Ride the pink horse / Universal-International presents ; screenplay by Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer ; produced by Joan Harrison ; directed by Robert Montgomery.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC2459D | The Criterion CollectionSeries: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 750.Distributor: [Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection], [2015]Copyright date: Ã2015Edition: DVD special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insertContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 160465967X
- 9781604659672
- Ride the pink horse (Motion picture)
- Lux radio theatre (Radio program)
- Art direction, Bernard Herzbrun & Robert Boyle ; film editor, Ralph Dawson ; set decorations, Russell A. Gausman & Oliver Emert ; orchestrations, David Tamkin ; gowns, Yvonne Wood ; director of photography, Russell Metty ; music, Frank Skinner.
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Northport Library | DVD | DRAMA Ride the | Available | 33111008295897 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Robert Montgomery directed and starred in this exotic film noir set during a New Mexico fiesta. Montgomery plays a secretive ex-GI who plans to extort money from a prominent gangster (Fred Clark) as retribution for the death of Montgomery's best friend. An FBI man (Art Smith) would like the government to get the incriminating information on the gangster that Montgomery is carrying. Trailed by the FBI agent, Montgomery takes refuge at an old carousel, where he meets a Mexican gamin (Wanda Hendrix) who refuses to leave his side. The girl is on hand when the gangster catches up with Montgomery and has him beaten. She nurses Montgomery back to health, but the would-be blackmailer is determined to confront the gangster again. This time, however, the FBI agent comes to the rescue. Ride the Pink Horse is a properly moody melodrama, containing one of the few truly good performances from eternal ingenue Wanda Hendrix. The film was remade for TV in 1964 as The Hanged Man. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes.
DVD release of the 1947 motion picture.
Special features: Commentary (featuring film noir scholars Alain Silver and James Ursini); In lonely places (new interview with Imogen Sara Smith, author of In lonely places: film noir beyond the city); Radio adaptation (Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1947, features Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, and Thomas Gomez reprising their roles); Insert includes an essay by filmmaker and writer Michael Almereyda.
Art direction, Bernard Herzbrun & Robert Boyle ; film editor, Ralph Dawson ; set decorations, Russell A. Gausman & Oliver Emert ; orchestrations, David Tamkin ; gowns, Yvonne Wood ; director of photography, Russell Metty ; music, Frank Skinner.
Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark, Art Smith, Richard Gaines, Rita Conde, Iris Flores, Tito Renaldo, Grandon Rhodes.
A striking crime drama based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes. A tough-talking former GI who comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend; things quickly turn nasty.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; fullscreen (1.37:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.