Gilda

Part of the special series SCHINKEN

The film that made Rita Hayworth immortal! She played Gilda, a spirited, seductive woman who has only one goal: to charm as many men as possible and make them fall in love with her.

Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) works as the right-hand man and main man for Ballin Mundson (George Macready), the owner of an illegal casino in Buenos Aires. When Mundson returns from a business trip with his new bride Gilda (Rita Hayworth), he hires Johnny to look after her. What he doesn't know is that Johnny and Gilda have already had a tempestuous affair. While Johnny tries to remain steadfast, Gilda's ambition to seduce him again and thus annoy Farrell is awakened.

It's a whizzer, this one just the sort of movie, spelled capital MOVIE that can't miss, because it's got nearly everything.
Los Angeles Times

The best-known film by Hungarian director Charles Vidors was screened in competition at the first Cannes Film Festival in 1946 and became an erotic cult classic of film noir. Rita Hayworth's glove striptease to ‘Put the Blame on Mame’ is legendary. It not only made her famous and turned her into the pin-up girl of her time, but also gave her the nickname ‘Bombshell’. To Hayworth's great annoyance, the United States even went so far as to immortalise her on an atomic bomb in the course of the nuclear weapons tests ‘Operation Crossroad’ in July 1946.

We are showing the film in a brand new 4K-restored version, which celebrated its world premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival as part of the ‘Cannes Classics’ programme.