The Incomparable

00:00:00 ◼   ► the incomparable number 260 who [TS]

00:00:06 ◼   ► September 2015 welcome back everybody to [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► be in comfortable i'm your host Jason [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► still and joining me are a great group [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► of people to do something we like to [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► call old movie club movie club 2nite [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► we're going to be talking about two [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► films that have an actor in common or [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► perhaps two actors in common but one of [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► them is more important than the other [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► these are the hustler from 1961 an [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► anatomy of a murder from 1959 joining me [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► to talk about these old movies that you [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► should go on you go watch perhaps [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► because some of the idea i think i've [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► never seen either of these join me are [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► Steve let's hello hello there Jason fair [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► warning to listeners out there we may be [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► seeing the word panties during this [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► episode so let's get the snickering out [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► of our systems now okay [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► exactly what I was doing I know a French [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► word might be a little suggest kind of [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► suggested most French words are at is [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► good stuff David laura is also there [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► hello David and no Monty Ashley as is [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► out there Monty hi jason and the [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► internets dr. Drake joins us again [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► thereby depriving our chat room of its [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► only participant it's like it's like [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► when you want to give a presentation in [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► front of one person you just ask him to [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► come up on stage and join in the fun [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► well i doctored ring hello lady bird and [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► the ringleader for all of this of course [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► is mr. Philip Michaels hello [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► I've often heard about the clear customs [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► of this incomparable podcast now I see [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► that they're actually in place but it's [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► very it's very true [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► Phil can you explain to us why you chose [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► these two films for us why why that's a [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► company accusatory well um ah at as is [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► the case with most old movie clubs [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► because i enjoy the movies also i had [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► them on the DVR and was feeling very [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► lazy ride on a certain extent but [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► mom I want to expose you and the wider [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► world to the greatness of George see [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► scott who I think is a magnificent [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► supporting actor and a pretty good lead [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► actor if you've ever seen patent but [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► these are two of his performances that a [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► 10 not really get remembered in the inn [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► but by General movie lovers so you [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► really there [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► I wouldn't call him deep cuts but that [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► you do have to have some sort of [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► knowledge of the the movies to know that [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► he's even in these their anatomy of a [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► murder is a very small role in a [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► memorable role in the hustler is one of [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► the central characters and I think I [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► perhaps i'll be disabused of this notion [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► I think he's fantastic and both and and [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► the best thing about both movies and so [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► I just wanted to to spend an evening [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► talking about the glory or non glory of [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► George see Scott now i watch the [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► complete first and only season of Fox's [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► to come mr. president do I get any [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► credit for that [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► no fact I think Georgie Scott Campbell [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► Scott owe you an apology [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► huh apparently I i lied i saw one [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► episode of mr. president and so haha [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► that that was pretty much the whole [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► season and then I went away [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► well that would be the point of George [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► see Scott's career when it was anything [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► for a paycheck [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► mhm most actors do reach that point it's [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► something i would agree with you feel [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► that George see Scott is the highlight [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► of both of these films and unfortunately [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► for me that makes the rest of the film [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► seem somewhat this is to somewhat pale [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► in comparison to the moment when he's [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► not on screen but think about that is we [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► i'm sure that we will and shall we start [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► with anatomy of a murder well a [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► chronological is a perfectly good way to [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► do it or or alphabetical you could do [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► alphabetical too because it's still [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► anatomy of murder [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► well then then let's start with anatomy [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► of a murder see what i did there are [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► exactly what i said it was i watch them [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► in the opposite order as I always to [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► what is wrong with you lots [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► we don't have enough time podcast is not [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► long so anatomy of a murder is an auto [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► premature movie Otto Preminger's a an [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► interesting director and and and i think [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► dr. dre might want to jump in and [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► and the East strikes me as a fellow who [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► probably has some opinions about Otto [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► Preminger this was I think the point and [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► Otto Preminger's career when he was just [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► fascinated with processes and how things [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► work because he made both this movie [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► which is essentially a murder trial from [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► start to finish with with very little of [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► it left on the cutting room floor up and [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► I think his follow-up movie to this was [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► advise and consent which is basically if [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► you took that ABC saturday morning [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► cartoon about how a bill becomes a law [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► and turn into a pot I remember auto [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► premature being on a laugh in a lot [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► he was also feeling on Batman well yeah [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► but Mr Freeze yeah uh you know later [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► taken over by by arnold schwarzenegger [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► so there's kind of a german thing I [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► don't you know I reason head it's been [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► cold in germany and austria that's right [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► apparently yes [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► you know i'm not i'm not a big Otto [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► Preminger fan i don't think i've ever [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► seen Laura which i think is probably his [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► best movie the top movie and what made [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► his reputation yeah I love this one is [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► up based on a book that was written by a [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► a judge I believe a Michigan judge under [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► a pseudonym and it is a case of a murder [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► case as you might determine from the [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► movie that starts Jimmy Stewart is in [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► turn quite a twist it was like [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► jaywalking yeah and yeah you really [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► don't pack it in for anatomy of a of a [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► of a civil suit a minor infraction but [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► you wouldn't see it coming but anatomy [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► of probate now they don't know that [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► Jimmy Stewart is a defense attorney he [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► used to be the the county prosecutor it [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► it turns out that he lost the election [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► and he is not taking the loss well [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► because he spends most of his days [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► fishing and not being a very dedicated [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► lawyer but he and being a terrible boss [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► by be exactly he's is his very good [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► drunk [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► yes his businesses is is on the brink of [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► ruin his secretary Parton who I would [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► also say as a highlight of the movie is [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► stevie is disagree playing bird no no [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► I'm happy to see her in something [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► other than Greece yes Miss Brooks 44 r4r [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► decrepit listeners have foot which has [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► all of them is oh yeah but he is tapped [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► to do to to be the council in a murder [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► case in which an army lieutenant played [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► by Ben Gazzara it's impossible to say [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► his name without saying it like that [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► Ben Gazzara is accused of is accused of [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► murdering the demand the bartender who [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► raped his wife who's played by a very [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► young very dishy Lee Remick um and uh we [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► are as the case involves we are we are [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► sort of led to believe that Ben bizarre [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► is not exactly innocent of well it's [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► clear that he did it hit the if the [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► defense they settle on is that he was [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► temporary temporarily insane and whether [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► that's a bull crap or not is left to you [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► the audience member to determine its [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► probably bullcrap but it's james stewart [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► and his and his dear friend drunken [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► Arthur O'Connell if it's better now but [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► creepy and parnell is the the biggest [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► drunk and all of the upper peninsula and [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► the state he asked Jimmy Stewart's words [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► give up the bose if you want to work on [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► the case [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► No so give up for some reason that never [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► becomes clear and I'm thinking it over [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► so he can drive to Canada without [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► swerving off the road [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► yes and yes he does only on the way back [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► another thing that never pays off in any [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► way or makes any difference whatsoever [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► yeah i recently watched users has [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► exactly the same plot except the drunk [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► actually has a reason to be a drunk [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► yes well he's in the u.p there's not [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► much else to do it up no right to tell [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► me half my family's in the u.p I was [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► there last year [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► that's the entire story okay there you [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► go [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► they settle on this uh temporary [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► insanity defense they're going up [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► against the the man who beat Jimmy [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► Stewart for the seat of county [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► prosecutor and it turns out he is a [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► terrible he's gone so great now I'm [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► right I i would take a case against him [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► to which makes you wonder how he lost to [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► him in the first place [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► Brooks west [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► believe was married to Eve Arden yep he [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► was yes I just got the sense that Jimmy [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► Stewart is self-defeating that he you [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► know that he he's a better lawyer but [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► you know not a better maybe it's not a [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► better politician [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► yeah so you like that was a he was da [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► for 10 years so you did all right for [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► himself he sounds awfully young to have [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► already been da for 10 years I don't [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► know he looks a little love a little [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► older than I remember him yeah it's got [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► some he's got some great articles [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► although it is all great given the Milky [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► films in black-and-white he's 51 if you [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► want but uh Mitch the district attorney [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► Mitch terrible stupid mitch is aware of [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► his limitations and brings in a hired [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► gun from from the shelter from lands of [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► fancy babysitting dancing frog legs and [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► lansing michigan and that would be where [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► George see Scott enters the picture as [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► the brilliantly named Claude dancer yes [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► even has a closers name is perfect and [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► so of after about an hour of setting all [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► this up [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► that's where it gets kinda long we just [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► wear well i was i was going to say it [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► picks up at the moment they get into the [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► courtroom three [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► finally I are you saying the same thing [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► Steve the first hour of the movie is a [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► lot of lot of setting up and a lot of [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► hey let's meet all the players in this [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► drama [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► did you guys notice lyric my god no I [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► believe Ike ice i use the words dishy [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► yeah yeah yeah right straight from [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► Colliers magazine [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► yeah she's lovely but it is offset by [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► the fact that she comes off as intensely [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► creepy throughout the entire my notes [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► say super weird and flirty but super [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► weird [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► in fact that she's hitting on Bigler a [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► couple of days after her supposed rape [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► and and obvious beating is just really [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► off-putting it's yes we should point out [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► that that Lee Remick was probably [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► probably beat up by back gazzara after [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► quite possibly of the rate by the [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► bartender who we never actually uh see [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► photos of I don't believe just very [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► clear on the world shots [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► yeah on the wall but uh the the first [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► hour of the movie as i said is is a lot [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► of setup and then it's the court case [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► which for me is where [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► picks up I i think the the court case [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► has your it's it's a very interesting [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► legal drama with your twists and your [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► turns [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► I don't know how much we want to get [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► into those twists and turns but it's a [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► lot of Jimmy Stewart sparring with [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► George see Scott where which i think is [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► the most interesting part of this movie [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► oh absolutely mm and uh to jump ahead to [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► the the verdict it turns out that dhara [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► it do we want to spoil the ending [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► yes yeah can you spoil this ending I I [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► think so I mean other than the fact [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► table he gets off that's Eon thing the [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► easies exonerated right and uh Jimmy [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► Stewart and and and no longer drunken [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► Arthur O'Connell go to collect that go [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► to collect the check from from him and [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► if he he skips town and they have a good [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► laugh about how they're not going to pay [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► their secretary again [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► end of story but they are but they are [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► going to extremely in extremely sleazy [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► fashion then go and and do probate on [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► the state of the daughter of the rapist [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► of the rapist or the guy they've just [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► hard as a race breakfast possibly i [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► should point out that on the while he [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► was the it's pretty much implied that [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► that he did [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► raper the question is just how much did [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► the how crazy was the lieutenant when he [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► went and shot the rapist [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► I'm not certain that's ever really made [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► clear to be honest you're not i think [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► that is by the fact that they find the [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► and I only going to use this word once i [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► hope you get all the peoples out of the [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► way they find the panties of the of Lee [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► Remick in Barney quills laundry or at [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► the in the hotel laundry there found by [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► the daughter of Barney quill part equal [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► is the the deceased mom [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► the daughter was secretly his daughter [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► she was actually closing in public as [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► his business manager and she's on whom [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► the case turns Mary plant is her name [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► and the cross-examination of Mary plant [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► by George see Scott where George Scott [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► overplays hand is my favorite puppet of [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► the movie and George these guys over [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► so wonderful at being you know ultra [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► confident and then blowing it [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► yes right and and this is absolutely [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► this moment where he reacted he does the [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► lawyer mistake of asking a question that [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► he doesn't know the answer to [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► yeah and uh she gives him because he's [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► my father and the look that George see [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► Scott at that moment and then he [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► immediately tries to recover and then [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► fails to recover and doesn't comfort it [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► is it is a brilliant acting turn it is [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► worth the price of admission for this [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► admittedly to our in 40 minute movie but [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► i would quibble about the rapid [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► introduction of evidence that that the [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► other side of the of the case hasn't [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► seen before except it already happened [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► the other way like 20 minutes it'll here [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► we're at a magic witness appears that [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► the the defense knows nothing about and [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► you know I think now we've seen so much [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► so many legal TV shows and so many legal [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► films that you look at that you go come [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► on [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► and I mean there's a lot of shorthand [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► happening here because although this [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► movie is long it is not as long as an [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► actual court case [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► yeah but but that any an agreement [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► certainly builds up the drama and I [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► found that I forgive the ultimate twist [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► because it's been set up by you know the [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► it's almost like all's fair here because [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► the the you know they got bushwhacked by [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► a biometric mystery witness not too long [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► before that and and I should point out [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► that a that i became aware of this movie [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► because a mutual friend of ours Jason [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► was in law school at the time Andy they [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► showed this movie to the second or third [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► year law school students as a well it's [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► overly dramatized but this is not a a [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► bad recreation of what a trial is like [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► especially with the the the search for [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► precedent and the way that you handle [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► cross-examination really are our mutual [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► friends only quibble is the scene where [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► Jimmy Stewart jumps up to speed and [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► scream Jackson Jackson because that [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► isn't that is absolutely calling the [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► jury's attention to something that you [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► don't want them to remember [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► this episode of the incomparable is [TS]

