Gilda | Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford | Cinema gold,Great Chemistry

Gilda | Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford | classic late forties film noire

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Gilda

	Gilda Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford Sony Pictures, 2000 average customer review:based on 76 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Cinema gold,Great Chemistry

"Gilda" is one of those Hollywood treasures I can watch over and over again, it's like a favorite song.
Rita Hayworth's performance is that of which legends are made. Every man wants her, every woman wants to be her. Glen Ford as Johnny Farrall is at his most handsome and his performance is equally as good as Rita's although after the first shot of Gilda flipping her hair back at her vanity all eyes remain on her.
The character of Gilda didn't show up in the film until about 30 minutes into the movie, that tells you how much faith they had in Ms Hayworth as the star. Her rendition of "Put The Blame On Mame " was the highlight of the movie for me, using her hair and hips as weapons she seduced the world. The chemistry between she and Ford is electric, Bogart was originally supposed to play Johnny Farrall but once he found out Rita Hayworth would be playing Gilda he told them "no thank you" With Hayworth in the movie no one will look at me. I'm glad he bowed out because I cant imagine Gilda without Ford.
This movie is pure film noir gold a must have for any movie buff.

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classic late forties film noire

Although Rita Hayworth receives top billing for her untamed sultry role as Gilda, Glenn Ford deserves high praise for his depiction of "a man who makes his own luck" in a post-war Argentinian casino.

One of the best

This movie has it all- great acting, great plot and the most sensual strip tease in a movie ever, even though Gilda just takes her glove off.
Rita Heyworth's best perfomance ever and she was never able o top it. I think that it was Ford's first perfomance.
A movie worth buying.

Triangular

Like everyone says, this is a very strange story. It seems to be a love-triangle, but there are more angles than three. For about half the film I thought Glenn Ford was meant to be in love with the Ballin Mundson (Ballin Mundson?) character, because he saved Ford's life (what for?), then gave him a job and was good to him. So far, so odd, but relatively simple to understand. When Rita shows up things become extremely complicated: incomprehensible in fact. Who had run out on who, and why? I think we should have been told. Was it something to do with Rita's earlier line of work? A lot of blame was being put on Rita, but so far as I could see she wasn't doing much wrong. Well, maybe just a bit of a tease, but so lovely, sweet and tender you'd forgive her anything. Actually, nobody's motivation here was the slightest bit convincing. Also, as somebody else has said, the plot reads as if someone put together the pieces left on the cutting-room floor after Casablanca. Anyway, two-thirds into the story, we get a totally alien sub-plot about conquering the world by cornering the tungsten filament market, which we couldn't care less about, as it has nothing to do with the tensions between the three main players. This part is boring and even more unconvincing than the original triangle. The sinister Mr Mundson looked good in his part, but it seemed as if he wasn't being allowed to get his teeth into the role. Glenn Ford has never impressed me as a personality. He never seems to have what it takes: I can't imagine Rita falling for him, nor can I believe he could take out heavies with his puff-ball punches. I can't even believe he'd behave like the nasty little swine he's supposed to be. So why have I watched this movie two or three times, and why will I watch it again? Only one answer: you said it, folks --- Rita Hayworth.

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Classic film noir with its view that life is driven by turbulent passions...

Rita Hayworth was a screen heroine of breathtaking beauty and vibrating sensation who lived a luxurious world in which her own expensive form of life was backgrounded by exotic tropical surroundings and international intrigue...

Whether she appears on stage performing a different kind of hit record or pretending to hate her former lover as much as she loves him, Rita was uninhibitedly erotic, making more persistent men's suspicions that girls with long hair and nice figures had a turbulent nature to equal...

Rita never said she could act, but then she rarely had to... Her movies--of which "Gilda" is perhaps the most famous--were little more than showcases for her ample charms, but the largely male audiences that cheered Rita's every picture didn't seem to mind... She was more than a favorite pinup; she was the much-married, scandal-ridden reincarnation of the movie queens of a bygone era...

Hayworth--in complete control of Vidor's camera and of her audience-- performed dynamic moves while trying to look, and feel, too sexy... In that night, she slowly begins to peel off her long black gloves in a symbolic striptease, while rendering her suggestively sexy song "Put the Blame On Mame," to the public, electrifying subsequently Glenn Ford, and millions of hot-blooded men around the world...

Rita captured everything about Gilda's character... She's beautiful, she's malicious, she's suggestive, she's annoying, she's greedy, she's vengeful, and she's awfully superstitious...

Gilda made it sound--There is a heat that one can feel and its intensity is pretty high...The movie shifts into a tremendous struggle between temptation and loyalty, jealousy and envy, suspicion and mistrust, love and desire...

"Gilda" reunited Rita with Glenn Ford in a magical moment which had everyone wonder that haunting harmony that reflects their forbidden passion... Their chemistry was real enough, making this sensational melodrama a box-office bonanza...

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