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...
Written by
Rod Crawford {puffinus@u.washington.edu}
In Argentina, Johnny Farrell is a dice gambler who gets in a robbery situation and is saved by Ballin Mundson, an owner of a casino. Johnny starts working for Ballin as his right-man. The situation changes with the arrival of Gilda, his lover in the past and recently married with Ballin.
Written by
Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Johnny, a professional gambler becomes the right hand of Balin, the owner of an illegal casino in Buenos Aires. This post becomes stressy, when Balin marries Gilda, the ex-friend of Johnny. She is having affaires with others, and Johnny has to do a lot, that Balin doesn't get informed about this. Due to some other illegal things Balin does, he has to leave Argentinia in a way, that he seems to be dead for everybody. After this Johnny marries Gilda, but not because he loves her, but because he wants to punish her of not beeing faithful to Balin. But things are not going in the way Johnny has planed
Written by
Stephan Eichenberg {eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de}
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