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00:15:46 ◼   ► they're locked up they don't have the [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► blades that I need but for the last year [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► so I but not have that problem because [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► i've been using Harry's for my shaving [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► lotion for my racer and for my razor [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► blades now Harry's blades costs about [TS]

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00:16:06 ◼   ► the first blades they made their they [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► liked it so much they bought the factory [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► and now Harry's owns the factory in [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► Germany where their blades are made wipe [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► a $32 for an eight pack of blades it's [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► half that price of Harry's and with [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► Harry's you get a better shade respects [TS]

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00:16:29 ◼   ► skeptical about internet razors and [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► things like that you know what the hairy [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► blades I've actually changed the way i [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► shave now and improved it by using [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► Harry's wonderful shaving lotion and [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► they're super sharp nice quality blades [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► starter set is a great deal to $15 [TS]

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00:16:59 ◼   ► Harry's men women [TS]

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00:17:03 ◼   ► if you are primate if you are human you [TS]

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00:17:07 ◼   ► some of that air off of your body [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► this is what Harry's is good at and if [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► there is a primate in your life if there [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► is another human in your life who you [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► think could use a gift perhaps of some [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► really nice shaving equipment Harry's [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► consider it may be very nice to give us [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► a gift just an idea for me to go to [TS]

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00:17:42 ◼   ► today and thank you too Harry [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► sponsoring this edition of being [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► comfortable i don't know whether this is [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► something that happened a lot before [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► whether this is one of the popularizers [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► of it but he he literally has the I'm [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► just a good old country lawyer spindle [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► this this is kind of like the trope as [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► they say yeah I'm just a humble country [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► lawyer trying to do the best I can [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► against this brilliant prosecutor from [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► the big city of an NCAA it if it when [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► when I watched it with my family years [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► and years ago my mother called the [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► anatomy of a Matlock [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► oh hi i mean it's it's it's not it's not [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► as simplistic as that but it's it's just [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► the the tropes of the country lawyer and [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► you know but the folks eNOS of it and I [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► imagine this was one of the first film's [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► to really come to take the time I mean [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► this is not a shorthand of a legal case [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► this is this is the whole legal case you [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► get about what an hour of setup where [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► you're basically witnessing all the [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► evidence and how this whole for the case [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► comes together [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► yeah i would say this in the wrong man [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► are probably two two sides of the same [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► coin where it's it's going through the [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► the various legal processes to to [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► varying degrees of impact and for [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► dramatic sake there there's information [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► that's withheld but you get a pretty [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► good sense of legal strategy on the part [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► of jimmy stewart and struggling with [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► problematic facts which i think is a [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► really interesting that we don't ever [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► really feel confident in lieutenant [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► Mannion idea Sarah and you have been [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► google because RM and and laura lee [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► remick is you know like i said super [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► weird and disturbing and she's very [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► flirty and we can talk [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► I mean one of it's very difficult to [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► look at a movie from 1959 through the [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► lens of 2015 [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► it's fascinating in that it's got a lot [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► of subject matter that I'm surprised was [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► even discussed I mean well that is a [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► very much in Otto Otto Preminger thing [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► yeah yeah you always you always push the [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► envelope yes you don't simply say [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► panties and movies back then you did not [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► talking about talking about a rape in in [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► a decent amount of detail and about you [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► know did they find semen and things like [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► that is [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► this is firm sorry did they find sperm [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► was brought to completion I mean yeah [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► that that's all there and then the [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► portrayal of of Laura there are moments [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► that it gave me the the creeps [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► because there are some implications at [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► some point of a few people that there's [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► the implication of you know did she [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► deserve it [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► that gives that makes my skin crawl [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► right is the most difficult part of [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► watching this movie today is it takes a [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► very i wish i could say of its time but [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► a very retrograde attitude towards [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► sexual assault [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► well i'm not sure the movie takes that [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► stance i mean certainly their characters [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► in the film that take that stance but [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► the film itself if anything it makes the [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► save the guys at the the army guys that [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► he talks with seem like other cats for [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► having that viewpoint as opposed to [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► siding with them i'd say Laura I mean [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► that there are two ways to view Laura [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► right one way is that you know this is [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► who she is she is flirty and that's just [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► who she is and it's a little bit weird [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► if you're not expecting that she so [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► forward but just because she's flirty [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► you know she's married and she can do [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► what you essentially she can do what she [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► wants but the rape is still rape on the [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► other hand I feel like she's not [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► portrayed as a victim other than like [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► the bruises she gets she's she's making [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► moves on Jimmy Stewart you know a couple [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► of days after you know she's been raped [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► and her husband has has killed a guy [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► it is weird it just it feels it feels [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► weird and I kept trying to parse it as i [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► went and at times it was uncomfortable [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► and at times i was impressed that it [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► wasn't as bad as I feared it it would be [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► and that you know you're right Steve [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► that some of these other characters [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► don't come across very well at all but [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► it did it was very uncomfortable that [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► whole you know a lot of love lyrics [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► performance [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► well as some of that is is what made me [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► wonder if if the rape even occurred at [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► all I mean George Scott makes a good [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► point towards the end which is that [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► those panties could have been placed [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► there laughing please could have been [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► placed in a laundry chute by anybody [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► else including Lee Remick herself and [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► this whole thing could have possibly [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► been planned by the both of them at and [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► I just wonder if maybe the sort of [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► creepiness the sort of a [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► no the flirtiness isn't is meant to keep [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► that sort of open-ended I mean the whole [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► kind of the whole point of this is that [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► we only see really what happens from [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► Jimmy Stewart's point of view right i [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► mean we really find out what happened [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► which is intriguing [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► well I know that first conversation he [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► has with with ben gazzara he's like I'm [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► just going to suggest a few things you [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► might want to think if you can remember [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► Mike and absolutely gives him the idea [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► to claim insanity right yeah that's why [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► I think more than the procedural aspects [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► of the trial I think that's why lawyers [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► like this uh this movie it's because it [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► has the moral ambiguity parts of it in [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► its end on both sides [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► I mean Jimmy Stewart is doing things and [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► saying things that are you know what we [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► would expect a forthright Jimmy Stewart [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► character to do and Georgie Scott and [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► and the doofus that he's working with do [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► the same thing they they're withholding [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► evidence that George see scott knows [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► perfectly well the the temporary [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► insanity case uh that this that Jimmy [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► Stewart's case is hinged and knows it's [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► he just said he just doesn't say it [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► yeah it because the the the bad turn he [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► is like a doofus that rages no injuries [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► guys like what makes up you know you all [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► along without