{"id":8612,"date":"2013-06-12T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8612"},"modified":"2013-06-09T17:28:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T21:28:17","slug":"mr-lucky-1943-h-c-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8612","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Lucky (1943, H.C. Potter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rah-rah-war-effort movie disguised as something else.  Potter&#8217;s follow-up to the great <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1980\">Hellzapoppin&#8217;<\/a><\/em> is a letdown in the comedy and unpredictability departments, but solid on the drama and romance &#8211; Katy agrees, a decent flick overall.  Cary Grant plays a Harry Lime type, a gambler and draft-dodger who takes advantage of a woman who loves him (Laraine Day of the Dr. Kildare series), a war relief campaign, and a dead man with whom he swaps identities, all to raise money for a gambling cruise.  At the end he ought to be killed, but you can&#8217;t kill Cary Grant so he&#8217;s redeemed by love instead.<\/p>\n<p>Amusements: Grant and his assistant Crunk learn to knit in order to impress Laraine and set up a running joke.  And the movie&#8217;s lasting legacy is that it introduced Katy to rhyming slang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rah-rah-war-effort movie disguised as something else. Potter&#8217;s follow-up to the great Hellzapoppin&#8217; is a letdown in the comedy and unpredictability departments, but solid on the drama and romance &#8211; Katy agrees, a decent flick overall. Cary Grant plays a Harry Lime type, a gambler and draft-dodger who takes advantage of a woman who loves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,73,1385,1699,472],"class_list":["post-8612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-cary-grant","tag-hc-potter","tag-laraine-day","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612","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=8612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8694,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions\/8694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}