{"id":28426,"date":"2022-12-17T18:33:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28426"},"modified":"2022-12-17T18:33:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T17:33:54","slug":"a-review-of-the-new-netflix-film-rogue-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28426","title":{"rendered":"A review of the new Netflix film &#8220;Rogue Agent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\nThis Netflix movie is a small work in the sense that there are no special effects or great cinematography and no real action sequences, but it tells an interesting story which is based on a real case. \n<p>\nRobert Freegard was an imposter and conman who pretended to be an MI5 agent and swindled a succession of victims of significant sums of money. He is played convincingly by James Norton and, if his victims &#8211; mainly vulnerable women &#8211; seem gullible, you have to remember that the film only shows a portion of what actually happened. A favourite actress of mine, freckled-faced Gemma Arterton, portrays his nemesis, a lawyer who becomes wise to his ways and determined to track him down.\n<\/p><p>\nThe film concludes with brief information on Freegard&#8217;s conviction, imprisonment and &#8211; amazingly &#8211; release. Since the film was made, he has been indicted for alleged crimes in France.\n<\/p><p>\nLink: Wikipedia page on Robert Freegard <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Hendy-Freegard?wprov=sfti1\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Netflix movie is a small work in the sense that there are no special effects or great cinematography and no real action sequences, but it tells an interesting story which is based on a real case. Robert Freegard was an imposter and conman who pretended to be an MI5 agent and swindled a succession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28429,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28426\/revisions\/28429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}