Returning to Hollywood Movies after a Four Year Marriage to a Prince, Rita Hayworth Enticed Her Legion of Fans to Line-Up and Glimpse "Gilda".
Not Equivalent or even Close to the Films it Emulated and Lazily Relies on a Proven Plot and Characters.
It is Not a Heated Affair. It is a Curiosity.
It Made Seven Times its Budget as a Huge Hit.
Mediocrity Can Sell-Well when Placed at the Bare Feet of a Star with Magnetic Appeal and a Rock-Solid Screen Presence...Glenn Ford.
While the Script is Moth-Eaten even the Co-Stars are Well Chosen and Deliver Professional Performances that Help the Story that is Familiar Seem Fresh.
It's a Cold-War in 1952 and Rita can Warm it Up by Being Rita.
Forever Regarded as a Bastardization of "Lighting in a Bottle". It is.
It is Also...Not Film-Noir.
Just a Watchable Black and White Espionage-Drama-Romance that Lingers in the Insatiable Appetite of Movie Lovers Wanting Forever to Force Feed a Starving Condition for Everything to be Delicious and Fulfilling.
The Human-Condition makes it Apparent that Mediocrity is the Measure of the Day in All Art. That Doesn't Mean that a Movie of this Sort is Futile.
It's Entertaining and Productive for the Production Team.
And for Audiences that Measure in the Millions.
Not Equivalent or even Close to the Films it Emulated and Lazily Relies on a Proven Plot and Characters.
It is Not a Heated Affair. It is a Curiosity.
It Made Seven Times its Budget as a Huge Hit.
Mediocrity Can Sell-Well when Placed at the Bare Feet of a Star with Magnetic Appeal and a Rock-Solid Screen Presence...Glenn Ford.
While the Script is Moth-Eaten even the Co-Stars are Well Chosen and Deliver Professional Performances that Help the Story that is Familiar Seem Fresh.
It's a Cold-War in 1952 and Rita can Warm it Up by Being Rita.
Forever Regarded as a Bastardization of "Lighting in a Bottle". It is.
It is Also...Not Film-Noir.
Just a Watchable Black and White Espionage-Drama-Romance that Lingers in the Insatiable Appetite of Movie Lovers Wanting Forever to Force Feed a Starving Condition for Everything to be Delicious and Fulfilling.
The Human-Condition makes it Apparent that Mediocrity is the Measure of the Day in All Art. That Doesn't Mean that a Movie of this Sort is Futile.
It's Entertaining and Productive for the Production Team.
And for Audiences that Measure in the Millions.