opening the judge would [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► know he was hope he was hoping that [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► Jimmy Stewart wouldn't find the [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► president but he absolutely knows that [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► the president's there i love that so [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► yeah that's great see ya my favorite [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► thing about George he's got in this [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► movie is how much time he doesn't spend [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► doing anything just sitting there [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► watching jimmy stewart clearly knowing [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► everything that's going on and every [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► time his do this buddy starts to panic [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► you you can tell from Georgie Scott [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► whether or not they're going to win the [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► argument that there's two moments of [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► George see Scott subtlety in that vein [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► that I really really love there's the [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► very early scene when when dancer [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► assuming bigler to be a country rube [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► tries to get man examined by the state [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► psychiatrist late and without formal [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► petition but then it'd be cooler proves [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► that he knows that you know that's not [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► going to fly if they actually bring it [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► for the judge and she's trying to reach [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► I wrote it through and Scott is just so [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► smooth and the way he changes gears here [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► soon as he realizes the Biegler knows [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► what he's talking about you at you and [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► instantly know that we have the makings [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► of a great duel here and the other is [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► there's a scene where Biegler in people [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► being the job at the jimmy stewart [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► character in mock anger he slams his [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► hand down on the table right in front of [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► George see scott in one of his tirades [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► who's just sitting there with his you [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► know his hands under his chin and and [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► and you see him to George see scott dann [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► are I'd jump a little bit you know [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► because there's somebody slamming his [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► fist on the table right in front of him [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► but he otherwise just doesn't react at [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► all and it is hysterical reaction george [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► scott also delivers my favorite line of [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► the movie and it's set up by Jimmy [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► Stewart Jimmy Stewart is objecting to [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► something he says that Allah blesses the [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► lawless truck I've ever seen in a [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► courtroom and Georgie Scott just says [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► you haven't lived one thing I think is [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► weirdly missing from this movie is the [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► end of the trial like after going [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► through every witness and everybody [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► cross-examination they skip the closing [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► arguments entirely except to say that [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► was the best closing argument I've ever [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► seen I guess I think we already sava the [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► trials that we don't need to see the [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► summation but it's like come on it's not [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► so much the summation i want i really [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► need the scene where George Scott walked [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► over and shakes Jimmy Stewart's hands as [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► well you beat me or something because we [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► never seen this guy lose did you want to [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► see him lose Monty I kind of don't I [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► want I want the closure yeah I want to [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► see how he takes to losing to a humble [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► country lawyer [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► yeah I guess I'm Indiana to I feel I [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► don't feel bad for George Scott at any [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► point in this movie even even when he [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► asked that question because I feel like [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► he's doing he he's done everything he [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► can hear right well they're both doing [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► what they're supposed yeah you're right [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► there and clear defending their clients [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► are they're prosecuting the client to [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► the best of their ability within the [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► within the law [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► I like uh and again there may be some [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► questions about the reality but i like [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► the theatrical objections not just [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► objection objection but the the sparring [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► they do where Jimmy Stewart is trying [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► very hard to get the circumstances of [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► the rape into the into the into the case [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► and into the range of the record in [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► front of the jury and he tries in a few [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► different ways and you can see him [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► trying to get it in and and what's also [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► funny is that both sides are playing the [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► game of bringing things up that the [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► judge says you know we're going to [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► strike that from the record you you know [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► they withdraw their objection and the [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► jury will disregard which is I think you [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► see him that you've seen a million times [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► and I've always had the same question [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► which is voiced by Lieutenant Mannion [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► which is how can a jury disregard what [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► is already heard and and Jimmy Stewart [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► says they can't lieutenant [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► yeah there's a there's a lawyer's have a [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► phrase for that it's called on ringing [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► the bell and I'm kind of surprised that [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► that maybe that didn't exist back in the [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► fifties I don't know I've heard it many [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► many times from attorneys and lawyers [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► always want to do that uh they always [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► want to oh excuse me judge I you know [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► and then in and have something come out [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► that objection to or not the jury hears [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► it right and they know it and if it's in [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► and I've seen this in news reports that [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► if this goes too far [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► they will just call a mistrial right so [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► you as a job as a as a lawyer you have [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► to be very careful because if you do too [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► much of this it will be misconduct you [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► will get in trouble and you will lose [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► your case they will they will start [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► again if you if you talk so you're [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► walking a fine line when you do stuff [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► like this and if this movie wasn't too [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► much of that I can't imagine what would [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► be there really getting getting the the [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► rape into the case seems like a pretty [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► huge you know infraction of that [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► particular role well mr. Biegler you got [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► your rape into the case I feel like both [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► sides do it a little bit which is why I [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► kind of forgive it is that is that it [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► seems like this isn't a parallel [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► universe where more of this is allowed [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► than then I don't think both sides do it [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► equally I think it's ninety-nine percent [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► Jimmy Stewart he does most of it there's [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► no doubt about it that that's his [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► essentially his strategy at the [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► beginning is just to keep on objecting [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► to things and trying to trying to get [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► this extra information into bias the [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► jury his tactic is to go to fire and [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► force the other side to object [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► he's constantly ask inappropriate [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► questions that have a good say I'm gonna [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► warn you again counselor he doesn't care [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► about the warnings he's a district [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► attorney doofus like has that one [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► objection where he looks like five [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► different yet [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► that he's objecting to that's wonderful [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► moment to well that's too much for me [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► so folks if this is the power the power [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► of the folksy is Jimmy Stewart and his [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► folks easiest hear ya do we want to say [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► a word about Joseph Welch let's be [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► honest yes [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► yeah haven't talked about him at all up [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► this one this week [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► good lord yeah there are two pieces of [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► stunt casting in this movie [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► yes one is Duke Ellington and why I [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► thanks bye I what's that guy doing in [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► the Upper Peninsula of Michigan what [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► have you that we get the soundtrack that [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► we do with this film on I'm almost [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► infinite I'm okay with that and all with [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► you on that [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► I'm perfectly fine with Duke Ellington [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► but Joseph well she's unbelievably bad [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► it has won a contest and it's it's it's [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► I I mean we are you know we know his [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► history we know why they wanted him [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► there because of the army McCarthy trial [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► and you know have you know shamed [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► senator at long last Senator McCarthy [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► but he's awful and terrible in this [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► movie [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► okay I'm not gonna I'm not gonna exactly [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► disagree with you [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► um I I am I loved him I I feel like you [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► go