Gilda (M32)

George macready saves glenn ford's life on the dock of buenos aires. glenn shows up at george's casino and tries to rip off money at blackjack. when george tries to kick him out, glenn says, hire me instead. he does and they do well together. but then george leaves town and comes back married to rita hayworth, an old flame of glenn's. george senses their past and their hatred. rita starts fooling around and glenn tries to cover up her ways. george also is in trouble. he controls a tungsten cartel and some germans feel they are being mistreated. on the night of carnival, george kills them. glenn picks up rita from her latest tryst and takes her home. in the quiet of george's home they kiss. george sees them and then flees. he gets on a plane and crashes, faking his death. he is picked up from the waters nearby, but is thought dead. glenn marries gilda who now owns everything george owned. but glenn means the marriage to imprison gilda. (a painting of george dominates the living room which he has designed to cage her.) glenn insures that all her dates get roughed up. she escapes to montivideo, but her divorce there will not be relevant in buenos aires, so she returns to buenos aires with a lawyer would be husband, but this man is just a worker of glenn's. she puts on an exhibition "put the blame on mame, boys". the cop finally convinces glenn to give him the tungsten contracts so that he can prosecute the cartel for monopoly antitrust violations. gilda is ready to head home to america and glenn meets her at the casino and wants to head home with her. george shows up. the epigram spouting bathroom attendant kills george. glenn and gilda leave.