He’s broad shoulders, hooded eyes and laconic wit: the cool male. She’s voluptuous curves, lushly Iipsticked mouth and sardonic comebacks: the incendiary female. They’re Robert Mitchum and Jane RusselI, dead-on taIented and drop-dead gorgeous stars who brought out the best in each other in His Kind of Woman and Macao, the two gutsy film noirs they made together. ln Macao, audiences know they’re in for a dynamite ride from the moment he saves her from a lecherous goon – and she picks his pocket. The story, set in the exotic East Asian port, involves stoIen diamonds, undercover New York cops, mistaken identities, double crosses and murder. The action races, the plot twists and the stars...welI, be glad the film stock didn’t melt. |