Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini-Ep #59: EVERY 70's Movie

Episode Date: May 12, 2016

Each week, comedian Gilbert Gottfried and comedy writer Frank Santopadre share their appreciation of lesser-known films, underrated TV shows and hopelessly obscure character actors -- discussing, dissecting and (occasionally) defending their handpicked guilty pleasures and buried treasures. This week: "Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster"! Walter Matthau weds Elaine May! And the ultimate "cult" movie! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Now, what do you want to talk about this week? Well, films of the 70s. You know, it's funny. I've been getting emails and tweets from people saying, you know, as much as they love the new format of the Amazing Colossal Obsessions, they miss us recommending movies. Oh, yes. Some guy tweeted me and says, I was counting on you guys. I was relying on you guys for my movie picks. And it led me to find this wonderful website. I mentioned on the episode that we did with Steve Weber that I've been obsessing about 70s movies. Yes.

Because there's this great store in midtown Manhattan that I've talked about where you can buy 70s movies for $2, $5. And there's a website that I found by this guy Peter Hansen. It's a blog. You guys have to find this. It's called Every 70s Movie. This guy took – I was just showing you the printout. This guy took basically every movie that came out in the 70s. I can't find any that he left off the list. A to Z, and he does extensive write-ups and reviews

of every movie. And I've been showing Gilbert the list. It's an incredible blog where you really lose yourself. Now, a lot of movies came out. Well, you know, obviously Jaws, one of the biggest movies ever, and Deliverance, and Death Wish. But the movie that really hits me here is The Devil's Reign. Oh, my God. That's the one you pulled off the list? Yes, Ernest Borknine. And I think William Shatner is the

sheriff. A young John Travolta? Yes, John Travolta. I've never seen it. You can't see him and he's wearing a devil mask. There's a thousand people wearing devil

masks because it's a big cult run by he ernest borgnine of course and who better to run a cult than ernest borgnine and and maybe joe flynn john travolta's big line in it uh when you don't see him, but he goes, blasphemer. And it's like when Saturday Night Fever came out, and it was the biggest movie in all the theaters, they would advertise The Devil's Reign starring John Travolta. Oh, that's funny. And it was like a bit part. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

He's there for that word. I have never seen The Devil's Reign. What is the rest of the plot? Ernest Borgnine is a cult leader. Well, there is kind of a reign that happens. There's an actual reign. Yeah, because it starts melting away the monsters. Okay.

Yeah. I haven't seen it. It's worth seeing. Okay, The Devil's Reign. In that kind of way it. It's worth seeing. Okay, the devil's right. In that kind of way that these movies are worth seeing. Okay, Paul is chiming in with the rest of the cast on this. Eddie Albert, okay, from Green Acres. Oh, excellent.

Ida Lupino. Keenan Wynn. Keenan Wynn. Keenan Wynn, it would have been 100 this year, by the way. Wow. Tom Skerritt from Alien. Oh, well. Shatner.

Then this is definitely worth seeing. It's practically an all-star cast. So I just showed you a list from the 70s from this wonderful blog of about 600 movies, and you picked The Devil's Reign. Yes. Oh, and Dirty Harry came out in the 70s. Right. Oh, so many things.

Wait. Mr. Black and Mr. Hyde. I don't even know that movie. Oh, Dog Day Afternoon. Dog Day Afternoon. Great 70s. Sure, sure. You can go through this list and get lost.

We were talking about the Blackbird, the George Segal Maltese Falcon knockoff. Oh, yes. Oh, and don't look now at Donald Sutherland. It's a great movie. And what's her name? Julie Christie. Yeah. And that, allegedly, by a movie legend, they were actually having sex.

That's the movie legend. Yeah. It's the all-time sex scene. They were actually having sex during That's the movie legend. Yeah. It's the all-time sex scene. That they were actually having sex during the sex scene. I love that I handed you a list of just brilliant films, award-winning films. I said, pick any, and he picked The Devil's Reign. But this blog, we don't know this gentleman, Peter Hansen. We'll reach out to him because this is really a labor of love.

