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Ride the Pink Horse is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Montgomery released in USA on 8 october 1947 with Robert Montgomery

Ride the Pink Horse (1947)

Ride the Pink Horse
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Released in USA 8 october 1947
Length 1h41
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Noir,    Crime
Rating71% 3.597063.597063.597063.597063.59706

Ride the Pink Horse is a 1947 American crime film noir produced by Universal Studios. It was directed by the actor Robert Montgomery from a screenplay by Ben Hecht, which was based on a novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes. The drama features Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, Thomas Gomez, among others. Gomez was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance.

An army veteran known only as Gagin travels to San Pablo, a rural New Mexican town, to revenge the death of his old war time buddy. As a man devoid of identity, some of the villagers refer to Gagin as "the man with no place."

Synopsis

Gagin (Robert Montgomery) arrives on a bus in San Pablo, a small rural town in New Mexico during its annual fiesta. He plans to confront and blackmail money from a mobster named Frank Hugo (Fred Clark) as retribution for the death of his best friend Shorty.

Actors

Robert Montgomery

(Lucky Gagin)Wanda Hendrix

(Pila)Thomas Gomez

(Pancho)Fred Clark

(Frank Hugo)Andrea King

(Marjorie Lundeen)
And :
Richard Gaines
Art Smith
Edward Earle
Harold Goodwin
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