This movie put Rita Hayworth on the map and she is stunning in it, but I didn't really like the movie over all.The ending just ruined it for me. It would have been much better as a tragedy (which I don't say often) rather than a tacked-on happy ending. It just feels like pandering after how shitty the main characters were to each other.
Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) is a small-type card sharp who ends up in Argentina at the tail end of WWII. He is picked up by underground casino owner Bellam (George Macready) and works his way up to head of security. Johnny knows something is up with his boss but before he can figure that out, Bellam runs off and marries a smokin' hot redhead. Unfortunately, Johnny knows her and thus begins an incredibly tense back and forth as Gilda throws her unavailability in his face while both of them hide their association from her husband.
Who turns out to be a cartel boss with a tungsten monopoly.
And some patents gotten from two very angry German fellows before the war ended who now want them back.
See, this could have been a darkly dangerous cat-and-mouse kind of movie but they ruin it at the end. That was so disappointing.
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