1951 · noir · gangster · resort
His Kind of Woman
Directed by John Farrow2h 0m1951
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
Our read: His Kind of Woman (1951) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded noir · gangster · resort entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured noir / gangster, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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