Suddenly (1954)

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Hi, I'm Tata Baps.
And I'm Maybe Melons.
This is the Booby Trap Podcast.
Wine. Films. Murder.
Trap, big beautiful booby trap.
With this podcast, we delve into the world of classic crime and murder films, paired with a perfect wine.

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Today, we're delving into the suspenseful film, Suddenly, and pairing it with the crisp acidity and citrus notes that complement the tense atmosphere and sharp dialogue of the film.
So today, we're going to start off by doing a wine tasting.
The wine today, the bridal that we're having is a Saval Blanc.
And what's kind of interesting is this grape grows in cooler climates, so it's actually primarily grown in England and Wales, which I guess is popular for sparkling wines.

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And then in the U.S., it's really grown over on the East Coast.
So, you know, like New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia.
And then, surprisingly, then also the Pacific Northwest.
And then Canada, so sometimes it's used for ice wines.
Very interesting wine, something maybe most people don't get to experience.

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The level of sweetness, it's pretty versatile, so, you know, it can be made into dry wines,
it can be made into semi-sweet styles, even dessert wines.
So, like I said, you know, ice wine in Canada.
So, very interesting.
So, you know, it's interesting.
It's just kind of based off of, like, the type of style that people are interested in.

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experimenting with i guess this sort of grape is known for high acidity so it makes it really
i guess ideal for sparkling wines and you know something that's like nice and refreshing
um so typically for this style of wine you're going to have aromas of citrus green apple pear

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and minerality for the tasting flavors lemon grapefruit uh honeydew melon maybe even some
herb or floral notes so once again obviously each wine is different and you might experience some of
those differently but for this style of wine you tend to be the sort of notes that you would uh

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And then also just kind of last but not least, you know, in terms of food pairing.
So typically for Sauvignon Blanc, when we talk about like main dishes, it's really good with like light seafood.
So clams, oysters, whitefish, also like chicken and summer salads.
Maybe some mildly spicy dishes is like Thai, maybe Thai food or Thai shrimp or something.

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Like not extra, extra spicy, mild spicy.
And then for cheese pairings, nice creamy cheeses.
Was it Havarti?
I don't know how to say that cheese name.
I think you said it just right.
Because I can't say it any better.
Because I can't say it any better.
So that sort of cheese.
I apologize for those cheese experts out there.

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Go right in.
Don't write in.
And then for desserts, usually like fruit-based desserts, so like a lemon tart or apple crumble.
So I guess, you know, like the idea of that citrus note and the apple nits kind of pairing really well together, so complementing each other.
So with that, let's talk about the wine we're having today.

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Okay, today we are opening a bottle of 2020 Saval Blanc, which comes from Bugatti, Bodego, and Vineyard, which is located in Northern Virginia, I believe in Berryville.
This is one of three family-owned wineries in that area, and each winery does just a bit of a different style of winemaking.

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So like the wine we're having today, which is at Bugatti.
They do the Argentinian, is that a word?
Yeah, that's how I say it, Argentinian.
Okay, no.
Okay, nobody from Argentina write in, please.
No writing in, period.
Style-wise, Barabar Vineyard, which is also a really nice place to visit,

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they do Italian.
And James Charles Lottery, they are dedicated to French style.
Like, you know, a family, you know, obviously three different vineyards,
they're all part of the same family, but each one is a different style.
And I know, you know, for the Bugatti ones, you like the Melbecks.

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And, once again, just, you know, you're not even up.
Very nice.
I'm very Argentinian.
Right. So it's just kind of like one of the things that's like new and it's fun to experiment with that.
Right. Exactly. Yeah.
We're going to go ahead and do some tasting right now with our bottle of Sauval Blanc from Bugatti.

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So as we're doing tasting, you know, we're going to first look at the wine, then we'll smell it, and then we'll taste it.
You know, the first step is looking at the color.
What color do we think this wine is?
It has kind of like a yellow-green.
Yeah, like a little bit.

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I was thinking kind of more straw, but like light, right?
Yeah, not a dark yellow.
like
But I see, I mean, a little bit of green in there, right?
Yeah, like yellow and green.
Okay. Next is smell. So I know you're going to hand that over to me.
That's what I'm going to do.

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As I smell.
You're in charge of being smelly.
Yeah, I definitely smell some of those like more citrusy notes.
I was thinking like even like green apple for me, like very kind of like that crisp smell.
Like I think that idea.
I think earlier on it was the same, like, kind of summery type of salads.
It's like, oh, yeah, I can see where this would be very nice with that.

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But, yeah, I think just overall it's a nice, light, refreshing smell to it.
And then the next part is then taste.
All right. I can handle that.
We'll help you too. Don't worry.
definitely can take the citrus yeah very very yeah very citrusy and has a very crisp finish

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you like it um yes it's one of the more tart white ones so just to i don't know we just say
this is a white one
Well, I guess we didn't say it wasn't white.
The block sort of tipped me off.
Yeah, that usually means white.
Block usually means, yeah, white.
Yeah, that usually means white.
Well, for the uneducated, such as myself.

