Sharing a few more striking RIDE THE PINK HORSE shots that I couldn't help but screencap (before I clean my noir-littered desktop)

Pila one of the clearest "more heroic than the hero" women in noir. ❤️ Viva Wanda Hendrix! #FilmNoirClub

Pila's reaction to Hugo's speech is so powerful. Thank goodness Gagin can borrow some decency from her. #FilmNoirClub

Fun behind-the-scenes picture for RIDE THE PINK HORSE that I found in an issue of Screenland: Thomas Gomez, producer Joan Harrison, and Wanda Hendrix celebrate Robert Montgomery's birthday on set. #FilmNoirClub

A perfectly framed, perfectly timed shot. Just as the baddie is about to nab our antihero, Pila picks up the bottle... #FilmNoirClub

RIDE THE PINK HORSE feels like a missing link between THE STRANGER and TOUCH OF EVIL, all of which cinematographer Russell Metty worked on. #FilmNoirClub

It’s uniqueness. I like the way it delves into the clash of cultures so insightfully and as it goes along our allegiance shifts to the locals, especially Pila. #FilmNoirClub

Russell Metty ftw here #FilmNoirClub

“They're dead fish with a lot of perfume on ‘em. You touch them, and you always get stung.” Henceforth, my response when anyone asks me to define “femme fatale.” 😅 #FilmNoirClub #RideThePinkHorse

According to Weston East, Orson Welles was so impressed by Wanda Hendrix's performance in RIDE THE PINK HORSE that he sent a message of praise after a preview screening. They'd act together in the entertaining period drama PRINCE OF FOXES (1949), which is worth seeking out! #FilmNoirClub

If you want to learn more about Joan Harrison ~ I recommend this book by Christina Lane... #FilmNoirClub

Gomez is also hauntingly creepy as a Nazi agent who recounts a wild delusions-of-grandeur dream about being a knight in armor in SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TERROR. #FilmNoirClub

In New York City a stylish shed like this goes for $3K/ month. And the stick is extra. #RideThePinkHorse #FilmNoirClub

Something I appreciate about RIDE THE PINK HORSE is that even though Lucky drives the story, it's very clear he's an intruder, a disruptive presence. We get a sense of how he's seen. He's frustrating and weird to people who live here, saved from conflict only by Pancho's diplomacy. #FilmNoirClub

Find the lady: RIDE THE PINK HORSE producer Joan Harrison is the only woman in this spread of Unit Producers from the 1948 Box Office Digest Annual. #FilmNoirClub

It's been a while since I've seen RIDE THE PINK HORSE. Excited to revisit this one. #FilmNoirClub

Wear your Ride the Pink Horse print blouse if you got one! 🤩 This is from a 1948 Modern Screen fashion layout and I really, really wish I could still buy one for $5.95 (or at any price tbh). #FilmNoirClub

Ah, the 1950s when the airports were just casually piping Wagner's Liebestod into the café! #driveinmob

Richard Erdman feels kinda superfluous to me in THE BLUE GARDENIA, but he's hilarious and occasionally poignant playing a similar boozy smart aleck sidekick role in CRY DANGER. Highly recommended noir! #driveinmob

It cracks me up that they gave Conte a little backstory spiel to explain why he's so darn Italian with that name. (Irish-American dad, Italian war bride mom.) #driveinmob

Kids, before true crime podcasts, you just had to listen to your bloodthirsty gal pal read ya the paper... #driveinmob

Anne Baxter is a little more silly and playful as an unaccustomed drinker in THE BLUE GARDENIA, but she's absolutely heartbreaking as Sophie, battling with alcoholism, in THE RAZOR'S EDGE. And she got an Oscar for it! #driveinmob

I wonder what it was about that Blue + flower formula for 20th century crime story titles. There's THE BLUE DAHLIA, THE BLUE GARDENIA... and both Agatha Christie and Dolores Hitchens had whodunits called The Blue Geranium! #DriveInMob

I love it when British ghost stories end like, "I'm not one to gossip, but folks round here do say there's a horrible tragedy to explain why you ought not to have brought your daughter to live near Disappearing Daughter Glade..."

