Blu-ray Review His Kind of Woman Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[Matt Hough]

A somewhat plodding but not uninteresting film noir morphs into a comic caper film in John Farrow’s His Kind of Woman.



His Kind of Woman (1951)



Released: 05 Oct 1951
Rated: Approved
Runtime: 120 min




Director: John Farrow, Richard Fleischer
Genre: Action, Crime, Film-Noir



Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
Writer(s): Frank Fenton, Jack Leonard, Gerald Drayson Adams



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.



IMDB rating: 7.0
MetaScore: N/A





Disc Information



Studio: Other
Distributed By: Warner Archive
Video Resolution: 1080P/AVC



Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1...

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[Robert Crawford]

Thank you for your fine review. I like the movie more than you despite Howard Hughes intervention. I’m watching the Blu-ray today.

 

[Broomy]

I think this movie is a hoot! Sure it doesn’t always hold together but it’s so much fun!!

Was it announced that Bunny Hugged was being included? It’s a nice surprise to me none the less.

 

[lark144]

For me, the film, while very entertaining--after a while, that hair-trigger vacillation from silliness to violence and back again makes it unique and memorable--but the whole raison d'etre,

Spoiler

that Raymond Burr, at his most voluminous, is supposed to replace Robert Mitchum, and no one will notice the difference,

makes no sense.

 

[Robert Crawford]

For me, the film, while very entertaining--after a while, that hair-trigger vacillation from silliness to violence and back again makes it unique and memorable--but the whole raison d'etre,

Spoiler

that Raymond Burr, at his most voluminous, is supposed to replace Robert Mitchum, and no one will notice the difference,

makes no sense.

The film being a mess is part of the charm as to why I liked the movie so much. Granted, I would have liked to see Farrow's final film before Hughes and others like Fleischer got involved.

 

[Robin9]

The film being a mess is part of the charm as to why I liked the movie so much. Granted, I would have liked to see Farrow's final film before Hughes and others like Fleischer got involved.

I'd have loved to have seen that too. Long, long ago I saw a tv show where Robert Mitchum was talking about this film and he said they made a made a good, solid movie and then remade it over again. As Robert Mitchum very rarely said any of his films were good, and he didn't like John Farrow personally, this suggests that John Farrow's version was excellent. It is certainly the case that the first third of the film is a moody, suspenseful mystery with a sexy, glamorous woman thrown in for good measure and the audience's attention is totally captured.