Episode 282: Dick Tracy (1990)

Special Guests: Glenne Headly, Garyn G. Roberts, Dan Kampling
Guest Co-Hosts: Jared Case, Frank Santopadre

Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy is a beautiful recreation of the four-color world of Chester Gould's square-jawed detective. It's also something of an uneasy marriage of Stephen Sondheim songs, Madonna, and a cavalcade of character actors as Gould's "Rogues Gallery."

Interviews feature Glenne Headly who plays Tracy's love interest, Tess Trueheart, as well as author Garyn G. Roberts, and Dick Tracy afficianado Dan Kampling. We also hear just a bit of executive producer Floyd Mutrux from a previous interview.

Jared Case and Frank Santopadre join Mike to debate if the film ultimately works.

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Links:
Buy Dick Tracy on Blu-Ray
Buy Dick Tracy and American Culture: Morality and Mythology, Text and Context by Garyn G Roberts
Buy Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy by Jean Gould O'Connell
Buy Dick Tracy The Official Biography by Jay Maeder
Read Dick Tracy: A (Re)appreciation by Jared Case
Read Looking Back at Dick Tracy by Becky Lea
Read Remember Dick Tracy? by Keith Phipps
Learn more about the Cash & Epps collection at MSU
Visit the official Stephen Sondheim website
Visit the official Frank Santopadre website
Hear more of Frank Santopadre on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast
Learn more about the Nitrate Picture Show
Hear more from Floyd Mutrux

Music:
"Bat/Tracy?" - Danny Elfman
"Dick Tracy" - The Ventures
"Tess's Theme" - Danny Elfman
"The Powerful Fully-Transistorized Dick Tracy Two-Way Wrist Radio" - Man or Astro-man?
"Dick Tracy" - Ice-T

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Special Report: Death Game / Knock Knock

Special Guests: Sondra Locke, Larry Spiegel, David Worth
Guest Co-Host: Nicholas Schlegel

We discuss the events of October 10, 1975 captured in Peter Traynor's film, Death Game (AKA The Seducers AKA Mrs. Manning's Weekend), starring Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp, and Seymour Cassel. The film should serve to remind us that fate allows no man to insulate himself against the evil which pervades our society.

This episode features interviews with actress Sondra Locke, producer Larry Spiegel and cinematographer, editor, and the voice of George Manning, David Worth.

Mike is joined by Professor Nicholas Schlegel on this special episode to discuss the film as well as its progenitors, Kitten with a Whip and Little Miss Innocent as well as the 2015 remake from Eli Roth, Knock Knock.

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Music:
"Where is My Mind?" - Lovedrug
"Where is My Mind?" - Mindy Jones
"Where is My Mind?" - Bloody Bits
"Good Old Dad" - The Ron Hicklin Singers
"Where is My Mind?" - Maxene Cyrin

Links:
Buy Death Game on Blu-Ray
Listen to our Sequel episode
Buy Knock Knock on Blu-Ray
Buy Little Miss Innocent on DVD
Buy Kitten with a Whip on DVD
Buy Poor Pretty Eddie on Blu-Ray
Visit the officia David Worth website
Buy Zen & The Art Of Independent Filmmaking: A Cautionary Tale by David Worth
Buy The Good, The Bad, and the Very Ugly by Sondra Locke
Buy Sex, Sadism, Spain, and Cinema: The Spanish Horror Film by Nicholas Schlegel
Watch Visciosas al Desnudo online
Watch Miss Innocent (1987) online (NSFW)
Read Where Is My Mind?': A history of the Pixies' song in TV and film by Robin Hardwick
Listen to the Outside the Cinema episode on Death Game

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