If you are interested in classic Hollywood and the strange professional and political journey of the 40th president of the United States of America, check out Red Time for Bonzo, wherein we will review every single film featuring Ronald Reagan, Hollywood contract player. The films of Ronald Reagan are an often overlooked aspect of his larger career, as are their left of center Depression-informed political themes. A number of the screenwriters for these films would fall victim to the industry-wide communist purge and blacklist in the 1950s, which Reagan championed. As we work our way through the Reaganography, each episode will move forward and back, pairing the oldest film with the most recent, until we ultimately meet in 1942 with the Gipper’s greatest starring role in Kings Row.
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We search in vain for the man himself during our inaugural film (IMDB insists that he is among the angry mob at the governor's mansion), but we find a wealth of material for our Marxist-Reaganist manifesto in Warner Brothers' They Won't Forget.

Join us as we examine the progressive commitments of the Gipper's home studio and set the table for our ongoing exploration of mid-century American pop cultural politics. Along the way, Dave argues that Tump Redwine is in fact the hero of the film; Romy lays out a good faith murder case against Robert Hale; and Gareth launches his soon-to-be-famous Norbert "I Love Actresses!" Lusk reading series. You'll also meet immortals like Westbrook Pegler, Ward Greene, and Gloria Dickson. 

It's morning in Red Time For Bonzoland.

Intro Theme:

"Driving Reagan" by Gareth Hedges
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RED TIME FOR BONZO - Episode 1A - They Won't Forget (1937)

MGM, 1934, and our most mismatched pair of films yet: Sidney Franklin's tale of overheated Victorian repression,&nbsp;The Barretts of Wimpole&nbsp;Street, and Lubitsch's lavish, Hollywood-transposed Austro-Hungarian operetta,&nbsp;The Merry Widow. We discuss Laughton vs. Gielgud, Lubitsch vs. Mamoulian, innuendo in the Year of the Code, and more.&nbsp;&nbsp; Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s: The Barretts of Wimpole Street (dir: Sidney Franklin) 0h 38m 00s: &nbsp;The Merry Widow (dir: Ernst Lubitsch) +++ * Check out our  * Find Elise’s latest film piece on  *And Read lots of Elise’s Writing at&nbsp;,&nbsp;, and&nbsp;.* Follow us on Twitter at&nbsp; Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com Theme Music: “What’s Yr Take on Cassavetes?” – Le Tigre

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