I'm not a fan of GILDA, though yes, it is an example of FILM NOIR, a genre I usually do enjoy watching.
I should have mentioned it previously, but Blake Edwards directed both BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S and the execrable THE PARTY. One a glorious light comedy, the second an overwrought, overthought, unfunny hot mess on wheels.
Quite a few movies made in the late '50s through the early-mid '60s were filmed in NYC and show it off, in all of its glory, as not a backdrop, but almost as another major character. THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW, and PENELOPE are but four examples.
To me Gilda is a very expensive film noir - I prefer the B noirs full of B actors giving great performances (although I LOVE Touch of Evil). Actors like Sterling Hayden, Richard Conte, Lawrence Tierney, the great Marie Windsor. I recently saw a heist movie with Mickey Rooney that my brother gave me - just fabulous - filled at Malibu Beach. It was when Mickey was down on his luck, career-wise. My brother and my husband are film noir fanatics.
We’ll have to disagree about The Party. It has some fabulous gags - one with a squab and a lady’s hairdo. We can agree that talking about movies on FR is a losing proposition.