Rita Hayworth is hugely charismatic in the title role of this noir-ish melodrama. Glenn Ford is the small-time gambler she shares a love/hate past with, while George Macready plays the sinister new husband who tells her “Hate is the only thing that has ever warmed me”. (His best “friend” is a dagger-tipped cane.) It’s an intense love triangle set against a backdrop of the wealthy Argentinean underworld.
The script is perfect, with characters often cleverly conveying double meanings in their lines.
Hayworth singing “Put the Blame on Mame” in a slinky black dress is seductive and almost disturbingly magnetic.
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