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Gilda

1946

Charles Vidor

Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia ...

7.7

32,444

Film noir. Drama. Romance. Thriller Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. But their friendship based on mutual lack of scruples is strained when Mundson returns from a trip with a wife: the supremely desirable Gilda, whom Johnny once knew and learned to hate.

	Author	Review
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"Part of 'Gilda's fascination is the way that it complicates the idea of the femme fatale (...) [A] remarkable movie"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"A campy melodrama that, from certain points of view, isn't even very good (...) [Hayworth] was never more magnificent."	NEU
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"The details are so mysterious and so foggily laced through the film that they serve no artistic purpose, other than to confuse things still more"	NEG
United States	Variety	"When things get trite and frequently far-fetched, somehow, at the drop of a shoulder strap, there is always Rita Hayworth to excite the filmgoer."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A real 1940s Hollywood treat (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Examples of film noir don’t come much headier or more perverse than Charles Vidor’s sultry little number (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Trevor Johnston Time Out	"[It] is arguably the most fascinating of classic Hollywood’s bad girls (...) There’s an element of 'Casablanca' exoticism in the Buenos Aires setting (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tony Sloman Radio Times	"The whole is a remarkable example of the Hollywood system turning dross into pure gold (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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