Macao Streaming
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I haven’t yet seen the dvd version, but am glad it’s being released. Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell made two film noir-ish films together — “Macao” and “His Kind of Woman.” They’re both good, but I prefer this one. Made in 1952, Mitchum and Russell were at the height of their bigger-than-life attractiveness; and as subsequent interviews with them have shown (I saw one a few years ago on TCM), they actually liked each other and have an easy-going, unpretentious ease to their playing which makes it easy to root for their romance in this film. Mitchum is rightly admired for his acting, but Russell is underrated — she has an “I know I’m attractive, but it’s no big deal” attitude that is supremely likable. And in a film like “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” which I’ve watched many times, Marilyn Monroe clearly is the charismatic star, but Russell gives superb support, and her “no nonsense” line readings are really expert (and help set Monroe up). The plot of “Macao” is rather dense and hard to follow, but the decor and ambience carry the day — the look undoubtedly has to do with legendary director Josef von Sternberg (who the stars and crew hated); but some of the scenes, according to that TCM interview, were actually written and/or improvised by the two stars. Russell’s also a good, straight-forward singer; and she does an amusing job with Jule Styne’s “You Kill Me” (during which the movie nightclub audience pays her no attention) and a nice version of the superb Harold Arlen classic, “One for My Baby.” Throw in sultry Gloria Grahame as a secondary shady lady, and it’s a pretty entertaining film.
‘Macao’ emerges on screen as a routine exercise in melodrama with a few flashy decorative touches from Von Sternberg’s hand…
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Certainly the ambiance created did not at all suggest that Macao is an exotic, sinful, self-governing overseas territory of Portugal, on the South China Coast…
The plot opens with the arrival of a ship in the port of Macao, and aboard are a former American lieutenant in the Signal Corps, who has just lost his passport (Mitchum); a tall tawny brunette (Russell); and a happy salesman (William Bendix)…
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Just before the boat docks, Mitchum, with a confused romantic involvement, uses up his sexual magnetism, in asking Jane about her past… Jane, a woman who had seen a lot and was not about to be surprised by much, replies: ‘I don’t warm up to questions when I don’t know the answers myself.’
Eventually, she reveals that she had formerly been a cigarette girl and photographer at a Miami Beach Club, then was a fortune-teller, and now is coasting along as a singer…
Once again Jane’s character is introspective but honest and open: ‘I was never considered a brain. I’m a creature of moods.’ Her philosophy was expressed by these words: ‘Everybody’s lonely worried, and sorry. Everybody’s looking for something. I don’t know whether it’s a person or a place. But I’ll keep on looking.’
If Mitchum was impressed by her personality, his unemotional expression gives no indication of such an interest… His sleep-hooded eyes still challenge women to rouse him and make him their own…
Upon arriving Jane is rapidly hired by gangster Brad Dexter to sing at his Club Quick Reward, much to the discomfort of his girlfriend and gaming table croupier, Gloria Grahame…
Jane, physically glorious, is soon at work, singing to the gambling crowd a version of ‘You Kill Me.’ Meantime Dexter and his corrupt police intimate friend, lieutenant Thomas Gomez, have been alerted that one of the three new visitors is an undercover police officer sent to bring Dexter back to justice by cheating him into coming outside the three-mile limit of Macao (which has no extradition treaties).
The criminal couple assume that Mitchum is the law-enforcer when in reality it is another big fellow…
Jane’s highlight covers her performance of the song ‘One for the Road’… To impress everybody, Jane was wearing a terrific dress…
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