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Friday, Aug 4, 2017
6:30 PM (101 mins)
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BAMPFA
Ride the Pink Horse
Based on the novel by Dorothy B. Hughes
Robert Montgomery, Andrea King, Thomas Gomez, Rita Conde,
When Lucky Gagin, a luckless veteran played by Robert Montgomery, steps from the interstate bus, he is greeted by a flashing neon sign: “Buenos Dias. Howdy.” The border town, known generically as San Pablo, is an indistinct zone of amalgamated cultures—Mexican Americans, gringos, and local Pueblo Indians—though it bears distinct resemblance to the Santa Fe of Dorothy B. Hughes’s 1946 novel. Director Montgomery creates a claustrophobic space where danger resides in the familiar, the exotic “other” becomes an unexpected ally, and, like the karmic carousel at its center, what goes around comes around.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Ben Hecht
- Charles Lederer
Based On
the novel by Dorothy B. Hughes
Cinematographer
- Russell Metty
Print Info
- B&W
- 35mm
- 101 mins
Source
- Universal Pictures