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According to Ogden Nash, "Philo Vance needs a kick in the pants", and Dashiel Hammett described the character's posturing as being, "like a teenager who had been studying the foreign words and phrases in the back of their dictionary". S.S. Van Dine's foppish sleuth certainly does make an impression on a reader and here, in his first appearance, we get to follow his methodology and manipulation alongside DA John Markham and "The Benson Murder Case". Opinions weren't hard to come by during our read and review of this crime classic!Fast Facts @15:00; Summary @41:00; PIPES @55:00Get your Magic Mind here

In this week's episode, I take a look at the movies and streaming shows I watched in winter 2024/2025, and share my opinions on them. I also take a look at my ebook advertising results from January 2025. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Half-Orc Paladin, Book #3 in the Half-Elven Thief series, (as excellently narrated by Leanne Woodward) at my Payhip store: PALADIN50 The coupon code is valid through February 28, 2025. So if you need a new audiobook for the bad February weather, we've got you covered! 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates   Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 238 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is February 7, 2025 and today we are discussing the movies and streaming shows I watched in Winter 2024 and 2025. Before that, we will do Coupon of the Week, an update on my current writing projects, Question of the Week, and my ad results from January 2025.   First, let's start with Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Half-Orc Paladin, Book Three in the Half-Elven Thief Series (as excellently narrated by Leanne Woodward) at my Payhip store. That coupon code is PALADIN50. This coupon code will be valid through February the 28th, 2025, so if you need a new audiobook to get you through the bad February weather, we have got you covered.   Now for an update on my current writing and audiobook projects. As I mentioned last week, Shield of Deception is now out and you can get it at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Apple Books, Smashwords and my Payhip store. It is doing quite well. Thank you all for that. I hope you enjoy the book and I've been hearing good things about it from people who read it.   Now that Shield of Deception is done, my main project is now Ghost in the Assembly and I am 36,000 words into it as of this recording, which puts me almost on Chapter 8 of 21. So I'm about one third of the way through the rough draft, give or take. If all goes well. I'm hoping that book will be out in March. My secondary project is Shield of Battle, which is the sequel to Shield of Deception and I am about 2,000 words into that. I'm also 50,000 words into what will be the third and final Stealth and Spells book, Stealth and Spells Online: Final Quest. It was originally named Reactant, but I decided to change the name to Final Quest because that sounds better and if all goes well, that will probably be out in the middle of the year, give or take.   In audiobook news, Cloak of Masks (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) is now out at all audio stores, including Audible, so you can listen to that there. Work is almost done on Cloak of Dragonfire. It's being proof-listened to as I record this and hopefully that should be out before too much longer. So that is where I'm at with my current writing and audiobook projects.   00:02:19 Question of the Week   Next up is Question of the Week, which is intended to inspire interesting discussions of enjoyable topics. This week's topic, which ties into our main topic: what was the favorite movie you saw in 2024? No wrong answers, obviously (including “I hate everything I saw in 2024”). We have a few responses for this.   JD says: It was either Transformers One or Deadpool and Wolverine.   Mary says: I didn't see any movies in 2024.   Doug says: Dune was one of the books I read in the ‘70s. Like your books, I never got enough back then. I was buying Hardcovers. I still have six of them. I have seen the two versions of the books. Can't wait to see this version of the books. I have seen the first movies. Hope to see more.   David says: Godzilla versus Kong was pretty much the only one from last year I saw. I just bought Gladiator 2 but haven't watched it yet.   Davette says: I enjoyed both Dune 2 and The Fall Guy and Inside Out 2 and Deadpool and Wolverine. My favorite was Wicked, mainly because I've been waiting on that movie for years.   Bonnie says: I haven't seen any movies or watched TV in years.   For myself, I think it would be a tie for my favorite movie of 2024 for between Dune 2 and The Fall Guy. The two Dune movies, for all the stuff they changed from the book, are probably the most faithful adaptation it was possible to make with that very dense and very weird book. I thought The Fall Guy was just hilarious and I had no idea it was based on TV series from the ‘80s until I read up about it on the Internet after I saw the movie. It was interesting that we didn't have very many responses to this question the week and of those responses, one third of them was “I didn't see any movies in 2024.” So if the movie industry is wondering why it's in so much trouble, I think we might have just found the answer here in that nobody wants to go to see movies in the theater anymore.   00:04:09 Ad Results for January 2025 Now onto our next topic, how my ads performed in January 2025. Now as usual for my books in January, I used Facebook ads, Amazon ads, and BookBub ads, so let's break them down by category- first, by Facebook ads. As usual, I advertised The Ghosts and Cloak Games/Cloak Mage.   GHOSTS: $4.08 for every dollar, with 22% of the profit coming from the audiobooks.   CLOAK GAMES/MAGE: $3.38 for every dollar, with 6% of the profit coming from the audiobooks. So that went pretty well. I'm hoping that percentage will go up once Cloak of Dragonfire is done and we can put together Cloak Mage Omnibus Three.   I also did some Amazon ads – specifically for HALF-ELVEN THIEF, STEALTH & SPELLS ONLINE: CREATION, and THE LINUX COMMAND LINE BEGINNERS GUIDE.   Remember, for an Amazon ad to be effective, it usually needs to be generating at least one sale for every eight clicks on the ads.   HALF-ELVEN THIEF: $4.65 for every dollar spent, 1.85 sales for every click. It's just an amazing ratio-thank you for that.   STEALTH & SPELLS ONLINE: CREATION: Lost $0.15 for every dollar spent, 1 sale for every 4.76 clicks.   THE LINUX COMMAND LINE BEGINNER'S GUIDE: $3.16 for every dollar spent, 33% of the profit from audio, 1.34 sales for every click.   The standout was HALF-ELVEN THIEF, which actually had more sales than clicks on the ads. That hardly ever happens!   You can see there's a reason I'm going to conclude STEALTH & SPELLS with the third book, because it just doesn't sell well. All of the advertising experiments I have tried to make it sell well have not responded to date. That said, we did improve from December, where I only got a sale for every 14 clicks.   Additionally, Amazon ads work really well with nonfiction books, since they respond a lot better to keyword ads.   Finally, I used Bookbub ads for THE GHOSTS on Apple. That went pretty well.   THE GHOSTS: $4 for every $1 spent.   So, all in all, a pretty good month for ads, though STEALTH & SPELLS remains the weak point. As always everyone, thank you for buying the books and listening to the audiobooks.   00:06:50 Main Topic: Movie/TV Show Reviews of Winter 2024/Early Winter 2025 Now onto our main topic, the movies and streaming shows I watched in Winter 2024 and early winter 2025. As always, my ratings are totally subjective and based on nothing more concrete than my own opinions.   Our first one is Red One, which came out in 2024. This was a strange mashup of genres, a holiday movie, urban fantasy, a thriller, and just a little bit of existential horror. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays Callum Drift, who is the head of Santa Claus's security. Meanwhile, Chris Evans plays an unscrupulous hacker and thief named Jack O'Malley. Jack unwittingly helps unknown malefactors kidnap Santa Claus and so Callum and Jack have to team up to rescue Santa from his kidnappers. This sounds like a lighthearted holiday movie, but it really isn't. The movie is rather dour and takes itself very seriously. Callum acts like he's in a Jason Bourne movie and deals with various supernatural creatures like a special forces operator assessing targets. Additionally, there are some urban fantasy elements with the vast government agency dedicated to hiding the supernatural world from normal people. I don't think the dissonance really worked at all. It had pieces of a light holiday movie and pieces of a thriller and they really didn't mesh. It's not hard to see why this one didn't do well in the theaters, on top of its enormous budget. Overall Grade: D (In the spirit of Christmas generosity)   Next up is Argylle, which came out in 2024. This was a dumb movie, but I enjoyed it, kind of like Murder Mystery with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston on Netflix. I mean that wasn't exactly Shakespeare or Milton, but I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy myself while watching it. Same thing applies to Argylle. The plot is that the protagonist Ellie Conway is a bestselling spy novelist. Ellie is a bit of an eccentric personality and travels everywhere with her cat in a backpack that has a window in it so the cat can see what's going on. However, it turns out that Ellie's novels are accurately predicting events in real life