I got this movie in a supposed film noir collection, but besides being the colourised version, it's also a long way away from the mean streets and boulevards of broken dreams of the hard-boiled men and femme-fatales of my experience. What it is though, is a road caper or even a buddy movie, with the twist being that the couple who are simultaneously chasing and being chased are indeed a couple, namely Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer.
Set in Mexico, in happily realistic-looking exterior locations, the film is essentially one long car chase and as such, necessarily episodic as the flung-together twosome habitually get out of one scrape only to fall into another. There's some agreeable grown-up humour between the two, plenty of good fight scenes, where you actually see the protagonists sweat and bleed, an early example of an extended car chase and a decent twist at the end; as you can tell, it certainly packs a lot into its brief 71 minute running time.
Mitchum and Greer are great together, William Bendix offers his usual solid support and the young Don Siegel directs with verve and energy.
This is a great little movie, highly entertaining and so recommended.
Set in Mexico, in happily realistic-looking exterior locations, the film is essentially one long car chase and as such, necessarily episodic as the flung-together twosome habitually get out of one scrape only to fall into another. There's some agreeable grown-up humour between the two, plenty of good fight scenes, where you actually see the protagonists sweat and bleed, an early example of an extended car chase and a decent twist at the end; as you can tell, it certainly packs a lot into its brief 71 minute running time.
Mitchum and Greer are great together, William Bendix offers his usual solid support and the young Don Siegel directs with verve and energy.
This is a great little movie, highly entertaining and so recommended.