This time, as I have a bad cold, I went for a different format. I put out questions for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) and the listeners responded. Here are the questions, and answers, and a little bit of music. Support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema. Feeling better today.
Back from hiatus, I take a look at a stylistically interesting biblical epic, 1954's The Silver Chalice with Paul Newman, Pier Angeli and Jack Palance, then to a 1952 hidden gem of a film noir with absolutely no dialogue at all, The Thief, starring Ray Milland and Rita Gam. You can find The Thief on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAx8ZpW1cEw&feature=share Please support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema...
This time around, I talk about another train trip to Sydney and the two movies I watched en route. The first is the second pilot TV movie for the David Janssen series Harry-O, Smile, Jenny You're Dead also starring Jodie Foster and Clu Gulager. Then a movie where the screenwriter copied his previous movie's beats and tropes, 1963's The Prize starring Paul Newman and Elke Sommer. Support the podcast via Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month at https://patreon.com/paleocinema . Feedback to feedba...
This time around it's everything from French Canadian chanteuses to Texas rednecks in the annual music episode. So put your cans on and wait for the tunes to hit your tympanic membranes. Support the podcast for as little as a dollar a month at patreon.com/paleocinema.
In this one, Humphrey Bogart joints the alt-Right in Black Legion and Jean Gillies in Decoy gives us the most amazing femme fatale in all film noir. Become a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema Get your free public domain ebook of Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here at https://www.goodreads.com/ebooks/download/11371?doc=4246
It's Buenopalooza time with two films from Oscar-nominated actor Victor Bueno. First the 1964 creepy low budget take on The Boston Strangler - The Strangler then we move on to a movie that combines charcuterie with Sweeney Todd, the 1971 dark comedy, The Bad Butcher a.k.a. Meat Is Meat a.k.a. Lo strangolatore di Vienna. So put on your polo necks and sit back and enjoy the ride. Support the podcast by donating at patreon.com/paleocinema
For this one, I have two silly movies. First the 1976 comedy parody of disaster films The Big Bus starring Joseph Bologna and Stockard Channing then Orca- The Killer Whale starring Richard Harris and Charlotte Rampling. EnjoY! Support the podcast via Patreon to win a chance at the April prize draw: patreon.com/paleocinema.
For this episode, there are a lot of pimps. First I look at the 1974 movie Truck Turner starring Isaac Hayes and Nichelle Nicholls, then we go back to 1972 for Bernie Casey in Hit Man, based on the same novel and same script as Get Carter. So put on your platform shoes and your best pimp threads and enjoy. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema
For this one I go from a 1970 WW2 caper film, Kelly's Heroes starring Clint Eastwood and Donald Sutherland to a 1957 Hemingway adaptation, The Sun Also Rises starring Tyrone Power and Ava Gardner. Tanks to bulls. The kid stays in the picture. Please support the podcast by going to patreon.com/paleocinema and throwing pocket change into the hat at my feet.
It's all stunts and balloon animals this time. First off, Brian Trenchard-Smith's 1976 stunt extravaganza Deathcheaters starring John Hargreaves and Grant Page, then we move over to 1991 for the Citizen Kane of Alcoholic Clown Movies, Shakes The Clown starring Bobcat Goldthwait and Tom Kenny. Support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema.
For this one, the shit gets serious. Firstly, Frank Capra's 1939 political comedy Mr Smith Goes To Washington starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, then we move on 1957 for Sidney Lumet's debut movie, 12 Angry Men starring Henry Fonda, Lee J Cobb and Martin Balsam. Plus there is feedback. Support the podcast via Patreon at patreon.com/paleocinema. Thanks
This time it's droll British Eurospy versus French New Wave cum Film Noir. First, it's Hot Enough For June, Ralph Thomas' Eurospy comedy starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylva Koscina with a great supporting cast including Robert Morley and Leon McKern. Then we hit Louis Malle's French crime drama Elevator To The Gallows starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet. You can support the podcast by donating at patreon.com/paleocinema.
For the first Paleo-Cinema of 2018 I look at the 1962 exploitation sleazefest that is Satan In High Heels starring Meg Myles and Grayson Hall, then we go to 1973 Sweden for the compulsively watchable but confronting revenge movie Thriller- A Cruel Picture a.k.a. They Call Her One Eye. Plus, there's feedback Support the podcast at https://patreon.com/paleocinema
This time I found a Fritz Lang movie I hadn't seen, the WW2 drama, co-written by Berthold Brecht, Hangmen Also Die starring Brian Donlevy and Walter Brennan, then I do my Top 10 movies first watched in 2017. Have a cool holiday season and a rockin' 2018 Support the podcast via Patreon at https://patreon.com/paleocinema
Here it is. As agreed with the Patreon subscribers I watched and reviewed Star Wars - The Last Jedi as fairly as I possibly could. There's really nothing else to say except enjoy the holidays. Go to https://patreon.com/paleocinema so you too can support the podcast
This time around I explain the funding changes with Podbean, then the interesting stuff. I look at a 1942 American portmanteau film, TALES OF MANHATTAN with an enormous cast of stars and a very interesting concept. From there, to celebrate the legalisation of Same Sex Marriage in this brown, unpleasant land, I look at the 1970 adaptation of Joe Orton's 1964 play, Entertaining Mr. Sloane starring Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews and Peter McEnerey. You can support the podcast at patreon.com/paleocinema ...
