Word: hayworth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lady from Shanghai. The mellifluous brogue of Orson Welles' Michael O'Hara flows, swells and laps against the corners of this classic, covering like the South Seas (where a bored Rita Hayworth and her brilliant, embittered husband spend their money) what O'Hara himself calls the carnivorous sharks below. Shark fights serve as metaphor for the cynical, sordid goings' on between the lawyer, his berserk business partner and the aloof, gorgeous Hayworth. Welles, despite himself, gets caught up in the carnage, dragged in by unrequited adoration for Hayworth, a nose for adventure, a soul filled with romanticism and nothing particularly...
Gilda. Done in 1946 by King Vidor, "Gilda" is the best of the "film noir" style that emphasized the dark side of the American character in the climate of national disillusionment following World War II. The film features Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth and an actor whose name I always forget, who plays a Rio casino owner-cum-international tungsten cartel boss. It revolves around two sinister triangles: one, a quasi-homosexual link between the tungsten boss, the boss's sword-cane, and Glenn Ford (the other, between Rita Hayworth, the tungsten boss (who marries her), and Ford...
...best drama is the one that deals with a man in danger," said Hawks, and the endangered men of his movies included such giants as Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, James Cagney and Gary Cooper, matched with sexy, strong-willed Hawksian discoveries such as Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth, Carole Lombard and Jane Russell. When French cineasts made a cult of the tall, quiet director, claiming for example that he "incarnates the classic American cinema," Hawks commented: "I get open-mouthed and wonder where they find some of the stuff they say about me. All I'm doing is telling...
...famous "moment of death" of a Spanish Republican soldier; the dead Chinese child being carried to a mass grave like a sack of laundry; Mussolini flapping his arms like a prize rooster; MacArthur sloshing ashore in the Philippines; the pinups of the '40s-Betty Grable, Dorothy Lamour, Rita Hayworth and that trivia-test stumper, Chili Williams, "the Polka-Dot Girl." A perfect gift for the old Sarge...
...Gilda. Done in 1946 by King Vidor, Gilda is the best of the film noir style that emphasized the dark side of the American character in the climate of national disillusionment following World War II. The film features Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth, and an actor whose name I always forget, who plays a Rio casino owner-cum-international tungsten cartel boss. It revolves around two sinister triangles: one, a quasi-homosexual link between the tungsten boss, the boss's sword-cane, and Glenn Ford (the other, between Rita Hayworth, the Tungsten boss (who marries her), and Ford...