espionage, so several sinister spy agencies are hunting her down to learn her secret. A spy named Aidan saves Ellie, claiming that he's the only one she can trust. Of course, this is the kind of movie that has a shocking betrayal and plot twist every eight minutes or so, and the revelation of the central twist made me face palm a bit. There is a fight scene at the end involving colored smoke that's absolutely bonkers. It was on Apple Plus or Apple TV or whatever it's called, but that means all the characters did all their computing on shiny new Apple devices, which is always amusing. Overall Grade: D+ (but barely)   Next up is Venom: The Last Dance, which came out in 2024. It wasn't as good as the first two since so many of the characters did not return, but it brought the Venom Trilogy to a mostly satisfying conclusion. Eddie Brock and Venom are on the run after the events of Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Unbeknownst to either of them, the US government has a secret facility holding captured symbiant aliens and the agency that runs the facility is hunting for them. Unbeknownst to the US government, the creator of the symbiotes, an evil entity named Knull is preparing to escape his prison and to do that, he needs Eddie/Venom delivered to him alive, so he dispatches his creatures to Earth hunt down Eddie and Venom, with disastrous results. The best part of the movie was the comedic duo of Eddie and Venom since the movie takes the absurdity of their situation and leans into it. Overall Grade: B- Next up is the Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, which came out in 2024. I read an interview with Brandon Sanderson where he said that a big part of the problem with movie adaptations of books is that the filmmakers often want to tell their own story, not the books'. So they basically used the book as a framework for telling their own story, which inevitably annoys the readers of the book. I suspect that was what happened with The War of the Rohirrim. This movie was a mixture of strong points and weaknesses. Apparently it only exists because New Line needed to put out something or they'd lose film rights to Tolkien's stuff, and so The War of the Rohirrim was fast-tracked.   The strong points: the animation looked pretty, the battle scenes were fun to watch, the voice performances were good, and the music was also good.   The weak points: it felt too long and slow-paced. I think a good half-hour could have been cut of the characters looking pensive and thoughtful (and saved the animators a lot of work in the process). Additionally, I don't think the changes to the plot quite worked. It's based out of the Appendices of The Lord of the Rings, specifically the history of Rohan. In the book, the plot is touched off when the corrupt Lord Freca demands that King Helm's daughter Hera marry Freca's son Wulf. Helm takes exception to this and ends up killing Freca. His son Wulf swears vengeance, gathers an army from Rohan's enemies, and sets out to seize the crown for himself. In the book, Helm's sons are killed, and Helm himself dies in the defense of the Hornburg (which later becomes known as Helm's Deep), but his nephew Frealof gathers an army, kills Wulf, and becomes the new king of Rohan.   That would have been perfectly good for the plot, but as we mentioned above, I think the screenwriters decided they wanted to write about a Strong Female Character, so they massively expanded Hera's part and made her the protagonist. The problem with this as an adaptation is that Hera is only mentioned once in the book, so the script has to make up a lot of extra stuff to justify Hera's presence, which always weakens an adaptation of a book. This version of Hera would have been in danger of becoming a stereotypical #girlboss character, but she acts more like a Japanese anime protagonist, which does work better in this sort of movie than an Americanized Strong Female Character.   So, in the end, not a bad movie, but I think it would have worked better if they had stuck closer to the original plot in the book. Overall Grade: B-   Next up is Golden Era, which came out in 2022. This is a documentary about the making of the classic Nintendo 64 game Goldeneye and the company behind it. Until I watched this, I never knew that Rare, the company that made Goldeneye, was based in the UK.   I admit I really didn't play Goldeneye back in the ‘90s and early ‘00s. I did a few times at various social events, but I never really got into it since I didn't own a game console from 1998 to 2019. Nonetheless, Goldeneye was a very influential game that left its mark on all first-person shooter games since. The documentary interviews most of the people who were involved in the making of Goldeneye, and it was fascinating to see how they more or less accidentally created a genre-defining game.   If you enjoyed Goldeneye or are interested in video game history at all, the documentary is worth watching. After many years of official unavailability, Goldeneye is now available on Nintendo Switch and Xbox, so I may have to give it a try. Overall grade: B     Next up is Wonka, which came out in 2023. I didn't really intend to watch this, but it was on in the background while I was playing Starfield…and Starfield has a lot of loading screens. This movie wasn't made for me, not even remotely, but I thought it was a competently executed example of a movie musical.   Anyway, the plot revolves around a young Willy Wonka coming to a city that seems like a weird hybrid between Paris and New York. Wonka sets out to start selling his innovative chocolates, but soon runs into stiff opposition from the corrupt local candy industry, the corrupt local police chief, and his equally corrupt landlady, who has somehow transitioned from hospitality to luring people into debt slavery. Wonka makes allies from his fellow indentured workers, and soon he is conducting local chocolate manufacturing like a heist.   Like I said, this really wasn't made for me, and I'm sure people who actually like musicals would have many more detailed opinions. But this had some genuinely funny bits. Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa was hilarious, and so was Rowan Atkinson as a corrupt bishop. The best line: “Judgment has come…in a most unexpected form!” Overall grade: B     Next up is Man on the Inside, which came out in 2024, and this is a Netflix comedy series from Mike Schur, who created Parks and Recreation, The Good Place and Brooklyn 99. To describe this show, think of a meditation about accepting the inevitability of aging and death through Schur's comedic style, and you'll be there.   Anyway, Ted Danson stars as a recently widowed retired professor of engineering named Charles. His daughter is worried that he's not handling things well and becoming too isolated, so suggests that he find a hobby. Charles answers a classified ad for an “older man who can use technology” and finds himself recruited by a private investigator named Julie. Julie's company has been hired to find a thief within a retirement home, and Julie is about 35 years too young to convincingly infiltrate a retirement home. Hence, Charles pretends to be a new resident, and finds himself befriending the residents he is supposed to investigate. All the while, he tries to deal with the remaining grief from his wife's death, which he never got around to processing in the moment.   In my opinion, The Good Place and Brooklyn 99 both kind of fell apart in their final seasons, but Man on the Inside avoids that in its final episodes, providing good resolution to both the conflict and the emotional stakes. I thought it was both bittersweet and quite funny, and I approve that there's going to be a 2nd season. Overall grade: B   Next up is Minted, which came out in 2023, and this was an interesting documentary about the rise in the fall of the NFT, which in the early 2020s we were assured was going to be the next big thing, but it just turned out to be yet another scam.   The documentary follows an interesting course, first explaining what an NFT is, and then interviewing artists who made life-changing money from minting their early NFTS. But then the speculators arrived, and followed swiftly by the scammers. As of 2025, of course, NFTs are quite worthless, like so many much-vaunted Web 3.0 style technologies.   I think the documentary's biggest weakness was assuming that NFT technology was around to stay and would find a use that would help artists. I agree that it's around to stay, but I don't think it adds value to anything at all. Nevertheless, an interesting look into the NFT fad and the impact it had on artists. Overall grade: B     Next up is Gladiator 2, which came out in 2024. This is basically the same movie as the original Gladiator, just reshuffled a bit and with twenty years of improved technology. The main character Hanno is a soldier in an African city that rebels against Rome. After the rebellion is inevitably crushed, he is taken as a slave and ends up as a gladiator in Rome, determined to take his vengeance on the Roman general who ordered the death of his wife. However, the general was only carrying out the orders of the insane twin emperors Geta and Caracalla. For that matter, Hanno's owner, the charming and affable Macrinus, has his own agenda. As Hanno seeks revenge, he finds himself drawn into the deadly game of imperial politics and must confront the secrets of his own past.   