{"id":1171,"date":"2020-04-14T00:13:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T07:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2020-04-14T03:25:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:25:53","slug":"let-it-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2020\/04\/14\/let-it-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"Let It Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=znrq43FLJtE\" title=\"The Bad Sister (1931)\">The Bad Sister (1931)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not a great movie, possibly not even a good one, and certainly the opposite of a noir. But interesting nevertheless, both because it feels like a real slice of life in the Ohio of 90 years gone past, and for secondary performances by the very young Bette Davis and the very young Humphrey Bogart. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=527T_n3qTAA\" title=\"His Woman (1931)\">His Woman (1931)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Improbable shipboard romance starring Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, and a cute baby who is statistically likely to have passed on to the great beyond itself by now. It&#8217;s strange to think of all of these icons being of my grandparents&#8217; generation. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5zU7MoRuGDw\" title=\"The Stranger (1946)\">The Stranger (1946)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve absorbed a dozen or more to this point and this one is thus far the best. From the opening frames it&#8217;s just beautifully shot in a way that immediately says Orson Welles. He both directs and stars, alongside Edward G. Robinson and an especially intense performance from Loretta Young. Five stars and a must-watch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bad Sister (1931) Not a great movie, possibly not even a good one, and certainly the opposite of a noir. But interesting nevertheless, both because it feels like a real slice of life in the Ohio of 90 years gone past, and for secondary performances by the very young Bette Davis and the very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}