{"id":1426,"date":"2004-09-25T11:31:46","date_gmt":"2004-09-25T19:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2004-10-27T21:28:15","modified_gmt":"2004-10-28T05:28:15","slug":"watching-the-talkies-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1426","title":{"rendered":"watching the talkies, 1956"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funny blunder in Kubrick&#8217;s <i>The Killing<\/i> (1956): when George (Elisha Cook) takes a pistol from its hiding place, he pointlessly works the slide <strong>before<\/strong> inserting a magazine: the gun is thus not in firing condition.<\/p>\n<p>Other movies seen this week:<\/p>\n<p><i>Bob le Flambeur<\/i> (1956), another caper, not bad but overrated.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Man Who Knew Too Much<\/i> (1956), surprisingly straightforward for Hitchcock.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Searchers<\/i> (1956), a disturbing piece about obsession and hatred, with a happy ending incongruously tacked on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny blunder in Kubrick&#8217;s The Killing (1956): when George (Elisha Cook) takes a pistol from its hiding place, he pointlessly works the slide before inserting a magazine: the gun is thus not in firing condition. Other movies seen this week: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1426\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}