Episode 493: Ride the Pink Horse (1947)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Noirvember 2020 continues with a look at Robert Montgomery’s Ride the Pink Horse. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes, the film also stars Montgomery as Lucky Gagin, a man who comes to the small town of San Pablo, New Mexico during their annual fiesta….

Jedidiah Ayres and Carol Borden join Mike to discuss the various adaptations of Ride the Pink Horse. Sarah Weinman discusses Dorothy B. Hughes's career.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:11.2	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:23.6	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:25.6	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off. You're looking at a guy named Gagin.
0:59.0	Gagin didn't like getting pushed around.
1:02.0	So he pushed back, but he picked on a big man,
1:07.0	someone out of his league.
1:09.0	I wanted what he had. He refused to give it to me there was a fight
1:12.6	you found short he wasn't as tough as he thought he was so you had him killed only
1:18.6	Gagin wasn't alone he had a team a couple of characters he found hiding behind a
1:24.1	fiesta Pila a stray pup whose devotion no words can explain.
1:29.3	I don't know what to do tonight.
1:32.3	Oh, why don't you get yourself a macho?
1:34.3	Like your girlfriends.
1:36.3	I don't know how.
1:37.3	You're telling me.
1:39.3	And Poncho, the merry-go-round man.
1:42.3	You don't think so much of Pancho. You're wrong.
1:46.0	Pancho is a right guy. For a friend, he let himself be beaten to a pulp.
1:52.0	The knife is good. It's easy to fix. I got three knives in me. When you're young, everybody sticks knife in you.
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