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Yeah, I think, once again, those notes of citrus.
I almost feel like a stone fruit, maybe, too, honestly.
Like, I almost feel like a nectarine or something.
But I think it's, like, once again, almost like summery vibes.
Taking this out on the porch on a hot day just would be really refreshing.
You know, we're going to go ahead and enjoy our bottle of wine while we begin to watch the film.

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So, once again, we're going to watch Suddenly from 1954.
All right.
So, a little background on our film today.
It is Suddenly, made in 1954, directed by Lewis Allen, and just a few of the characters.

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Frank Sinatra stars as John Barron, a ruthless hired assassin who takes a family hostage in a small, quiet California town called Suddenly.
With the intention of assassinating the President of the United States, his train stops at the town.
Now, the family's home provides a perfect vantage point for Barron, and it's his henchmen who assassinate the President.

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Sterling Hayden plays the sheriff, Todd Shaw, who tries to thwart the assassination plot with the help of the Secret Service.
The film is known for its intense suspense and dramatic twists, and the genre is film noir.
Let's kind of break down the characters.
As I said, Lewis Allen was the director, and Allen directed several films in the late 1940s and the 1950s, including The Uninvited and one of my favorites, The Great Gatsby.

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um so now frank sinatra uh well known as well an iconic singer uh one of the crooners actually
back to the 20s 30s all blue eyes or brown eyes depending on which which part which scene you're
watching today yeah well and that was you know this film originally was black and white and then
one

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later on it um they actually did it in color yeah supposedly they did it with brown eyes but
he was blue-eyed right right so i don't know we'll we'll we'll take we'll have to find that one out
So, as you know, Sinatra had a, besides a singing career, he was actually, had a successful acting career.
And he actually won an Oscar for, do you know which film?

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Yeah, and of course he was infamous for being part of the Rat Pack.
And I think for the Oscar that he received, I think that was just the previous film, like the film prior to this one.
So I think he had just gotten that Oscar is from my understanding.
That's at least my understanding.

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So then this is like his next film from that.
And I don't,
having seen from here to eternity,
do you remember what he played or he was one of the,
almost that war genre that,
um he was something or somebody but i'll be honest today i'm not i'm gonna have to admit

(10:17):
i know the rolling around on the beach scene with right right was that the government clip
and lana turner
you know deborah deborah car deborah car so rolling around the beach i know what frank
sinatra played i do not know so um the reason i was asking is i was just kind of curious if
it went from like he was you know a nice nice guy to wow this is now a totally opposite scene

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i think he was a nice guy
Because I think they mentioned part of the reason they liked this film so much, with him in this film so much, is it was his first turn as playing a villain.
So I'm going to assume that he was the nice guy because Frank Sinatra, she wanted to be a nice guy. Frank Sinatra is the guy everybody wants to like.
So, in the audience out there, if you know what it was, if it was a nice guy or a bad guy, please feel free to break the tie between Tata and I and tell us what he was, so I don't have to watch a war movie.

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You'll be helping us out.
So, on we go.
So, Sterling Hayden stars as Todd Shaw, the sheriff.
which he was actually, back to war, a World War II hero.
And so him playing, you know, in a, you know,

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in a authority type position, not a huge stretch for him.
Well, and what's interesting too is,
so this story actually was based on a short story by Richard Sale.
So it was called Active Duty.
So originally it was posted, published in the Blue Book of May of 1943.
So what, and that's what was adapted into the film.

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So that storyline was about World War II.
So, you know, obviously you have people who were fighting as part,
you know, within that war acting as part of this film.
And so what's interesting for this story of Active Duty,
so that short story actually was,

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inspired, so it inspired the author after having read in the newspaper
an article about President Dwight D. Eisenhower
traveling via train to Palm Springs, California.
So that's kind of what sparked that storyline.
Our particular fondness for this movie is, because what's going to happen?

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quote yes it's
It's a big, beautiful booby trap.
That's the quote that you'll hear from Frank Sinatra.
In his, in his role.
And, you know, that's the clip that you'll hear for all of our podcasts.
That's, that's the one that we feature.
and um yeah no it's it's just one of those things and that's uh it kind of indicates

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there are some booby traps it is so hard and just exciting for us we like to we like you know
And feel free to take a tasting.
Feel free to.
When you hear Booby Trap, join in.
We do a tasting, right?
Whether it's from us or from others.
So, are we...
ready to get uh rolling yeah no let's definitely do that i think the one other thing that we just

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want to mention too there is a remake actually out there there is don't ask me about everybody
because i think everybody else was a nobody but
The late, great Ray and Liotta.
You know, reprising Frank Sinatra's role.
You know it has to be a good movie if somebody bothered to remake it, right?
Yeah, well, all right.
That's always the case.

