{"id":8769,"date":"2013-09-17T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2013-09-16T23:29:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T03:29:33","slug":"jericho-1937-thornton-freeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8769","title":{"rendered":"Jericho (1937, Thornton Freeland)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First Paul Robeson movie I&#8217;ve seen. Looks unpolished, with clumsy sound recording, but Robeson&#8217;s performance shines right through. Jericho saves some guys in a sinking ship, during which a real asshole of a superior officer is killed, so Jericho ditches the army leaving friendly Captain Mack (who refers to his black soldiers as children) to take the punishment.  Jericho steals a boat containing drunken white sailor Mike (Wallace Ford, lead clown in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/319\">Freaks<\/a><\/em>), who follows like a dog for the rest of the picture (Jericho calls him &#8220;boy&#8221;). They get to Morocco, where Jericho uses his medical skills to gain trust, eventually marrying a local and becoming a peace-keeping tribal chief. Mack (Henry Wilcoxon, propagandist preacher in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7295\">Mrs. Miniver<\/a><\/em>) gets out of prison, is kicked out of the army, and searches the world to get his revenge on Jericho&#8230; but of course they team up at the end.  Robeson also performs a helluva version of &#8220;My Way&#8221; (not the Frank Sinatra song) against a stormy desert backdrop.  Criterion calls it &#8220;his most satisfying film role&#8221; so I guess the rest of the box set will be downhill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Paul Robeson movie I&#8217;ve seen. Looks unpolished, with clumsy sound recording, but Robeson&#8217;s performance shines right through. Jericho saves some guys in a sinking ship, during which a real asshole of a superior officer is killed, so Jericho ditches the army leaving friendly Captain Mack (who refers to his black soldiers as children) to [&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":[343,13,417,243,1727],"class_list":["post-8769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1930s","tag-criterion","tag-morocco","tag-paul-robeson","tag-thornton-freeland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","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=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8813,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions\/8813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}