{"id":2181,"date":"2025-01-11T13:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T21:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2025-01-11T13:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T21:18:06","slug":"retro-movie-adventures-the-black-cat-1934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/11\/retro-movie-adventures-the-black-cat-1934\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Movie Adventures: The Black Cat (1934)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-black-cat.png\" alt=\"Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in The Black Cat\" class=\"wp-image-2182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-black-cat.png 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-black-cat-300x38.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-black-cat-768x96.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you know what the wildest part of this movie is? This:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/suggested-1024x200.png\" alt=\"Text reading &quot;Suggested by the immortal Edgar Allan Poe classic&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-2183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/suggested-1024x200.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/suggested-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/suggested-768x150.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/suggested.png 1042w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things this movie has in common with Poe&#8217;s story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The title<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a cat (briefly)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things this movie does not have in common with Poe&#8217;s story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>plot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>characters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>tone<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>message<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s fun to see Lugosi and Karloff in the same film, and to see Lugosi is a (kind of creepy, but still mostly) good guy, but good golly this movie is silly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of silly, here&#8217;s this movie&#8217;s really dumb poster:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/The-Black-Cat-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"POster for The Black Cat. Man, I didn't even line the names up right. I'm such a fool!\" class=\"wp-image-2185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/The-Black-Cat-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/The-Black-Cat-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/The-Black-Cat-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/The-Black-Cat.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Did this poster make you jump?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not about Felicia Hardy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}