People and Critics (even those that are People) Seem to Like this Train Wreck for the Sum of its Parts. There is Some Great Noir Dialog and Interesting Shading to the Film, but the Plot and Tone has More Cleavage than Jane Russell.
It is Sliced Off Here and There, Cut with a Meat Cleaver, Inserting Non Sequiturs and Jarring Scenes that Make No Sense and Further Make the Heavy Plot Incomprehensible and Awkward.
Robert Mitchum Stays in His Film-Noir Persona with a Sharp Tongue and Cynical Attitude and Jane Russell is On Display. Vincent Price was Inserted as the Oddball Actor and then More Insertion as a Shakespearean Speech Maker. It is Funny, Individually, but when Paired with the Violent and Sadistic Raymond Burr Scenes, the Addition May Bring Notice but its Not a Good Fit.
There are Nazi-Drugs and Close-Ups of Veins Waiting for Needles, Beatings with Belt Buckles Intercut with Price in Flowing Cape, Hamming it Up and Spouting Quotes and Barbs and the Film Collapses into a Surreal Slapstick Composite with Film-Noir.
Overall, Worth a Watch for the First Two Acts, the Good Snappy Patter (at least in the first half), the Good Supporting Cast along with Mitchum, and to See Just How Much Damage from a Meddling Howard Hughes Could Cause.
It is Sliced Off Here and There, Cut with a Meat Cleaver, Inserting Non Sequiturs and Jarring Scenes that Make No Sense and Further Make the Heavy Plot Incomprehensible and Awkward.
Robert Mitchum Stays in His Film-Noir Persona with a Sharp Tongue and Cynical Attitude and Jane Russell is On Display. Vincent Price was Inserted as the Oddball Actor and then More Insertion as a Shakespearean Speech Maker. It is Funny, Individually, but when Paired with the Violent and Sadistic Raymond Burr Scenes, the Addition May Bring Notice but its Not a Good Fit.
There are Nazi-Drugs and Close-Ups of Veins Waiting for Needles, Beatings with Belt Buckles Intercut with Price in Flowing Cape, Hamming it Up and Spouting Quotes and Barbs and the Film Collapses into a Surreal Slapstick Composite with Film-Noir.
Overall, Worth a Watch for the First Two Acts, the Good Snappy Patter (at least in the first half), the Good Supporting Cast along with Mitchum, and to See Just How Much Damage from a Meddling Howard Hughes Could Cause.