Ride the Pink Horse, named after a hand-crank carousel steed, is a compelling three-day slice of life, a morality play, a mystery and a hard boiled novel about relationships and betrayal. It’s filled with symbolism and enough noir atmosphere to make you depressed for a week, yet the characters and dialog are almost as reminiscent of Steinbeck as they are of Hammett or Cain/5(55). Ride the Pink Horse. by. Dorothy B. Hughes. · Rating details · ratings · reviews. Sailor, a hood from Chicago, steps off a bus in a small, desert town. He is looking for someone, his boss, 'Sen' - a crooked, 'weasel-faced' Senator, who has set up the murder of his wealthy wife and made it look like a bungled robbery/5. · Willis Douglass, one of the main characters from Ride the Pink Horse — Dorothy B. Hughes ’s superb work of noir fiction—embodies the maxim. Douglass, a former Illinois Senator, was once a noble enough man to take in a Chicago street punk named Sailor, put the kid through some schooling at a city university, and later employ him as his confidential www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins.
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Ride the Pink Horse is a film noir crime film produced by Universal Studios. It was directed by Robert Montgomery, who also stars in it, from a screenplay by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer, which was based on the novel of the same title by Dorothy B. Hughes. Thomas Gomez was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance. Willis Douglass, one of the main characters from Ride the Pink Horse — Dorothy B. Hughes ’s superb work of noir fiction—embodies the maxim. Douglass, a former Illinois Senator, was once a noble enough man to take in a Chicago street punk named Sailor, put the kid through some schooling at a city university, and later employ him as his confidential secretary. Ride the Pink Horse () by Dorothy B Hughes. Hughes is an author I’ve known about for a while, but never tried. Eventually this title made its way into my TBR pile and spurred on by the inclusion of another Hughes’ title in the Reprint of the Year Awards Poll, I decided to give this story a go. It is very much in the noir, hard boiled vein, with our protagonist only being known as Sailor.
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