Ride the pink horse [dvd] / Universal-International presents ; screenplay by Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer ; produced by Joan Harrison ; directed by Robert Montgomery.
Format:
[dvd] /
Edition:
DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
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. Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark, Art Smith, Richard Gaines, Rita Conde, Iris Flores, Tito Renaldo, Grandon Rhodes.
Summary:
A striking crime drama based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes. Montgomery plays 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.
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