{"id":31637,"date":"2023-01-30T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31637"},"modified":"2023-01-23T21:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T02:14:16","slug":"up-in-the-air-1940-starring-frankie-darro-mantan-moreland-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31637","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Up in the Air&#8221; (1940) starring Frankie Darro &#038; Mantan Moreland \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z013023zview_upintheair.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"789\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Up in the Air <\/strong><\/em>(1940)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Howard Bretherton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Edmond Kelso<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Frankie Darro, Mantan Moreland, Tristram Coffin, Dick Elliott, John Holland <\/strong>and <strong>Carleton Young<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tagline: <em>Murder in a radio station&#8230;while the public listens!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frankie Ryan (Darro) is a radio station page.\u00a0 Jeff Jefferson (Moreland) is a janitor at the same station.\u00a0 They dream of becoming a comedy team.\u00a0 Their antics have almost gotten them fired more than once.\u00a0 When one of the radio&#8217;s singers is murdered at the station, Frankie and Jeff hope to solve the crime before the cops.\u00a0 What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mantan Moreland was the reason I decided to check out <em>Up in the Air<\/em>.\u00a0 Mantan is good, the movie less so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Up in the Air<\/em> is a low-budget production that clocks in at just 62 minutes.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a Mantan Moreland fan, then it&#8217;s worth a view.\u00a0 Even so, be advised that there&#8217;s a scene where Darro and Moreland do a comedy bit with Darro in blackface. Darro and Moreland made several films together.\u00a0 I plan to check out as many as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Up in the Air <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z013023zview_upintheair2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up in the Air (1940) Director: Howard Bretherton Screenplay: Edmond Kelso Stars: Frankie Darro, Mantan Moreland, Tristram Coffin, Dick Elliott,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31638,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31637\/revisions\/31638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}