The movie is only very vaguely accurate in terms of history, but it does a good job of capturing the corruption and decadence of the Roman Empire at that time. The empire was in very bad shape, and in fact was only a few years from what historians call the Crisis of the Third Century, a fifty year period of continual civil war, assassination, usurpation, and economic meltdown that resulted in the empire breaking into three separate states for about fifteen years. Everyone knows that the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD, but it very nearly didn't make it even to 300 AD. So the ending of Gladiator 2 is a total fantasy, like one of those alt-history books where the Roman Empire ends up conquering the Americas or expanding into outer space.   That said, I enjoyed the movie. Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, and Connie Nielsen in particular gave very good performances, with Denzel Washington's Macrinus as the standout. Overall grade: B Next up is High Sierra, which came out in 1941, and this is 1940s true crime grimdark. A common misconception is that black and white films are generally more sanitized and saccharine than modern fare. This definitely isn't true – there wasn't any gratuitous violence and nudity in ‘40s movies, but some of them were very cynical and dark. High Sierra definitely falls into that category. Humphrey Bogart plays Roy Earle, a bank robber currently in Indiana state prison. His former boss Big Mac arranges a pardon for him, and brings him out to California for one last big job.   Unfortunately, the other people on Earle's crew are idiots, and he has a growing sense of impending disaster. Additionally, Earle gets emotionally entangled with two women – Velma, a sick woman from his hometown, and Marie, a woman inured to the lifestyle of criminals. As Earle prepares for the job and attempts to deal with the two women, things get more and more complicated. Definitely on the darker side as I mentioned, but well worth watching, both as a historical artifact and a crime story in its own right. Overall grade: B+   Next is Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, which came out in 2024. Lower Decks is an example of a parody of a thing that is so good that it sort of loops around the horseshoe and becomes a good example of the thing it is parodying. Season 5 is the undeserved end to the very funny Lower Decks series. Paramount really, really wants to get purchased by Skydance, and that's probably going to happen in 2025, so there's a lot of clearing the decks at Paramount, and I expect Lower Decks was one of the casualties.   Then again, our protagonists are no longer lower deckers but junior officers, so perhaps it was a natural place to end the show. So Lower Decks went out pretty strong with a collection of funny and good episodes. All the characters experienced plot arcs and development. The lower deckers matured from the callow ensigns they were in Season 1, and the senior officers likewise experienced character growth and development. (I liked Commander Ransom's triumphant battle cry of “high intensity interval training!”)   I'd say the only weakness is that the show ended with multiverse stuff, and I don't like multiverse stuff in general. Still, the show made a compelling argument for the multiverse as a concept, and the multiverse plot did give an excuse to bring back various Trek actors for speaking parts. And, to be fair, Star Trek has been doing multiverse stuff long, long before the Marvel movies ran the concept into the ground – Captain Kirk was dealing with alternate universe stuff back in the 1960s.   The last episode was a satisfactory conclusion to the series. Lower Decks might be over, but once the Skydance acquisition settles down, maybe the character will return in a new show called Junior Officers? One can hope! Overall grade: B+   Next up is the Frasier reboot Season 2, which also came out in 2024. I liked this about as much as I liked Season 1, which is to say I enjoyed it and found it funny. Frasier's and his son Frederick's relationship seems to have reached equilibrium, so the season spent more time on more 1940s style screwball comedy, which is not a bad thing. Some of the best comedy remains the conflicts between Frasier and Frederick, which is of course an echo of Frasier's own conflicts with his father back in the original show in the 1990s.   I think the best episode was the return of Frasier's scheming, Machiavellian agent Bebe and her daughter Phoebe, who did not exactly fall far from the maternal apple tree. The 10-episode format for the season does seem rather cramped compared to the 20-ish episodes per season of the original show, but that was a different era.   Frasier remains, as one of the characters said in the previous season, the same well-meaning buffoon who goes “that extra, ill-advised mile.” I hope we get a Season 3, but with the shakeups we mentioned at Paramount, that seems unlikely. Overall grade: A-     Finally, let's close with the three best things I saw in Winter 2024/2025.   The first of my favorite three is Saturday Night, which came out in 2024. This is a biopic about the chaotic first night of Saturday Night Live back in the 1970s. Quite hilarious in a vicious sort of way, and (from what I understand) it accurately captures the sheer chaos of live TV. Of course, the chaos surrounding SNL is probably a bit higher than usual for standard live television.   After I watched it, I looked it up, and it seems the movie compresses about three months' worth of events into the hour and a half before the launch of the very first episode. What's amusing is that the more outlandish an event in the movie was, the more likely it was to have actually happened in the leadup to the show's launch. It was the mundane stuff that was made up, not the crazy stuff.   JK Simmons was hilarious as Milton Berle. Nowadays, SNL is an Institution, so it was amusing to see it back when everyone thought it was a bad idea that would fail catastrophically. The movie convincingly captured the “look” of the 1970s – all the characters looked like they were made of nicotine, cholesterol, and cocaine, and in some instances, a lot of cocaine. That stuff is bad for you, as several SNL stars later found out to their sorrow.   It really shows the randomness of history – watching the creation of SNL, you wouldn't expect it to have lasting cultural impact, but it did. Overall grade: A The second of my three favorite things I saw was The Thin Man, which came out in 1934. This is based on a novel by Dashiel Hammett (most famous for writing The Maltese Falcon), and was made pre-Hays Code, so the female lead tended to wear outfits that show off a bit more skin than you would otherwise expect in a 1930s movie. Interestingly, The Thin Man is a fusion of a noir detective movie and a screwball comedy, not two genres that are usually connected, and somehow it all works.   Anyway, the movie centers around detective Nick and his wife Nora, who have returned to New York after a four-year sojourn to California. Nick used to be a private detective, but then he married the wealthy Nora, and wanted to retire to a life of ease and parties with a lot of alcohol. Except everyone in New York assumes that Nick isn't retired and is back on the case, and so he gets dragged into the disappearance of an eccentric factory owner and a string of murders that pop up around it. Of course, Nick isn't as reluctant to come out of retirement as he pretends.   As is often the case in many movies made in the 1930s, many of the rich characters are shown as malicious buffoons, especially the factory owner's ex-wife. Nick and Nora, as the protagonists, are of course exempt from this.   This is considered a classic, and deservedly so – the characters are sharply drawn, the dialogue is good, the performances are excellent, the movie manages to portray a fairly complex plot in 90 minutes. You'll want to watch it with the captions on, of course, because while human nature may not have changed in the ninety years since this movie came out, audio technology has sure improved.   Fun fact: Nick and Nora's dog is named Asta, which is apparently a frequent answer in crossword puzzles due to the double vowels. Overall grade: A   Now, for the third of my three favorite things I saw in Winter 2024/2025, that would be Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, which came out in 2024. This is Star Wars meets The Goonies meets Pirates of the Caribbean, and despite that very odd combination of influences, the show was really quite good. The show opens on the idyllic planet of At Attin, which looks like an idealized version of 1980s suburbia filtered through Star Wars. Everyone on the planet has the same job – contributing to the Great Work (whatever that is). Since our four protagonists are kids, they don't pay much attention to that or the concerns of the adults. When one of the children discovers a derelict spaceship in the woods, they accidentally activate it and fly off-planet.   This is a problem because At Attin is protected by a Barrier that doesn't allow travel, and the galaxy is a dangerous place with a lot of pirate gangs roaming around looking for prey. However, the children fall in with Jod, who claims to be a Jedi who will help the kids get back to their home. Everyone they meet warns them that Jod is a con artist and not to be trusted, but he demonstrates Force powers again and again (which would seem to support his claim that he's a Jedi). And the kids' home of At Attin has a mysterious secret, one that Jod desperately wants to claim for himself.   This is very entertaining all the way through. Star Wars really works best as a kids' adventure show (in my opinion), though I'm still looking forward to the second season of Andor, which is Star Wars crossed with a John le Carre spy thriller. Overall grade: A     So that is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave your review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

