Friday’s movie pick
by chuckofish
This picture of Kermit and Vincent Price in Halloween mode appeared on daughter #1’s blog here a few days ago, and I was reminded that there was definitely a lighter side to Vincent Price, who, by the way, grew up in St. Louis and was one of the more illustrious graduates of the Saint Louis Country Day School.
This line of thought led me to this Friday’s film pick: His Kind of Woman (1951) produced by Howard Hughes and directed by John Farrow. This noir film is about “a deported gangster’s plan to re-enter the USA involv(ing) skulduggery at a Mexican resort.” Gambler Dan Milner, played by sexy Robert Mitchum (see below), is caught in the middle.
His kind of woman is played by Jane Russell and the villain, Nick Ferraro, is played by Raymond Burr. Quite a cast–but the whole show is stolen by Vincent Price, playing Mark Cardigan, a swashbuckling film star on vacation who believes he really is who he plays. He sets out to help our real hero, Mitchum.
Vincent Price is truly priceless in this part. You’ll have fun watching this one!
dual personalities 
I haven’t seen this. I’ll have to netflix it. Definitely worth a look.
Old Vincent really does steal the picture. And it is funny to have the comic relief in a noir film. Jane Russell has kind of an eye-rolling demeanor as well. So you get the feeling no one is taking it all that seriously except bad-boy Raymond Burr. And then Tim Holt (spoiler alert!) gets killed and it goes all noir again. Not a perfect movie, but worth 2 hours to watch!
That’s quite the dress Jane has on….maybe you can find something like it in San Francisco 🙂
I forgot how much I lovvvve Robert Mitchum – he’s such a hottie.
That’s my intellectual contribution for the day.
I always feel like Robert Mitchum is waiting to exhale…