{"id":32194,"date":"2021-02-17T14:06:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32194"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:06:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:06:30","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-643","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/02\/17\/belated-movie-reviews-643\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oh, and just a trifling bit of bondage!<\/p><\/div>\n

If you’re a nascent fan or scholar of the old-fashioned movie serials, Lost City of the Jungle<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1946) might be for you. Featuring fabulous B&W cinematography, similarly B&W characters which, painfully enough, gain credibility in the light of recent political events, a repetitive episodic plot that features a cliff-hanger every twenty minutes or so, wretched science, and the occasional plot hole, the repetitive parts are to be endured while we wait for the action – how did the good guys avoid being blown apart in the exploding boat? – to refloat our spirits.<\/p>\n

The story concerns the search for an element that can be used to build an effective defense against atomic weapons – and one man’s search for it in order to sell it to the highest bidder, enabling war and world domination. Yeah, it’s silly.<\/p>\n

The characters are static and predictable – no growth here! But the storytellers are to be congratulated on avoiding some chauvinistic ditches that they could have driven this vehicle into. For example, Queen Indra, a white woman ruling a small kingdom in the Himalayas, is no pushover, but an active, aggressive, and intelligent schemer – and perhaps the one exception to my observation that the characters are static. Another is the character of Tal Shan, played by Chinese born Keye Luke, which is a major part, if not quite leading.<\/p>\n

It’s all your basic morality tale, as the personality flaws of the bad guys let the good guys win. There’s a lot of flaws, it has a share of chauvinism, even if it avoided some of the worst, but the scenery is gorgeous and the cliff-hangers are fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re a nascent fan or scholar of the old-fashioned movie serials, Lost City of the Jungle (1946) might be for you. Featuring fabulous B&W cinematography, similarly B&W characters which, painfully enough, gain credibility in the light of recent political events, a repetitive episodic plot that features a cliff-hanger every \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-32194","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\/32194","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=32194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32197,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32194\/revisions\/32197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}