
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. The relationship of Johnny and Gilda, a battlefield of warring emotions, becomes even more bizarre after Mundson disappears...... (Full plot summary below)
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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. The relationship of Johnny and Gilda, a battlefield of warring emotions, becomes even more bizarre after Mundson disappears...
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| Radio TimesTony SlomanIf you've never seen it, it's about time. |
| Scene-Stealers.comEric MelinThe limitations of the Hays code forced writers and directors to get creative, and so much of what's really happening in Gilda is buried beneath the surface. |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanHayworth's presence here is so indomitable that it's almost surprising that Vidor found it necessary to bother putting other actors on the screen at all. |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksGilda (1946) contains the most famous role and peak performance of WWII's GI "love goddess," the beautiful, alluring, and provocative, |
| Time OutTrevor JohnstonOne of the great films noirs, softened just a little by the moralising censorship strictures of the time. See it. |
| Total FilmPhilip Kemp"There never was a woman like Gilda!" drooled the posters - and no, there probably wasn't. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyExamples of film noir don't come much headier or more perverse than Charles Vidor's sultry little number... |
| Daily Express (UK)Allan HunterNo wonder we all feel nostalgic for the past. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonThe plot elements aren't always riveting, but the subtext of the pas de trois never disappoints. |
| Parallax ViewSean Axmaker[Rita] Hayworth's sudden yet glorious entrance is pure Hollywood starmaking... |