For this episode, Alex Pierce from Galactic Suburbia and Acts Of Kitchen podcasts drops by to talk about two Irwin Allen disaster movies, 1972's The Poseidon Adventure and 1974's The Towering Inferno. This is the most disastrous Paleo-Cinema Podcast yet! Alex's Podcasts http://actsofkitchen.com http://galactisuburbia.podbean.com And you can support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/paleocinema...
This time I break the format and talk about the four days I spent in Sydney last week. Rambling, autobiographical stuff. Thanks for indulging me this time. Please support the podcast for as little as $1 per month by going to patreon.com/paleocinema.
This time I'm doing TV with a look at ITC, the company that gave us Danger Man, The Saint, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, The Adventures of Robin Hood and many many other TV action and adventure shows of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Support the podcast for as little as a dollar a month by going to patreon.com/paleocinema .
This time we open in 18th Century California and then we open in Venice, we next play Verona and on to Cremona. From the 1940 swashbuckler The Mark Of Zorro starring Tyrone Power, linda Darnell and Basil Rathbone we go on to one of the most silly and joyous musical adaptations of Shakespeare, Kiss Me Kate from 1953 starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson and Ann Miller. If you enjoy the podcast think about contributing to it at patreon.com/paleocinema...
Number 67 has gone missing, so here's a reup of it.
Fpr 219 I look at a wildly popular adventure film from 1977 - The Deep, starring Robert Shaw, Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset. We then go to 1972 for the Bruce Lee martial arts film Fist Of Fury, which I compare to Death Wish. I also explain why. Support the podcast via Patreon, please.
For this one, I look at a couple of classic movie comedies that went on to spin-off crazily successful American TV series. First we have Neil Simon's The Odd Couple starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in the second of their ten collaborations. We then move on to the 1970 Robert Altman film MASH starring Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould. New York slobs and South Korean Army surgeons. Support the podcast via Patreon for as little as $1 a month....
This time around it's film noir versus movie mashup with my first viewing of the classic 1950 noir caper thriller The Asphalt Jungle starring Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe and Jean Hagen, then we go to one of the first movie mashups in history, Joe Dante's 1968 compilation Movie Orgy which combines old science fiction movies from the 1950s with cartoons, TV shows, political footage and PSAs to create a meta-narrative about the 1960s. Support the podcast via Patreon....
This time around, two films from the 1970s. We start with Ivan Dixon's 1973 movie about a black militant who joins the CIA, The Spook Who Sat By The Door, then we move on to Clint Eastwood's directorial debut, Play Misty For Me starring Eastwood, Jessica Walter and Donna Mills. Please support the podcast via Patreon.
This time it's two very 1960s films. The semi-successful satire on beach movies and youth culture - 1966's Lord Love A Duck starring Roddy McDowell, Lola Albright and Tuesday Weld and then to the epic 1960 story of the formation of the state of Israel, Exodus starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint and Lee J. Cobb. Support the podcast via Patreon - so I don't need to go out dancing with sailors for a living.
For 214 it's crime movies. We go from 1967 southern US race tensions in In The Heat Of The Night starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger to the moral ambiguity of Reagan Era LA in William Friedkin's To Live And Die In LA starring William Peterson and Willem Dafoe. Support the podcast via Patreon
For the second musicals podcast of the season Alisa Krasnostein from Galactic Suburbia Podcast and 12th Planet Press and I talk about the Busby Berkeley classic 42nd Street starring Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler and then on to 1969 for Bob Fosse's cinematic directorial debut - Swet Charity stasrring Shirley Maclaine, Paula Kelly and Chita Rivera. Buddy Can You Spare A Dime - Support Paleo-Cinema via Patreon...
This time around it's musicals. Tansy Rayner Roberts and I go from the rootin' tootin' (not much rootin') western action of Calamity Jane (1953) with Doris Day, Howard Keel and Dick Wesson to the darker musical, Bob Fosse's Cabaret starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Gray. It's a long one this time but we had a lot of fun with it. Tansy's web site is tansyrr.com - and she has a Patreon campaign there that you should donate to. Support this podcast via Patreon too....
Sorry for the hiatus but to celebrate, I'm looking at the life, career and comedy of Mel Brooks. From New Faces of 1952 to Dracula: Dead And Loving It. Also, there's feedback! Support the podcast via Patreon.