into a courtroom somewhere and you're [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► going to get a judge in every judges a [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► person and they're gonna have their own [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► personality and I thought this was just [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► like well we got this guy this is going [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► to be the guy and and he's Corey's [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► quirky and all they got a guy who speaks [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► English like he learned it phonetically [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► it has no idea what he said open would [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► Steve defendant Joseph Welch all right [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► well maybe love Joseph Welch is a bit [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► strong i love the character I liked the [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► lines they gave him i can digest pig [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► iron is particularly great and I thought [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► he pulled it off okay i don't know [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► anything about who Joseph Welch is or [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► why that stunt casting so maybe you can [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► know for me he was the attorney in the [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► army but the the McCarthy hearings who [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► oh ok put uh just McCarthy street [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► got it okay you always the one who said [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► have you no sense of decency sir [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► ya got it and and I should point out [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► that auto premature love stuck casting [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► and in the a4 mentioned Annette advising [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► advise and consent he is it he wanted to [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► cast Martin Luther [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► King jr. as a senator from Alabama then [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► the end it was all going to happen and [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► then it sort of unraveled at the end did [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► that but the otto preminger never met a [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► stunt casting thing he didn't like he [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► cast Peter Lawford as a John Kennedy [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► like character in advising consent as [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► well [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► incidentally part of the jury mrs. [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► Joseph Welch yeah that was the payment [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► there was one that was his condition for [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► accepting the role lovely to jason [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► stevens point I i think the character of [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► the judge is fine i sniff-sniff easy [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► though his quirkiness is fine i think [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► it's written perfectly well and judges [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► do that sort of crap in court where they [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► come in and they tell little stories and [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► they did it [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► it's very weird of his very weird but he [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► doesn't deliver it well I i thought the [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► delivery complimented the goofiness of [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► the character it didn't come off as [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► stunned as stilted to me so much as this [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► is just an odd duck and this is the way [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► he acts and and I would compare him to [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► clarence and it's a wonderful life now [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► also has a very bizarre way of [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► delivering lines there's there's a line [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► he delivers that some well there's no [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► need to make a federal case of it and [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► there's this pause its size it as if the [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► audience is supposed to erupt into gales [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► of laughter at this and I've i I've [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► never really gotten that have you ever [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► seen a judge try to tell a joke in a [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► courtroom [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► yeah that's how it goes but Otto [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► Preminger can cut away to more [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► interesting things instead of keeping [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► the camera there on the judge telling [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► this this legend thing I i it's it's [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► it's just an odd decision that I think [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► undermine movie [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► alright well i did not hate him I [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► actually quite enjoyed it what could I [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► guess charitably be called a performance [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► discovered it was weird and quirky and [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► unexpected i would say which is why I [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► kind of enjoyed also you'll never look [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► at Floyd the barber from massey Andy [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► Griffith Show quite the same way after [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► he was working in Genesis a couple of [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► tournaments [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► yes yes end it [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► I had a few notes yeah go through your [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► notes I i like the line but that's a [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► crazy name for a crazy lawyer I thought [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► that was hilarious and weird [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► yeah Jimmy Stewart warns her about booze [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► and pinball machines and Men and juke [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► joints i really enjoyed that too [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► that's good advice to anyone and one of [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► my favorite things in the movie and and [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► it becomes obvious if if you're watching [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► but i noticed it from the very beginning [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► is there is a scene where George see [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► Scott is is talking to a witness and [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► he's standing between the witness and [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► Jimmy Stewart and Jimmy Stewart it and [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► it happens it starts a little bit slowly [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► he you see a moving in the background [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► which is what got my attention you're [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► like why that's a weird choice [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► directorial but what's happening is [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► every time George see Scott moves he [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► steps in front of jimmy stewart and [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► ollie so hilarious has to move and get [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► out of the way and finally it's like it [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► just keeps getting in my way but I [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► thought that was really that was that [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► made me laugh along the way it's stage [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► is great too because you notice it [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► before I think Jimmy Stewart yes [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► yeah you immediately see that he's [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► blocked off Jimmy Stewart your view of [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► Jimmy Stewart so you immediately know [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► what he's up to and it's it's great that [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► is I i agree that is my favorite thing [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► there too and George Scott is obviously [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► doing it instinctively because he never [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► takes his eyes off electronic now during [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► that he's he's he's looking at the [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► witness all the time and he's doing it [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► with his back to Jimmy Stewart he's [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► blocking him all the time and he has [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► great response when Jimmy Stewart [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► objects [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► I'm sorry I didn't mean to prevent the [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► council from second witness then you do [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► it again and I'll knock your block off [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► that isn't overly hospital does anyone [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► else have any notes that they want to [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► get out yes I i have many infantile [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► running with boy the actual best part of [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► the movie which has not been mentioned [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► which is the opening credit sequence I [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► we have baskets so good and the [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► disjointed body working so well with [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► that Rudy 2d jazz may call it movie [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► thanks bye if people don't want to watch [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► two hours and 40 minutes of movie at [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► least watch the opening credits they're [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► the best opening credits ever i do not [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► find it charming that Jimmy Stewart buys [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► outboard motors instead of paying his [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► employees [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► he's already you're really fixated on [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► what a terrible bossy said she's [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► literally working without pay and he's [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► buying things with the money he's [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► supposed to pay her this this is happens [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► right when they're trying to set him up [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► as charmingly eccentric go out fishing [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► that's fine [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► buying new motors that's not fine [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► so how're you supposed to bass fish [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► without a new motor mounting the [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► supposed to row i did not think that we [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► needed a trick dog in this movie [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► no I often don't think we need to trick [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► dog but it's really not nice one [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► especially not in San no dog I don't [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► understand that whole scene is like [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► right day we got a dog in a cage let's [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► let the dog out there is the dog ok [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► goodbye to the dog now look you can hold [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► a little light looking drinks beer and [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► passing down god I thought I was finding [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► that mrs. Manion said that she wears her [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► glasses for reading playing pinball [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► things like that you know but that bad [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► general category reading involvement [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► she's a she's a cool day man this is [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► going to involve the word panties ok but [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► i will remind you know tittering there [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► isn't anything funny with panties that [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► figure in the pilot death of one man and [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► the possible incarceration of another [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► yep thank you just well it's weird that [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► he did not mention also a woman was [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► raped and that's why they're here not [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► it's just how they affect these two guys [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► over huh [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► is it strange that in 1959 a courtroom [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► full of adults would have laughed at [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► that it seems like it to me [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► it's a