****, FAVORITE
Classic film-noir but also a fierce love triangle where the woman really does keep playing men, not the other way around. Top notch dialogue and chemistry between Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford.
Thursday, 2 April 2009
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ReplyDeleteStarted watching it after your endorsement, thanks! Is it just me or is the beginning (that's all I've seen so far) brimming with gay innuendo between Glenn Ford and the husband dude? "Women and *Gambling* don't mix?" Lol, that's like the "football" thing in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".
ReplyDeleteHaving trouble with all the Finnish text here :). I deleted and reposted my comment.
ReplyDeleteFollow-up: "I wanted to go back up there in that room and hit her. What scared me is I, I wanted to hit him too." Haha. I could transcribe the whole dialogue + inner monologue here and it would prove my point ;).
ReplyDeleteAnd the whole bit about how they were both "born again" the, ahem, night they met Mr Husband Dude.
ReplyDeleteI'm taking notes on this, seriously.
yes yes, i prob should have mentioned that there's a never ending debate about the homosexual vibes between those two. i guess it's the same as in Midnight Cowboy, read a quote by Voight which went something like that if it were done now, razzo and the cowboy would have been lovers but because of the time the movie was made, it was too controversial. though i think in both movies it's so obvious there's no need for pointing that out more.
ReplyDeletethat's why wrote love triangle!!! ;)
this has been debated before?? oh, no, there goes my doctorate thesis topic! ;))
ReplyDeleteyeah, it seems very deliberate, like they were going for both the "niche" and the "mainstream" audience.
Like the scene were they first met could be interpreted as (rather weirdly acted) instant attraction but makes (WAY MORE, based on the acting) sense as mutual jealousy/cattiness/recognition of the situation.
I should've known you'd use the term "triangle" appropriately ;)!
Ha! unless...they have a history together. which invalidates my theory above. Lol.
ReplyDeletelol at the first meeting interpretation. actually I really thought for a long time that the rich husband had hots for Ford and Ford was just using his affections to get a career and was more interested in Hayworth (sorry for using real names, can't remember their role ones). lol they were getting it on irl too i read, which reminds me, i have to read a Hayworth bio too sometime!
ReplyDeletebut it seems that ambigious style of making love dramas is an essential part for making a good movie!