EPISODE # 57: Elia Kazan’s Oscar-winning 1951 film, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams. Kazan directed the Broadway play, and brought all of the leads — except one — for the movie. James and Lara discuss …
Elia Kazan
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
EPISODE # 54: Elia Kazan’s SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS features two of Hollywood’s most beautiful stars: Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty. Lara and James are joined by Dennis Hensley to unravel the many themes explored in this 1961 classic based on William Inge’s novel …
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
EPISODE #26: THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962) is directed by John Ford, and stars John Wayne as a gunslingin’ cowboy good guy, who instead of being at odds with a typical Western outlaw, finds himself going up against do gooder Jimmy Stewart, …
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
EPISODE #25: Lonesome Rhodes, played by Andy Griffith as you have most likely NEVER seen him before, is a drifter and a raconteur. When we—and Patricia Neal—meet him, he’s in jail, but his storytelling and singing land him on her radio show, which …