With: Rita Hayworth (Gilda Mundson Farrell), Glenn Ford (Johnny Farrell), George Macready (Ballin Mundson), Joseph Calleia (Detective Maurice Obregon), Steven Geray (Uncle Pio), Joe Sawyer (Casey), Gerald Mohr (Captain Delgado), Robert Scott (Gabe Evans), Ludwig Donath (German cartel member), Don Douglas (Thomas Langford)
Director: Charles Vidor
Producer: Virginia Van Upp
Production co: Columbia
Screenplay: Marion Parsonnet, Jo Eisinger. Based on a story by E.A. Ellington
Photography: Rudolph Maté
Editor: Charles Nelson
REVIEWS

“Despite critical drubbing (‘high-class trash,’ sniffed the Daily News), in one of the biggest box office bonanzas of its year and now a bona fide film noir classic – the high of 1940s screen eroticism.  Down-and-outer Glenn Ford’s ‘You’ve no idea how faithful and obedient I can be’ pledge to Buenos Aires nightclub magnate George Macready is threatened when the boss later produces a wife – Rita Hayworth.  

‘There never was a woman like Gilda!’ shouted the ads, and there never was a star as electrifying as Hayworth, from her hair-tossing first close-up; to her teasing bumps and grinds, dressed in black satin gown, to the strains of “Put the Blame on Mame;” to the screen-igniting sensuality of her scenes with an uncharacteristically fiery Ford. 

Gilda boasts some of the most feverish noir dialogue of the decade and the screen’s first multi-sexual ménage á trois – an element totally unnoticed by contemporary critics.”
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— Film Forum

Restoration by UCLA Film & TV Archive and Sony Pictures Entertainment

External links:
Sheila O'Malley: The Long Shadow of Gilda
TIME: Rita Hayworth: Hollywood Legend, Pinup icon
Letterboxd: Charles Vidor
FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Auckland
Monday, 11 June, 6:30pm

Palmerston North
Monday, 18 June, 6:00pm

Wellington
Monday, 25 June, 6:15pm

Nelson
Thursday, 12 July, 6:00pm

Dunedin
Wednesday, 25 July, 7:30pm

Queenstown
Tuesday, 7 August, 8:15pm

New Plymouth
Wednesday, 22 August, 6:00pm

Waitati
Tuesday, 11 September, 8:00pm

Hamilton
Monday, 1 October, 8:00pm
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Canterbury
Monday, 15 October, 7:30pm
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