His Kind of Woman (1951): I've been curious about this one due to being a Jane Russell fan (in case you couldn't tell). Reccomend this film?
Oh, yes. Highly.
I came to this film in a strange way. I was watching an old episode of "The Mod Squad" in which Peggy Lipton was watching a film during a rainstorm, when she fell asleep on the couch. Later she heard a knock on the door, and when she answered it, it was a character played by Vincent Price. The same character she had been watching in the film, when she fell asleep. And the episode went on from there. I always wondered what film she had been watching, and it wasn't to years after this, did I find out she had been watching Vincent Price in "His Kind of Woman."
The film itself has a strange history. Apparently B-movie actor Robert J. Wilkie was to paly the villain, when his work proved to be unsatisfactory, they brought in Raymond Burr, who then played the villain in the film.
They also changed directors. The film was originally directed by John Farrow, Mia Farrow's father, but Howard Hughes who was executive director on the film and dissatisfied with some of the scenes, brought in director Richard Fleischer to reshoot the unsatisfactory scenes, but Fleischer wound up reshooting the whole film, before he was done. Besides contributing to the reworked script. Hughes also contributing to the new script.
And if that is not enough to pique your interest, it has Robert Mitchum as the hero, Jane Russell as the femme fatale and heroine, Raymond Burr as the vllain, beside appearances by Tim Holt, Charles McGraw, Marjorie Reynolds, Jim Backus, and what is considered one of Price's best performances outside of his horror films.
And in uncredited parts you can add Anthony Caruso, Robert Cornthwaite, Mamie Van Doren, and Paul Frees, who is best known for his voice work, in one of the few times he appeared on camera in a film.
