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rifle, Milner sneaks back onto the boat, knowing that the only way out of his mess is to deal with Ferraro once and for all. He is caught and brought to the crime lord. After killing two of the thugs and wounding and capturing Thompson, Cardigan mounts a rescue with the reluctant assistance of the Mexican police and a couple of the more adventurous guests. A gunfight breaks out aboard the boat, followed by a melee. Milner manages to break free and shoot Ferraro dead. Cardigan and his wife are reconciled. Milner and Lenore end the film in a clinch.
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that she is really just a singer looking to hook a wealthy spouse. Milner shows his softer side when he helps unhappy newlywed Jennie Stone by cheating at poker to win back her husband's gambling losses from investment broker Myron Winton. Lusk sneaks into Thompson's room but is caught and killed. Milner and Lenore stumble upon his body dumped on the beach; Milner is convinced that the dead man must have been telling the truth.
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Robert Mitchum, who referred to himself as "The Tall Dog", called Jane Russell "Hard John" because of her strict, straitlaced religious beliefs. When a male reporter questioned these in light of her image, she told the reporter, "Christians can have big breasts too." Whatever sexual chemistry Mitchum
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began on December 3, 1950, and took several months to complete. Because of Hughes' obsession with the film, especially its ending, the meetings lasted 7 or 8 hours each. Hughes demanded that the film have more slapstick comedy, more death and brutality, and more fighting. He also added the character
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to get a divorce, though not really intending to go through with it, as she is still fond of her husband. Hobson also thinks it is a poor idea because Cardigan's film contract is expiring and the bad publicity would make it hard to get a new one. With her own plans ruined, Lenore confesses to Milner
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Milner overhears two guests, self-proclaimed author Martin Krafft and a man named Thompson, planning something which he suspects involves him. When Milner confronts them, he is given $ 10,000 and told that someone is on his way to Baja to see him. Seemingly drunk Bill Lusk flies in, despite warnings
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Critic Dennis Schwartz called the film, "An oddball tongue-in-cheek crime thriller, filled with ad-libs, from Howard Hughes' RKO studio that strays from its conventional film noir plot to try its hand at comedy". Schwartz also appreciated the acting, writing, "It's a part where Mitchum is perfectly
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magazine lauded the pairing of Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell as the lead characters, writing, " two strike plenty of sparks in their meetings as each waits out plot development ... Both Mitchum and Russell score strongly. Russell's full charms are fetchingly displayed in smart costumes that offer
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Hughes promoted the film with a giant firework-shooting billboard featuring Mitchum and Russell that spanned Wilshire Boulevard, proclaiming the two as "the hottest combination to ever hit the screen". The same image of the two actors later caused problems in London, as it was decided that too much
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A new scene involved the sinking of a row boat; "After the boat reached a certain point, it had to sink fairly slowly, the water coming up to the chins of the smallest seated soldiers". This required that the tank with the yacht set be emptied, have a portion rebuilt to deepen it to accommodate the
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The changes added new action scenes on the yacht, of which a set of the bridge had been built for the original production. As action sequences were added in the rewrite, this set was expanded bit by bit to a set for a full-size 150-foot (46 m) yacht, including interiors. The yacht set was in a
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Down on his luck, professional gambler Dan Milner accepts a mysterious job that will take him out of the country for a year but pays $ 50,000. He accepts a $ 5,000 advance and tickets that will take him to an isolated Mexican resort, Morro's Lodge, where he will receive further instructions. Milner
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Linda Rasmussen liked Mitchum's performance but as a film noir proper gave the film a lackluster review, "As a serious film-noir thriller, it lacks suspense and depth. However, the film has its moments, and Robert Mitchum is in his element as the loner anti-hero". Jane Russell later said "It was a
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Howard Hughes, the Texas billionaire who had bought RKO Pictures in 1948, loved Vincent Price's character, and demanded of director John Farrow that it be expanded. Farrow, however, had delivered a film he believed to be finished, and refused to make Hughes' changes, leaving the production. Hughes
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That night, Thompson and his men take Milner to a yacht, recently arrived in the bay. Milner is able to pass along a veiled plea for help to Lenore. She persuades Cardigan, who is tired of just pretending to be a hero, to help out. While the actor keeps the mobsters pinned down with his hunting
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and Jack Leonard, who co-wrote the screenplay, intended the film to be a send-up of the dark film noir crime movies which were popular at the time. The primary conduit of the comedy of the film was the character of the ham Shakespearean actor Mark Cardigan, played by Vincent Price.