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This month we checked out the classic hardboiled detective novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammett. It's a short, entertaining, and absolutely genre defining novel.  Note: This is an unedited audio copy of the live-streamed discussion over on YouTube, so you'll hear us interact with the audience a bit. Click here to submit a book for the Book Club Next month's book is The Bright Sword By Lev Grossman.  We'll be meeting to discuss it on Friday, December 7th at 9:30 PM Central Time!!! Support us on Patreon Matt's Twitter: @moridinamael Scott's Twitter:@scottdaly85 Stay updated with Doof Media: @doofmedia See all of our podcasts, writing, and more at www.doofmedia.com

This episode was recorded at the Toy and Model Museum in the Brighton Fringe on 27th May 2023. The panellists were John Rands, Arna Spek and Mike Coxon, and the host was Richard Pulsford. Topics covered included:- - Dashiel Hammett's birthday (27/05/1894) - John crowned king of England (27/05/1199) - Habeas Corpus Act receives royal assent (27/05/1679) - Oliver Cromwell offered the crown (27/05/1657) - Paul Gascoigne's birthday (27/05/1967) - Brighton and Hove Albion, ABBA's entry in Eurovision, Brighton sewers, St. Bartholomew's church, and local witch Doreen Valiente. This show was reviewed by The Reviews Hub: ★★★+1/2★ ‘A quirky history podcast with a friendly splash of humour' Link: https://www.thereviewshub.com/brighton-fringe-it-just-so-happened-an-alternative-history-show-brighton-toy-and-model-museum/  

