His Kind of Woman

His Kind of Woman (1951) is a Hollywood crime thriller directed by John Farrow — watch it online on iFILM. Robert Mitchum plays Dan Milner, a broke gambler who accepts $50,000 to travel to a remote Mexican resort and simply wait. What he's waiting for, nobody says.

At the resort he meets Lenora Brant (Jane Russell), who's chasing a rich husband and isn't quite what she claims, and gradually pieces together that the man behind the job is deported mob boss Nick Ferraro (Raymond Burr), who needs someone else's identity to re-enter the United States. Vincent Price shows up as a preening stage actor whose attempts to play the hero in the film's climax tip the whole picture into deliberate comedy. The collision of hardboiled noir, Mexican sunshine, and outright farce is exactly what separates this 1951 film from anything else Mitchum made that decade. Watch His Kind of Woman on iFILM.