{"id":14081,"date":"2021-03-26T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14081"},"modified":"2021-03-25T23:09:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T03:09:56","slug":"drive-a-crooked-road-1954-richard-quine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14081","title":{"rendered":"Drive a Crooked Road (1954, Richard Quine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10432\">Body Snatchers<\/a><\/em> Kevin McCarthy and his cheesehead buddy Jack Kelly (<em>Forbidden Planet<\/em>) scout Mickey Rooney at an auto race, clocking him as a capable driver without a big ego, and schmooze him for half the movie before even revealing that they&#8217;re planning a heist and need a driver.  They hook him up with lovely Dianne Foster and he falls hard, while in private the beautiful people call him &#8220;a little ugly guy.&#8221;  She has the decency(?) to tell Mickey they used him at the end, and cornered, he kills both of the heist guys.  My first Richard Quine movie, and I have to keep reminding myself he&#8217;s the guy from television, not from the Voidoids (or Television).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/crookedroad.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-Body Snatchers Kevin McCarthy and his cheesehead buddy Jack Kelly (Forbidden Planet) scout Mickey Rooney at an auto race, clocking him as a capable driver without a big ego, and schmooze him for half the movie before even revealing that they&#8217;re planning a heist and need a driver. They hook him up with lovely Dianne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,1309,2820,281,2821],"class_list":["post-14081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-automobile","tag-heist","tag-mickey-rooney","tag-richard-quine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14139,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14081\/revisions\/14139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}