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After a four-year absence from the screen, Rita Hayworth returned with frequent co-star Glenn Ford in a film that feels like a rehash of Gilda with a healthy portion of various Hitchcock thrillers thrown in for flavor. The resulting films is a mess of generic plotting and beats that felt rusty in their joints long before this film. There’s also the pervasive sense that we had seen this before and better.
One can’t entirely fault Columbia for rushing out a product of its preeminent sex symbol, but they couldn’t find a better script to usher in her return. Affair in Trinidad has a convoluted plot that involves Ford and Hayworth as a photogenic couple and them working opposite gun runners or something, and it all adds up to nothing in particular. What you’ll really remember is Hayworth’s wanton dancing as her hair twirls around her and her hips provide erotic promises the rest of the film cannot keep. Hayworth burns up the screen and sometimes that’s a good enough excuse for a movie. Shame they couldn’t surround her with something more interesting.