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All right.
Oh, yeah.
I think it was more true, like, you know, sometimes they'll take a movie and they'll
kind of like, oh, yeah, it's very loosely based on, and you're just like.
no no whereas i think this one seems at least at least when you look at the name like the
character names they seem to be like in alignment with what um you know what's what's from the

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original right exactly all right um well as you're getting that kind of fired up and ready to go
uh one thing i did want to mention which was kind of interesting actually so
kind of talking about oh was frank a good guy or a bad guy before this film well one of the things
is because it was one of his kind of earlier dramatic roles and you know it was you know i

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think you know once again you mentioned like it was like his first time he was this villainous
character so supposedly his
You know, he was so intense in this performance as this, like, cold-hearted assassin.
It actually kind of not only showed his versatility, but also I think it made it so he was, like, so convincing as part of this role

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that when JFK was assassinated in 1963, they were actually pulling this film temporarily from circulation.
And part of it was because not only the plot of involving the assassination attempt of the president,
but also supposedly Lee Harvey Oswald watched the film a few days before the assassination of JFK.

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And what's kind of interesting is...
You know, Frank Sinatra was very much a friend of JFK.
So it's also kind of a weird, you know...
It's kind of interesting where it has, you know, he's this ruthless assassin,
and yet he was also very much personally friends with an actual U.S. president.

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Yeah, and I wonder if he struggled with that at all.
Yeah, that is interesting.
Yeah, that is interesting.
You know, with that.
I mean, obviously, it's like, what, about 10 years between or maybe more.
Still, I mean, it's something that, you know, the fact that people are pulling that off distribution.
So obviously it was in the news.
People were talking about it.
So obviously that would be.

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Very interesting.
So I think I've got my technical difficulties worked out to be able to get this picture going.
I think I've got the reels all figured out.
Looking forward to it.
Very much.
And so we're watching the colorized version tonight.

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A little bit of pink everywhere.
A little bit of pink everywhere.
Keep that hangover in mind. Hangover from the old days. Keep that in mind.
Hello.
Keep that in mind.
I'm going to show you how to do a bunch of things.

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okay you'll hear that again i think okay looking at what we're going to have in
Here we go.
I'm really going to show you some of the things.
not what we're gonna have
the morning after gold first discovered here in 1842.
I'm going to show you a bunch of things.
I'm going to show you a bunch of things.
Oh, I see.
So I guess it was a gold rush town at one point.
This is a really cool intro.
And it's not going to be because that's what we're going to be in the morning
after we finish this wine.
Does that name sound familiar to you?

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He was kind of a prolific guy.
I think it's because every time I see James Gleeson, I think Jackie Gleeson.
I think I even look to see, are they related?
I think that's what it was.
However, his son either jumped or fell, depending on who you talk to,
out of a four-story window right before he was set to join the military.

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Oh, well, that's sad.
But I think he's one of those actors that you're like, he's that guy, that thing.
Oh, yeah, I recognize this all the time.
Yeah, I recognize this.
Yeah, that guy and that thing.
I gotta put this stuff in the car.
He's trying to be your new daddy.

(18:11):
You know, I bet I can guess what's on your mind.
Well, now, let's see.
You want an ice cream soda?
Hmm, not a bad idea, but that's not it.
No, it's a war picture.
Mom will let me see war pictures.
foreshadowing again yeah i got it you want that baseball bat no but you're awful yeah what's the

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c word is that it oh sure that's it
Sure, that's it. Ain't it a beauty?
But shucks. It's no use.
Mom won't let me have it. She doesn't like guns.
Is that a cap?
Is that a captain?
What would you do with it? Stick up a filling station?
Stick up a filling station? Heck no! I'm the sheriff, and I catch all those road agents and cataracters, just like you!

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Do you know, you see Hubbard's dry goods.
Do you know what dry, I've never known what dry goods, or sundries, I think I know what sundries might be.
But do you, you don't ever see, you know, there's just no good dry goods stores around.
Well, I mean, the only thing, I mean, would it be more like, like, say you have cattle, so it's like feed and stuff like that.

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That's the only thing I can think of, because it's not a grocery store.
what she's in right now.
Hang on, the sheriff needs to hit on the mom.
You never give up, do you?
Ellen, I know how you feel. Believe me, I do, and I've tried to understand, but...

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I haven't asked you to understand.
That's because I'm in love with you.
Todd, you shouldn't say that to me.
Why not? It's true.
Alan, you can't go on being a widow forever. It's been over three years since Pete died.
Don't you understand? No one can take beats, please.

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I'm not trying to take beats, please.
You don't need to understand.
She's like, don't you understand?
This woman needs to make up her mind.
She's a mixed bag of emotions.
He's one of those things that's like, you know, he's like, he's been three years, like, move on already.
Well, this is one of those things that's difficult.

