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Gilda (1946)

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When wealthy Ballin Mundson (George Macready) rescues down at his heels gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) and invites him to the Buenos Aires casino he owns, both men get more than they wagered on. Farrell convinces Mundson to hire him as casino manager, but is shocked when Mundson introduces his new bride, and Farrell's old flame, Gilda (Rita Hayworth).Though Farrell is unwavering in his loyalty to his employer, and he and Gilda treat each other with contempt, Mundson realizes that the torch

Nov 7, 2000

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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A wonderfully perverse noir classic...

July 24, 2011 Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | Comment
Observer [UK]

Cast and crew spin a twilight magic.

July 22, 2011 Full Review Source: This is London | Comment
This is London

No wonder we all feel nostalgic for the past.

July 21, 2011 Full Review Source: Daily Express | Comment
Daily Express

A real 1940s Hollywood treat.

July 21, 2011 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

Examples of film noir don't come much headier or more perverse than Charles Vidor's sultry little number...

July 21, 2011 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | Comment
Daily Telegraph

If you've never seen it, it's about time.

July 21, 2011 Full Review Source: Radio Times | Comment
Radio Times

"There never was a woman like Gilda!" drooled the posters - and no, there probably wasn't.

July 12, 2011 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comment
Total Film

[Rita] Hayworth's sudden yet glorious entrance is pure Hollywood starmaking...

December 21, 2010 Full Review Source: Parallax View | Comment
Parallax View

It put Glenn Ford on the movie star map, and reinforced Rita Hayworth's seamy stardom.

March 22, 2008 Comment
Video-Reviewmaster.com

Featuring Rita Hayworth in her best--and sexiest-- performance, this post WWII noir romance centers on one of Hollywood's most bizarre triangles, one ripe with S&M as well as homoerotic overtones--a guilty pleasure if there ever was one.

February 1, 2007 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

One of the great films noirs, softened just a little by the moralising censorship strictures of the time. See it.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Gilda

"This is the part I really like, when she does that shit with her hair." Red - Shawshank Redemption

May 8, 2007
brooklynspo

Super Reviewer

The camera was in love with Rita Hayworth and she made sure we noticed it. One of the best noirs out there with probably the most strange case of a mènage a trois ever seen in a Hollywood pic.

July 27, 2011
Matheus Carvalho

Super Reviewer

    1. Gilda Mundson: If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
    – Submitted by Chris P (9 months ago)

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