Gilda
by Charles Vidor
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Actor: George Macready, Glenn Ford, Joseph Calleia, Rita Hayworth, Steven GerayDirector: Charles Vidor
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Rudolph Mat?
Editor: Charles Nelson
Producer: Virginia Van Upp
Writer: Ben Hecht
Writer: E.A. Ellington
Writer: Jo Eisinger
Writer: Marion Parsonnet
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Portuguese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-11-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Gilda
DVD Review: Rita In Her Prime - Wowzer!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one of those films I never think is all that good, but I keep going back to it every four or five years. Perhaps it's just to get another look at Rita Hayworth while she was still THE glamor woman of the period (1940 to about 1948). At times, she is just jaw-dropping stunning.
Glenn Ford provides some narration and does his normally-competent job as the lead actor but I really liked George Macready's performance more. He is really good as the rich husband, just fascinating to watch.
This film would have been so much better had it been cut about 20 minutes. It bogs down a little over halfway through (but recovers). The dialog is what makes this story interesting for the most part, particularly in the first half of the film which is far better than the second half, and that includes the cinematography. The second half is a lot more melodrama than film noir.
DVD Review: It was great to see Glenn Ford and Rita
Summary: 4 Stars
It was great to see Glenn and Rita. I got the Movie because I wanted to sing Rita sing Amoda Mio. I love the Pink Martini version of the song and they used footage from Gilda in the music video. It was odd hearing Rita sing the song after hearing the Pink Martini version. DVD Review: Formula love story from the 40's
Summary: 3 Stars
Gilda is a classic 40's love story in black and white and Argentina.
It may be Glenn Ford's best acting job that I have seen, but I wasn't very impressed with Rita Hayworth.
It was an effort to extend the World War II intrigue past the end of the war
where the bad guys here were still German. Many Nazis escaped the end in German by going to Argentina.
American ex-patriots Gilda and Johnny Farrell continue their love hate begun in New York for the plot mainline.
DVD Review: The love that dares not speak its name
Summary: 5 Stars
and how! Even steamy Gilda can't snuff the smoldering flame shared by Johnnie and Ballin.
So here's the gist: Johnnie (Glenn Ford) is a ne'er do well rolling around in Argentina when he rolls into Ballin's (George Macready) arms. I mean, hands. Johnnie becomes Ballin's right hand man, managing his casino and running his errands. One night, one of his errands becomes babysitting the Lovely Rita, I mean, Gilda. Turns out, he knew Gilda from before and I mean KNEW her from before! Something nuclear must have happened because on the rebound he went for Ballin and man alive he doesn't like Gilda. I hate every bone in your body but mine, he emotes. Things go terribly wrong all over. Turns out Ballin is somehow wrapped up with some Nazis and some tungsten and he hasn't told Johnnie. Gilda sings and taunts and smokes cigarettes. Johnnie does a lot of frustrated smoking as well. Gilda and Johnnie end up thrown together and Johnnie lets his sadomasochistic self loose on the hapless girl. It's all OK in the end, but only when Johnnie's True Love, Ballin, is completely removed from the picture.
The homoerotic tension in this movie is unbelievable. I was completely surprised by it. Rita Hayworth is almost a caricature of female lustiness but she is but a little candle compared to the blast furnace of the Johnnie/Ballin romance. As an example, when Johnnie and Gilda are discovered together by Ballin, who chases after the distraught Ballin? His wife? No! It's Johnnie running after him, begging for another chance.
I loved it. Five stars.
DVD Review: Two jealous guys and one ditsy lady
Summary: 2 Stars
'Johnny' Farrell is a small-time gambler/card cheat who finds himself being robbed at gunpoint just after leaving a game of dice with some soldiers in Buenos Aires. A weird guy with a German accent, Ballin Mundson, just happens to be strolling along down by the docks and saves Johnny by whipping out a sharp knife hidden inside his cane. Thus begins the very strange and not all that entertaining pseudo-noir, 'Gilda'. Mundson hands Johnny his card and invites him to play at his casino. Before you know it, Mundson hires Johnny as the manager after Johnny convinces him that he can use his skills as a crooked gambler to ferret out customers bent on cheating the house. Mundson introduces Johnny to his wife, Gilda, played by Rita Hayworth. Gilda can't stand Mundson but obviously married him for his money.
