Howard Hughes wanted a picture with his 2 biggest stars - both sex symbols - leading the way. He got what he wanted - Jane Russell and Robert Mitchum in a "noirish" picture. Unfortunately, too many cooks - and not enough chemistry or intrigue - infected this one.

The writers initially intended this as a send-up of noir, but John Farrow, the director, had no sense of humor, so that's not great. Then you have Vincent Price as a comic side character that Howard Hughes loved so much he insisted that his part be expanded. What you end up with is a hugely overlong (2 hours, the normal noir is 90 mins) piece with no real direction or story.

The basic plot is simple. Dan Milner (Mitchum) is bribed to take a trip to a swanky resort in Mexico for an unknown task, which we eventually find out is to serve as a double for Nick Ferraro (Raymond Burr, doing his usual, and by now tired, shtick), an expat crime boss, because he's roughly the same body type as the mobster (plastic surgery will, supposedly, do the rest, in this switcheroo - Mitchum will be exported). Also, Lenore Brent (Russell) is a singer/millionaire dating Vincent Price, a famous actor, for some reason that is never properly explained.

It takes over an hour before we actually find out the point of Mitchum being at the resort. In the interim, we get a few songs by Russell, some really trite Michum dialogue, and some odd foibles with Price. There's charm here, but that's about all. The film is not helped by the fact that its raison d'etre, RKO's biggest sex symbols, Mitchum and Russell, getting together, have ZERO chemistry. In real life, they were just good friends. Unfortunately, that also reads on screen.

At one point, the film was in such bad shape that Hughes had to bribe another director and writer (Richard Fleischer and Earl Felton, from the FAR superior noir classic, Narrow Margin) to come in and fix it. Sadly, they cannot save it. Even the title is stupid. A beautiful millionaire with a huge chest is everyone's kind of woman, after all.

This is basically a waste of 2 hours. I recommend you spend the time on one of Mitchum's classics like Out of the Past, instead, or better yet, Narrow Margin and 30 minutes of Sudoku. You'll thank me later.