{"id":2442,"date":"2019-09-16T14:47:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2019-09-16T14:47:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T18:47:10","slug":"random-movie-monday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2019\/09\/16\/random-movie-monday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Movie Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<p>And we&#8217;re back! We&#8217;re reaching way back in cinema history for today&#8217;s random movie, <em>The Winning of Barbara Worth<\/em>(DVD 7504). Here&#8217;s our summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Gorgeous young Barbara Worth wants one thing&#8211; to help her adopted father turn their dusty desert town into farmland. But when a wealthy land developer is hired to build a dam and tap the Colorado River, Barbara finds herself the object of a rivalry between her close friend and the developer&#8217;s son. As the rivalry builds, the trio discovers that the town has been swindled and the new dam isn&#8217;t reinforced, forcing the warring suitors to settle their differences in order to rescue the townspeople from a coming deluge. <\/p><cite><br><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This 1926 silent film also stars a very young Gary Cooper, plus some intense intense flapper eyeliner and crimped hair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Preview Clip | The Winning of Barbara Worth | Warner Archive\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Rog84jdp1k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we&#8217;re back! We&#8217;re reaching way back in cinema history for today&#8217;s random movie, The Winning of Barbara Worth(DVD 7504). Here&#8217;s our summary: Gorgeous young Barbara Worth wants one thing&#8211; to help her adopted father turn their dusty desert town into farmland. But when a wealthy land developer is hired to build a dam and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-at-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}