Gilda

Plots: A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer’s new wife is his former lover. Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. But their friendship based on mutual lack of scruples is strained when Mundson returns from a trip with a wife: the supremely desirable Gilda, whom Johnny once knew and learned to hate. The relationship of Johnny and Gilda, a battlefield of warring emotions, becomes even more bizarre after Mundson disappears… Loaded-dice toting gambler Johnny Farrell cleans up at a waterfront dive and is subsequently saved from retaliation by the dagger tipped cane of Ballin Mundson, owner of a Buenos Aires casino and head of a Nazi cartel. Recognizing a kindred spirit in Johnny, the two become close and Ballin makes him his right-hand man. Johnny’s intense loyalty to Ballin is strained by Ballin’s surprise marriage to the supremely magnetic Gilda, a femme fatale that once loved and then jilted Johnny, setting the tone for his future relations. The odd trio begin exploring their conflicting desires while Ballin maneuvers to retain control over his vested interest.