On this episode of Book Cheat, Dave has read The Maltese Falcon. Hearing all about Dashiel Hammett's Sam Spade detective story is Alexei Toliopoulos and Michelle Brasier.Suggest a book for Dave to cheat: https://forms.gle/zj9DHBCFMuevS4VC6 Support Book Cheat and Do Go On on Patreon: www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPodInstagram: @bookcheatpodFacebook: @bookcheatpodTwitter: @bookcheatpodCheck out our other podcasts at dogoonpod.com or below:Do Go On: https://play.acast.com/s/do-go-on Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bogart and Bacall moved into a white brick mansion in Holmby Hills, and he bought a fifty-five foot yacht called the Santana from Dick Powell, spending about thirty weekends each year on the water. With World War II over, Bogart wanted to do more radio. On September 17th, 1945 he hosted an audition for a new mystery/thriller program called Humphrey Bogart Presents. Meanwhile Bogart and Bacall were on screen together again in 1946, this time in an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe novel, The Big Sleep. During World War II, comedy, drama, news, and variety dominated the radio dial, but after the war, detective shows gained network popularity as programming shifted to smaller studios. They were considered a good deal for advertisers. Although Bill Spier was entrenched at CBS, he still had ties with his old agency BBD&O, as well as with Lawrence White, Dashiel Hammett's literary agent. Both ABC and CBS wanted to bring The Adventures of Sam Spade to the air. Initially, everyone wanted Bogart to be the star. Even with Bogart's drawbacks, it was assumed no other actor could fill Spade's shoes. Auditions were held in April of 1946. Enter Howard Duff. An audition was recorded on May 1st. In June, Wildroot officially signed on as sponsor. Spade would make its debut in July over ABC's airwaves. Not to be outdone, on July 2nd, CBS broadcast an episode of Academy Award adapting “The Maltese Falcon.” Humphrey Bogart reprised his role. We heard the opening portion earlier in this episode of Breaking Walls, here's the close. Meanwhile on October 14th, 1946 Bogart and Bacall reprised their roles from To Have and Have Not for The Lux Radio Theatre. The next January 5th, 1947, Bogart and Lauren Bacall were guests on The Jack Benny Program.

