{"id":41695,"date":"2026-05-19T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41695"},"modified":"2026-05-13T21:08:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:08:49","slug":"41695","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41695","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bad Blonde&#8221; (1953) starring Barbara Payton and Tony Wright \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z051926zview_badblonde.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Bad Blonde aka The Flanagan Boy <\/i><\/b>(1953)<\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Reginald Le Borg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Guy Elmes, Richard H. Landau;<\/strong> based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4tBFLts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE FLANAGAN BOY<\/a> by <strong>Max Catto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, Tony Wright, Sid James<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Sure, I accept favors from men!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot (beware of spoilers)&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Johnny Flanagan beats a carnival boxing champ, he&#8217;s introduced to boxing promoter Giuseppe Vecchi.\u00a0 Vecchi decides to become Flanagan&#8217;s manager.\u00a0 Vecchi is impressed with with Flanagan&#8217;s skills.\u00a0 Problem is, Lorna, Vecchi&#8217;s young wife, is impressed with Flanagan as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At first Flanagan wants nothing to do with Lorna.\u00a0 But she&#8217;s relentless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon enough Lorna and Flanagan want Vecchi out of the way.\u00a0 And they have the perfect plan to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Or do they?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Bad Blonde<\/em> is the title <em>The Flanagan Boy<\/em> was released under in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bad Blonde<\/em> comes off as a low-budget, uncredited reworking of <em>The Postman Always Rings Twice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><b><i>Bad Blonde aka The Flanagan Boy (1953) <\/i><\/b>rates 2 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><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\/2026\/z051926zview_badblonde2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Blonde aka The Flanagan Boy (1953) Director: Reginald Le Borg Screenplay: Guy Elmes, Richard H. Landau; based on THE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","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\/41695","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=41695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41700,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41695\/revisions\/41700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}