Gilda

1946 Directed by Charles Vidor

There NEVER was a woman like Gilda!

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

Rita Hayworth Glenn Ford George Macready Joseph Calleia Steven Geray Joe Sawyer Gerald Mohr Mark Roberts Ludwig Donath Donald Douglas Ed Haskett Bess Flowers

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thriller romance drama

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Review by brat pitt ★★★½ 2

when gilda is offscreen: 😴👎🏽😴
when gilda is onscreen: 😊🎉😊
when gilda is dancing: 😍❤️😍
Review by Katerina ★★★ 1

I'm the sensitive cop that goes around giving relationship advice and has a good time watching all the drama unfold rather than do his job and arrest eveyone the minute he walks into the casino
Review by brat pitt ★★★ 3

fuck you if you think Johnny & Gilda are a good couple
Review by iana ★★★

wish all the men would fuck off i just want gilda
Review by meg ★★★½

rita hayworth was so beautiful and charismatic in this entry into the MATCU (men are terrible cinematic universe.)
Review by Thomas Ringdal ★★½ 2

Noirch #9
Rita Hayworth.
Need a reason to watch this? Rita Hayworth.
Are there other reasons? No. Not really.
I was introduced to this film via Shawshank, and that scene, you know the scene, sits quite comfortably on top of all others in Gilda. It really is something.
Straight women must get absolutely nothing out of this....
Glenn Ford is particularly unbearable as Johnny. The smirking-like-Jerry Seinfeld, misogynistic little twerp of a protagonist, also responsible for the awful narration.
And then there's the plot......wtf? Tungsten, world domination, nazis, spies, a cop that looks to be more interested in grooming his moustache than capturing criminals, tedious song numbers, the melodramatic will they won't they, ahh, who gives a shit really story and a flat ending.
Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★★

80/100
A.V. Club review. For someone with little to no rep among auteurists, Vidor directs the hell out of this; the way he shoots Macready's Ballin alone deserves a visual essay—not least for the truly extraordinary shot I reference in the review, which you can currently see from 26:42 to 27:14 here (albeit in the wrong aspect ratio, which diminishes it slightly).
Review by Dragonknight ★★★★ 5

Film #25 of Project 40
”I make my own luck.”
An under-appreciated noir which instead of the gloomy streets of an American metropolis happens in the glamorous casinos of Argentina with a triangle of mysterious characters who seemingly have no past. Charles Vidor is the director behind this unpredictable story of lonely men who have nowhere to go and tempting women who look tantalizing on the surface but are lost and crushed deep down, it features Rita Hayworth as the impeccably seductive Gilda and along with the doubtful Glenn Ford they build a relationship filled with sexual tension, uncontrollable passion and dangerous hatred. Gilda mainly evolves around mysteries surrounding almost every aspect of the story, it never gives us clear-cut…
Review by Paul Elliott ★★★★ 5

Rita Hayworth is extraordinary in the title role of this Charles Vidor directed film noir; she manages to dominate and hold the attention of every scene in which she appears. The script features vast amounts of great dialogue, and Vidor builds a complex world which illustrates itself to be a gloriously dark place as it explores the emotional complexities and disenchantments of young love.
The storyline comes populated with some truly vile and despicable characters, and it's a thoroughly charged emotional love triangle which becomes constructed. It evolves when Gilda, the new wife of an illegal casino owner in Buenos Aires learns that her husband has employed her former lover and small-time gambler, Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford), to work at…
Review by Anurag Kashyap ★★★★½ 4

Revisited after so many years.. a clear influence on Scorsese’s “Casino”(which actually was based on a true account)..
watching all these films all over again , one can clearly see the difference in writing then and now. Then the writing had more character and life and challenged the moral compass. Now it’s mostly craft taught at the film schools, then it was literature , and now it’s mathematics.
Review by Dwilder ★★★★★

I had a busy Easter as I also rewatched Gilda which is one of my favourite films and is a classic example of Hollywood in the 1940’s which managed to create some fantastic noir pictures which somehow got past the censors of the day.
Gilda which is written by Jo Eisinger, Marion Parsonnet and an uncredited Ben Hecht is an often bizarre concoction of classic Noir plot lines concerning double cross and murder with a surprisingly deep and modern outlook on the power of women in Postwar America. Indeed, Gilda herself is possibly the most brilliantly written Femme Fatale of her day and I have always had difficulty really interpreting the characters here in particular Gilda who is a complete…
Review by Scott Tobias ★★★★ 1

What can you say? Rita Hayworth + Rudolph Maté is a luscious combination. Plot is a bit of a noir muddle, but the love/hate dynamic between the leads generates all the necessary heat and Hayworth's hair-flips and gowns and rascally insouciance take care of the rest (and then some.)

Recent reviews

Review by Mr. Ramirez ★★★★½

Rita.
Well, this shot up the ranks of my favorite noirs rather rapidly.
Why the minor deduction? Why, it’s that gloriously abrupt cut to credits that films from the 40s and 50s seem to pride themselves in.
But seriously folks... Ford and Hayworth seem to be having the time of their lives with that wham bam screenplay. The situations sizzle.
The tropes are all accounted for. The femme fatale. The voiceover. The chiaroscuro lighting of the moll.
I’m in heaven.
Review by Josue Garcia ★★★

i said i needed to watch gilda soon in my lady from shanghai note because of rita hayworth and i followed through on that. i think if you went through the script and tabulated it all, at least 40% of the dialogue is the name “johnny.” anyways, this is probably a 2.5/5 taken to a 3 simply because hayworth may be the most objectively beautiful and magnetic female star from golden age hollywood and this is probably her peak. i didn’t mind the atypically (for a noir) happy ending but the direction is less taut than it should be for this kind of film and why i don’t think i’ll be revisiting.
Review by Struggler ★★★★½

Great film. Another that I watched with my father. Both our first time watching it. Rita Hayworth is an absolute babe.
Review by 𝕊𝕦𝕚 𓆣 ★½

No es mi tipo de peli supongo.
Review by Avi Trachtman ★★

Put the blame on Mame
Well, that's the saving grace of the movie, because everything else is pretty terrible - weak and really pretty dumb story that has nothing at all to do with the feme fatale, great as she might be.
Review by villain5000 ★★

Everyone is so mean to each other in this movie
Review by rei ★★★½

nooo gilda ur too sexy to trust men aha ha
Review by Renata Severo ★★★½

Rita Hayworth saiu do set de Gilda com escoliose
Review by Roxana Piticari ★★★★

If a man talks shit, then Gilda owes him nothing.
Review by Eric Melin ★★★★½

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“Gilda, are you decent?”
With that line from George Macready, the camera cuts to stunning beauty Rita Hayworth, wearing an off-the-shoulder dressing gown, swinging that full-bodied, beautiful head of hair of hers into the frame, and smiling.
“Me?”
The inmates at Shawshank State Penitentiary go nuts. Cheering, hollering.
The rest of America was the same way. It’s one of the most legendary introductions in all of film history, and it resonates with good reason. In Gilda, out now in a fantastic-looking 2K restoration Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection that reveals what a anomaly the movie truly was, Hayworth is more than just a luxurious beauty. She’s everything.
Trapped between the hatred and lust of two men, she’s an object…
Review by Mr. McGuffin

I enjoyed it, but personally neither character was nice enough to make me root for them or their romance.
Review by Paula Rostova ★★★½

Mención especial para tío Pío