{"id":26333,"date":"2019-10-10T08:33:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T13:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26333"},"modified":"2019-10-10T08:33:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T13:33:34","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-506","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/10\/10\/belated-movie-reviews-506\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26336\" style=\"width: 338px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the_cat_and_the_canary.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26336\" class=\"wp-image-26336\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the_cat_and_the_canary.jpg?resize=328%2C335&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The boar menaces the bore. Now if only this had taken place in a bore-hole, and it was all about a ice sample.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>We recently viewed the silent film <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Cat_and_the_Canary_(1927_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>The Cat And The Canary<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1927), and while we longed to like it, I think it&#8217;s cultural attitudes leave it too dated to appreciate. In this movie about the disposition of the estate of a man, mixed with an escaped convict, and a hint of insanity, it seemed the only woman with any hint of a backbone ultimately didn&#8217;t really figure in the climax of the movie; she merely stalks through the story with a broody look on her face. The element of farce was off-putting, while the heroine, who&#8217;s little more than a canvas for the projection of public attitudes of the day, left me cold, and I even considered cheering on the big clawed hand which hovered over her shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Characters were not differentiated, themes were not strongly developed, and two days later we were confusing it with elements of some other recently viewed movies.<\/p>\n<p>In a word, forgettable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently viewed the silent film The Cat And The Canary (1927), and while we longed to like it, I think it&#8217;s cultural attitudes leave it too dated to appreciate. In this movie about the disposition of the estate of a man, mixed with an escaped convict, and a hint \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/10\/10\/belated-movie-reviews-506\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-26333","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\/26333","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=26333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26343,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26333\/revisions\/26343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}