{"id":27706,"date":"2020-02-18T08:07:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T14:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27706"},"modified":"2020-02-18T08:07:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T14:07:24","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-546","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/02\/18\/belated-movie-reviews-546\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Fake_(1953_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Fake<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (1953) is a nice little whodunit centering around a da Vinci painting that is the target of a gang of art thieves. They&#8217;re trying to get around American private detective Paul Mitchell, assigned by the da Vinci owner to watch over it. The thieves are clever, using head fakes to get Mitchell&#8217;s attention, and then stealing it when he bites.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t help that the <em><strong>Tate Gallery<\/strong><\/em> in London, where this is all going on, happens to employ a beautiful young woman who&#8217;s smart, writes books on art, and has an eccentric father who happens to paint as well &#8211; in fact, very well, indeed. Which all leads up to the question: where do Mitchell&#8217;s interests lie, and how deep in is the father?<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this little thriller doesn&#8217;t pursue these sorts of questions very deeply, which leads up to a fairly surprising ending. But it&#8217;s all fun, unless you&#8217;re an Arts type who profoundly objects to how the da Vinci is being displayed at the Tate &#8211; ignoring much of the story in the outrage.<\/p>\n<p>So, in the end, it&#8217;s more or less fluffy, but fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fake (1953) is a nice little whodunit centering around a da Vinci painting that is the target of a gang of art thieves. They&#8217;re trying to get around American private detective Paul Mitchell, assigned by the da Vinci owner to watch over it. The thieves are clever, using head \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/02\/18\/belated-movie-reviews-546\/\"> 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-27706","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\/27706","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=27706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27711,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27706\/revisions\/27711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}