a a real cinephile nothing upset me more than a movie change genre midway through and thankfully few director be foolhardy enough to try this . the movie start off a a pretty good noir and you get all the wisecracking and fast talk and seediness and violence that you want . bob mitchum be no dick powell in fairwell my lovely and or ralph meeker in kiss me deadly while but he still manage to do a fairly good job . when the film move scene to morro lodge and south of the border and the movie become a classic farce and and we get sheer comedy from vincent price deal out all his favourite shakesperianisms . spoiler when the launch sank and and i saw it come and my jaw just drop and as well a my spirit and it be beyond ludicrous end of spoilerif ever you want to see a true hijacking of a movie by an actor watch vincent price in his kind of woman . it first rate comedy and very enjoyable and but you feel rather like a customer in a restaurant whose be present with their main course and desert on the same place nauseate . cue raymond burr a mob bos nick ferraro and hopelessly try to inject nastiness yet palpably unable to deflect the comic trajectory of vincent price . spoiler the scene where the mob be try to inject mitchum with brain wiping drug and when he be moment away from rescue be hilarious in a truly post ironic manner . you really want to roll on the floor and the way the it drag on and on and how many time will mitchum keep the needle away and will the scene last another half an hour . end of spoiler i suppose if you really like to laugh at movie rather than with them then you have really get to get this . for myself i do not like to laugh at movie and i haven not really grasped camp aesthetic and and i do not really want to . i do not like to write negative review and so i will end positively . if you really want to see a nice mitchum noir and get hold of angel face and such a great movie . for hardcore noir enthusiasts the first half an hour be really worth viewing and then turn the tv off .