{"id":715,"date":"2026-02-06T15:58:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/?p=715"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:58:50","slug":"the-black-castle-my-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"The Black Castle&#8230; My Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In The Black Castle (1952) Sir Ronald Burton, a British gentleman, investigates the disappearance of two of his friends at the Austrian estate of the sinister Count von Bruno, who is hunting unsuspecting English visitors a la The Most Dangerous Game, for past grievances against the British Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Burton arranges to be one of Bruno\u2019s \u201cguests\u201d, although Bruno knows nothing of his friendship with past victims.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This all comes out in the denouement, when Burton reveals the truth to Bruno just before he kills him in revenge for his friends and countrymen.<\/p>\n<p>In my twisted version, Burton is pursuing the two men he claims are \u201cfriends\u201d to exact vengeance of his own.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He tracks them to Bruno\u2019s castle, and when he realizes Bruno has robbed him of his vengeance after so many years and so many hardships, he kills the nefarious Count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Black Castle (1952) Sir Ronald Burton, a British gentleman, investigates the disappearance of two of his friends at the Austrian estate of the sinister Count von Bruno, who is hunting unsuspecting English visitors a la The Most Dangerous Game, for past grievances against the British Empire. Burton arranges to be one of Bruno\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambleon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}