Her Kind of Man

1946 film by Frederick de Cordova

May 3, 1946 (1946-05-03) (New York)

Running time

80 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Her Kind of Man is a 1946 American crime film noir directed by Frederick De Cordova, and starring Dane Clark, Janis Paige and Zachary Scott.^[1]^[2] The film is not to be confused with His Kind of Woman (1951) starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell.

Plot

A nightclub singer, Georgia King, has been seeing Steve Maddux, a gambler. After another gambler, Felix Bender, ends up dead after a dispute between them, Steve goes to Miami, where club owner Joe Marino and wife Ruby welcome him. Steve agrees to work for Joe after losing $50,000 in a crooked card game.

Newspaper columnist Don Corwin and a cop, Bill Fellows, begin looking into Bender's death. Don falls for Georgia, even though Fellows warns him that she's been keeping company with a criminal. After an encounter between Don and Steve, a thug named Candy takes it upon himself to beat up Don, putting him in the hospital.

After causing Ruby to be killed by mistake, Steve makes an enemy of Joe, and they end up shooting one another. Steve dies in Georgia's arms.

Cast

Dane Clark as Don Corwin
Janis Paige as Georgia King
Zachary Scott as Steve Maddux
Faye Emerson as Ruby Marino
George Tobias as Joe Marino
Howard Smith as Bill Fellows
Harry Lewis as Candy
Sheldon Leonard as Felix Bender

Reception

Critical response

Film critic Bosley Crowther gave the film a lukewarm review, "There are gun fights, slugging matches and gambling sessions of the usual hard-boiled sort—and, except for a certain flair in dialogue, it is just another one of those things."^[3]

References

^ "Her Kind of Man". Turner Classic Movies. Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner). Retrieved August 15, 2016.
^ Her Kind of Man at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
^ Crowther, Bosley. The New York Times, film review, May 4, 1946. Accessed: August 2, 2013.