This is a bonus WCCS chat show! We invited #ChrisMcDonald back onto the show to celebrate the release of his new book, #LittleGhost. Chris McDonald is the author A Wash of Black, the first in the DI Erika Piper series, as well as Whispers In The Dark and Stonebridge Mysteries. He has also recently dabbled in writing cosy crimes, as a remedy for the darkness.LITTLE GHOST:Irving Ash is a private investigator down on his luck. His life's in the gutter and work has dried up. With bills mounting, he's forced to take a job working security detail at a porn studio.He's barely started the job when the porn company's highest earning star, Brandi Dyvine, goes missing. Irving can't resist digging deeper into her disappearance, and trails Brandi through the dive bars and deadly streets of Denver—the Mile High City.A dark #noir, in the classic style, with a taste of Raymond Chandler, Dashiel Hammett and Ross MacDonald."Pacy, punchy and thoroughly entertaining. Irving Ash is Sam Spade for the 21st century." —Marion Tod"Packed with dive bars, dirty movies and plenty of dead bodies, it reminded me of the great Carl Hiaasen at his best." —Dan Malakin"Little Ghost is McDonald cracking his knuckles and displaying his real writing chops. Mature while edgy, brutal yet poignant, punchy yet elegant. A real stand-out crime novel." —Stephen J. GoldsHe is a full time teacher, husband, father to two beautiful girls and a regular voice on The Blood Brothers Podcast. He is a fan of 5-a-side football, heavy metal and dogs.______________________________________Find out more: www.TheWritingCommunityChatShow.ComTHE WCCS – TOGETHER AS ONE, WE GET IT DONE!If you would like to advertise your #book on the show, to enroll in a book launch interview, or to have a WCCS social media shout out, visit here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheWCCSFOLLOW US► Our website – https://www.thewritingcommunitychatshow.com► Universal link – https://linktr.ee/TheWCCS► Buy the show a coffee – https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheWCCS► Use hashtag TheWritingCommunityChatShow or TheWCCS on social media to keep us current. This show will only succeed with your support!► Support us through Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/WCCS► For our FIVERR affiliate link click here (we will earn a little from you signing up through our link and more if you use the service. We back this service and have used it with great results! – https://fvrr.co/32SB6cs► For our PRO #WRITING AID affiliate link click here – https://prowritingaid.com/?afid=15286

In this engaging side-series, Josh flies solo in exploring the production, features and influences of Film Noir. Taking the shape of compact film reviews, the first of these complementary capsule episodes sets the stage for the genre's American premiere by looking at its European origins. Informative context then gives way to review as John Huston's 1941 adaptation of "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiel Hammett goes under the microscope. "The stuff that dreams are made of..." Enjoy!

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

The Fat Man based on a character created by Dashiel Hammett (1946 - 51)There he goes into that drugstore … he's stepping on the scale. Weight? …two hundred thirty-seven pounds ... fortune - DANGER! Whooooooo is it?The Fat Mannnnn ….The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name, although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.

Október első felében Juhász Viktor a vendégünk, akinek a film noir iránti rajongásán esett aprócska foltot korrigáljuk most: bepótoltuk vele a The Maltese Falcon, vagyis A máltai sólyom című klasszikust. A legendás John Huston első rendezése ezen a héten lett nyolcvan éves. A történet Dashiel Hammett azonos című regényének feldolgozása. Humphrey Bogarttól ugyan nem volt idegen a krimi, mégis ezt a filmet tartják a film noir első fecskéjének. Elsőként beszélünk a film noirról: kinek milyen viszonya fűződik a műfajhoz, mik voltak az első találkozásaink a kriminek ezzel a válfajával? Megnézzük az alzsáner előzményeit, irodalmi hagyományait, és összekötjük A máltai sólymot a későbbi, posztmodern, dekonstruáló alkotásokkal. Mely stílusjegyek jelentek meg már itt, A máltai sólyomban, és mely film noir-alapvetések hiányoztak még ekkor? Milyen előképe Sam Spade nyomozó karaktere a későbbi nagy sikerű noir-detektíveknek? Aztán elmerülünk A mltai sólyom szövevényes cselekményében: mennyire sikerült kibogozni a kusza történetvezetést? Mitől izgalmas gonosztevő a Sydney Greenstreet által játszott Gutman, és mennyire hatásos femme fatale a Mary Astor által játszott Brigid O'Shaughnessy? Linkek A NeoCore Games weboldala a játékokkal, amelyeken Juhász Viktor dolgozott Juhász Viktor a Twitteren: @brainoiz A Vakfolt podcast Patreon-oldala A Vakfolt podcast Facebook oldala A Vakfolt podcast a Twitteren Vakfolt címke a Letterboxdon A Vakfolt az Apple podcasts oldalán András a Twitteren: @gaines_ Péter a Twitteren: @freevo Emailen is elértek bennünket: feedback@vakfoltpodcast.hu  

Október első felében Juhász Viktor a vendégünk, akinek a film noir iránti rajongásán esett aprócska foltot korrigáljuk most: bepótoltuk vele a The Maltese Falcon, vagyis A máltai sólyom című klasszikust. A legendás John Huston első rendezése ezen a héten lett nyolcvan éves. A történet Dashiel Hammett azonos című regényének feldolgozása. Humphrey Bogarttól ugyan nem volt […] The post 11×35 – The Maltese Falcon – vendégünk Juhász Viktor appeared first on Vakfolt podcast.

