His Kind of Woman
Short description
Professional gambler Dan Milner accepts a large payment to travel from the United States to a remote Mexican resort and wait there for further instructions. The arrangement seems easy enough at first, but the instructions never arrive and Milner begins to suspect that his employer has plans for him that go far beyond the money he was promised. At the resort he becomes involved with the other guests, among them Lenore Brent, a woman who is not everything she claims to be, and an actor named Mark Cardigan.
John Farrow directed the film, which sits between Copper Canyon and Hondo in the list of his directorial work. Richard Fleischer also received director credit, and the screenplay was written by Frank Fenton, Jack Leonard and Howard Hughes, who produced alongside John Farrow, Robert Sparks and Robert Fellows. Robert Mitchum plays Milner opposite Jane Russell as Brent, with Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Charles McGraw and Marjorie Reynolds appearing in a credited cast of 78. The film runs 120 minutes and was made by RKO Radio Pictures on a budget of 2 million dollars, with box office receipts reported at roughly the same figure. On IMDb it holds a rating of 7 out of 10 from around 5,500 votes, while on TMDB it has a rating of 6.8 out of 10 from a much smaller number of votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- Negotiations between Hughes, Fleischer and Felton to refine the script stretched for several months, resulting in the addition of climactic action scenes on a yacht. As the script changed, the yacht, which was the main location for the action, gradually grew into a 150-foot-long ship with equipped interiors. To set it up, the largest soundstage of the studio was used, in which a very large pool with water was specially built. In addition, a scene with a sinking rowboat was added. This required the pool to be drained, partially rebuilt and deepened so that the boat could fully sink into it along with the people standing in it.
- After two months of additional filming and another month of editing, 1 hour and 20 minutes of new material was added to the film. When Hughes watched it, he didn’t like the actor who played Ferraro, and he ordered the scenes of this character to be reshot with a different actor. After careful searching and screen tests, Robert J. Wilke was selected for the reshoots. With Wilke, almost all of the new material scenes and several scenes from the original version had to be reshot. When the second reshoot was already three-quarters complete, Hughes saw a film starring Raymond Burr, which made such a strong impression on him that the producer ordered all of Wilke's scenes to be reshot again, replacing him with Burr.
- During post-production, the film encountered serious problems when Howard Hughes, the owner and executive producer of RKO Studios, decided to significantly alter it, cutting and reshooting old scenes and adding a number of new ones. To this end, he invited director Richard Fleischer and screenwriter Earl Fenton, who had recently completed work for him on the film noir *The Narrow Margin* (1952). Although principal photography of the first version of the film took place in 1948, and the film in its final form was completed in May 1950, it remained on the shelf for another year and was not released until the end of August 1951.
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