His Kind of Woman 07/19/25

Howard Hughes’ meddling fingerprints are all over this resort-set noir thriller. Even with RKO’s dynamite stars Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell above the title, the mogul’s endless rewrites and re-shoots guaranteed that it couldn’t earn a profit. Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Charles McGraw and Raymond Burr toil in a show split between light comedy and grim gangland torture. The production is lavish, but it’s one of the biggest cases of producer interference on record. If Hughes’ airplanes were made the way he made this movie, none of them would have flown. On Blu-ray from The Warner Archive Collection.
07/19/25