HIS KIND OF WOMAN (1951)

With Venetian blinds abetted by Venetian panel partitions & doors, this Noir Too Far is an entertaining example of a production that started straight, but skewed to parody to hide its basically ludicrous nature. To get the idea, imagine CASABLANCA meets A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA. Robert Mitchum & Jane Russell are at their potent sexy peaks making like Bogie & Bacall, but Vincent Price, as a hammy actor playing hero for real, puts in his thumb & pulls out a plum. Sleepy megger John Farrow rides along for almost two hours (the action sequences ain’t his) & for all WOMAN’S cult status, I prefer the irrational follow-up, MACAO.