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.
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.