kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS**** 1940's love goddess Rita Hayworth's long awaited return to the silver screen is as hot as a pistol as dancer & singer Chris Emery in "An Affair in Trinidad" where she goes undercover as a secret agent for the free world. While doing her super sexy dance number at the Cari-B night club Chris is told by Trinidad police inspector Smythe, Torin Thatcher, that her husband Neil was found dead of a self inflicted gunshot wound floating in Trinidad Bay. Not at first knowings what to think Chris is later told that Neil was in fact murdered and the person behind his murder was Max Fabian, Alexander Scourby,a good friend of Chris as well as international gun runner.Needing Chris to get the goods on Fabian and put him behind bars Chris reluctantly goes along with Thatcher's plan to trap Fabian in a honey pot affair but it's Neil's brother, just in from the states, Steve Emory, Glenn Ford, who ends up messing things up for both her & Inspector Thatcher. Steve realizes right from the start that his brother Neil was murdered and feels that his wife Chris together with her "lover" Max Fabian had something to do with it. Keeping secret that she's really working undercover to expose Fabian to the police Chris is smacked around, as well as smacks back, by an outraged Steve who's in danger of exposing what she's really involved in:Saving Trinidad as well as the free world from a Communist takeover! ***SPOILERS**** It turns out that Fabian is free lancing as a spy and saboteur for an unnamed but obviously communist, just pick one of many, government in stealing the most up to date propulsion secrets, gotten from the Nazis, of the US Air Force. With Fabian later finding out what Chris is up to he plans to have her knocked off by his goons but with Steve, who by now found out the truth to all this, jumping in to save her things go downhill for him. All of Fabian's plans backfire with himself getting iced, by mistake, by one of his goons that ends up not only saving both Chris & Steve but the entire free world from being nuked with the information he was to provide to, well just lets just stop beating around the bush and name it, the USSR! Even though she's been away from making motion pictures for some four year Rita Hayworth never looked more sexy & beautiful here and is the only reason for watching the movie. P.S It was later that Rita's mind not body began to deteriorate due to the then undiscovered ravages of Alzheimer's Disease and the poor woman was unable to remember her lines or work that tragically turned her life into a vegetated state and passed away in 1986 at the age of 68.

big_O_Other I found it odd that reviewers, and the plot summary, center on Glenn Ford coming to investigate his brother's murder.The plot does not actually center on this, since Ford comes a bit late into the film. Moreover, he is skeptical that his brother committed suicide, but murder is not established until later in the film. The spotlight is really on Rita Hayworth, who plays the role very well, being both good at being the cabaret singer-dancer that she is, and a straightforward and caring person hoping to help the British authorities bring justice to the case. It is, as barely noted, actually a spy thriller! And it is very well done, given that one cannot actually discern if the spies are committed Nazis or some kind of eastern Europeans--in other words, as distinct from other cold war era films it doesn't go after the Russians as well it might have.

sports7272 Many reviewers have compared this film with "Gilda",the same stars,similar plot,but there the similarity ends.It's really just a sad parody of "Gilda".The reviews are far more entertaining than the film.One reviewer praised Rita Hayworth's singing and dancing.It's a pity they couldn't have dubbed her dancing as well.Her body was described as "athletic".I would have said flabby and well corseted.Another reviewer said the Nazis didn't take Paris???I don't consider "Gilda" a great film but Rita Hayworth is incandescent,one of the most watchable performances of all time.How could a woman so beautiful have aged so badly in 6 years? She was only 33,but looked well into her 40s.One year later as Sadie Thompson she could have been in her 50s!There was only one star in this show and that was Jean Louis.Don't ask who she was.

Robert Gold It's ironic that Rita's 1952 return to the screen was shot in black and white when her film in 1948 "The Loves of Carmen" was filmed in color. For her comeback film, you would have thought Harry Cohn would have given everything to the film to make it appealing: Rita, Glenn Ford, a similar film to "Gilda" in plot and style, and some songs (dubbed as usual) and dances for Rita.It's an okay film, but it's a bit unbelievable in spots. For example, Rita is trying to sneak around late at night in someone's house to uncover information while she is wearing her high heeled shoes. Wouldn't she have taken the shoes off to avoid making a sound so as not to be heard? She danced barefoot in one number, so it's not like the studio didn't want to show her shoeless. Another thing is how can her brother in law fall madly in love with her after a mere three days after discovering his brother has died? I enjoyed it, but to appreciate Hayworth's talent, there are better movies to see. Ironically, this movie made much more money than "Gilda" did!