{"id":47,"date":"2018-03-05T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/03\/05\/movies-at-random-moonfleet\/"},"modified":"2018-03-05T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T13:30:00","slug":"movies-at-random-moonfleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/03\/05\/movies-at-random-moonfleet\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies At Random: Moonfleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tTo call this selection random would be basically a lie. BUT unless you&#8217;re psychic you probably weren&#8217;t thinking of it, so it&#8217;s random for you! Moonfleet (<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=8294948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HU DVD 7928<\/a>) is a 1955 Fritz Lang film that, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moonfleet_(1955_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a>, was a critical and financial failure upon release, but was rated among the 100 most essential films ever made by <i>Cahiers du Cinema<\/i>. Based on the immensely popular novel of the same name by J. Meade Falkner, who wouldn&#8217;t want to watch this swashbuckling romp?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s our summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eighteenth century smugglers beseige a small English village. A gothic melodrama of smuggling, intrigue and upper class decadence seen through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, as always, the trailer:<\/p>\n<p>Happy Viewing!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To call this selection random would be basically a lie. BUT unless you&#8217;re psychic you probably weren&#8217;t thinking of it, so it&#8217;s random for you! Moonfleet (HU DVD 7928) is a 1955 Fritz Lang film that, according to Wikipedia, was a critical and financial failure upon release, but was rated among the 100 most essential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-use","category-movies-at-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}