funny word panties are hilarious [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► particularly I don't know who I'm [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► talking to a doubt it because it [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► keywords are funny ok like pancreas yes [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► HIGHlarious word platipus see my god me [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► oh my oh yeah now moving moment has [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► passed pooks and finally this Ruby [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► contains the line if they're high [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► they're gay and happy [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► yeah I refuse to provide context know [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► why would you ruin I see the rest of my [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► time I was a little surprised at the the [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► importance of the girdle i I've never [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► really thought of the girdle as being [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► something to make a woman less [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► attractive i always think of it [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► something that's that's there to hold in [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► not attractive jiggle but larger jiggle [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► than any woman would like to be showing [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► so that I thought was odd if you go [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► around without a girdle then you're [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► clearly a libertine apparently yes the [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► the very long sequence where Jimmy [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► Stewart was trying to get Marie hamilton [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► who is like george scott in both of [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► these movies to say wolf [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► okay it wasn't there was no sense that [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► was very anticlimactic [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► have you ever heard the term washer went [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► on with whalebone corsets [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► yeah because well that's going on [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► thinking what are they going to come out [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► with here and don't know it comes out [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► with wolf [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► well alright fine i thought master was [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► perfectly good to measure is good maybe [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► master of like you know whatever and at [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► the end [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► uh when Jimmy and and Arthur O'Connell [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► are you know I've gone to the to the [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► trailer and the trailers gone and [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► there's a trash can and you know [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► arthropod also we never trust a guy who [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► drinks gin there is I believe a blatz [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► beer can in the trashcan you're going to [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► besmirch in when there's a pan of blacks [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► in the trashcan there in the Upper [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► Peninsula of Michigan I cannot [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► adequately convey it is absolutely [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► perfect if it really is black stripes I [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► stopped and I tried to you know I tried [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► to look at that really blasters at the [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► end of its what is it [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► but you know if it's really black that's [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► perfect now that that is that's [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► wisconsin in the u.p all over is why I [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► enjoy this movie it's a great before it [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► it's an all-time performance by George [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► see Scott um and there are some very [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► good supporting performances by your [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► your Eve Arden here Arthur O'Connell's a [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► lot of good supporting work in this [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► movie I like Jimmy Stewart movies where [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► Jimmy Stewart is kind of he still Jimmy [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► Stewart but he's a little bit bent we [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► watched rope earlier in an episode on [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► with the the anthony mann movies are a [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► good example of [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► of Jimmy Stewart whose hey I'm still [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► good and decent but not all the time and [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► this is one of those movies we've talked [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► about the moral ambiguity of that [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► character is a long movie yeah just [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► Josef well kinda drag everything down [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► the at times he does but it's a nice [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► little potboiler of a legal drama with [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► some really sensational performances and [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► again Jimmy Stewart as sort of turning [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► our expectations of what Jimmy Stewart [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► should be up on its head [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► I i enjoy that kind of picture and I I [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► think that's two hours and 40 minutes [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► well spent [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► yeah I go along with that you're a [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► beautiful man [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► okay i know that i've been saying that [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► for you but mentioning the wrong man and [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► and putting it in here and i would i [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► would put twelve angry men in there too [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► these were films that at the time to [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► push the envelope and showed us the [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► legal process we didn't have the same [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► kind of you know we didn't have the [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► accumulated weight of decades of perry [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► mason and LA Law and Boston Legal & and [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► the practice and you know every John [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► Grisham novel and every rider that wants [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► to be John Grisham and so now you know [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► we don't need that we have the shorthand [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► we know the basics we know guilty by [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► reason of insanity right at the time [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► this was revolutionary like all we get [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► to see the whole process the whole [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► procedure and and I mean this the the [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► other thing i don't i can remember if we [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► mentioned this or not this is inspired [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► by a true story of a guy wrote it [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► basically was the first lawyer to get a [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► new resistible impulse conviction in [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► michigan and he wrote the novel based on [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► that and then this is him crowing about [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► it x where they didn't focus on the jury [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► at all have you seen Joseph westerns [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► wife that is the one part of the of the [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► legal process that they really left on [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► the cutting room floor the jury [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► selection process so i enjoyed the movie [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► well good for you thanks very much [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► that's all i have to say but only [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► because I Joseph Welch was mainly [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► because of just [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► it's just melted what else are you there [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► you know I I actually sat down i was [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► gonna watch half of it and then come [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► back the next day and watch have the [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► other half and i ended up watching the [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► whole thing because it was I found it [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► interesting particularly I the idea of [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► never knowing from beginning to end what [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► really happened I I find that really [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► intriguing I being you know the kind of [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► the the DA's viewer the lawyers view of [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► of a murder case and I really like all [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► the little mysterious details like I'm [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► really curious to know how Lauren knows [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► dancer from the attorney general's [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► office because she's the one who passes [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► in the note right saying watch out for [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► him but there's just not that much to [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► this case at just certainly not enough [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► to sustain 2 hours and 40 minutes and [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► that's kind of my biggest problem with [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► it I mean after the first 30 minutes we [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► we really only learned one new piece of [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► information which is the fact that Mary [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► was Barney quill daughter and and [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► there's all sorts of filler in here I [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► mean without scenes of cars driving [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► around people washing fish jamming with [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► III you notice that this would be a much [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► more reasonable length movie i think and [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► the whole McCarthy Sobers up plot is [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► kinda pointless the fact that he drives [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► into a barn is a big waste of time I [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► will grant you it is not economical [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► movie so I you know I'm not sure I would [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► want to watch this over and over again [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► but i definitely enjoyed it I i love [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► George see as usual i always enjoy Jimmy [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► Stewart and and overall I i enjoyed the [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► film just didn't follow utterly in love [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► with it but you know it's it's a hard [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► film to love I'll accept that it has [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► some really nice things in it but I [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► didn't find a slog I mean it again you [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► know it's not it's not something on your [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► wall going to watch many many times [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► after the first hour and listen to what [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► I just said on i agree i kept thinking [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► though as I was watching the first time [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► that all the little bits and pieces that [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► were sort of randomly thrown in there is [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► filler we're going to pay off at some [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► point and no men most of them just were [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► ya like that the whole you know McCarthy [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► driving into the barn it that's going to [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► play and at some point right [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► oh we're gonna have seen him in a [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► hospital bed we're gonna forget all [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► about it so i reaiiy rewatched last [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► night just to refresh my memory [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► and.and I kind of fell asleep halfway [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► through because I was no longer willing [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► to give it the benefit of the doubt on [TS]

