500 Films: A Journey Through Genre Cinema

Sean’s accent is mighty silly,
Out of the sub, things get chilly,
Jack Ryan has checked,
If Sean will defect,
Give me one ping only, Vasily.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season one is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• The Hunt For Red October Audio Commentary – John McTiernan (2003)
• Beneath The Surface: The Making Of The Hunt For Red October – featurette documentary (2003)
• Nevertheless: A Memoir – Alec Baldwin (2017, HarperCollins)
• Sir Sean Connery 1930-2020: The Definitive Biography – John Parker (2005, John Blake Publishing)

Undercover, seeking a tryst,
Steve wants to be next on the list,
A killer’s on the loose,
Who he has to seduce,
But he’s in deep up to his wrist.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season one is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• What Rough Beast…(The Cruising Expanded Soundtrack LP Liner Notes) – William Friedkin (2018, Waxwork Records) 
• Searching For the Truth About the Actual Murderer in The Exorcist – Matt Miller (2018, Esquire Magazine)
• Life On The Wire: The Life And Art Of Al Pacino – Andrew Yule (1991, Donald I. Fine)
• William Friedkin Pens Tribute to Jerry Weintraub: “He Played the Game Better Than Anyone” – William Friedkin (2015, The Hollywood Reporter)
• The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir – William Friedkin (2013, HarperCollins)

Bill and Joe are a different class,
They go to a party, smoke some grass,
Bill kills a hippy,
His defence is slippy,
And we get to see Sarandon’s ass.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season one is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• Slaughter At Stonehead Manor – John Sinclair (1971, Ann Arbor Sun)
• People Vs. Garland – V/Lex
• Cinema Speculation – Quentin Tarantino (2022, Wiedenfeld & Nicholson)
• Crime: Joe And Orville – Time
• How Joe And Patton Could, 40 Years On, Play Again Today – George Pevere, Toronto Star

Tom Ripley’s escape is assured,
When his yacht is finally moored,
Jealous of Philippe,
He sent him to sleep,
And dumped his body overboard.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season one is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• Beautiful Shadow: A Life Of Patricia Highsmith – Andrew Wilson (2003, Bloomsbury Publishing)

Corrections

It’s not normal for a James Bond reference to escape me but in later life – i.e. 1986 – Purple Noon director René Clément was married to Dr. No and From Russia With Love screenwriter Joanna Harwood. 

Dixon’s anger is quite chilling,
To read a book he’s unwilling,
In love with Laurel,
A constant quarrel,
Then he’s accused of a killing.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season one is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride Of Making Rebel Without A Cause – Lawrence Frascella & Al Weisel (2005, Touchstone)
• Hollywood Flashback: In 1951, a Shocking Sex Scandal Undid Gloria Grahame – Bill Higgins (The Hollywood Reporter, 2017)
• The Tragic Romance Of A Hollywood Star And Her Young Leading Man – Barbara Hoffman (New York Post, 2017)

Val and Earl have a connection,
In their beautiful desert section,
They fight the worms,
On their own terms,
To save the town of Perfection.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season one is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• Tremors: Making Perfection – documentary (2020, Matthew Snead)
• Tremors: Making Perfection– podcast (2021, Little Dot Studios)
• 30 Years Later, Tremors Is Still A Perfect Monster Movie, And It Keeps Getting Better – Jessica Kiang, Rotten Tomatoes

Corrections

Two days before this episode was released, it was announced that Kevin Bacon is reprising his role as Val McKee in an as-yet-untitled TV show that returns to the town of Perfection. The show is a continuation of the Tremors story, and is rumoured to be hitting Netflix in late 2025.

Antonio Bay can’t get a break, 
Because their town was built on a fake,
Secrets are blown,
By Father Malone,
Tonight he’ll get a visit from Blake.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season one is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• The Films Of John Carpenter – John Kenneth Muir (2000, McFarland)
• Reassessing And Recreating The Music From The Fog – Randall D. Larson (2015, Silva Screen soundtrack reissue liner notes)
• The Filming Locations Of John Carpenter’s The Fog – Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly
• Making Halloween (1978): The Film That Changed Horror  – Calgary International Film Festival
• The Fog Audio Commentary – John Carpenter & Debra Hill (1995)

Corrections

There’s another homage to The Birds in the costume department with Stevey’s maroon jersey echoing the coat worn by Annie Hayworth in Hitchcock’s film. 

For battle Patton has awaited,
Victory for him is belated,
A wartime slap,
Was a bad mishap,
Good job he was reincarnated.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season one is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• The Path To Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story – Sam Wasson (2023, Faber)
• It Don’t Worry Me – Ryan Gilbey (2003, Faber And Faber)
• How Joe And Patton Could, 40 Years On, Play Again Today – George Pevere, Toronto Star

It’s Rome Marcello can be found in,
His disappointment with life mounting,
He goes to the bars,
And hates all the stars,
Except when a girl’s in a fountain.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season one is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

– Federico Fellini: His Life And Work – Tullio Kezich (2007, I.B. Tauris)

Jonathan’s a cad and a burden,
A friend to Eve this much is certain,
In love with a singer,
And put through the wringer,
He then gets killed by a curtain.

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500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s. Season one is now available. Come along on the journey!

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/500-films-a-journey-through-genre-cinema/id1809685360

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0n3RHHUyqkLMC4IXbMzV1o?si=J-9aKeoJSimHQfHwCcHOXg

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Further Reading

• Alfred Hitchcock: A Life In Darkness & Light – Patrick McGilligan (2003, Wiley)
• The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film (Fifth Edition) – David Thomson (2010, Little, Brown)
• Hitchcock – François Truffaut (1984, Simon & Schuster)
• Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind The Man – Pat Hitchcock & Laurent Bouzereau (2003, Berkley Publishing Group)
• The Camera Lies: Acting For Hitchcock – Dan Callahan (2020, Oxford University Press) 
• Marlene – Marlene Dietrich (1989, The Grove Press)