{"id":1368,"date":"2022-08-02T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2022-07-02T20:16:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T20:16:10","slug":"the-defector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/2022\/08\/02\/the-defector\/","title":{"rendered":"The Defector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Montgomery Clift traveled to Munich to film The Defector in 1966 to prove to Hollywood and Elizabeth Taylor that he was capable of completing a motion picture. Wanting to work he hadn&#8217;t had many offers and The Defector was an independent film in Europe that promised him the leading man role in a mystery\/suspense film. Clift would die shortly after completing the film and it would be released in 1966 with mixed reviews. Detailed in the book The Longest Suicide in Hollywood, we take a look back at Clift&#8217;s visit to Munich for the filming of his final role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Defector-in-Munich.m4a\"><\/audio><figcaption>The Movie Files &#8211; The Defector<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5546.jpg?resize=800%2C455&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Defector\" class=\"wp-image-1367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5546.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5546.jpg?resize=300%2C171&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5546.jpg?resize=768%2C437&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Montgomery Clift in Munich in 1966<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5560.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Munich\" class=\"wp-image-1366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5560.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5560.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5560.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>The location for The Defector today..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aplombpublishing.com\/lsih.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"334\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/monty-prev-.jpg?resize=334%2C335&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Book\" class=\"wp-image-84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/monty-prev-.jpg?w=334&amp;ssl=1 334w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/monty-prev-.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/monty-prev-.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Longest Suicide in Hollywood.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montgomery Clift traveled to Munich to film The Defector in 1966 to prove to Hollywood and Elizabeth Taylor that he was capable of completing a motion picture. Wanting to work he hadn&#8217;t had many offers and The Defector was an independent film in Europe that promised him the leading man role in a mystery\/suspense film. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"podcast_url":"","podcast_explicit":"no","podcast_captioned":false,"podcast_duration":"","podcast_filesize":0,"podcast_mime":"","enclosure":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Defector-in-Munich.m4a\n8349768\naudio\/mpeg\n","podcast_season_number":"","podcast_episode_number":"","podcast_episode_type":"none","podcast_transcript":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"podcasting_podcasts":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-files"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"podcasting_podcasts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplombpublishing.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcasting_podcasts?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}