Carleton G. Young | ... | Gerald Hobson | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Robert J. Wilke | ... | Nick Ferraro (scenes deleted) | |
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120 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)Fun Stuff
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John Farrow finished the film, but Howard Hughes brought in Richard Fleischer to add a few shots (Hughes himself co-wrote the ending with Fleischer). Fleischer ended up reshooting the entire film. moreGoofs:
Continuity: One of the three whip marks on Milner's back is missing when he escapes his captors and backs away down the ship's corridor. moreSoundtrack:
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| Mitchum and Price ( two of my favorites) | richsass |
| Playing on TCM in June | sjbcoronet |
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This brilliant and mind-boggling film noir might be more properly called an anti-noir, doing for the crime movie what 'The Missouri Breaks' would do for the Western. It's not every noir hero who both offers marriage guidance AND does his own ironing.
'His Kind of Woman' is, in fact, three movies. It starts off as a fairly straight film noir, although its poker-faced pastiche of 'Out of the Past' is a little TOO poker-faced. Then, when the hero goes to Mexico to meet the other characters, the plot stops dead and enters narrative limbo, in a kind of noir precursor to Bunuel's 'The Exterminating Angel': Six Noir Characters In Search Of A Plot.
Then lunacy truly takes hold, as the plot eventually arrives, and Vincent Price, playing a barmy ham actor, takes over from Mitchum (magnificent as ever, baffled and goaded by a plot even less alert than he!) as the presiding spirit, and turns a moody thriller into the giddiest farce, where all the unpleasant aspects of film noir (fatalism, misogyny) are happily overturned. Proof that genre-busting didn't begin with Melville or Godard.