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Affair In Trinidad
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Gilda it ain't
Review date: 2007-11-22 Rating: 6 out of 10
1952's Affair in Trinidad was an attempt by Columbia to reignite some of the heat that Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford brought to Gilda six years earlier with director Vincent Sherman drafted in to give it some of the snappy style of his Warner Bros. pictures, but with somewhat more tepid results all round (except at the box-office, where it surprisingly proved an even bigger hit). It's the kind of film you know you haven't seen before but you could swear you had so predictably familiar is the formula - tropical location, a couple of sultry musical numbers, Alexander Scourby in the George Macready role, although in this case it might be more accurate to say the Claude Rains role, since the last half of the movie is pure Notorious as Hayworth's suddenly widowed singer tries to find out just what his millionaire purveyor of stolen information is up to with those ex-Nazi scientists who are staying in his guest house. Ford often has so little to do as her suspicious brother-in-law here that you hoped they at least paid him well for his time. Hayworth is center stage all the way, and if the choreography of her opening number is more comical than erotic she's the main reason for watching it, although there are good supporting turns from Scourby and Torin Thatcher, a not-entirely-geographically-logical MacGuffin that predates the Cuban Missile Crisis by nearly a decade and one character gets a great last line - "If you're waiting for my last words, you've heard them."
Neither particularly bad or particularly good, it fills an aimless afternoon but leaves little impression in its wake. No extras on the vanilla Region 2 PAL DVD but an acceptable black and white transfer.
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Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Rita Hayworth
Glenn Ford
Creators:
Rita Hayworth (Primary Contributor)
Glenn Ford (Primary Contributor)
Recording label: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
EAN: 5035822497535
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Dubbed, PAL,
Release date: 2006-11-06
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Region code: 2
Running time: 94 minutes
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