{"id":45836,"date":"2026-09-24T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=45836"},"modified":"2026-10-24T15:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:20:01","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/09\/24\/belated-movie-reviews-957\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_46146\" style=\"width: 365px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a-stranger-in-town.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46146\" class=\"wp-image-46146\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a-stranger-in-town.jpg?resize=355%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a-stranger-in-town.jpg?w=780&amp;ssl=1 780w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a-stranger-in-town.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a-stranger-in-town.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a-stranger-in-town.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a-stranger-in-town.jpg?resize=250%2C141&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Marry me!<\/em><br \/><em>Maybe.<\/em><br \/><em>You can smoke the pipe &#8211;<\/em><br \/><em>Ok.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Stranger_in_Town_(1943_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>A Stranger In Town<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1943) is a hidden identity film, but only from the other characters in the story. A duck-hunter arrives in a small town, looking to relax and take some ducks for dinners. He finds a town government stricken with corruption, and opposed by a lawyer <em>sans<\/em> confidence. The balance of the story is how to inject confidence into the lawyer and put a metaphorical banana peel into said government.<\/p>\n<p>It has its moments, although it&#8217;s too bad the audience is in on the secret. It&#8217;s well-acted and a bit of fun; if you&#8217;re looking to see something from the era of World War II, you could do worse. No doubt a film from the movie assembly line, don&#8217;t let that deter you; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casablanca_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Casablanca<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1942) was also B-list. Not that <em><strong>A Stranger In Town<\/strong><\/em> is a <em><strong>Casablanca<\/strong><\/em>; but it does have its points of interest.<\/p>\n<p>And some giggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Stranger In Town (1943) is a hidden identity film, but only from the other characters in the story. A duck-hunter arrives in a small town, looking to relax and take some ducks for dinners. He finds a town government stricken with corruption, and opposed by a lawyer sans confidence. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/09\/24\/belated-movie-reviews-957\/\"> 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45836","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=45836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46147,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45836\/revisions\/46147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}