{"id":28339,"date":"2020-04-13T08:52:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28339"},"modified":"2020-04-13T08:52:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:52:53","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-567","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/04\/13\/belated-movie-reviews-567\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This suit doesn’t fit right. I suppose that’s <\/em>de rigeur for a chief of police in a goofy little town.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

“Studio One in Hollywood<\/strong><\/em><\/a>” is the name of an old, old TV series (ca 1947 – 1958), featuring hour long episodes of unconnected shows, which I will treat as short movies. We just saw Two Sharp Knives<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, a pleasingly complex murder mystery which, despite the relatively awful video, intrigued us. The mystery opens with the how and why a man traveling with his daughter to meet his estranged wife for the first time in ten years is found dead, hanging by his neck in a prison cell, where he’d been placed when the local police were notified that the Philly cops wanted him for murder. It’s puzzling that the cop on duty hadn’t noticed a thing, and even his little nap should have been disturbed by the stool being kicked away by the suicide.<\/p>\n

But then the chief of police, who is already under political attack by the D.A., discovers the Wanted for Murder poster is a fake, and the coroner, deceiving the D.A., calls it murder. The chief is in a squeeze play now, between a bewildered daughter who believes he did it, and the knowledge that the real players may be leaving soon.<\/p>\n

And why?<\/p>\n

It’s a well-acted and -crafted tale, and the worst part of it may be the mysterious title. It’s adapted from a short story of the same name by the legendary Dashiell Hammett, and I have to wonder if the part of the story justifying the title was edited out during the adaptation to the screen; I’d be delighted to read the story, as I’ve read (but mostly forgotten) all of his novels.<\/p>\n

I won’t recommend it, but it’s not a bad way to spend an hour.<\/p>\n

BONUS<\/strong>: You also get the original Westinghouse commercials that went with it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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