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Whiplash <\/em><\/strong>(1948)<\/span><\/p>\n Director: Lewis Seiler<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenwriter: Harriet Frank Jr., Maurice Geraghty, <\/strong>adaptation by Gordon Kahn <\/strong>from a story by\u00a0Kenneth Earl<\/strong><\/p>\n Cast: Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, S.Z. Sakall, John Daheim\u00a0<\/strong> and Alan Hale<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Tagline: “Sure I know you’re a two-timer!…but I’m going to kiss the two-timing out of you!”<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n When Michael Gordon (Clark) learns that he’s sold his first painting, he wants to meet the person who bought it.\u00a0 So he tracks down Laurie Durant (Smith) and invites her to dinner.\u00a0 There’s an instant attraction between the two.\u00a0 Dinner leads to an evening swim. Then breakfast the following morning.\u00a0 When Laurie spots a thugish looking man entering the cafe, she quickly leaves.<\/p>\n Michael learns that she has returned to New York City. He follows.\u00a0 Mike finds Laurie singing in a nightclub. When she finishes, he goes to her dressing room.\u00a0 There Mike gets into a fight and knocks out a hood.\u00a0 Turns out the hood was a middleweight contender who works for Rex Durant (Scott), the owner of the nightclub.\u00a0 Rex is also Laurie’s husband.\u00a0 Rex tells Michael he’s got the makings of a champion prize fighter.\u00a0 Soon Michael is climbing up the ranks and trying to put Laurie out of this mind.<\/p>\n But we all know that’s not going to happen.\u00a0 Let the love triangle roll…<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n Whiplash<\/em> works better than it should.\u00a0 It’s got the sensitive artist who’s also a championship caliber fighter.\u00a0 Two lovers who cannot be together because of a sadistic man.\u00a0 A mob boss surrounded by thugs to protect him.\u00a0 Some of the most unrealistic boxing scenes outside of The Three Stooges.\u00a0 A fighter who refuses to “stay down”.\u00a0 A secret revealed.\u00a0 And a mob boss who gets his in the end.\u00a0 (“Did someone call a taxi?”)<\/p>\n Dane Clark projects just the right amount of cockiness.\u00a0 While I find him more believable as a sensitive artist, than a tough guy, for some reason he does a fine job playing both here.\u00a0 The camera likes Alexis Smith and so do I. Zachary Scott is a villain audiences love to hate.\u00a0 Kudos also to S.Z. Sakall.\u00a0 His scenes are a joy.<\/p>\n Whiplash <\/em><\/strong>(1948) <\/span>rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n Whiplash (1948) Director: Lewis Seiler Screenwriter: Harriet Frank Jr., Maurice Geraghty, adaptation by Gordon Kahn from a story by\u00a0Kenneth Earl<\/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":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","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\/34087","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=34087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34092,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34087\/revisions\/34092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\")
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