There's a fun layout from 1930 where Screenland asked a bunch of movie stars to name the role they most wanted to play. Gary Cooper said Sydney Carton, Claudette Colbert said Juliet, etc. William Powell said A Wealthy Retired Motion Picture Actor on the Riviera 😂 #driveinmob

Jean Arthur will return in THE GREENE MURDER CASE! (But not as the same character!) #driveinmob

Bankers Review is a disappointing magazine to discover in a waiting room. #DriveInMob

I wonder if this "card game psychology as a means of spotting the mind of the murderer" thing was an influence on Agatha Christie's Cards on the Table. #driveinmob

Trade ad for THE CANARY MURDER CASE, part of a multi-page spread advertising Paramount's 1928-29 lineup. Interestingly, the canary is quite a different type from Louise Brooks! #driveinmob

According to a fan magazine, William Powell once became a little too convinced of his powers as Philo Vance. He locked himself in his bathroom and threw away the key, insisting that he could pick his way out with a hairpin. He ended up having to climbdown a drainpipe lmao. #driveinmob

Poor Bill Powell tends to look like he's valiantly suppressing a flurry of comic quips when playing Dry-lo Vance. Let my man crack wise! It's a talkie! #driveinmob

This is some weapons-grade late silent era glamour right here #driveinmob

Gotta note that CANARY MURDER CASE screenwriter Florence Ryerson would go on to contribute to witty Thin Man-ish whodunits THE CASINO MURDER MYSTERY and MAD HOLIDAY (in which the heroine is a mystery writer!), along with some movie called THE WIZARD OF OZ. #DriveInMob

Hell yeah, I needed an emergency dose of Bill Powell and Louise Brooks tonight. #driveinmob

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

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Bad Bunny and company created a show that was dazzlingly fun, danceable, and so rich in thought-provoking imagery/meaning/history that I can't wait to rewatch it and read about it. Awe-inspiring.

From Bad Bunny's #SuperBowl halftime performance.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Guilty as charged! But as a longtime Vintage Weirdo Millennial I gotta note that the 1930s song of the same title is a banger as well. youtu.be/b5td5tkSnBA

Thanks, Superbowl commercial, now I'm gonna have nightmares about Kurt Russell showing up and forcing me to do winter sports.

LADY LUCK (1946): Bookstore babe Barbara Hale weds gambler Robert Young. Can she change him? Now what if she got hooked on betting? This romcom works best when focused on its supporting cast. James Gleason's hard-edged pro gambler with a heart comes close to stealing the show. #GettingMyFixOf1946

Having a good chuckle over Victor Mature aptly tagging Cecil B. DeMille as "a wild mother" who relished in the "lascivious" elements of his epics.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Needed a fun project/distraction so I'm going to try to (re)watch a whole lot of lesser-known 1946 movies (with an emphasis on B crime flicks) that are hitting their 80th anniversary. #GettingMyFixOf1946

Tired: Parasocial relationships with social media influencers Wired: Parasocial relationships with ladies who wrote passionate fan letters to Screenland magazine in the 1940s

Personal highlights from #NoKings in Manchester, #Vermont yesterday: 🇺🇸 Lady gave my signless dad a flag to wave just as we arrived 🦄 Antifa unicorn 🦖 Twerking T-rex 🎀 Pink lady in sparkly beret 🛻 Vintage truck driver honking with gusto 🍩 Someone who couldn't attend sent a friend to hand out donuts

"Vermont, you are just as weird as we remembered you," declared @gregproops.bsky.social during WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY? at Rutland's Paramount theater last night. Thank you to improv masters Greg, Ryan, Gary, Jeff, and Laura for a hilarious show out here in the land of bears, libraries, and snowy peaks!

13 WASHINGTON SQUARE is a delightful silent film that deserves to be more widely enjoyed! Sort of a sillier cousin of THE CAT AND THE CANARY. 🖤 And thanks for the shoutout! This was a fun commentary to do. I got to talk about a bunch of underrated actors, film tech changes of the era, and more.

An inviting autumn landscape. Might've been yesterday, but it's actually an autochrome from 1912. "Autumn Gold" by Hugh C. Knowles From the V&A's collections: bit.ly/42Fh4Bv