Gilda
by Charles Vidor
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Actor: George Macready, Glenn Ford, Joseph Calleia, Rita Hayworth, Steven GerayDirector: Charles Vidor
Brand: HAYWORTH,RITA
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, 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: Super sexy sleuth movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is film noir at it's best! Great cast. This film is mystifying and intriguing! Add this to your collection right now before it goes out of print.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.
Description of Gilda
Ford goes to work for the owner of an illegal South American gambling casino. When the owner returns with his new wife, Ford is given the assignment of keeping her faithful, only to be troubled by the fact that he and the wife had been lovers in the past.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: UN
Release Date: 10-FEB-2004
Media Type: DVD
All 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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