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Like, you know, people move on when they're ready.
they're ready don't
They don't move on when they're ready.
If she needs 15 years, then give her 15 years.
I wouldn't wait around that long, but it is, you know.
Wait around that long, but.
Bye, Mom, because I'm going to be just like that.
Todd, you know I can't stand seeing him play with a gun.

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The boy's got to learn sometime that guns aren't necessarily bad.
Depends on who uses them.
carries one, doesn't he?
Thank you.
There's a whole section of this movie.
As we're moving into this, it's a lot about guns.
The evil or the good of guns.
Depending on who's holding them.
Well, it's like it's the other end of the gun.

(21:16):
Well, it's kind of like, you know, it's that idea of, you know, guns don't kill people.
So a gun is just a utensil.
How do you use that utensil?
And, you know, think about it.
A knife is used for eating, but people use a knife to kill people, too.
So, you know, God is also, you know, the purpose is really to, for food and that sort of thing.

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People choose to use it for other activities that are more nefarious.
I mean, that's, like, from other things out there, if you think about it.
You have things that are created for really the good of mankind or for the good of something else.
But at the end of the day, someone then takes that and turns it into something.
In terms of it's just like a mass destruction.
A mass destruction, yeah.
A mass destruction, yeah.

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human beings are always like something good there's always someone who takes that and makes it a bad thing yeah
You're really trying to figure out what it is.
It makes me feel bad.
So the sheriff's definitely pining for the widow.
And he's very tall.
He's like 6'3", 6'4".

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Well, actually, between him and the deputy, right, they're all like super cool.
I think they're the tallest people in town.
That's why the sheriff and the deputy.
Oh, I hear a telegraph coming through.
Is that Morse code I hear?
S-O-S-A-S-A-P.

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I mean, learning Morse code actually is a very good benefit, but it's not.
No, I mean, just.
Do you know Morse code?
No, but I think it would be one of those things that you kind of should know for, like, survival.
At least a few, right?

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I think is it long, short, short, short, long?
It's almost like a little convery.
It's almost like he's like shorthand.
I also don't know how to be a wind talker, so I won't be breaking any secret codes anytime soon.
Yeah, so think about what they're doing, like, shorthand, they're doing Morse code, and they're able to communicate in very, like,

(23:33):
in short ways right right like when I when I go to like write my notes like I have to do everything
longhand even though I I do know cursive so it does help but still like it would be great if I
knew how to do shorthand too
The music, it doesn't know whether it wants to be happy or ominous

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or ominously happy, but then they're like, we don't know.
Everyone's very nosy.
We should have a list.

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Suddenly arrives.
Suddenly arrives at suddenly.
You know good and well this is the biggest thing that's happened to them since.
Yeah, the gold rush on that side.
go over those shallots.
Yeah, since 1842.

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So, was it Thompson as Tommy Gunn or something similar to it, right?
I just thought Thompson was, like, the formal name of Tommy Gunn.
You know, Tommy short for Thompson.
Yeah, no.
Kind of makes sense.
I actually don't know, but that does make a lot of sense.
Like, that's the shortened version of it.
It's a machine gun, essentially.

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That's not soon enough, Iz.
I want the big black Cadillac at 4.30.
Yeah, park it at the station. Back then.
Somebody getting married? Like the sheriff?
Don't be funny. This is police business. Don't tell anyone.
You're not supposed to. 4.30, yeah? No slip-ups.
Everyone's, like, I mean, the way that it's happening, right, it's, like, makes you curious.

(25:26):
Like, and everyone's asking, like, what's going on?
And this doofus brought us in front of the train.
He was hit by the train.
I don't know who he is, but he's stupid.
I thought it was the sheriff.
I think so.
Is that like he's done this a million times?

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The sheriff, I mean.
Glad to make your acquaintance.
You're a cattle man, Sheriff.
This seemed like a good time to be.
Well, they all definitely look dressed like government men.
yeah they're all very similar hold on elliot nasa's coming

(26:17):
not quite
you can still be of help to us
Mr. Carney I know April for Pride
or this town you can take my word for it
I can't take your word for it
I'm sure
We'll park a limousine between the tracks when the special arrives.
Pretty rough in there, maybe.
Oh, they kind of assume that there's a limousine that's going to be there.

(26:38):
But the town here has to be seen.
Do we know why you stop it there, just because?
His grandson and his daughter-in-law.
Well, maybe he was driving to another town that was nearby or another city or something.
Because it might not go into that town.
I don't think we really know, but.

(26:59):
It would kind of make sense, like, wherever he's stopping along, for whatever reason, the train doesn't stop that way.
So you have an old federal agent, or not, I should say old, but a retired federal agent that lives in town.

(27:23):
There's now a TV repairman.
And I do wish it was after.
I don't want to bother you.
I'm just trying to figure out why she's so busy dusting that chair.

(27:44):
I just can't think, like, please.
Hey, darling, I made it especially for you.
Like in, I don't know, I wouldn't say like mob movies per se, but something where he's like a sidekick type of thing for.
I think he's made a career in New York or something.
Maybe in New York.
Yeah, he's kind of crotchety.

