{"id":14246,"date":"2021-05-29T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14246"},"modified":"2021-05-29T18:11:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T22:11:21","slug":"blood-on-the-moon-1948-robert-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14246","title":{"rendered":"Blood on the Moon (1948, Robert Wise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good-looking movie with a nothing-special ending.  Played the commentary for a while &#8211; Robert Wise came up as editor, cut <em>Kane<\/em> and <em>Ambersons<\/em>, then while working for Val Lewton he started directing, and this was his first A picture.  He&#8217;s either well-prepared or has a great memory.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/bloodmoon1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Robert Mitchum is set up as an innocent wandering into a feuding town &#8211; his camp is wiped out by a cattle herd then he&#8217;s given a shitty welcome by a bunch of suspicious fucks led by Tom Tully.  Mitchum is just passing through, so they let him drift, but really he&#8217;s a hired gun for old buddy Robert Preston (<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/377\">The Music Man<\/a> himself).  But Preston proves to be a villain, and Mitchum falls for Tully&#8217;s daughter Barbara Bel Geddes (<em>Vertigo<\/em>&#8216;s Midge), while her own sister is helping the enemy, whose plot involves getting Tully&#8217;s cattle confiscated by the law and buying it back himself.  When Walter Brennan&#8217;s son is killed, it&#8217;s not just a money game anymore, and Mitchum and Bel Geddes (rifleman lovers who met playfully shooting at each other) go out and get bloody revenge.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wicked Preston and mixed-up kid Phyllis Thaxter:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/bloodmoon2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good-looking movie with a nothing-special ending. Played the commentary for a while &#8211; Robert Wise came up as editor, cut Kane and Ambersons, then while working for Val Lewton he started directing, and this was his first A picture. He&#8217;s either well-prepared or has a great memory. Robert Mitchum is set up as an innocent [&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":[416,618,713,793,105],"class_list":["post-14246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-robert-mitchum","tag-robert-wise","tag-walter-brennan","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246","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=14246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14266,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246\/revisions\/14266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}