Ride the Pink Horse

Even in the blank desert, there’s no escaping the baggage of meaning nothing, so soon after fighting for everything.  Robert Montgomery does a tour of duty as the director and lead actor of “Ride the Pink Horse.” The film is both an outlier in its genre, and also - one of…

theriverjordan

Ride the Pink Horse is an unusual Film Noir set in Mexico. It’s one that never quite clicked with me. It’s not bad, not bad at all but something is holding it back for me. I think the biggest problem is that Robert Montgomery, who also directed the movie (quite competently…

Gregor Kreyca

Robert Montgomery going from Pre-Code pretty boy to auteur director misunderstood in his own times is still the wildest thing to me. I have such immense respect for Montgomery for the fact that he always pushed himself to take those chances. I think back to 1930’s The Big…

Bre

Moving around a suspended place. Terrific border noir less about plot than a mood of moral uncertainty. Montgomery removed performance is something of an acquired taste but it plays off very well the strong supporting cast and given how the fine script is all about how…

Filipe Furtado

So much to like here and yet somehow I couldn't totally give in to it. Montgomery's violent, sarcastic, racist, veteran turns up in a border town trying to settle a score. The feds and the locals look on as things get nasty. It's got an excellent femme fatale,…

Owen

“Try the pink one.” Montgomery had, as an actor, been a veteran of countless screwball comedies before himself entering the war. For Ride the Pink Horse, he ditched his customary screen persona, taking pains to scrape away his usual polish, converting himself into…

Gentry Austin

Noirvember 2021 #6 Before Touch of Evil, before Mann’s Border Incident, there was Robert Montgomery’s post-war border noir Ride The Pink Horse. In the opening’s fluid long take, we watch vengeful veteran Gagin arrive in the rural town of San Pablo, concealing a pistol and…

More_Badass

That’s the kind of man I like, the man with no place. I haven’t seen a lot of Robert Montgomery, but I swear there are moments early on where you can literally see him chewing his words as he spits them at other characters. He also directed and there’s some nice work…

📀 Cammmalot 📀

"What gives Ride The Pink Horse its spark is this turn toward the normal bounds of what we watch when we watch. It’s a picture about the margins — of America, of masculinity, of race — and thus defines itself by the constant turns. Despite its possible status as a postwar…

Peter Labuza