(28:05):
She's that guy, that thing.
I'm talking to you like you're finished.
Boy, just disappointed.
Dad, please stop interfering.
You can't explain why I don't know. I'm going to cut this out.
And I've had this for the last time.
You're a grown up girl. You got a problem. You haven't worked out. That's no reason why a picture would have your problem.

(28:30):
Only done what I thought was right, dude.
Kind of forcing her fears onto her son.

(28:55):
I think that is kind of a thing where it's like, you know, if you...
No, you have children, right, and you want to protect them from.
children, right?
the evils and the scariness of the world right but at the same time when let's say they're
an adult and want to go out there they're really almost like overly naive about stuff

(29:18):
And it actually can get them in more trouble.
Like, it's a weird balancing act you really need to provide.
Like, you need to kind of give them something to protect themselves, right?
Because you don't want to overly expose them to that, too.
Um, that's kind of what I'm kind of getting with this, right?

(29:39):
Where it's like, you can't just, you know, that, that idea of, you know, hey, this kid
was never exposed to, you know, colds and stuff like that.
And he caught a cold, had pneumonia and died.
Like, you have to expose a little bit.
It doesn't have to be like, oh, go throw them in.

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you know, people who are like, you know,
hold down and people who are extra six or anything like that. Right. Right.
or anything like that, right?
It's like, you know, it'd be like, oh, my child's eating dirt.
So she's, you know.
question patriotism.

(30:22):
with her with her speech about what he says he did was doing his duty and she's like was
it to be blown to bits of some god forsaken
country thousands of miles from home which was the feeling of sometimes it's like you know you
have to feel guilty that oh you're yeah your husband died serving his country but that still

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leaves her a widow that still leaves her son without a father you have to those are things
that have to be dealt with right
He's not going to crack a smile.
Even when he's trying to pick up the mother, he's not even smiling.
He's very serious this entire time, right?
Well, the president's coming.

(31:06):
It's a serious, serious event.
Oh my god, he said dilute.
He said some dilute.
Only time I've ever heard that word is in Bugs Bunny.
Confused myself. Never have seen so many cops.
This is Mr. Carney, special agent of the Treasury Department.

(31:30):
Slim Adams, one of my deputies.
I get it. They're shipping the national debt through here in gold bars.
Just don't worry about it. You'll find out later.
Yeah, we'll show teeth.
I don't think a siren's necessary to go three blocks it took to get there.

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Well, I mean, if they're trying to keep everything a little low key, why would you put your sirens on?
Because they're so excited they don't know what to do.
Shucks, Alan. Find him home slow before the evening passes.
I don't want Mitch to miss the ball.
That's, like, for electricity, I think.

(32:19):
Dad, are you sure you know what you're doing?
I know what it says on the back of that, that they're 5,000 volts, and that's dangerous.
Alan, will you please stop being a woman?
Oh, that was foreshadowing, too.
Yeah, he was going, 5,000 votes.

(32:43):
Is it a booby trap?
Who knows?
Rolling hills right outside the window, on top of the hill.
It's enough to send you to the end of the room, not necessarily to kill you, but...
So there's some help, once again, to give me an idea of what could happen.

(33:08):
Thank you, Grandpa.
You got me there, boy.
I'll get it. Judd says he'll be up in a little while.
I should have asked was, are you the owner of this house?

(33:29):
I'm John Byron, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
and his henchmen essentially uh-huh they look just like the other
you know feds that came over yeah exactly except younger a little bit younger a little
younger yep that's true more handsome
That's true.

(33:50):
Why, sure, sure.
Once again, so they're meeting up now, but the father-in-law is a former FBI agent.
Collective and total revenue, eh?
Grandpa was President Koolidge's bodyguard.
Back in 1928.

(34:11):
Youngest retirement in the service.
An accident on one of Cal's fishing trips.
He's getting a bullet, essentially, in his chest.
And he's showing it off.
I mean, I guess if I had a pretty cool scar like that and, you know, hey, it's another FBI agent, so why not?

(34:34):
You know, if you get a chance to show your chest.
Go for it.
about to meet you page i ain't a sport mr baron what did you want to see us about is something
wrong but there might be we're just checking on us on the house do you mind we have a look around
help yourself but what i want to know and have a look around with or without your profession

(34:57):
Anyone else live here besides you three?
Anyone been by here today?
Just the usual routine, while the others lick the milk.
What's this all about, Mr. Byron?
Just being careful. I'll explain later.
He will. He's going to explain.
Who's they said?

(35:18):
Kitchen, back pantry, back door, stairs, go down.
You know, they...
Well, so they, oops, so these three come to this house specifically.
Well, so...
I mean, let's just say you come into town and you know this is going to be the spot.
You go, oh, that's the highest point.
That would be the best part, you know, location to go from.
But no, they know her name.