It's called The Best, The Worst, The Weirdest, and Every Far Out Thing in Between, a new review every day since October 2010 and you will get lost here. It's just a fascinating blog, which leads me to a 70s movie, as Gilbert's scrolling through the list looking for other things he wants.

Did you want to talk about Billy Jack? Billy Jack is just one of those movies that I mean, I never sat through. I never even saw it. I saw the SNL parody with Paul Simon. Yeah. Billy Paul. It's just one of those movies that now, if you watch it, back then, I guess 90% of the audience was stoned and really enjoy and it's a horrible horrible

Tom Laughlin yes the late Tom Laughlin I never saw it well I'm sure we'll get mail about it what else are you pulling off that list Duck You Sucker Duck You Sucker that's a Leone movie yes with Rod Steiger is in Duck You Sucker that's right that one I've never seen either. Shame on me. And I heard that Eli Wallach was promised Duck, You Sucker. Is that true?

Yes. Yes. And at the last minute, they gave it to Rod Steiger. I have no idea. Oh, and Eat My Dust. Eat My Dust. With what? That was a Roger Corman production.

We talked about that with Roger. It's just a... You'll get lost. You'll spend hours... It's like Trailers from Hell, the Joe Dante website that we plugged on here, where you could just... And we'll give that one another plug,

where you could lose hours and days just watching fellow film obsessives like us. But this one, every 70s movie, has just become... It's become a particular obsession for me. Don't forget to follow us on our Facebook page, Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast, on Twitter, at RealGilbertACP,

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Woody Allen. Yeah. Here's one I want to talk about, actually, and recommend, which I just watched. I just bought at this lovely store in Midtown. It's called A New Leaf. And we talked about it a little bit with Ileana. Oh, okay. Ileana Douglas.

And if you haven't seen it recently, I know you love Matthau. Yes. Matthau plays a rich cad who basically blows through his fortune. Yes. And he blows through his inheritance. And William Redfield. Correct. He's his financial advisor. William Redfield from Cuckoo's

Nest. Yes. And William Redfield also popped up as Felix's brother on an episode of The Odd Couple. He was Floyd. Yes. Floyd Unger, the bubble gum magnet. Yes, and that's where he takes Felix to work for him, and Felix comes up with bubble gum cards. Great moments in opera.

Yes. Yes. I moments in opera. Yes! Yes! I remember the gag. Number 37. Madam Butterfly, Mimi gets tuberculosis. And instead of the gum, there was a little wash and dry in every pack. And Floyd says that his company's falling apart. And he says, I can't even get ex-convicts to work. Wow, that is a reference.

A new leaf, a lot of people turn up. Jack Weston turns up in a new leaf, and he's a lot of fun as Elaine May's lawyer. In short, it's about this creep, this cad, Walter Matthau, who has to marry into money because he has no other way to live and sustain this lifestyle that he's accustomed to. So he looks for a loser, a sap of a woman that will take him in, a desperate woman,

and he finds Elaine May. And she's like stupid and mixed up but has loads of money. Right. Yeah, and she's a botanist. Yes. And I don't want to give too much away. It's a very, very sweet film. She wrote and directed it.

Matthau, I'm watching the film and I'm thinking, he's miscast. But he's great anyway. Do you know, that's the funny thing with Matthau. A lot of times they cast him as a ladies' man, and now he looked like a bulldog, and all his body was hunched over and slumpy. But because Matthau was so great, it worked. It was like they cast him as a tough cop or as a ladies' man, and it just worked.

Even a bad guy in things like Charade and Charlie Varick, which I've talked about on the show. He's not a bad guy. He's an antihero. But in this film, he's not quite a ladies' man, but I'm watching the film, and I'm thinking, oh, God, I start thinking, what other actor would... Yeah, like it should have been Michael Caine or somebody like that. Somebody who plays a rake a little bit better. Yeah, like Warren Beatty.

