{"id":2088,"date":"2011-01-13T11:39:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T11:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2011-01-13T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T11:39:59","slug":"and_then_theres_this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/13\/and_then_theres_this\/","title":{"rendered":"And Then There&#8217;s This&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by a conversation with my coworkers, here&#8217;s Harrison Ford&#8217;s big-screen debut, in a 1966 crime thriller called <i>Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round<\/i>:<br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/M-NehUB_7l0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"385\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/M-NehUB_7l0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><i>Dead Heat<\/i> starred James Coburn as a criminal who&#8217;s pulling various con jobs as he gears up for a bank heist. It actually sounds like a pretty good flick, based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dead_Heat_on_a_Merry-Go-Round\">plot summary<\/a>, but I suspect the only reason anybody talks about it today is because of Ford&#8217;s somewhat ignominious debut. It is available on DVD, it appears, so maybe I&#8217;ll throw it in the Netflix queue, just for kicks.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison was a contract player for Columbia at the time, earning $150 a week and going uncredited for his walk-on part in <i>Dead Heat<\/i>. He would struggle along in this bottom-rung position for a few more years, appearing in forgotten movies and random television episodes, mostly westerns. His big break finally came in George Lucas&#8217; <i>American Graffiti<\/i>, in which Ford played the badass hotrodder in the black &#8217;56 Chevy, Bob Falfa.<\/p>\n<p>But then you folks probably knew all that, right?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by a conversation with my coworkers, here&#8217;s Harrison Ford&#8217;s big-screen debut, in a 1966 crime thriller called Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round: Dead Heat starred James Coburn as a criminal who&#8217;s pulling various con jobs as he gears up for a bank heist. It actually sounds like a pretty good flick, based on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}