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00:45:15 ◼   ► sleeping on it since late last year it [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► was a big upgrade for us over the [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► mattress that we had bought at one of [TS]

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00:46:01 ◼   ► you so much to casper mattresses [TS]

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00:46:14 ◼   ► yes let's well let's go two years into [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► the future together [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► Oh John Kennedy is now president but [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► Castle a good baseball team [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► I have no other knowledge about 1961 [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► haha the hustler [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► so this is the story of that Eddie [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► Felson Fast Eddie who is a bit of a pool [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► shark bit of a pool hustler if you will [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► I described them as cocky and he shows [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► up and he wants to take on Minnesota [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► Fats but we were introduced to Eddie he [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► he is just a businessman on his way to [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► pittsburgh with another guy [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► yeah haven't drinks in a diner that was [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► a bit of scam yeah there's it and enjoy [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► it so hastily even usual for in 1961 [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► movie in that there's a there's a scene [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► before the titles where I Eddie and his [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► partner go into a pool hall and they [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► they totally scam everyone have their [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► money by by making Eddie appear to be a [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► horrible drunkard who can't who who [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► can't sing a simple pool shot right and [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► good number they get in a fight because [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► he wants to keep playing and his partner [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► leaves and so is like everybody else is [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► like well you know I can play this guy [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► he's totally drunken and then he takes [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► them because he is a a pool hustler [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► right you know I wasn't fold at all [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► because i read the poster I want to [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► comment on these credits in contrast to [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► the credits in anatomy of the murder [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► these credits are like the credits of a [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► TV show [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► oh yeah yeah tonight on The Hustler the [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► hustler assholes and other people get [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► hustled I'm Ostler special guest star [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► George see Scott yeah it is in [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► CinemaScope though i don't i don't think [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► i've ever seen a black and white movie [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► and CinemaScope other than this one [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► it's so weird to me that it's in [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► CinemaScope because it's such a [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► claustrophobic movie [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► yeah it's all inside yet to keep [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► reminding myself these guys are supposed [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► to be 70 feet tall when you're watching [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► this it is and and yet it is a beautiful [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► shot movie [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► oh it is oh yeah the pool things in [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► particular are fantastic [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► so speaking of wet [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► the after we get through the credits [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► sequence we get to the scene at the Ames [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► pool hall which I I always thought was [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► an Iowa but it's apparently a pool hall [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► in new york uh where Fast Eddie Felson [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► takes on Minnesota Fats in a all all [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► night all morning all the next day pool [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► contest in which basically it's not over [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► to Minnesota Fats says it's over and [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► Fast Eddie jumps out ahead and then [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► loses everything because as George Scott [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► points out later on the movie [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► festivities a bit of a loser he actually [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► pointed out right here for the rest [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► today with this kid he's a loser he's a [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► loser exactly just looked into his eye [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► and reads is so I feel like George see [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► Scott could actually do that if you [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► offer sure everybody can read your soul [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► they just have to shower off after so [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► Eddie shaken to the court he loses [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► everything arm is broken and ends up [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► shacking up with Piper Laurie please [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► Sarah packard in the movie [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► yes it's nice to see Piper Laurie and [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► something where she doesn't end up in [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► pale to the wall with the kitchen [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► cutlery this was her last movie before [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► Kari apparently yeah I wasn't sure if [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► anything else she had done [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► twin peaks eventually okay eventually no [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► sheep she basically retired for a while [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► and then came back for Carrie but a [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► piper laurie has your own issues [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► you could say that yeah another [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► unbelievably creepy female lead I think [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► I'll sure sure that that would be the [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► other theme of tonight's a movie club [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► creepy female lead she's a bit drunk [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► she's a bit of a fabulist but she and [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► Paul Newman sort of fall for each other [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► and are good for each other Paul Newman [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► still lusts for the the the the hustle [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► the the the the site of easy money and [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► keeps going to the the pools to beat [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► people some people recognize them as the [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► pool hustler that he has other people do [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► not until he takes them for their money [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► and then they break his thumbs weird [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► as George see Scott had prepped his [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► prophesied yes immediately before that [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► seed yes and was gonna break your thumbs [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► and which point he falls in with George [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► see scott who will become his manager [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► and who will show him how to become a [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► winner and not the loser that he is who [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► always is a overplaying his hand and out [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► reaching his station they go down to [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► Louisville piper laurie comes along on [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► the trip will advise gets it throughout [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► yeah so I they go to the house of this [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► what probably be describes the most [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► papash man small all of Louisville he [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► just knows how to have a good time [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► he's played by marie hamilton who I [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► eagle-eyed viewers will recognize from [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► anatomy of a murder and jaws of a very [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► different character year which is very [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► different character I played billions [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► mr. films i wish this guy had been in [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► anatomy of a murder though i would [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► really spice maybe they would have you [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► had originally inappropriate but there [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► you go no more so than Duke Ellington [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► yeah so you just up from Detroit is fine [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► it's not Duke Ellington that's why I [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► sorry yes of course by all this time [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► George Scott has been decided the piper [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► laurie needs to go and has been [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► undermined her and add this party at [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► Finley's house he walks up to her and [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► whispers in jersey whispers in piper [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► laurie zere something apparently [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► terribly suggestive not unlike the word [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► panties from your team had she slaps him [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► and has an incident and is taken [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► upstairs and Eddie who is totally [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► focused on taking thinly in the the the [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► the pool game that they're about to play [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► to sort of leaves her be she sleeping it [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► off and bed under under someone's been [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► code or above someone sprinkle of [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► someone speakout um Fast Eddie [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► eventually beets family at his own game [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► he decides to walk back to the tattle [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► that they're all staying at at this [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► point uh Jesse Scott goes back to hotel [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► in a cab and begins the final [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► humiliation of Piper Laurie uh who [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► hey as we pointed out is both an [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► alcoholic and probably mentally ill and [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► who after having now of course with [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► George Scott reacts in the only way you [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► can react after having your course with [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► George Scott commit suicide [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► what it's all downhill from here yeah [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► Paul Newman returns to the hotel finds [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► that is true love is dad pretty much it [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► toward see Scott say-so attacks George [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► see scott and then that sets up the [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► final confrontation at the Ames pool [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► hall between Paul Newman and jackie [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► gleason as medicine fats in which paul [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► newman finally beat Minnesota Fats [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► refuses to pay a george he's got the [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► money that he owes him and his told that [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► he'll never get it a big pool game again [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► and walks away from the sport of [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► billiards until martin scorsese makes an [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► unsatisfying sequel 30 years end but [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► that's that's for another movie club [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► that I will not host I'm satisfying [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► sequel night that sounds like fun [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► that's the hustler in a nutshell and i [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► do want to point out that both the [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► opening sequence where he plays at [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► Minnesota Fats in the in the pool [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► contest and the last 20 minutes of the [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► movie where it's he comes back the [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► sadder but wiser a pool hustler to play [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► Minnesota Fats the ending is perhaps my [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► favorite ending of the movie ever [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► it's not my favorite movie ever mind you [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► but it's my the last 20 minutes are just [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► a masterpiece of cinema i would argue [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► get on bird I can't lose [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► yeah yeah i mean it's it's funny because [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► you always every time you hear about it [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► every time you see about it [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► all anyone talks about it [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► pool and for a long time well before I [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► saw it I thought the movie was just [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► wall-to-wall pool it was one you know [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► they don't know Greek tragedy in a [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► poolroom know and they don't have to [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► explain the rules of pool right around [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► alone billiards and I feel I 40 yet mr. [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► Felson house not rules and I figured the [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► entire thing would be set over the [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► course of that game or order that [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► Christmas is games and so the first time [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► i saw it was like oh this is a film with [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► real people and and and I mean I found [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► the the parts that weren't pool much [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► less interesting i wasn't quite as [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► interested in ready i wasn't interested [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► in I mean I was interested in him in the [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► dynamic with Burt but I wanted more pool [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► because those pool sequences are just so [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► beautifully choreographed and and paste [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► and shot and now defected well sound [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► effect it out the wazoo me let me [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► undermine my own choice for old movie [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► club that the middle our this movie is [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► yeah i can take your leave but it's [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► those ya book and scenes in the pool [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► halls that are just a magnificent and [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► that that that's why you you sit through [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► the the middle bit which kinda [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► admittedly lags a bit now but it but it [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► gives weight to the end [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► yeah well you know sure it's but but if [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► you never saw that bit and you just saw [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► this two segments you could walk away a [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► happy [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► oh that would be a good film to you [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► about the whole opening is it opening [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► thing with the first battle with fats [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► it's just there's so much in it it's so [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► amazing i wrote a bunch of things down [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► here [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► you know I I didn't leave you much you [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► left enough where he underestimates him [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► at the beginning he says you know I've [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► dreamed about it fat man i really love [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► that Jackie Gleason i think is great [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► it's just so successional so great so [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► great and this is only dramatic role of [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► note and that was my thought was uh we [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► wasted Jackie Gleason because I'm coming [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► up as as great as he was as a comedic [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► actor he is so good in this [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► well I think his dramatic role in Smokey [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► and the Bandit [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► does come in come up I I take your point [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► i take your ID well frankly doesn't do [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► much except look at things [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► Oh buddy Oh buddy it fills those looks [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► below much weight [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► oh my god no one else did I mean he's a [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► large guy I think he's much better [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► silent than when he talks in this movie [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► and the thing that's that's really [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► impressive is that he was himself in a [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► beautiful pool player he was a grand [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► player you know that they've very [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► carefully staged those so that you see [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► that it's him doing yes and he and that [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► he's in some of them [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► he's not even paying that much attention [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► it's like yeah I can do this without [TS]

