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For Screen and Country For Screen And Country | Age of Radio
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Brendan and Jason dive into the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films of All-Time list. What does that mean? Well, they'll be exploring each film's significance, if it deserves its place in history and answering questions and comments from you, the listeners.
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The Battle of the River Plate
BRIT PICK!
Stand up and salute the Union Jack, 'cause Jason keeps us seaborn with this week's film THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE! Can it hang with the other films? Did Paste Magazine even watch this one? It's Powell and Pressburger, for chrissakes.
Next week: The director of Kanal is BACK... in pog form.
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The Battle of the River Plate stars Bernard Lee, Peter Finch, John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Patrick Macnee, Andrew Cruikshank, Anthony Newley and Christopher Lee; directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
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Run Silent, Run Deep
You wanna go down, son? You wanna go all the way down? This ain't no Jim Cameron tour, fella, this is mortal combat at 150 feet below! Light up a Lucky and peel your shirt off 'cause it's getting real sweaty down here in 1958's Run Silent, Run Deep. Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster and Don Rickles crammed in a tube! Man... I wish Rickles was the captain. Now, that would have been a film! But no - they wanted Clark and I was like "fine." Stupid studio politics.
Next week: going off the grid again... and more naval warfare!
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Run Silent, Run Deep stars Burt Lancaster, Clark Gable, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter, Nick Cravat, Joe Maross, Mary LaRoche and Don Rickles; directed by Robert Wise.
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They Were Expendable
The Duke is back and this time, he's very patriotic! Wait... what do you mean "this time?" Uhh... anyway, this week the guys discussed the John Ford WWII film They Were Expendable centering on some PT boats following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The guys discuss if this John Wayne performance is worth anything, the character "Dad" who seemingly wandered in from another movie, the delightful Donna Reed and much more. Plus: a LOT of bad John Wayne impressions.
Next week: two ways you can run!
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They Were Expendable stars Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond, Marshall Thompson, Paul Langton, Leon Ames, Cameron Mitchell and Russell Simpson; directed by John Ford.
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Paths of Glory
This week, the fellas return to the muddy pit of 1917 in Stanely Kubrick's Paths of Glory, and boy howdy do they ever get a twofer! It's a war movie upfront and a courtroom drama in the caboose! When you talk about value, Stan gives it to you in a neat 90-or-so-minute package. That's why they always called him Value Kubrick! (Ed. note: they did not. No one ever did.)
Next week: The Duke is back!
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Paths of Glory stars Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, Wayne Morris, Richard Anderson, Joe Turkel, Timothy Carey, Emile Meyer and George Macready; directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut
This week, your hosts lead you into the Crusades with Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut. This is the version on the list so this is the version they discuss, baby! They talk about all the blue tinting, Orlando Bloom's divisive performance, the insanity of cutting out most of Eva Green and Michael Sheen's material from the theatrical cut, David Thewlis possibly playing a spirit and much more.
Next week: Kubrick!
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Kingdom of Heaven stars Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Alexander Siddig, Martin Csokas, Brendan Gleeson, Edward Norton, Ghassan Massoud, David Thewlis, Jeremy Irons, Michael Sheen, Kevin McKidd, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Liam Neeson; directed by Ridley Scott.
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Stalag 17
When Jason reached out and asked me, retired and also dead crooner, Dean Martin, to say a few words about Stalag 17, I was confused, as I had nothin' to do with the picture, jack. I wasn't even in the service for very long, myself. Hernia, they told me. It was at that point that he got real hot and some words flew around and we settled things with a bottle of the good stuff. Eventually, I was able to sneak out after agreeing to write this. I'm nothing if not a man of my word. So, buddy-o, lemme set you straight: this is a heck of a picture. What ain't straight was Billy Holden's driving, which we saw to tragic effect. That ain't funny, that's just a fact, jack.
So, watch it and listen to this podcast thing about it? I don't care. I did my part. I'm off to the ghost bar, baby.
Next week: It's gonna get biblical!
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Stalag 17 stars William Holden, Robert Strauss, Don Taylor, Harvey Lembeck, Peter Graves, Richard Erdman, Neville Brand, Sig Ruman and Otto Preminger; directed by Billy Wilder.
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