La noche se cierne en torno un caso difícil. Una adolescente se ha escapado de casa y le da por intimar con antiguos amantes de su madre, una actriz retirada que pasa las horas muertas bebiendo ginebra junto a la piscina de su casa. Con referencias al detective clásico Sam Spade, Harry Moseby no parece tan seguro de si mismo como el creado por Dashiel Hammett. Gene Hackman sabe transmitir a la perfección el naufragio de un exjugador de fútbol americano en crisis, con un trauma de infancia detrás . Un investigador embaucado por su supuesto amigo, por sus clientes, incluso por su mujer. Enrevesada y poblada por personajes frustrados, con una desgana vital extendida al estado de ánimo derrotista de la sociedad americana de los años 70. En un momento de la película, Paula -Jennifer Warren-, una mujer equívoca, desubicada, como todos los seres de este film, le pregunta a Harry donde se encontraba cuando mataron a Kennedy. ¿Cuál de los dos?. Harry da tumbos y hace suposiciones ante los reflejos de una realidad borrosa, distorsionada, que ni el protagonista ni nosotros como espectadores acertamos a comprender en ningún momento. La noche avanza en los Cayos de Florida. Como en una partida de ajedrez, el jaque mate acecha desde el primer movimiento. El caballo de las negras salta en el tablero en busca de una dama rebelde (debut de Melanie Griffith),. Personajes así de patéticos y frustrados pueblan este neo-noir de Arthur Penn con guiños a El sueño eterno de Hawks, y estatuas precolombinas que recuerdan a la del Halcón Maltés. El deseo de salir hacia adelante, de mejorar, se puede ahogar en el Golfo de México, en el fondo del Atlántico. Si una niña desnuda bucea, en lo más profundo cabe la posibilidad de que encuentre la podredumbre en unas cuencas vacías, de que termine siendo alimento de los peces. Entre los abrazos de una madre alcohólica, más sola que la Norma Desmond de Sunset Boulevard. Abrazos siempre falsos, como la sonrisa de un delfín amaestrado, como el atrezzo de las películas. La fotografía granulosa y poco preciosista de Bruce Surtees ilumina con perfección las secuencias a la luz de la luna en el barco, y también el sol más diurno, como en la hitchcockiana escena final, el ataque de la avioneta en altamar. Esta noche esperamos no terminar haciendo círculos en medio del mar... Salvador Limón, Zacarías Cotán, y Raúl Gallego

Carlos Wynter Melo escritor panameño seleccionado por Bogota 39 como uno de los mejores autores latinoamericanos, lee y comenta “Camino de Regreso” de Dashiel Hammett.

No episódio do Clube do Livro dedicado ao gênero policial, Antonio Fagundes mergulha no estilo, famosos por seus detetives, como o inesquecível Sherlock Holmes. O autor, que interpreta Alberto em Bom Sucesso, dá suas tradicionais dicas e ainda lê comentários dos ouvintes. Livros citados no episódio: "O Sono Eterno (The Big Sleep)", de Raymond Chandler; "O Falcão Maltês", de Dashiel Hammett; "O Grande Deserto" e "Dália Negra", de James Ellroy e "A Biblioteca à Noite", de Alberto Manguel. Outros autores citados no episódio: Arthur Conan Doyle, Raphael Montes, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza. Ouça agora!

“You have to be kind of angry about something to write a script...and if the thing that you're angry about is not something that you identify in yourself, I'm always wary of that.” -Rian Johnson This is the very first episode! My guest is THE Rian Johnson- he is a writer, director, filmmaker extraordinaire. I was in his very first movie, Brick. He then went on to make The Brothers Bloom, Looper, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. He’s an extraordinary thinker, conversationalist, artist, and human being. For this episode, we took a deep dive into a question from Alexandra Kolmanofsky from Louisville, Kentucky. She asked, “How do you get inspired by other people’s creations and create something unique that is completely your own without taking too much from the inspiration?” Rian offered some incredible insight on what distinguishes inspiration from imitation, what are the limitations and advantages of dealing with genre, and if any piece of art can ever be considered “original.” We also seriously pondered whether cereal is, in fact, soup (or not).  If you have a question about the creative process, share it on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) using the hashtag #creativeprocessing, or by emailing creativeprocessing@hitrecord.org. New episodes available every Tuesday through October 22, 2019. ABOUT THE GUEST: Johnson’s career began at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. After writing and directing a few short films that won awards but did not bring him to the attention of mainstream audiences, Rian decided to make this film, even if it was his last. His first feature film Brick premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 where it won the Special Jury Prize for originality and vision. Always with Ram Bergman producing and Steve Yedlin as his Director of Photography, Rian went on to write and direct Brothers Bloom (2008, starring Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz and Adrian Brody), Looper (2012, starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017, starring Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher). Johnson has also directed many episodes of television including two classic episodes of “Breaking Bad” — both voted in the top 10 best episodes of the series by viewers.  SELECTED LINKS FOR EPISODE: Connect with Rian Johnson:Twitter: @rianjohnsonInstagram: @riancjohnson Movies Mentioned: -Brick (2005) -The Brothers Bloom (2008) -Looper (2012) -Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) -Knives Out (2019) -The Evil Dead (1981) -Barton Fink (1991) -Breathless (1960) -A Woman Is a Woman (1961) -Barry Lyndon (1975) -A Clockwork Orange (1971) -Jacob’s Ladder (1990) -Miller’s Crossing (1990) -21 Jump Street (2012) -Hail, Caesar! (2016) -True Grit (2010) -True Grit (1969) -Sorry to Bother You (2018) -Under the Skin (2013) People Mentioned: -Sam Raimi (Director) -The Coen Brothers: Joel & Ethan (Writers and Directors) -William Goldman (Writer) -Jean-Luc Godard (Director) -Stanley Kubrick (Director) -Dashiell Hammett (Writer) -The Beatles (Musicians) -Little Richard (Musician) -Chuck Berry (Musician) -Phillip K. Dick (Writer) -Lawrence “Larry” Kasdan (Writer) -Jonathan Glazer (Director) -Boots Riley (Director) -Wes Anderson (Writer and Director) Other Mentions: -”You Never Give Me Your Money” - The Beatles (1969) -The Continental Op by Dashiel Hammett (1989) -Models of anxiety: Responses of rats to novelty in an open space and an enclosed space. Ennaceur, Abdel & Michalikova, S & Chazot, Paul. (2006).

An invasion of Alaska, a river's life history, the storied existence of writer Dashiel Hammett, the deadliest plague in human history, a nightmarish trek down the Amazon River, and the Amazon as a center of civilization.

