{"id":36767,"date":"2022-07-31T20:42:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T01:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36767"},"modified":"2022-07-31T20:42:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T01:42:36","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-767","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/07\/31\/belated-movie-reviews-767\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36824\" style=\"width: 389px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mandarin-mystery.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36824\" class=\"wp-image-36824\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mandarin-mystery.jpg?resize=379%2C293&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mandarin-mystery.jpg?w=474&amp;ssl=1 474w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mandarin-mystery.jpg?resize=300%2C232&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mandarin-mystery.jpg?resize=150%2C116&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mandarin-mystery.jpg?resize=194%2C150&amp;ssl=1 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Why, yes, Detective Queen, I am up for a role as Bela Lugosi.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mandarin_Mystery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Mandarin Mystery<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1936) is an <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ellery_Queen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ellery Queen<\/a><\/em> story, which means that the fictional Queen and his father, a police inspector, have to figure out how one, then two, murders have been committed &#8211; and why.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not bad, but the storytelling is brittle, meaning the suspects are basically from the usual herd of 1930s suspects, and the idea that a postal stamp worth $50,000 in the money of the period would be carried with virtually no safeguards is a plot hole that may have been believable in the thirties, but surely isn&#8217;t now.<\/p>\n<p>The Queen character is played with some verve, but in the end this is a minor failure of a story. I couldn&#8217;t figure out why I should care, and if I can&#8217;t figure it out for myself, I can&#8217;t figure it out for you, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mandarin Mystery (1936) is an Ellery Queen story, which means that the fictional Queen and his father, a police inspector, have to figure out how one, then two, murders have been committed &#8211; and why. It&#8217;s not bad, but the storytelling is brittle, meaning the suspects are basically from \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/07\/31\/belated-movie-reviews-767\/\"> 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-36767","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\/36767","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=36767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36825,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36767\/revisions\/36825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}