{"id":29894,"date":"2020-07-31T16:29:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T21:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29894"},"modified":"2020-07-31T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T21:30:16","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-591","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/31\/belated-movie-reviews-591\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rhubarb the Cat, as Cleopatra: Certified Scene Stealer And Ravager. And Peter Lorre knows it.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The Comedy Of Terrors<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (1963) is a clumsily constructed comedy concerning a funeral parlor operator and his oppressed henchman, frustrated opera-singer wife, demented father-in-law, and his troubled relationships with his landlord and his bottle. Full of tired tropes, it displays flashes of ingenuity, but in the end, I’d rather have that hour and a half back.<\/p>\n

Only watch this if you’re a Price, Karloff, Lorre, or Rathbone completist. Incidentally, this is a rare ‘neutral’ role for Rathbone, who usually played antagonists, with the obvious exception of his Holmes portrayals.<\/p>\n

But, really, that shouldn’t lure you in. This is a Venus flytrap of a movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Comedy Of Terrors (1963) is a clumsily constructed comedy concerning a funeral parlor operator and his oppressed henchman, frustrated opera-singer wife, demented father-in-law, and his troubled relationships with his landlord and his bottle. Full of tired tropes, it displays flashes of ingenuity, but in the end, I’d rather have \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-29894","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\/29894","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=29894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29925,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894\/revisions\/29925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}