Ride The Pink Horse DVD - (1947) - Robert Montgomery

Ride the Pink Horse is a 1947 film noir crime film produced by Universal Studios. It was directed by and starring actor Robert Montgomery from a screenplay by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer, which was based on the 1946 novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes. Thomas 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 avenge 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."

A common theme in noir films is the post-war disillusionment experienced by many soldiers returning to a peacetime economy, which was mirrored in the sordidness of the urban crime film. In these films a serviceman returns to find his sweetheart unfaithful or a good friend dead. The war continues, but now the antagonism turns with a new viciousness toward American society itself. In Ride the Pink Horse, Gagin's quest to avenge his friend's death leads him to a small village in rural New Mexico, an unusual setting for the noir motif more typically associated with corrupt urban environments.