Gilda (1946) Restored 480p H264 aac.nfo
Gilda (1946) Restored 480p H264 aac
Gilda (1946)
Not Rated | 1h 50min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 15 March 1946 (USA)
Rating: 7.8
Johnny Farrell is a gambling cheat who turns straight to work for an
unsettling casino owner Ballin Mundson. But things take a turn for Johnny
as his alluring ex-lover appears as Mundson's wife, and Mundson's
machinations begin to unravel.
Director: Charles Vidor
Stars: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
File: MP4
File size: 493 MB
Duration: 1:50:10
Video: H.264/AVC 640 X 480
Audio: AAC 2-ch 96 Kbits
Language: English
Subtitles: English (HI), muxed (switchable); External SRT also incl.
Review by Lucia Bozzola (AllMovie.com)
There never was a noir woman like Rita Hayworth in the title role of
Charles Vidor's stylish Gilda (1946), the film that sealed her reputation
as the leading 1940s love goddess. As the hair-tossing female caught
between Glenn Ford's Johnny and George Macready's Ballen, Hayworth's Gilda
is as much put-upon victim as temptress, an interloper in the relationship
between Ballen and Johnny. Their initial meeting and master-servant
relationship, sprinkled with significant glances, imply that Johnny is as
much Ballen's object of desire as is Gilda, plumbing the literally shadowy
depths of film noir's sexual perversity as much as the Production Code
allowed, and adding an extra twist to the tortured Johnny-Gilda union
after Ballen's faked death. Still, it is Gilda who suffers most for
exuding the sexuality that entices Johnny and Ballen, lending a knowing
edge to her famed performance of "Put the Blame on Mame" clad in lustrous
black satin, suggesting a full striptease by removing a glove. That
sequence became a signature star moment for Hayworth, and established
Gilda as a noteworthy work of erotically charged film noir, despite the
Code-friendly, good-girl ending.
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