The Hanged Man
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Date: January 01, 1964 to December 31, 1964
Dates Note: 1964
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United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: B&W
Silent: No
Based On: the novel Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy B. Hughes
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Band of Outsiders: Women Crime WritersDescription:
Siegel’s economical, no-nonsense direction in this early made-for-TV movie adaptation of Ride the Pink Horse (1946) is exciting in itself and well suited to Hughes’s clipped prose (her “dread dream”). Santa Fe at fiesta is now New Orleans but there’s no magic in Mardi Gras, only masked threat. Robert Culp does his best Robert Ryan, sloughing off aid or empathy in the role of Harry Pace, in town to avenge his friend Whitey’s death. Foreign as it is, New Orleans is pretty white; the “other” takes the forms of Cajun culture, Tarot, and Christian Science. With Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz in performance.
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