{"id":11458,"date":"2017-02-22T10:44:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=11458"},"modified":"2017-02-22T10:44:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:44:49","slug":"convoy-screening","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/convoy-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Convoy screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Dryden<\/strong> will screen <strong>Convoy<\/strong> (Sam Peckinpah, U.S. 1978, 110 min., 35mm) as part of the Ernest Borgnine series. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the short list of feature films based on popular songs&mdash;in this case C. W. McCall's CB-radio themed novelty hit \"Convoy\"&mdash;sam Peckinpah's rollicking, proudly lowbrow comedy adventure leads the pack. The blacktop meet-cute of Peckinpah veterans Kris Kristofferson (Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) and Ali MacGraw (The Getaway) may be something out of a screwball comedy, but the film&mdash;about a convoy of interstate truckers on the run from a corrupt county sheriff (Ernest Borgnine)&mdash;is really a western in trucker drag. It's rumored that much of the second-unit direction was taken over by actor James Coburn due to Peckinpah's failing health. Ironically, the film was the most financially successful of Bloody Sam's career.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <em>[source: <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.eastman.org\/event\/film-screenings\/convoy\">George Eastman Museum calendar<\/a>, 2017-Feb-20]<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dryden will screen Convoy (Sam Peckinpah, U.S. 1978, 110 min., 35mm) as part of the Ernest Borgnine series. On the short list of feature films based on popular songs&mdash;in this case C. W. McCall's CB-radio themed novelty hit \"Convoy\"&mdash;sam &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/convoy-screening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3193],"class_list":["post-11458","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-jayceland-2017-feb-23","cat_jayceland-2017-feb-23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11507,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11458\/revisions\/11507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11458"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=11458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}