Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Ride the pink horse / Universal-International presents ; screenplay by Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer ; produced by Joan Harrison ; directed by Robert Montgomery.

Edition:

Blu-ray special edition.

Publisher, Date:

[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]

Description:

1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file Blu-Ray region A

Summary:

A tough-talking former GI comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend; events turn out neither as planned nor at all well.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 750

Criterion collection ; 750.

Subjects:

Hughes, Dorothy B. (Dorothy Belle), 1904-1993 -- Film adaptations.

Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- Drama.

Gangsters -- New Mexico -- Drama.

Revenge -- Drama.

Extortion -- Drama.

New Mexico -- Drama.

Genre:

Fiction films.

Film noir.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Montgomery, Robert, 1904-1981, film director, actor.

Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964, screenwriter.

Lederer, Charles, 1910-1976, screenwriter.

Harrison, Joan, 1907-1994, film producer.

Hendrix, Wanda, 1928-1981, actor.

King, Andrea, 1919-2003, actor.

Gomez, Thomas, 1905-1971, actor.

Clark, Fred, 1914-1968, actor.

Smith, Art, 1899-1973, actor.

Gaines, Richard, 1904-1975, actor.

Conde, Rita, 1914-1989, actor.

Flores, Iris, actor.

Renaldo, Tito, actor.

Rhodes, Grandon, actor.

Dawson, Ralph, 1897-1962, editor of moving image work.

Tamkin, David, composer (expression)

Wood, Yvonne, 1914-1999, costume designer.

Metty, Russell, director of photography.

Skinner, Frank, 1897-1968, composer (expression)

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Hughes, Dorothy B. (Dorothy Belle), 1904-1993. Ride the pink horse.

Universal-International (Firm), presenter, production company.

Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.

Other Title:

Lux radio theatre (Radio program)

Radio adaptation of (work): Ride the pink horse (Motion picture)

Notes:

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.

Art direction, Bernard Herzbrun & Robert Boyle ; film editor, Ralph Dawson ; set decorations, Russell A. Gausman & Oliver Emert ; orchestrations, David Tamkin ; gowns, Yvonne Wood ; director of photography, Russell Metty ; music, Frank Skinner.

Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark, Art Smith, Richard Gaines, Rita Conde, Iris Flores, Tito Renaldo, Grandon Rhodes.

Blu-ray; Region A; full frame (1.37:1) presentation; uncompressed monaural.

Optional SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

ISBN:

9781604659665

1604659661

Publisher Number:

CC2458BD

Other Number:

904411367

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

670884

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

BLU MOVIE Ride the