{"id":16791,"date":"2024-09-24T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16791"},"modified":"2024-09-23T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T20:10:34","slug":"blast-of-silence-1961-allen-baron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16791","title":{"rendered":"Blast of Silence (1961, Allen Baron)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They all hate the gun they hire.&#8221;  Second-person narrator, unusually well-written, puts us in hit man Frankie&#8217;s shoes as he gets a Christmastime job to kill a mustache guy with two bodyguards.  First he has to deal with Ralph the beardo gun salesman (later of <em>Shock Corridor<\/em>).  He goes to old flame Lori&#8217;s house on xmas (she&#8217;s Matt Dillon&#8217;s mom in <em>The Flamingo Kid<\/em>) but has no idea how to behave with a lady.  Our killer is an out of towner, only knows 2 or 3 people in NYC but keeps bumping into them &#8211; this could have been easily avoidable by switching up his patterns.  He gets his man, but messily, and doesn&#8217;t escape the city.  Writer\/director\/star Baron went on to direct episodes of every 1970s TV show.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/blast1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/blast2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/blast3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They all hate the gun they hire.&#8221; Second-person narrator, unusually well-written, puts us in hit man Frankie&#8217;s shoes as he gets a Christmastime job to kill a mustache guy with two bodyguards. First he has to deal with Ralph the beardo gun salesman (later of Shock Corridor). He goes to old flame Lori&#8217;s house on [&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":[410,3307,155,13,804,361],"class_list":["post-16791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-allen-baron","tag-christmas","tag-criterion","tag-hitman","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791","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=16791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16812,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791\/revisions\/16812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}