(35:41):
the fact that they're saying oh yeah no it's just the way that they said it was gonna be laid out
like there's all this info that's been you know gathered for the situation so it wonder
it makes you wonder like who did the intel yeah who did the intel yeah part of this
I think that's what we call a plant hole.

(36:02):
Right, because you kind of, like, want to figure out where, like,
You kind of, like, want to figure out where, like...
who is keeping that information, right?
It's a purpose of fascination.
for this assassination.
Once again, like it's a point, right?
Once again, like at this point.
You mean to say the president's going to get it?
They're still acting like feds, right?

(36:23):
Like they're giving enough information, although probably information that shouldn't be providing at this point, right?
Billions, but still, I mean, they're providing the facts at this point, right?
Check this out to be sure.
The bare minimum facts.
I still don't understand, Mr. Benson.

(36:46):
It should be obvious to you that if anybody wanted to kill the president, he could do a beautiful job of it right from this window of yours.
Well, I'm a Mike. That may be true, but you don't think that's really a mean course.
But we have to remain here to protect you and the president from somebody else who might.
He's very skeptical.

(37:07):
Well, he should be because he's in it for a living.
But really, for a living.
But would you, I mean, it makes logical sense, right?
Like, honestly, I would think, like, yeah, that makes sense.
This is a perfect spot for...
you know, a sniper or whatever.

(37:28):
No, it's great that you have an FBI there to make sure that you're safe.
I don't know. For me, I wouldn't be as skeptical as he is right now.
he is right now we get them all the time stop it for gas if id that's all we want to know from
either you or your deputy the minute any stranger doesn't keep going through man this isn't routine
no it isn't can you tell me the los angeles police picked up a small-time school pick

(37:53):
the night before last shot through the lungs left for dead smiley bitters before he died
he told them something was smiling bitters what do you mean something was up
An assassination attempt.
okay so they know something's yes okay so this actually changes
I did, like, you assume this entire time that the prison is going to stop, right?

(38:17):
But if they have an assassination attempt, like they kind of know what's going to happen, potentially, you would change, you honestly would change your plans.
I think they would let the president come through.
Does he have to come through this town?
I think that they would change the plan.
And the fact, just the suspected, you know, suspected assassination attempt.

(38:38):
But you can find the people who are trying to do it.
So this is interesting.
This might be a booby trap.
I just thought about that.
It's a trap.
It's a booby trap for a booby trap.
I was in the service myself. So you told me that we made every precautionary check. We never went to extremes like this unless unless you were tipped that there was to be an attempted assassination. You don't mean it. I mean, it's okay. So now.

(39:07):
Okay, so now I'm even more confused, right?
Because they...
Like, I don't know, because they even mentioned the fact that there might be an assassination, right?
Right?
Yeah, I work together in the old days.
It made more sense when they were talking about it down by the train station with real

(39:27):
cops and with the real FBI.
But for him to say that, too, like, it's interesting because it's still, once again, it's playing
along exactly how the others are doing it.
It would be odd that they would even mention that, but I think because the father-in-law
is just, like, so skeptical about everything, he just has to reveal more.

(39:47):
I don't know. I've never seen him before.
Well, for the love of my...
Well, there's no Dan Carney.
For the love of Mike, I don't know who Mike is, but he comes up a lot in this movie.
Oh, you didn't know your boys got here.

(40:18):
See, there's that sinister look.
that's the first time like he his for sinatra his face changes he looks very sinister it's
just like wow yeah for me that's like a mark of a good actor actress
Like you can change your the way that your face looks right from right to another it's just like his eyes look like they're cold

(40:42):
Right like, you know
Very sinister. Yeah Wow
like his demeanor
He's a like totally
Poor Dan
You're gonna take the rug with you, so give it away.
You get the message, brave boy.
Mom! Mom!
Now you gotta be still. No noise.

(41:11):
What's up with you? You're all busted up.
All right, you got it. Now, let's be practical.
I don't want any more shooting around here.
I want it nice and quiet and cozy.
I'll get her up and bring her around and explain to her that one phony and she's got a kid with his throat cut.
Oh, that's pretty, that's pretty daft at least for 1954, you just didn't hear dialogue like that very much. So that's, well, that's pretty unusual. Yeah.

(41:37):
You're going to split his throat, the boy's throat, man.
Well, that's because he doesn't want any more shooting.
Everybody is all right.
You've got to get a hold of yourself.
She's getting old of herself.
Like one false move, you'll murder the boy.
You understand? You'll murder Pidge.

(41:59):
Now she's late and she's tired.
You know where she was when she answered the door and now all of a sudden she's just late.
Move the kitchen table in front of the window.
All right, sit down, sit down.
Don't sit there waiting to blow your car.
They blow your cork.

(42:21):
They make a list of all these
mobster sayings.
Not mobsters, but badass sayings.
We need a doctor. Look at his face.
You're the doctor, Ellen. We can't have no doctor.
We can't set a broken arm.
Did you? Me?
I mean, he got pleasure out of that game.

