Episode 012 - Roman Holiday, Papillon, Chinatown, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Release Date: 02/27/2014
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info_outlineScott and Charlie are joined in the Balaban Sound Studio byfriend of the show Tony for his thoughts on Lock Stock and TwoSmoking Barrels.
Charlie has chosen Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn and GregoryPeck. Scott has selected Papillon starring Steve McQueen and Dustin(still with us) Hoffman.
We celebrate the 40th anniversary of Roman Polanski's Chinatownstarring Jack Nicholson.
A huge massive thank you to Smokey and Steven at the History ofMisunderstanding podcast for the awesome ident featured at the topof the show. We didn't thank you on air as we received it afterrecording but we wanted to include it here. You guys are thebest!
Emails this week from Jim from Swanscombe (of course) and Benfrom the JT Movie podcast (or should that be Hyman Woodchuck?)
So prepare yourself for another bladder busting episode andremember...no ducks were injured during the recording of thispodcast.
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