#John Farrow

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John Farrow - The Big Clock (1948)

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Director John Farrow and Alan Ladd during filming of BEYOND GLORY (1948)

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Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in His Kind of Woman (John Farrow, 1951)

Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Charles McGraw, Marjorie Reynolds, Raymond Burr, Leslye Banning, Jim Backus, Philip Van Zandt, John Mylong, Carleton G. Young. Screenplay: Frank Fenton, Jack Leonard. Cinematography: Harry J. Wild. Production design: J. McMillan Johnson. Film editing: Frederic Knudtson, Eda Warren. Music: Leigh Harline. 

His Kind of Woman starts out as a tough-talking film noir and ends up as a knockabout action comedy. The credit or blame for that belongs to Howard Hughes, the RKO studio head and executive producer, who waited until John Farrow had finished the movie and then had Richard Fleischer re-shoot it, even recasting the villain, originally played by Lee Van Cleef, with Raymond Burr. The New York Times reviewer hated it, partly because of the shift in tone, but most people like it. Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell were never going to outdo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in dialogue like "They tell me you killed Ferraro. How did it feel?" "He didn't say." But they're good enough at it that they give the movie a core that the flurry of oddball characters and the loony setup for the plot needs. Vincent Price is wonderful as an Errol Flynnish movie star who spouts tags from Shakespeare as he joins Mitchum in taking on the bad guys. Hughes made sure that Russell's gowns, designed by Howard Greer, were as revealing as possible, and Mitchum spends a lot of the film without his shirt, looking a little thick in the waist to contemporary viewers used to gym-toned physiques. The end product probably wasn't worth the money Hughes lost on it, but it's still fun.  

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Rest easy, Tisa 💔

Theresa Magdalena Farrow

July 22, 1951 - January 10, 2024

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Lucille Ball-Kent Taylor-Casey Johnson "Volvieron cinco" (Five came back) 1939, de John Farrow.

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loretta young: china, john farrow 1943

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The Big Clock (1948) John Farrow

January 13th 2024

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A Bullet Is Waiting (1954)

"I hope you don't think that I'm taking your side against Mr. Munson. All those nice things that you did, like taking care of the lamb and getting supper ready, I saw through them easily. You're probably everything that Mr. Munson says you are."

"Oh, I'm a very bad character."

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The Big Clock (John Farrow, 1948)

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Movie review: “Botany Bay” (1953)

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Maureen O'Sullivan and John Farrow with their seven children at Idlewild Airport, 1958 (Mia is the third child down.)

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John Farrow (February 10, 1904 – January 27, 1963), pictured with William Holden and Sterling Hayden on set of BLAZE OF NOON (1947)

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Strange wall paintings in Alias Nick Beal (1949) - John Farrow

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Every Film I Watch In 2023:

80. Plunder Of The Sun (1953)

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William Holden-Jean Wallace "Cuatro hermanos la querían" (Blaze of noon) 1947, de John Farrow.