00:57:48 ◼   ► looking but i do love the bid at the end [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► where he where he tells a man what's the [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► characters that whatever he tells Eddie [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► you better pay many and the look on his [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► face there is wonderful it's like yes [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► horrified that he has to say this but he [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► knows that he does and you know there's [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► an amazing amount of depth in that one [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► line they spend so much time setting up [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► showing newman and police in doing the [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► shots that by their second big game they [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► had don't have to show much of the game [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► at all [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► yeah because you buy it when you're just [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► watching Paul Newman's face fall as the [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► sounds of a ball going off screen and [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► apparently they only used um a couple of [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► stunt doubles to do the trick shots [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► yeah Willie Mosconi as seen a poster [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► behind Paul Newman an early scene i like [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► the clock to this is this is a little [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► bit brings to mind the you know they [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► don't they don't let you see the outside [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► of the time when you're in a casino it's [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► like that here they keep showing the [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► clock as it's like a marathon is like [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► the clock is advancing that you get the [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► fast clock spin they go to a thousand [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► game at four in the morning for four in [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► the morning the order whiskey and [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► bourbon and they've been playing for [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► hours now but at four in the morning [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► they say okay it's time to take off the [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► jacket and get serious with this which [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► is so great they take off the suit [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► jackets is what the whispering George [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► see Scott the morning the light streams [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► in its cut that sunshine out there [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► blocking out the world you know the game [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► is over when fat says it's over all of [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► that it's just it is [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► yeah it's spectacular i love it i like [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► the fact that the aims pool has to [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► promise [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► signs no gambling and no mass a shot at [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► or below ya know that every sign every [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► pool hall is ignored this movie pay [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► after every game and soho no gambling [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► and all i really like Paul Newman in [TS]

00:59:42 ◼   ► this movie I mean it's obvious because [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► he's the hero but his cocky smirk at the [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► beginning of the movie [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► yeah just looking at that says [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► everything about the character and you [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► can also kind of see why they would make [TS]

00:59:54 ◼   ► a sequel where Tom Cruise is essentially [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► playing the guy in this position is this [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► is [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► is [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► Tom Cruise of the day and the charisma [TS]

01:00:01 ◼   ► of him jump is just pouring out of the [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► screen on this one [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► a man I mean I i I've seen this on [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► television you know several times [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► oh you used to be played on television [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► all the time when I was a kid and I've [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► never seen in the theater but imagine [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► him full theater sized with that smile [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► and it must have been overwhelming my [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► favorite George see Scott moments in [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► this movie are during the first game [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► with gleason before he said anything he [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► just yells in sits there and watches and [TS]

01:00:35 ◼   ► he's so clean and neat [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► while everyone else is getting sweaty [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► and exhausted and you can just tell that [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► guy's above it or something [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► actually actually my favorite Jersey [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► Scott moments in this movie because I [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► think I as good as Newman is George [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► Scott walks away with this movie every [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► time he just diminishes piper laurie [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► like every time their on screen together [TS]

01:01:00 ◼   ► he finds a way to just twist the knife [TS]

01:01:02 ◼   ► on her up and he's um he's a monster and [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► I love the fact we never hear what it is [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► that he tells her [TS]

01:01:09 ◼   ► yeah at at at the scene at very [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► Hamilton's mansion yes but he there's [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► this line up but i just want to know I'm [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► not been on a cripple [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► i should point out the piper laurie [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► because of polio walks with a limp [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► throughout the movie and that is a line [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► that is directed so it's not an Eddie [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► because he had Stubbs broke its you [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► Piper Laurie because George see scott [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► just wants to emphasize how useless you [TS]

01:01:36 ◼   ► are the thing I like about that scene is [TS]

01:01:38 ◼   ► the fact that she has a comeback for [TS]

01:01:39 ◼   ► that and end at that part of the movie i [TS]

01:01:42 ◼   ► was really i wrote down that I'm digging [TS]

01:01:44 ◼   ► this emerging dynamic where she's [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► starting to sort of match wits with him [TS]

01:01:48 ◼   ► yep which unfortunately went away almost [TS]

01:01:50 ◼   ► immediately by would have really enjoyed [TS]

01:01:52 ◼   ► to see a little more of that before she [TS]

01:01:53 ◼   ► finally broke down but definitely a good [TS]

01:01:56 ◼   ► bit [TS]

01:01:57 ◼   ► yeah my other my other big George see [TS]

01:01:59 ◼   ► moments in this movie there's I think my [TS]

01:02:02 ◼   ► favorite thing in the movie is right [TS]

01:02:04 ◼   ► after George Scott and introduces Finley [TS]

01:02:08 ◼   ► 22 Eddie there's just this look on his [TS]

01:02:10 ◼   ► face [TS]

01:02:11 ◼   ► of you know I've totally got you that is [TS]

01:02:14 ◼   ► is subtle but it's it's wonderful and [TS]

01:02:17 ◼   ► the other bit is uh oh there's a bit [TS]

01:02:20 ◼   ► more friendly points out the statue of [TS]

01:02:21 ◼   ► pan [TS]

01:02:22 ◼   ► yeah he suggests that George see scott [TS]

01:02:26 ◼   ► monument are not all for the odds and [TS]

01:02:29 ◼   ► Georgie Scott turns to see what is [TS]

01:02:31 ◼   ► presumably a massive set of go nadz and [TS]

01:02:33 ◼   ► just says possible to stare standing [TS]

01:02:38 ◼   ► yeah so my room mccormick as as a [TS]

01:02:41 ◼   ► Eddie's partner Charlie I looked at the [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► actor he died not too long after this he [TS]

01:02:48 ◼   ► died in 62 at the age of 54 I something [TS]

01:02:54 ◼   ► about this character as the the way he [TS]

01:02:56 ◼   ► performs this character he didn't he [TS]

01:02:59 ◼   ► died before he had a chance to be cast [TS]

01:03:02 ◼   ► as the doctor and star trek but that's [TS]

01:03:04 ◼   ► the that's how I read it is like oh my [TS]

01:03:06 ◼   ► god this is another he could have been [TS]

01:03:08 ◼   ► dr. McCoy whoever he's a he's got he's [TS]

01:03:10 ◼   ► got that kind of like likable crankiness [TS]

01:03:13 ◼   ► that I thought having never seen I think [TS]

01:03:15 ◼   ► this actor before I really liked him and [TS]