{"id":25556,"date":"2019-08-10T11:03:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T16:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=25556"},"modified":"2019-08-10T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T16:03:50","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-484","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/08\/10\/belated-movie-reviews-484\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fitzwilly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/8\/8c\/Fitzwilly_1967.jpg\" width=\"293\" height=\"452\" \/>Fitzwilly<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1967) has good pacing, good acting, a charming lead who shows grace under pressure, and it took me &#8211; literally &#8211; a year to watch. This movie about a ring of thieves who thieve, at least partially, to support an old lady whose money has run out without her knowledge seems a bit too much like meringue to really be worth the time. It&#8217;s only in the end, when it&#8217;s revealed that her dictionary, which her butler, Fitzwilliam, had regarded as nothing more than time-passing foolishness, is a runaway bestseller, does she receive her first of two bits of cleverness.<\/p>\n<p>The second is when she, and not Fitzwilly, blackmails an assistant D.A. into not pressing charges against one of Fitzwilly&#8217;s cohorts, who also happens to work for old lady, caught during their final caper. She&#8217;s really quite delightful as the young man gradually caves to the pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the theme here is <em>never trust the demeanour of old ladies<\/em>. If so, this sure was a snoozer, despite the plethora of fine actors and good pacing. I just could never stay awake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fitzwilly (1967) has good pacing, good acting, a charming lead who shows grace under pressure, and it took me &#8211; literally &#8211; a year to watch. This movie about a ring of thieves who thieve, at least partially, to support an old lady whose money has run out without her \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/08\/10\/belated-movie-reviews-484\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25558,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556\/revisions\/25558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}