(42:44):
Yeah, he enjoyed that.
I don't know, maybe not too frisky, he can, he's still, yeah, so, hate guns, love guns,
hate guns, love guns, well, I'm assuming the mother doesn't know about the gun.

(43:08):
Shouldn't say a word, though.
i know i'm surprised of course he has to find the cartridges for it
Which is good. I mean, at least he doesn't have a loaded gun in the drawer with the kids.
Yeah.
you know, opening whatever, accessing that stuff.
This thing's metals. Steel top, chrome legs. I figured wood. No difference. Use the brackets, screw them to the leg and then to the floor. That way the table won't dance.

(43:38):
And you're getting too fresh.
deal this is a lot of work do it betty but johnny i don't see what we just do it betty
once you get the gun i get you gotta
So not everything is totally up to his plans, right?
He's going to have a wooden table, not a metal table.
we got just three seconds to nail the present the table to shimmy when we get

(44:02):
uh tommy gun would do just as good tommy gun stinks no accuracy no punch might as well use
Well, I mean, so they're going to do a Tommy gun from where they're at?
Like, that's way too far to do damage.
Yeah, flat holes.
Well, I mean, obviously that's the reason why they're using the rifle, right?

(44:24):
It can be more of like a sniper.
But obviously the other guy hasn't done this sort of work before, right?
Because they're like, well, I know you just take a time gun and just, you know, spray, spray and shoot.
The casino, talk of the resistance.

(44:45):
27 men he killed.
I want a silver star medal.
Oh, that kid is...
Where did he have that covered?
He's had that coming for about 20 minutes.
That was the second time.

(45:05):
I don't think he win a silver star.
Kind of like that blue ribbon at the end of the tape there.
I think it's more, you know, it's earned through different activities, but.
I wouldn't think that would be based off of how many people you killed.
jesus what was that what what what are you all trying to pull are they

(45:28):
inside
I'm just wondering if they're trying to create a narrative
or prove the narrative that he's a stone-cold killer
or that he, what's the difference?
He killed 27 men and got a silver star for it.
But if he's not in the military killing the enemy,

(45:48):
the American enemy.
then all of a sudden he's a bad guy yeah so you can see where his confusion might be which i'm
sure happened to a lot of soldiers coming home it's like you know they were paid they were paid
by the united states government to be killers right and so you're going to transition civilian
Transition.
life it's like that work that maybe you're really good at right you come back into you know civilian

(46:13):
life and it's like that's not
job anymore right that's not something
um condoned right in your own when you come home right well that he's he's killing guys he didn't
even know he doesn't know the present to him it's just he's killing another guy at a distance notice
he's not walking up to him he's shooting he's shooting from a hilltop

(46:34):
It's just another guy he doesn't, in his mind, just another guy he doesn't know and who cares, right?
Well, it seems like, I mean, it seems like, generally, that's kind of almost like what he was doing anyway, right?
Like, it seemed like he was doing it from afar.
you know this is the best place the paper over the fence around 4 30 is a delivery boy does he

(46:56):
come in anyone else so i have one of them on jack rabbits he'll be buying his way back will he stop
i wish he's got something to brag about anybody else nobody
I don't think we ever saw that guy come back, so I guess he didn't get enough jackrabbits to brag about.
What's the interesting answer?

(47:18):
Yes, tell him to sheriff if you think I have any qualms about killing this kid you couldn't be more wrong
The thing about killing him or you or...
And you know, at the end of the day, you're talking about killing the child, right?
the most vulnerable individual right in the house right i mean it puts that leverage right in your

(47:40):
No one wants to see a child die, so they're going to do whatever they're told.
Even if it is pretty mouthy.
just a question an hour later if it gives the president a bit of an edge why then we get it now
They won't hurt us. They won't hurt Pitch. He said so.
Because it's convenient, Alan.

(48:01):
You think these crumbs would kill the president and then take off, leaving us behind to identify them?
You said you wouldn't hurt Pidge.
Sure, sure. And I meant it. Don't listen to this guy. He's just being brave with your kid's life. I know guys like that in the army.
We're just doing a job, that's all.
Identifying us is not involved.
By 7 o'clock tonight, we'll be out of the country and you'll never see us again.

(48:24):
We'll just assume that they knew he was coming up here.
So that if somebody else comes up to check on him,
you can tell him the sheriff and his friend were here, but they had to go someplace else.
I have to go to the bathroom.
I don't think they want to do that.
All right.
Get the tripod up there, Joe.
I'm going to need to lay both the tripod at the table.
Put it in front of the window.
That's a good one, Joe.