The only thing that is truly understandable in this movie is Gilda's disdain for Mundson who is continually trying to suck up to her acting like a besotted 16 year old wuss. Mundson's jealousy knows no bounds and it's this jealousy that defines his character--so much so that the character becomes totally one-note. There is so much of Mundson's jealousy we can take before saying, 'enough already'. Fortunately for the film-goer, Mundson disappears halfway through the movie, only to return at the end.
Meanwhile, without providing any back story, Johnny and Gilda knew each other before. When they meet again they have a thorough disdain for one another. Johnny tells Gilda, "I hate you", Gilda tells Johnny, "I hate you" and one of them (or maybe both, I can't remember) slaps the other in the face. Like Mundson's jealousy, the disdain is unrelenting but at a certain point they declare their love for one another, end up in a passionate embrace and before you know it, get married. Finally, closet nice-guy Johnny starts morphing into Mundson (after Johnny takes over the casino following Mundson's apparent suicide, nose-diving his single pilot aircraft into the ocean)and becomes jealous of Gilda's new singles life. Gilda tells Johnny that dating other men is just an act for Johnny to pay more attention to her but Johnny won't buy it. He becomes so jealous that he has one of his henchmen at the casino physically remove every new date from Gilda's proximity causing her to flee to Montevideo where she meets a new man, a lawyer who convinces her to return home and get an annulment. When she returns, she finds out that her new boyfriend, the lawyer, was paid by Johnny to get her to return. Gilda is shattered when Johnny tells her that annulments are not legally valid in Buenos Aires (unfortunately Gilda is not a law school graduate!).
Just like Mundson, Johnny's jealousy toward Gilda becomes tiresome. But unlike Mundson, Johnny's 'true feelings' toward Gilda cannot be kept down. He somehow realizes that he's been the biggest heel all along and once again falls for Gilda (please don't ask me what motivates these sudden reversals in the characters' behavior). Just as Johnny changes his mind about Gilda (again) Mundson returns and in a jealous rage attempts to murder both Johnny and Gilda. Mundson is struck down by the kindly bathroom attendant who presciently has referred to Johnny as a 'peasant' from the beginning of the film. The police inspector does his Captain Renault imitation from Casablanca by stepping in and hinting that Johnny and Gilda will not be charged for Mundson's death, that the official cause of death is still a suicide and not to matter anyway, it was a justifiable homicide.
There is also a subplot in 'Gilda' that is just as confusing as the love triangle. Mundson has cornered the Tungsten market and double-crossed two Germans he knew during the War who show up at the Casino claiming they are the rightful leaders of a cartel. We never find out anything about the Germans except that Mundson ends up killing one of them and that's why he has to flee (oh there's another weird guy, a businessman who attempts to shoot Mundson at the casino after Mundson won't let him do business with a member of his cartel. The weird guy is unable to kill Mundson so he ends up shooting himself). As one poster aptly put it here, Gilda is a 'poor man's Casablanca'. In some ways, Gilda is so bad that it's actually somewhat entertaining. One can actually sit back and enjoy all the full blown histrionics. But ultimately none of the jealous machinations of the characters are ever sufficiently explained nor are the reversals--the odd changes of heart where the lovers are reconciled. Gilda is a story where the characters don't earn our respect--they're locked in a pointless battle simply designed to titillate the masses of people soon to become addicted to daytime soap operas on television in the 1950s.
Description of Gilda
A south american casino owner hires ford as an aide unaware that his alluring wife was a woman of the mans past. Hayworth sings put the blame on mame boys. Special features: subtitles in english spanish french portuguese chinese korean and thai: talent files scene selections and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Glenn Ford Rita Hayworth Run time: 110 minutes Rating: NrAll film noirs need deceit, betrayal, dialogue hard as diamonds--and dames even harder than that. But Gilda is the only one with the dame front and center, and for good reason. Rita Hayworth shimmers in the 1946 classic, which spins on a tortured plot involving the title character (Hayworth); her imperious husband (George Macready), a ruthless casino owner and head of an Argentine tungsten cartel (!); and Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford), Gilda's ex-lover and now her husband's go-fer. But no one watches Gilda for the plot, except to learn that all the characters have secrets--perhaps even ones they would kill for. Hayworth captures Gilda's vulnerability beneath her devil-may-care front ("If I'd been a ranch, they would have named me the Bar Nothing"). Not to be missed: Hayworth's slinky striptease to "Put the Blame on Mame." --Anne Hurley
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