{"id":25290,"date":"2020-05-09T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=25290"},"modified":"2020-05-08T15:13:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:13:46","slug":"film-review-the-body-vanished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/film-review-the-body-vanished\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: The Body Vanished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Body Vanished\u00a0<\/em>is a 1939 British film where a vacationing Scotland Yard detective inspector and his reporter chum stumble across a mystery at a country house where the butler discovers a body, which then disappears.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to watch this film for free on Amazon Prime. It&#8217;s a fun comedy mystery and seems to be a Quota Quickie, which adds up to the equivalent of an American B movie. This works better than your average American &#8220;B&#8221; picture. While it is low budget and some of the characters are a bit broad, the actors all know their business.<\/p>\n<p>I admire the economy of the story telling. This is 15-20 minutes shorter than an American &#8220;B&#8221; film and that makes it a better movie because the story moves at a faster pace and avoids the more annoying padding you&#8217;d see in many of the American &#8220;B&#8221; films of the era.<\/p>\n<p>This is by no means a classic, or a must-see film. It is a competently done black and white mystery that doesn&#8217;t overstay its welcome. If you like B-movies or simple light comedy mysteries, this will be an entertaining enough use of 46 minutes, so it&#8217;s worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 3.5 out of 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Body Vanished\u00a0is a 1939 British film where a vacationing Scotland Yard detective inspector and his reporter chum stumble across a mystery at a country house where the butler discovers a body, which then disappears. I was able to watch this film for free on Amazon Prime. It&#8217;s a fun comedy mystery and seems to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[298,123],"tags":[3767,2162,3768,1624,533,3769],"class_list":["post-25290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd-review","category-golden-age-article","tag-b-movie-2","tag-british-film","tag-comedy-mystery","tag-faint-praise","tag-mixed-review","tag-scotland-yard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pECdK-6zU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25304,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25290\/revisions\/25304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}