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was chosen for the reshoot after a careful search and screen tests; this second reshoot involved nearly every scene of the new material and a number of scenes earlier in the picture. Three quarters of the way through this second reshoot, Hughes saw
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of Martin Krafft, the sadistic German plastic surgeon. Hughes wrote all of Krafft's lines, tape recorded himself saying them, and then sent the recordings to the production to ensure that the part was played exactly as he envisaged it.
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After two months of shooting and a month of editing, an hour and 20 minutes of new material had been added to the film. When Hughes viewed the new material, he decided that he did not like the actor playing the character Ferraro,
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as “good course romantic-adventure nonsense, exploiting the expressive dead-pans of Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell, a young man and a young woman who would probably enjoy doing in real life what they have to do here for RKO.”
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at home with being a loner anti-hero and Russell is perfectly cast as the bouncy 'his kind of woman', who in the last shot kisses him while his pants are being scorched by the iron--a perfect metaphor to end on".
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as an "A" film with a million-dollar budget and RKO's top stars. Fleischer again refused, as he was satisfied with the film he had made. Hughes then coerced his acceptance by threatening not to release
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In total, the reshooting of the film cost about $ 850,000 to complete – which, coincidentally was approximately the amount of money which the film lost in its initial 1951 release.
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Vincent Price, a gourmet cook, prepares to cook a duck, and Raymond Burr, an orchid fancier, tends orchids. Jane Russell, who was a singer as well as an actor, sings two songs.
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the minimum of protection. Much is made of Vincent Price's scenery-chewing actor character and much of it supplies relief to the film's otherwise taut development".
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is attracted to the only other passenger on his chartered flight to the resort, Lenore Brent. When he arrives, Milner finds that several guests at the luxurious
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sought to helm a remake in the 2000s and 2010s, though it was ultimately not produced because RKO refused to relinquish the rights to the property.
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that they signed him to a non-exclusive contract as a writer and director. In May 1951 it was announced further retakes would be done for the film.
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of very dangerous storm conditions. Milner thinks he must be the contact but when the two are alone, Lusk says he is an undercover agent for the
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resort have hidden agendas. He is disappointed to find that Lenore is the girlfriend of famous movie actor Mark Cardigan.
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Farber adds: “Russell’s petulant, toneless rendition of “Five Little Miles From San Berdoo” is high art of a sort.”
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good film until they took John Farrow off and put in this nonsense at the end, the gore and needles".
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to change and reshoot the ending, estimating that the reshoot would take ten days or two weeks.
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intervened and caused extensive re-writes, re-casting, and re-shooting under the supervision of
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in a film and ordered Ferraro's scenes reshot again, this time using Burr in the part.
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Vincent Price threw a party on the set celebrating his one-year anniversary working on
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Cardigan's wife Helen and his personal manager Gerald Hobson show up. She had gone to
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Filming took place in November 1950. In December, the production was doing retakes.
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to be a similar experience, shooting a straightforward adventure thriller. However,
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After Farrow had turned in what he thought was the finished film, RKO studio boss
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sinking as scripted and be refilled. Another new scene involved a massive brawl.
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at all, and Fleischer gave in. Fleischer ended up reshooting most of the film.
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very large water tank on Stage 22 of the RKO Culver City lot, the biggest
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and Russell had onscreen, the two performers were never more than friends.
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the year before, and the two had gotten along well. They expected
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Russell and Mitchum were promptly re-teamed in the 1951 film
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John Farrow
Richard Fleischer
Frank Fenton
Earl Felton
Howard Hughes
Gerald Drayson Adams
Robert Mitchum
Jane Russell
Vincent Price
Tim Holt
Charles McGraw
Charles McGraw
Harry J. Wild
Frederic Knudtson
Eda Warren
Leigh Harline
RKO Radio Pictures
film noir
Robert Mitchum
Jane Russell
Vincent Price
Raymond Burr
Charles McGraw
John Farrow
Howard Hughes
Richard Fleischer
The Narrow Margin
Black and white promotional image of Jane Russell (right) and Robert Mitchum in the 1951 movie His Kind of Woman
Robert Mitchum

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