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Written by James M. Tate / 6/02/2026 / No comments / anthony caruso , charles mcgraw , fifties , film noir or melodrama , howard hughes , jane russell , paul frees , raymond burr , richard fleischer , robert mitchum , stacy harris , tim holt , vincent price

ROBERT MITCHUM AND JANE RUSSELL IN 'HIS KIND OF WOMAN'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EJPrKLzaVooOX8W6aJEY0W-sq36IwpUnFOrgD7HQEdV6Cq9ebQpe-sItzEWyeRUUIKSYKNVatjTk9zXUWpjVi4PUUOCgzBkXhe7vi7qrLz_tziIrrILs6AKzZPw7mOP-VjyUx1ZwU8-vnaUgWAXwF2gaXRJq0C5fKFx5QsH2bboXKDvTQzHJxFjuOMNx/s2102/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1270" data-original-width="2102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EJPrKLzaVooOX8W6aJEY0W-sq36IwpUnFOrgD7HQEdV6Cq9ebQpe-sItzEWyeRUUIKSYKNVatjTk9zXUWpjVi4PUUOCgzBkXhe7vi7qrLz_tziIrrILs6AKzZPw7mOP-VjyUx1ZwU8-vnaUgWAXwF2gaXRJq0C5fKFx5QsH2bboXKDvTQzHJxFjuOMNx/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in HIS KIND OF WOMAN Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Legendary eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, after buying RKO Pictures, exploited discovered leading lady Jane Russell's ample bosom in THE OUTLAW while, almost a decade later, he put even more time and money into Robert Mitchum's handsome, slow-burn cool for HIS KIND OF WOMAN...<br><br>Despite Russell's character being part of the title, she really has little to do here but hang around a plush Mexican resort where Mitchum's affable gambling loser is sent so that chief mobster Raymond Burr... who replaced original director John Farrow's original villain Lee Van Cleef followed by Robert Wilke... to be able to immigrate back to America... or something...<span></span></p>

anthony caruso, charles mcgraw, fifties, film noir or melodrama, howard hughes, jane russell, paul frees, raymond burr, richard fleischer, robert mitchum, stacy harris, tim holt, vincent price

ROBERT MITCHUM AND JANE RUSSELL IN 'HIS KIND OF WOMAN'

Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in HIS KIND OF WOMAN Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2 Legendary eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, after buying R...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/21/2022 / No comments / action , adventure , barker tarzan , fifties , franchise , lex barker , mara corday , michael granger , raymond burr , tarzan , tom conway , warner archives

LEX BARKER IN 'TARZAN AND THE SHE-DEVIL' W/ RAYMOND BURR

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4BeNtJKg-9EANNHu7z5XC1fLeywKPPHhd2DXVP9z3f9I4fbKF1zEWz_KiW1oC8CTanemN4ryy4ABsT408m9Dq7v8TqYm5gwb67Eca7zpKIg-bIkyX7w6sLlQofkXXQP4CTJFgpv4HKHEZ2GEiFrnYzaQ1Js5pCcCTtYTJpXCluXm7cF2ErapZ9PPZkw=s886" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="886" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4BeNtJKg-9EANNHu7z5XC1fLeywKPPHhd2DXVP9z3f9I4fbKF1zEWz_KiW1oC8CTanemN4ryy4ABsT408m9Dq7v8TqYm5gwb67Eca7zpKIg-bIkyX7w6sLlQofkXXQP4CTJFgpv4HKHEZ2GEiFrnYzaQ1Js5pCcCTtYTJpXCluXm7cF2ErapZ9PPZkw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>TARZAN AND THE SHE-DEVIL is both the last and best of the Lex Barker as Tarzan RKO programmers, but the title is misleading since would-be titular fatale Monique van Vooren as Lyra is actually/ultimately nice and helpful, and for only an instant gives Jane, here played by bombshell-next-door Joyce Mackenzie, some competition, after Jane strikes back by telling Tarzan that she found Lyra's employee, Vargo, attractive... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Enter Raymond Burr as an elephant-hunting ivory merchant, who, with the help thug Michael Granger and aided by Lyra's partner in classy, morally ambiguous Tom Conway, captures Tarzan while making him think Jane's dead... all for his skills for calling elephants so they don't have to hunt them...</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdyrrCqIMqq-L9pDR16EhI9FDDAxuO7II8F_UJ5mZ9qSYC-VOu0A0zCsTBtQSUhqfy_KqNDjXRY96HAz2waVi6J8sFm6OsQcWRtXMXSSfVNLFXqfuueMj2PR3n9IjbqQ86GdNSYtCJ-YmswF9smCv-9QofA-d4zCP9xtPbgqTTHaTAb4OHMmmdx8D5vA=s1548" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="1548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdyrrCqIMqq-L9pDR16EhI9FDDAxuO7II8F_UJ5mZ9qSYC-VOu0A0zCsTBtQSUhqfy_KqNDjXRY96HAz2waVi6J8sFm6OsQcWRtXMXSSfVNLFXqfuueMj2PR3n9IjbqQ86GdNSYtCJ-YmswF9smCv-9QofA-d4zCP9xtPbgqTTHaTAb4OHMmmdx8D5vA=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Monique van Vooren as Lyra in Tarzan and the She-Devil with Raymond Burr</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The plot's simple and the action occurs in effective pockets in-between, with very little downtime (Cheetah, meanwhile, steals the show when traipsing alone through the jungle); which is an added bonus given that Barker Tarzan flicks can both drag and get overly complicated, plot-wise...</p><p></p><p>But what makes this one tick is how evil Burr is in jungle-occupying scenes countered by the heartbroken Tarzan... If only Brussels beauty van Vorren would only live up to the kind of seduction an actress of her type's born to do. Either way, overall, SHE-DEVIL would've been more properly named HE-POACHER. <br></p><span></span>

action, adventure, barker tarzan, fifties, franchise, lex barker, mara corday, michael granger, raymond burr, tarzan, tom conway, warner archives

LEX BARKER IN 'TARZAN AND THE SHE-DEVIL' W/ RAYMOND BURR

Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2 TARZAN AND THE SHE-DEVIL is both the last and best of the Lex Barker as Tarzan RKO programmers, but the title is m...

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