Beautiful, moving film.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Although the 80-minute TV version leaves a few holes in the script and omits a couple of minor characters (I didn't notice any refugees), it is a considerable improvement on the original – and this will please just about everybody except Mr. Ford's most rabid fans. Mr. Ford makes a late entrance and disappears from the film altogether during most of the climax, but his absence is not missed all that much. He is less indulgently photographed than Rita Hayworth and his mannerisms seem even more theatrical than usual.On the other hand, Miss Hayworth is very kindly treated by Joseph Walker's soft-focus lighting and is stunningly gowned. She also has the lion's share of the action and acquits herself so effectively in the dramatic sections that the climactic sequences will have most viewers on the edges of their seats. Vincent Sherman's direction shows his customary skill in the handling of action and his usual efficiency in dialogue scenes. Joseph Walker's atmospheric photography is also a big help in creating suspense.Alexander Scourby is delightfully sinister as Max Fabian. Surprising to see dance choreographer Valerie Bettis as one of his confederates (she has the inside gag line, "Maybe I ought to learn to dance!" which was no doubt penned on the set) and essaying a scene in which she is slightly whiffed most effectively too! Torin Thatcher plays a police inspector with his usual air of forthright efficiency, whilst Howard Wendell does rather better as the American consul here than he does as the police commissioner in "The Big Heat". Steven Geray tries a part right off his usual track and is most effective as a corrupt night club proprietor. The other roles are comparatively small, but are well cast and played.Production values leave nothing to be desired — with the exception of the songs which are pedestrian and the dances which contrive to be both distasteful and unexciting.

****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.

Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth pretty much epitomized classic Hollywood glamour, and "Affair in Trinidad" shows the chiseled pair reunited after the success of "Gilda." By most measures, "Trinidad" is a solid, big budget topliner, but the film's hurried ending and blunted racial archetyping dock it some points. Nonetheless, the performances are good ones, and the picture's murder mystery, at least until the stumbling climax, is consistently interesting and believable. Rita Hayworth is older here, but still stunning, and Glenn Ford is solid in the lead, providing plenty of romantic sensibility, as well as good ol' tough guy moments. The story involves Ford traveling to Trinidad after receiving a letter from his brother, only to find him dead and presumably murdered. What follows is a story of international intrigue, with Ford working to unravel the reasons for his brother's murder, as well as the identity of his killer(s). Meanwhile, his brother's widow (Hayworth) may hold the key to exposing the killer(s), but her cooperation with the British counsel prevents her from telling Ford important secrets. Predictably, there is a love story subplot, with Ford and a nefarious businessman vying for Hayworth's hand, and some of the exchanges are terrific. Again, however, the climax is hurried and disquieting, ending the picture on an unbalanced and underwhelming note, but not so much as to spoil the experience. There are a lot of good moments in this one, and fans of 40's Hollywood should be pleased. ---|--- Was this review helpful?

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!