Super sexy sleuth movie!
Added 9/20/2009
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.
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Rita In Her Prime - Wowzer!
Added 2/14/2009
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.
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It was great to see Glenn Ford and Rita
Added 2/5/2009
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.
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Formula love story from the 40's
Added 1/28/2009
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.
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The love that dares not speak its name
Added 1/14/2009
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.
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A wonderful and memorible movie of Rita Hayworth.
Added 9/6/2009
Loved this movie. Because I am a special fan of rita Hayworth. As in my younger years I took dancing lessons with her father and appeared in this movie dancing. The dvd came on the time it was expected. Overall I am happy with the service.
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Not like the opera or Carman Jones
Added 1/4/2009
Carmen is a red haired black cat for Don Jose.
The spirit of the gypsy Carmen in the movie comes from the opera Carmen.
This longer more detailed Hollywood story of a soldier who sells his life for the fleeting love of a beautiful gypsy woman who has the heart of a thief and the morals of a harlot is a tragedy.
I don't think that the acting was quite up to that level here.
I certainly didn't feel the pathos that great drama is supposed to give.
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The Loves of Carmen - lost footage?
Added 8/29/2008
The Loves of Carmen - Rita Hayworth & Glenn Ford
I remember seeing this film when I was quite young thinking I was going to see the movie version of Bizet's opera Carmen. I was disappointed at first but seeing the beautiful Rita Hayworth in the title role made quite an impression. I remember what I thought was more dancing done by Hayworth than was shown on this DVD. I also thought that the cigarette factory scene was longer as well as the fight among Hayworth and the other gypsies who worked in the factory. Glenn Ford seemed also to have longer scenes edited from what I remember. Then on the other hand, I might be confusing the film with the opera. Maybe it was all a child's fantasy memory of a classic film, but I do remember how beautifully Rita Hayworth danced in the screen version. The DVD somehow did not capture this. Maybe the fault was trying to make this classic film into a DVD.
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