Nestled on the Sea of Cortez, Morro's Lodge is an exclusive resort just south of Santa Rosalia, hoped-for haven of The Hitch-Hiker's William Talman (July 15), though he wouldn't arrive for two more years. It was Robert Mitchum who got there first as Dan Milner, a gambler on a run of bad luck, casting about for something lucrative. He's offered a fat fee to go to Mexico for a year, his assignment unknown. Morro's Lodge, his destination, is a self-contained realm in a tropical backwater, similar to the resort in Jim Thompson's The Getaway, filled with exiled hoodlums and plastic surgeons. As any gambler knows, there's no such thing as easy money, so mistrustful Milner sets about getting a fix on the fix, which leads to a deported kingpin played by Raymond Burr. Shot almost exclusively at night, His Kind of Woman has two bright spots-the first being a lush cabaret singer played with bosomy brashness by Jane Russell; the second, Vincent Price as a fey Hollywood screen star, determined to find out who is mas macho.