shelley winters

Jackie and Greg take a nocturnal trip down the river of dreams for Charles Laughton's THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER from 1955. Topics of discussion include the film's storybook feel, Robert Mitchum's much-copied villain, Laughton's inspirations for the film, and why it stands as a truly original piece of cinema all these years later.

#63 on Sight & Sound's 2012 "The 100 Greatest Films of All Time" list.
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#25 on Sight & Sound's 2022 "The Greatest Films of All Time" list.  https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time

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We discuss The Night of the Hunter in our latest Criterion episode. Grant joins us to discuss Charles Laughton's one and only directorial feature, considered to be a cinema classic.

There are a lot of fantastic women in Women Talking, but when Jordan first saw the film in theaters, she was immediately  struck by the powerful performances of the movie's matriarchs, one of whom is played to hilarious, heartbreaking perfection by today's guest, Sheila McCarthy. Sheila tells us about identifying with Liza Minnelli's Pookie Adams in The Sterile Cuckoo — a feeling that she had when she saw the film in theaters as a teenager. Little could she have known that she'd go on to befriend and work with Liza, and so many great stars.

Then there's One Quick Thing about newly minted EGOT winner Viola Davis. 

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Sheila McCarthy

Happy Fall Old Soul Family! In this week's episode we explore The Night of the Hunter (1955) - a critical and commercial failure when it was released but has now been appraised as one of the greatest films ever made. In Charles Laughton's one and only directed film, Robert Mitchum a nightmare-provoking spooktacular performance that will chill you to the bone! Let us know your thoughts on social media! 

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In week 5 of our Halloween 2021 movies we watched the 1955 film, the Night of the Hunter. This is a Charles Laughton directed movie starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters.

Our film anniversary this month belongs to the romantic drama Charlie Chaplin once called “the greatest movie ever made about America.” That’s right, we’re diving into A Place in the Sun, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters, with supporting turns from Anne Revere and Raymond Burr. Directed by George Stevens and written by Harry Brown and Michael Wilson, this awards-heavy favorite among classic film lovers celebrates 70 years since premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in 1951, and it was the second film adaptation of the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, which was also a place of the same name.

MUSIC IN THIS EPISODE: The opening theme of A Place in the Sun, composed by Franz Waxman and Daniele Amfitheatrof.

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Our film anniversary this month belongs to the romantic drama Charlie Chaplin once called “the greatest movie ever made about America.” That’s right, we’re diving into A Place in the Sun, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters, with supporting turns from Anne Revere and Raymond Burr. Directed by George Stevens and written by Harry Brown and Michael Wilson, this awards-heavy favorite among classic film lovers celebrates 70 years since premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in 1951, and it was the second film adaptation of the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, which was also a place of the same name.

MUSIC IN THIS EPISODE: The opening theme of A Place in the Sun, composed by Franz Waxman and Daniele Amfitheatrof.

LINKS

• Follow us on Twitter: Jon Negroni, Julia Teti
• Check out our Cinemaholics Merch!
• Leave us a voicemail using The “Swell” App. We post new prompts every week or so.
• Check out our Patreon to support Cinemaholics!
• Email your feedback to cinemaholicspodcast [at] gmail.com.
• Connect with Cinemaholics on Facebook and Twitter.

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In the twelfth episode of Season 3 (Manifest Destiny) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Zax Protzmann (of the West Coast Popcast) and composer Austin Howard (of Sonosa Music) to discuss Winchester 73', the first collaboration between the famed partnership of Anthony Mann and James Stewart that paved the way for noirish complexity in the Western genre.

Burn the establishment to the ground, tear down your would-be idles, fight the man! Sorry, I'm just riled up by a movie that is so punk rock, it flipped my sense of authority UPSIDE DOWN! And it did so with a considerable sense of style; in clothing at least. This episode will rock your boat, baby,  SO . CHECK . IT . OUT.

Featuring: Jeremy Cangiano @jeremycangiano (or professionally @cangianostudios)

Kyle and Jeremy have known each other since they were mere children in the public education system, and both have dabbled in stand-up comedy! They both suck at it!

If you would like to start a dialogue on the practical use of the phrase "Hot Pants," THEN SHOOT US AN EMAIL!

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Musical Suggestion:

Foxy Shazam

Special Thanks To:

Ryan Maguire - For playing while the ship went down! (Music)

Brieana Woodward - For drawing me like one of her French Wolves! (Art)

Joe Moubhij - For diagnostics that WON'T sink this ship! (IT Advice)

And thank you to Irwin Allen for a groundbreaking film that almost nobody believed in! Everybody loves an underdog, especially when they're below water with a cool head. THANK YOU!

🎄 Happy birthday! The Advent Calendar House kicks off a countdown to Christmas in July by setting the table for Rankin/Bass’s eventual epic crossover, starting with Frosty’s Winter Wonderland, a snowy sequel from 1976 starring a strange, tall goblin claiming to be Andy Griffith.

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🎙 Guest:  

Brandon Medley (@brandmed, Blessed Are the Geek, Star Weirdos).  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. A brief guide to finding obsure things on Disney+, like Melody Time, starring Dennis Day, (the voice of Parson Brown) as Johnny Appleseed.  

2. Barbara Jo Ewing voiced one of the kids in her only known credit, but somehow IMDb knows her height.  

3. We do the math to figure out how far the wind carried a newspaper from Frosty’s hometown to the North Pole.  

4. Frosty beat The Santa Clause 2 to the “gotta get a wife” plot point by more than 2 decades.  

5. Frosty’s “specifications” for his ideal woman are the same as Sir Mix-a-Lot’s.  

6. Are snow people self-aware before coming to life and stuck in a comatose state?  

7. Jack Frost’s “winter that almost didn’t end” foreshadowed the real-life Blizzard of 1977 by less than 2 weeks.  

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📼 Retro Commercial Break:  

Freezy Freakies, 1984.  

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“Frosty’s Winter Wonderland” © 1976 Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc.  

Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house.  
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Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.