Warren Beatty or Michael Caine. And I would not have thought to cast Walter Matthau in it, but you can't take your eyes off him, scene after scene. That's what's so funny about it. Yeah, it's a terrific film. A new leaf, if so funny about it. Yeah, it's a terrific film. A New Leaf, if you can find it. I think it was out of print for years and it came back on DVD. And written and directed by Elaine May, who we've talked about on this show.

Oh, and the movie Fingers. Oh, Harvey Keitel. Yes, that's one of those classic 70s. Yeah, James Toback. That one works. That one I have seen. Gilbert is scrolling through a list on this blog. I just, I'm remembering all these movies. It's absorbing.

Oh, Flesh Gordon. Flesh Gordon, right? Right? Having flashbacks of the old movie theater in Brooklyn? Force 10 from Navarro. Oh, yeah, I think Harrison Ford's in that. Yes. Harrison Ford.

A young, pretty much unknown Harrison Ford. Yeah. And he's only up to the apps, folks. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Anyway, we're going to reach out to Peter Hanson, who created this wonderful site. Every 70s movie, it's called. Oh, Freebie and the Bean.

Oh, the French connection, of course. Yeah, Freebie and the Bean's good. Yeah. Yeah. I saw Freebie and the Bean recently. Oh, here's a movie. Oh, Freebie and the Bean. Oh, the French connection. Yeah, Freebie and the Bean is good. Yeah. Yeah, I saw Freebie and the Bean recently. Oh, here's a movie. Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle. Oh, the Friends of Eddie Coyle. Yes. Yeah. And also, just saw it. What's the name of

Keith, Stephen Keith? Yeah, Stephen Keith is in it. Richard Jordan is in it. Do you remember that actor? Oh, yes. And also Alex Rocco. Yes. In The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which I just saw. Fun movie. Yeah.

Oh, The Front with Woody Allen and Zero Mostel. Are you writing these down, Paul? And Herb Edelman. Herb Edelman. How could it be bad if Herb Edelman's in it? Gilbert found a new toy. Oh, my God, yes. You know what's funny?

If you click on them, there are individual reviews and synopses for all of them. It's just fascinating reading. I lost days here. And there was this movie, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Three. Oh sure, with De Niro. Yeah. And they, now that movie bombed. Totally.

That's the one where Pacino suddenly turned that down to do the Godfather. Right. Good call. Based on a Jimmy Breslin story. Oh, the gambler with Jimmy Conn. I just bought that. Have not watched it yet.

And who's that model in that? Oh, God. She was that model who had her own talk show for a short time that had TV monitors all around. Not Susan Blakely. No, no. She had a gap to... Oh, Lauren Hutton. Yes.

Yeah, right, right, right, right. I have not seen The Gambler, but that's one of the movies that I scooped up at this place in Midtown, and I've got a stack waiting for me at home of about... Is he in The Gambler? but that's one of the movies that I scooped up at this place in Midtown, and I've got a stack waiting for me at home of about... Is he in The Gambler? Paul Servino? Oh, Get Christy Love. Get Christy Love. Well, that was a series. That was a TV series. He threw that

on there with the late Teresa Graves. Oh, well, of course, Godfather 1 and 2. Sure. Wow. Sure. He's got everything on this site, and check it out. And of course Godzilla versus the smog monster. It's no devil's reign.

Okay. Anyway, that's my obsession this week. It's not only a new leaf, but this wonderful blog. Yeah. Every 70s movie. And I'll give another shout out to Joe Dante's terrific trailers from hell with our friend Larry Karashevsky. It's all over that site. Yeah.

Well worth it. I'm going to go home and see the devil's reign. Oh, yeah. Paul, you with me? Okay. We'll make it a date. This has been Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal Obsession. Here we go boys. Colossal Obsessions Colossal Obsessions