AP Mike from THE BEST SHOW joins us once again for our #Noirvember episode and he's bringing Humphrey Bogart with him. Mike has chosen two wildly different takes on the Bogart persona from two of Hollywood greatest directors. 

First, it's the classic mystery that made Bogie a star with THE MALTESE FALCON from first-time director John Huston in 1941. Bogart is San Francisco private dick Sam Spade in this veritable blueprint for all the detective noir that followed it. Bogie is backed by an amazing cast with Mary Astor as femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy; Petter Lorre as Joel Cairo; Sydney Greenstreet making his film debut at 62 years old as Kaspar Guttman; and Elisha Cook, Jr. playing shifty thug Wilmer Cook. All of these characters are on an existential quest the big, black bird--the stuff that dreams are made of--and several of them will do anything to get it. 

Then, Bogart goes grim dark in Nicholas Ray's IN A LONELY PLACE (1950). Bogie plays Dixon "Dix" Steele, a hasbeen Hollywood script writer with severe anger management issues. Dix is dragged in for questioning after Mildred, the hat-check girl he took back to his apartment, turns up murdered, and Bogie’s wise-cracking ways take on an air of extreme menace as he jokes his way through the police interrogation. His neighbor, Laurel Gray played by Noir princess Gloria Grahame, falls for him despite the allegations because she saw that he didn't leave with the victim. But as Dix grows more violent and domineering, she, and the audience, start to question all that we've seen. Mike details the differences between the movie and the novel that it's based on. Eddie Muller's favorite film of all time. 

In our opening segment, we attempt to sort out the wreckage of our society, and our world, post-election before the conversation devolves into more recent movie recommendations. Cory really wants everyone to see CONCLAVE, while Bob says to get really high and watch HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS on Fandor or tubi. Meanwhile, Philena is plotting her escape to Ireland. 

With Robert Eggers' remake of NOSFERATU hitting theaters next month,OMFYS will be back next month for NOSFERATU CHRISTMAS. Movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz of MZS.press will join us to pair weed with FW Murray's original expressionist vampire epic from 1922 and Werner Herzog's 1979 remake with Klaus Kinski. Please subscribe so you don't miss it. 

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Greg Franklin is on assignment

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S3E15 Bogart Noirvember feat. AP Mike w/ The Maltese Falcon (1941) & In a Lonely Place (50)

The stuff that dreams are made of

& i walk & walk & walk til i get there
i can see the gold in your hair
i’m here cause i care
Love & War, just ain’t fair
love it when you’re here so, i’m not going
my gaze is yours, & you know it
for the Work,
i make it work, & i show it
pupils opened up, know i’m flowin

i just saw like 7 bunnies
7 seals, adorn the mummies
it’s a race, so just keep running
i want it all, you want it from me
calloused fingers, just keep strumming
in the circle, steady drumming

i’ve been where they come to roost &
what you know about the truth?
i’m just watching
watching

& i walk & walk & walk til i get there
i can see the gold in your hair
i’m here cause i care
Love & War, just ain’t fair
love it when you’re here so, i’m not going
my gaze is yours, & you know it
for the Work,
i make it work, & i show it
pupils opened up, know i’m flowin

Love & War

The podcast that makes cannabis a gateway drug to classic cinema. 

Co-hosted by Bob Calhoun, Philena Franklin, Cory Sklar & Greg Franklin

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