There NEVER was a woman like Gilda!
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Nov 20247/10
"Johnny" (Glenn Ford) is quite a streetwise gambler who finds himself rescued amidst the Buenos Aires docks by a suave stranger whose cane comes with a rather lethal optional extra. He suggests that he try his luck at a casino and when he manages to fleece the dealer of a modest fortune, discovers that it's owned by his erstwhile benefactor "Mundson" (George Macready). He manages to avoid a beating by suggesting that he put his skills to better use and well, this next bit you can guess. By the time his boss wants to take an holiday, "Johnny" is pretty much running the joint, but he's ill-prepared for the shock when he discovers that there's a new wife on the scene and that it's pretty plain for all to see that "Gilda" (Rita Hayworth) and he have some sort of past. What now ensues sees "Johnny" having to navigate the waters of a marriage in which the wife feels somewhat less engaged than the husband, and all while the local cops are keeping a very close eye on operations at the venue where gambling is illegal and bribery pretty rife. As tensions mount amongst the three, it becomes precarious for a man who has become fond of his boss and even more wary of a woman who is no slouch whe
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Gilda is just like Casablanca if Casablanca had a happy ending, which would have been a bad idea even if it hadn’t been already done two years earlier in To Have and Have Not (which at least had Bogie in it). Like Casablanca, Gilda revolves around a love triangle set in a gambling establishment in an exotic location, but while Casablanca takes place in North Africa during World War II, Gilda takes place in South America just after the war. Moreover, if Casablanca ends with "the beginning of a beautiful friendship", Gilda concludes with the continuation of a horrible romance. Following the Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), Victor Lazlo (Paul Heinreid) pattern, Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) lives a carefree existence running a casino in Buenos Aires until Gilda (Rita Hayworth) walks back into his life hand-in-hand with Ballin Mundson (George Macready). Macready, despite his character's unfortunate name (Victor Lazlo sounds merely foreign; Ballin Mundson is positively alien), and especially Hayworth, look their parts to a T; as for Ford, let's just say he was taller than Bogie, but there’s a big difference between height and stature. Gilda has married Ballin aft
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Cast
- Rita HayworthGilda
- Glenn FordJohnny Farrell
- George MacreadyBallin Mundson
- Joseph CalleiaDet. Maurice Obregon
- Steven GerayUncle Pio
- Joe SawyerCasey
- Gerald MohrCapt. Delgado
- Mark RobertsGabe Evans
- Ludwig DonathGerman Cartel Member
- Donald DouglasThomas Langford
Crew
- Charles VidorDirector
- Marion ParsonnetScreenplay
- Rudolph MatéDirector of Photography
- Hugo FriedhoferOriginal Music Composer
- Charles NelsonEditor
- Virginia Van UppProducer
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