A Vakfolt versus remake-ekkel foglalkozó évadjában ezúttal nem két, hanem három filmet eresztünk egymásnak, sőt, ezúttal a közös történetük alapjául szolgáló regényt is érintjük. A ponyvaregényes cselekményt, melyben a név nélküli hős egy törvényen kívüli városban játssza ki egymás ellen a rivális bandákat, először Dashiel Hammett álmodta meg a Red Harvest (Véres aratás) című könyvében. Ez ihlette meg Kuroszava Akirát, aki a Yojimbo (A testőr) című filmjével 1961-ben áthelyezte a történetet a szamurájkorba. Sergio Leone a spaghettiwestern hajnalán ezt a filmet látva döntött úgy, hogy az ázsiai műből európai rendezőként egy amerikai sztorit adaptál, és ebből született meg az 1964-es Per un pugno di dollari, vagyis az Egy maréknyi dollárért, angol címén A Fistful of Dollars. Végül, hogy a kört bezárjuk, Walter Hill 1996-ban a Last Man Standing (Az utolsó emberig) visszavitte a produkciót Amerikába, és az eredeti idősíkjába, szesztilalom idejének noir hangulatába.  Hogyan egyszerűsítette le Hammet elképesztően komplikált cselekményét Kuroszava? Mi történik Hammett világválság-ideji nihilizmusával a humanista Kuroszava kezei közt? Melyik rendezőnek van a legjobb érzéke a humorhoz? Melyik filmre jellemző a melodráma, mennyire befogadható ez a fajta történetmesélés a naturalizmushoz szokott néző számára? A háromból két filmhez is egy éven belül készült folytatás, de melyikről jut Andrásnak eszébe a Rocky II? Miután a mindig pedáns Péter kiejtéseket korrigál, megnézzük, mit kell tudni a spaghettiwestern kialakulásáról. Hogyan viszonyul Sergio Leone műfajteremtől Dollár-trilógiája a John Ford nevével fémjelzett kortárs amerikai westernhez? A minimális költségvetésből brillírozó Leone leleményességén csodálkozunk, és elkerülhetetlenül rangsort állítunk a Dollár-trilógia darabjai közt is, hogy még két filmmel bonyolítsuk a képletet. Végezetül a Last Man Standinggel vonalat húzunk a John Woo Hard Boiledja és a hard-boiled krimi műfaja között, és a hollywoodi filmeseknek a kilencvenes évek hongkongi akciófilmjei iránti rajongását elemezzük ki. Hogyan okozta az amerikai akcióhős halálát a Con Air? Mivel a filmre kár túl sok szót fecsérelni, ezért inkább Bruce Willis megmagyarázhatatlan szerepválasztásait nézzük végig.  Linkek A Vakfolt podcast Facebook oldala A Vakfolt versus a Letterboxdon Vakfolt versus az Apple podcasts oldalán Feliratkozás a Vakfolt versus podcastra Android készülékeken András a Twitteren: @gaines_ Péter a Twitteren: @freevo Feri a Twitteren: @wostry Emailen is elértek bennünket: feedback@vakfoltpodcast.hu

A Vakfolt versus remake-ekkel foglalkozó évadjában ezúttal nem két, hanem három filmet eresztünk egymásnak, sőt, ezúttal a közös történetük alapjául szolgáló regényt is érintjük. A ponyvaregényes cselekményt, melyben a név nélküli hős egy törvényen kívüli városban játssza ki egymás ellen a rivális bandákat, először Dashiel Hammett álmodta meg a Red Harvest (Véres aratás) című könyvében. Ez […] The post Vakfolt versus 2×04 – Yojimbo vs. A Fistful of Dollars vs. Last Man Standing – vendégünk Wostry Ferenc appeared first on Vakfolt podcast.

A Vakfolt versus remake-ekkel foglalkozó évadjában ezúttal nem két, hanem három filmet eresztünk egymásnak, sőt, ezúttal a közös történetük alapjául szolgáló regényt is érintjük. A ponyvaregényes cselekményt, melyben a név nélküli hős egy törvényen kívüli városban játssza ki egymás ellen a rivális bandákat, először Dashiel Hammett álmodta meg a Red Harvest (Véres aratás) című könyvében. Ez […] The post Vakfolt versus 2×04 – Yojimbo vs. A Fistful of Dollars vs. Last Man Standing – vendégünk Wostry Ferenc appeared first on Vakfolt podcast.

February's book selection is a bit different from previous choices: The Glass Key, a hardboiled mystery novel by Dashiel Hammett. Hammet is best known for The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, both of which were turned into popular films, but the author's personal favorite was The Glass Key, a very readable novel that takes up themes of friendship and loyalty, deception and betrayal. It was made into two American films. An early version starring George Raft and a later and better film with Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. The great Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa, so liked this movie that it inspired him to make one of his most popular films, Yojimbo, which in turned inspired Sergio Leone to make his first Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, A Fistful of Dollars. Moviegoers will have the chance to defend their favorite version, though fans of Sergio Leone are going to have a tough time. The most available text of The Glass Key is in the Library of America edition of Dashiel Hammett . Less expensive editions are available at Amazon. ABE is selling copies of the Vintage paperback edition for $3.45, shipping included. There is also an overpriced Kindle edition, which may be more convenient for some readers. Recorded: February 25, 2015 Original Air Date: August 3, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 13 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton Episode page: https://fleming.foundation/2016/08/boethius-book-club-episode-6-the-glass-key/ Boethius Book Club: https://fleming.foundation/category/podcasts/bc/ Subscribe: https://fleming.foundation/membership-signup/ Boethius Book Club℗ is a Production of the Fleming Foundation. Copyright 2016. All Rights are Reserved.

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The Fat Man character was Brad Runyan, played by Jack Scott Smart who gave an excellent lighthearted performance. The series made good use of author Dashiel Hammett's name,although the author had little to do with the radio series. The name The Fat Man was the title of a chapter in the book A Maltese Falcon.oldtimeradiodvd.com