{"id":9161,"date":"2017-04-20T10:44:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T15:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2017-04-20T10:44:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T15:44:53","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/04\/20\/belated-movie-reviews-188\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.radiospirits.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/hollywood1.jpg?resize=320%2C236\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"236\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A Meeting Of The Boston Blackie Book Club<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_Blackie_Goes_Hollywood\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1942) Blackie&#8217;s hijinks with Inspector Farraday continue. Blackie&#8217;s rich friend Arthur has been duped out of his friend&#8217;s diamond, and now needs $60,000 to buy it back and return it to his friend. The problem? He&#8217;s on the West Coast, and his money&#8217;s on the East Coast. So he calls up Blackie to get the money and bring it to him.<\/p>\n<p>The fun begins with Boston breaking into Arthur&#8217;s safe while Farraday&#8217;s watching, and continues through disguises, twists, and turns. It&#8217;s fun, but between a climactic scene to set everything back to rights which is drawn out far too long, and shooting by characters who don&#8217;t really seem to have their heart in it, it&#8217;s a trifle tiresome. Add the lack of compelling thematic material, and this is little more than fluff.<\/p>\n<p>Watch if you don&#8217;t want to think or if you have an admiration for Chester Morris&#8217; jawline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood (1942) Blackie&#8217;s hijinks with Inspector Farraday continue. Blackie&#8217;s rich friend Arthur has been duped out of his friend&#8217;s diamond, and now needs $60,000 to buy it back and return it to his friend. The problem? He&#8217;s on the West Coast, and his money&#8217;s on the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/04\/20\/belated-movie-reviews-188\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-9161","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\/9161","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=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9169,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions\/9169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}