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Written by James M. Tate / 12/10/2021 / No comments / andrea king , art smith , film noir or melodrama , forties , fred clark , mexico , revenge , robert montgomery , thomas gomez , thriller , wanda hendrix

ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S 'RIDE THE PINK HORSE' WANDA HENDRIX

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNekp1faeqQA1MOXppz9-FhQfB6ID44qpkFuG_HSHfewtF9Ae55u09Opf_pzj4s_4bxoYcd-Hr2x77lvq-qj05PlmsysM3dhOyk44v23M96bsm3uvnrBnabYnIc_JMh-RwrCsiJy_cFalI7399Da_NUX7Q3UtqQ4n2VBjv0p4qpIKf-HumqdTx9j1scKAU/s1207/436367341_1094778905501776_8254241899528071062_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="1207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNekp1faeqQA1MOXppz9-FhQfB6ID44qpkFuG_HSHfewtF9Ae55u09Opf_pzj4s_4bxoYcd-Hr2x77lvq-qj05PlmsysM3dhOyk44v23M96bsm3uvnrBnabYnIc_JMh-RwrCsiJy_cFalI7399Da_NUX7Q3UtqQ4n2VBjv0p4qpIKf-HumqdTx9j1scKAU/s16000/436367341_1094778905501776_8254241899528071062_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: RIDE THE PINK HORSE Year: 1947 Director/Star: Robert Montgomery Rates: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>One of the biggest flaws of Robert Montgomery's Mexico-set film noir RIDE THE PINK HORSE is pretty much flawless, and that's Wanda Hendrix as Pila, a different kind of ingenue...And if Montgomery... a vengeful rogue named Lucky Gagin who turns up in a one-street carnival-fiesta Mexican town to blackmail criminal tycoon Fred Clark for having killed his war buddy... well let's just say if our roving hero's eyes were open, he'd have noticed that this "too skinny" peasant girl resembles an even prettier Gene Tierney...

andrea king, art smith, film noir or melodrama, forties, fred clark, mexico, revenge, robert montgomery, thomas gomez, thriller, wanda hendrix

ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S 'RIDE THE PINK HORSE' WANDA HENDRIX

Title: RIDE THE PINK HORSE Year: 1947 Director/Star: Robert Montgomery Rates: ***1/2 One of the biggest flaws of Robert Montgomery's Mex...

Written by James M. Tate / 11/15/2021 / No comments / fifties , fred clark , gloria swanson , hans conried , import , james warren , janine perreau , romantic comedy , steve brodie , train

GLORIA SWANSON DECOMPRESSES SUNSET IN '3 FOR BEDROOM C'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVZA2CDZBpJmeJ4oipfa2OUEXhHwvwy35C17CH3qbs1aXym6gSBUJeEVtdfn3OL9-E3KyuUpbKwtLvZcfn5MT-qtN5I_t0ykp8ZsKmfVlUTXe5eSjdIiJGY9SDt086xqJMClx_eJxVX8og8sBsCDkzLl0a61K2YpAzsMnomMalJWhwGMLYlvIP_1Kxog=s1159" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="1159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVZA2CDZBpJmeJ4oipfa2OUEXhHwvwy35C17CH3qbs1aXym6gSBUJeEVtdfn3OL9-E3KyuUpbKwtLvZcfn5MT-qtN5I_t0ykp8ZsKmfVlUTXe5eSjdIiJGY9SDt086xqJMClx_eJxVX8og8sBsCDkzLl0a61K2YpAzsMnomMalJWhwGMLYlvIP_1Kxog=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James Warren and Gloria Swanson in 3 FOR BEDROOM C Year: 1952 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>One of the most bizarre career choices perhaps in the history of cinema was when the once has-been silent film star Gloria Swanson, after playing has-been silent film star Norma Desmond in the beloved smash hit SUNSET BOULEVARD, turned down script after script attempting to turn her into what she easily could have become... Something like, say, a female Vincent Price since, while deemed a Film Noir/Drama, SUNSET is nothing short of a terrifying claustrophobic Horror that inspired the likes of PLAY MISTY FOR ME that inspired FATAL ATTRACTION, both involving obsessive women desperately clinging to a man by slitting their wrists, and even MISERY...

fifties, fred clark, gloria swanson, hans conried, import, james warren, janine perreau, romantic comedy, steve brodie, train

GLORIA SWANSON DECOMPRESSES SUNSET IN '3 FOR BEDROOM C'

James Warren and Gloria Swanson in 3 FOR BEDROOM C Year: 1952 Rating: ***1/2 One of the most bizarre career choices perhaps in the history o...

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