Screen Goddess Collection: Rita Hayworth [DVD]

Region 4 - Australia & South AmericaSix films from screen goddess Rita Hayworth. In 'Gilda' (1946), gambler Johnn y Farrell (Glenn Ford) is shocked when his boss and best friend Ballin (George M acready) asks him to keep an eye on his beautiful new wife Gilda (Hayworth), for the two were previously lovers. Gilda taunts Johnny and attempts to get him in trouble with her husband but when Ballin apparently dies in a plane crash, Johnn y marries Gilda and treats her badly as punishment. 'You'll Never Get Rich' (194 1) is a musical comedy and stars Hayworth alongside Fred Astaire. Robert Benchle y plays theatre impressario Martin Cortland, whose wife finds a diamond bracelet and suspects him of having an affair with showgirl Sheila Winthrop (Hayworth). Choreographer Robert Curtis (Astaire) is caught in the middle, but fortunately t he army seems to offer them all a way out. Orson Welles directs, produces, write s and stars in 'The Lady From Shaghai' (1948), a maritime film noir. When unempl oyed Irishman Michael O'Hara (Welles) saves Elsa Bannister (Hayworth) from some thugs, she obtains him a position on her invalid lawyer husband Arthur's (Everet t Sloane) yacht, as a deckhand. It soon becomes clear that Elsa now has designs on O'Hara, and also wants her husband out of the way. O'Hara, although resisting Elsa's advances, finds himself becoming embroiled in a web of intrigue and murd er. The famous hall of mirrors sequence is considered to be one of the greatest scenes in film history. In 'The Magnificent Showman' (1964), Matt Masters (John Wayne) is a circus owner who has to start from scratch when his ship sinks in th e Barcelona harbour. Starting up a Wild West act, he takes under his wing Toni A lfredo (Claudio Cardinale), a trapeze artist whose mother Lili (Hayworth) has ab.…