When I consider top actresses I use 4 categories to add up their overall performance-
1. Ability to act- how do they deliver liines, how smooth are they on camera, etc.
2. Dancing
3. Singing
4. Overall looks and how they present themselves
If you score 1-10 on each of those categories I really think Rita Hayworth is around 35 points. It is what sets her apart from other Hollywood sex goddesses. She was more than that. She was a professional dancer before ever becoming an actress. Her voice is just plain incredible. Because of her - this plain movie become a 3.5 star movie. Who else can star with Fred Astaire in several movies and hold her own? And lets be honest- she is gorgeous.
This movie stars Glen Ford and Rita Hayworth together - just like Gilda which came out 4 years previously (and is in my top 100 list). Ford plays Steve Emery - a man who has flown to Trinidad because his brother sent him a letter telling him there would be a job for him in that Country. Hayworth plays Chris Emery - married to Steve's brother. We never actually meet Steve's brother because he was murdered before the show starts. Steve then has to find out who is behind his murder, which the police are saying was a suicide. Pretty easy to predict the ending, but a fun movie along the way.
There are a few fun characters and overall an okay show. I am too much of a sentamentalist because I like these movies just for the pure fact that they don't exist anymore. The golden age of Hollywood is gone. The close ups on the actors faces, the lighting to bring out their eyes, all of that is just history. No nudity, sex, vulgarity, drugs, or language in this one- so it wouldn't even make it to the big screen in todays world and that is okay with me. I like the old movies.
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