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In the 1953 film, The Cruel Sea, Lockhart (Donald Sinden) meets Ericson (Jack Hawkins) at a London hotel where they both drink pink gin.
A horse named after the cocktail competed in the 1997 Grand National steeplechase finishing fourteenth.
Pink gin was drunk by Hattie (Jean Simmons) in The Grass is Greener (1960). She liked her bitters to be burnt with a match prior to adding the gin.
Lottie Cassell offers a pink gin to Logan Mountstuart in Episode 1 of Channel 4's Any Human Heart (TV series). 2010 (UK), 2011 (US).
Pink gin is a popular drink in Graham Greene's 'The Heart of the Matter'.
In the James Bond novel The Man With the Golden Gun, agent 007 orders a pink gin with Beefeater and "plenty of bitters" in the bar of the Thunderbird Hotel in Jamaica, which is operated by his nemesis Francisco Scaramanga.
In Agatha Christie's Poirot, episode Triangle at Rhodes, some of the characters drink Pink Gin, one such cocktail being used as the delivery method of a deadly poison.
Pink Gin is the drink of choice of Jerry Westerby in the novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
The drink is repeatedly ordered in Patrick Hamilton's novel The Slaves of Solitude.
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