Classic Film Friday: Gilda

So this is a movie about second chances, love, and basically turning Rita Hayworth into eye candy. It happens in Buenos Aries. A man looking to make a fresh start, Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) is saved from a stickup by Ballin Mundson (George Macready). Johnny thinks he's doing well, but Mundson shows that he really isn't, but he invites him to gamble for "real money" at a big casino.

Johnny figures out that Mudson is the owner operator, and from there you have to put your believability hat in the closet. Johnny goes to work for Mudson, and everything seems to go along fine. Until Mundson has to leave, and places Johnny in charge while he's away.

Mundson comes back and tells Johnny that he has a wife, and he'd like to introduce her... Enter Rita Hayworth as Gilda. It turns out that Johnny and Gilda have a history, but neither of them tell Mundson. So Gilda acts slutty and Johnny acts tough, but really they still love each other. And Mundson, oh yeah, I forgot about him, so did they. It seems Mundson was involved with a tungsten monopoly and a lot of other "crap" so when he sees Gilda and Johnny kiss He fakes his death in an airplane crash.

My favorite person in the whole movie is Uncle Pio (Steven Geray), a bathroom attendant. He ties everything together, and though you do have to expand your horizons on the plausibleness scale, he grounds everyone and at least keeps things in perspective; he is the unsung hero of the film.