A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
Mark Roberts
- Gabe Evans
- (as Robert Scott)
Donald Douglas
- Thomas Langford
- (as Don Douglas)
Julio Abadía
- Newsman
- (uncredited)
- …
Enrique Acosta
- Gambler
- (uncredited)
Ed Agresti
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
Sam Appel
- Blackjack Dealer
- (uncredited)
Nina Bara
- Girl at Carnival
- (uncredited)
Edward Biby
- Gambler
- (uncredited)
Robert Board
- American Cartel Member
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaRemarking on her varied success at dating, Rita Hayworth once stated: "They fell in love with Gilda and woke up with me."
- GoofsWhen Farrell asks to cut the deck at the blackjack table, he shuffles the deck prior to the cut; this is not allowed.
- Quotes
Gilda: You do hate me, don't you, Johnny?
Johnny Farrell: I don't think you have any idea of how much.
Gilda: Hate is a very exciting emotion. Haven't you noticed? Very exciting. I hate you too, Johnny. I hate you so much I think I'm going to die from it. Darling...
[they kiss passionately]
Gilda: I think I'm going to die from it.
- ConnectionsEdited into Head (1968)
Featured review
Steaming Up the Argentine
Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth made five films together, but when they are talked of as a screen team, it's only Gilda that people are really talking about. Their first film was before World War II, The Lady in Question where both are young Columbia contract players who were in the same film and no effort was made to bill them as a team. The Loves of Carmen which was made after Gilda was a disaster for Glenn Ford, though Rita was at her sexiest. Affair in Trinidad was a good effort to recapture the magic of Gilda after Rita's storm marriage to Aly Khan and the last film The Money Trap was a Glenn Ford film where Rita has a brief role as an old girl friend. She was the best thing in that film by far.
Do you remember in Cabaret how both the Liza Minnelli and Michael York characters find out they are sex partners to the same German bi-sexual man? That's essentially what happens in Gilda though with the Code firmly in place it's not something we talk about. George MacReady, a man of many interests rescues Glenn Ford from the docks of Buenos Aires after he's won some money from sailors in a crap game. They hit it off and Ford becomes his right hand man in running the casino MacReady operates.
Then MacReady brings home a wife and lo and behold it turns out to be an old girl friend of Ford's, Rita Hayworth. Add to that some Nazi refugees have some business with MacReady over some tungsten mines.
The real emphasis in this film is sex and personified by the best embodiment of sex ever on the silver screen. This film raked in a lot of dollars for Harry Cohn and Columbia Pictures. Hayworth, voice dubbed as usual, had a big number here in Put the Blame on Mame. It became a signature tune for her the rest of her life.
One thing did disappoint me about Gilda. For a story that took place in Buenos Aires who many say is the most beautiful city in the world, it would have been nice to see some location shots, even if it was just some newsreels to establish the time and place. The film might as well have been in Albuquerque.
But when you've got Rita to look at, it could be at the South Pole.
Do you remember in Cabaret how both the Liza Minnelli and Michael York characters find out they are sex partners to the same German bi-sexual man? That's essentially what happens in Gilda though with the Code firmly in place it's not something we talk about. George MacReady, a man of many interests rescues Glenn Ford from the docks of Buenos Aires after he's won some money from sailors in a crap game. They hit it off and Ford becomes his right hand man in running the casino MacReady operates.
Then MacReady brings home a wife and lo and behold it turns out to be an old girl friend of Ford's, Rita Hayworth. Add to that some Nazi refugees have some business with MacReady over some tungsten mines.
The real emphasis in this film is sex and personified by the best embodiment of sex ever on the silver screen. This film raked in a lot of dollars for Harry Cohn and Columbia Pictures. Hayworth, voice dubbed as usual, had a big number here in Put the Blame on Mame. It became a signature tune for her the rest of her life.
One thing did disappoint me about Gilda. For a story that took place in Buenos Aires who many say is the most beautiful city in the world, it would have been nice to see some location shots, even if it was just some newsreels to establish the time and place. The film might as well have been in Albuquerque.
But when you've got Rita to look at, it could be at the South Pole.
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- Aug 27, 2006
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- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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