Charles Vidor's "Gilda" opens to a noir world of gambling, shifting uncertainties with a crooked crapshooter whose self-made luck is about to change at the close of World War II.
Leaving with his winnings, Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) is rescued by a nasty scar- faced casino owner Ballin Mundson (George Macready) with a dagger-cane
The handsome gambler offers himself up as a croupier-manager to run Ballin's illegal joint Promising to be faithful, Johnny is immediately accepted
Unfortunately this included Ballin's dazzling new bride Gilda (Rita Hayworth), who happens to be Farrell's ex- girlfriend Thus begins one of the most tortuous and hard to follow of noir's many twists and turns
Rita captured everything about Gilda's character She is extremely beautiful, malicious, provocative, greedy, vengeful, and awfully superstitious And she makes it sound!
There is a heat that one could feel in Gilda and Johnny and its intensity is pretty high The movie shifts into a tremendous struggle between temptation and loyalty, challenge and envy, suspicion and mistrust, passion and desire This noirish thriller reunited a two legendary stars in a magical moment that reflected strongly a forbidden love
Leaving with his winnings, Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) is rescued by a nasty scar- faced casino owner Ballin Mundson (George Macready) with a dagger-cane
The handsome gambler offers himself up as a croupier-manager to run Ballin's illegal joint Promising to be faithful, Johnny is immediately accepted
Unfortunately this included Ballin's dazzling new bride Gilda (Rita Hayworth), who happens to be Farrell's ex- girlfriend Thus begins one of the most tortuous and hard to follow of noir's many twists and turns
Rita captured everything about Gilda's character She is extremely beautiful, malicious, provocative, greedy, vengeful, and awfully superstitious And she makes it sound!
There is a heat that one could feel in Gilda and Johnny and its intensity is pretty high The movie shifts into a tremendous struggle between temptation and loyalty, challenge and envy, suspicion and mistrust, passion and desire This noirish thriller reunited a two legendary stars in a magical moment that reflected strongly a forbidden love