(48:46):
It just shows like how tall he is. Yeah, they have to look up. Yeah
They have to look up.
His neck, he's literally looking up.
too because that's never been done before neither is this doesn't that worry you haven't got time
to worry i just make my plans and carry them up that's what john wells booth thought too

(49:09):
Yeah, they're talking about something else.
Yeah, they're talking about something else.
People who assassinate presidents, yeah.
him he didn't plan anything just took a lucky shot strictly left-handed
Garfield was assassinated, that's the other president.
I knew there was another one.

(49:33):
nobody ever made it so yeah lincoln well roosevelt obviously like there was an attempt i think yeah
There was an attempt, I think.
I don't think there was there was an attempt on top town.
half there was there was a
Obviously, there's going to be those, I mean, obviously more modern ones, right?
So Kennedy, even Reagan attempted Trump recently.

(49:56):
Yeah, Reagan has stepped in.
J&K, obviously, we have the ones that were a Lincoln.
The most well-known, probably a lot of people don't know Garfield.
really for all these activities too

(50:17):
it's done by then it's not done by poison like they did back in roman times right so it is
Right.
more i mean i think because you can't get generally it's more up close and personal
generally it's more up
but obviously that's not the case for all right so like some of them are like close up and others
Like, some of them are.
are then far like you know like this is setting up right so he has a gun set up

(50:40):
on a table, in front of a window, pointed towards the railroad.
There's going to be something where you can get away from, right?
Well, you have, you know, presidents don't ride around in convertibles anymore.
It was a very, very sad lesson to learn, but there's a lot of crazy people out there.

(51:04):
Well, you know, and it's obviously not just in, you know, U.S. presidents, it's other.
other countries. Another kind of parallel that I wonder if this movie we talked about them
showing this movie after JFK was assassinated.
is Lee Harvey Oswald had been in the military as well and probably messed with his mind a little bit.

(51:30):
a man, but the president...
Well, you know, it makes you wonder if he felt like a companionship with, you know, Barron's.
It's like, wow, yeah, I know, I felt the same thing.
I understand, you know, the same feelings that were being described in here, right?

(51:52):
Because I couldn't imagine, it's not, you know, this is, imagine that there are multiple people that were feeling like this, right?
It's not just a one-off.
In present day, this would be the guy who has PTSD, right?

(52:14):
And back to that thing, you know, you didn't have, you know, really the medical attention or, you know, the knowledge, really, right?
This is actually, you know, something that needs to be taken care of.

(52:35):
I came to fix the television set.
So this guy looks familiar.
I'm like, I can't point it.
Well, he is, I'm packed, he is Maureen O'Hara's brother.

(52:59):
Was he in, like, other films or something like that?
So, yeah.
Because, like, I recognize his face, but he's definitely not, like, a main character person, right?
So the TV, the TV repairman.
But his face looks...
Familiar from something.
Well, you might know him from one of Maureen O'Hara's most known movies,

(53:21):
which was The Quiet Man.
Does that ring a bell with you?
Well, there was a lot of Irish people in that film.
yeah so yeah who specifically was he playing like what was his character i guess
i think he played a priest

(53:42):
okay so he was the young priest there's like the older priest of those young priests so
I can imagine him running to get his bicycle or whatever.
But you know who really needs the money more?
So you have a little bit of irony there, which is her brother played a father.

(54:14):
Younger brother, no less.
Quite handsome, though, right?
Yeah, no, he is.
It was just like, and it probably, I don't know when that film was made, but it's probably around the same time frame,
because he doesn't, he looks around the same age, right?
Goodbye, bye. Watch him.
Bring me a little glass of knock-on tea, Johnny.

(54:35):
Just watch him, bud. Watch him.
Be quiet.
And he's got to, here's where he gets, tell her his hard luck story.
Because there's got to be a hard luck story in this.
She's like, you know, it's interesting.
She has these thoughts, right?
She doesn't really act them out, per se.

(54:58):
She, well, she's very much the epitome of an early 1950s woman.
She's, no matter how tough the situation is, she's perfectly quiet still.
She painted, and her hair is still all set.

(55:20):
she looks very distraught i used to think it looks like she you know she's going to attempt to be
the hero but then i wasn't married no no my old man she needs a man to rescue her she can't
He left me in a home, a home.
When I was a kid, I swore that one day I'd kill them both.
In his youth, he had some issues with his parents.

(55:43):
His feelings were hurt.
The experts took care of that.
But obviously, it seems like he had a very hard childhood for his story so far.
Oh, he's a hard luck guy.
But it almost seems like him going into the military and then finding his niche, right?

(56:07):
right
And then he became somebody.
when his kids were you know when he was like you know his parents were drunk so no one really
cares about him like he's now risen above that right through this this activity that's a pretty
good one though and then they're making real with it so that's interesting that cap gun

(56:29):
the fake gun that the kid has
It looks very real, and that's actually something that also will be good foreshadowing.
I need some milk.
What was the guy's name?
Was that Miley Benny?
um yeah but this that was the stool pigeon yeah smiley bennett or something like that

(56:55):
I don't know.
smiley yeah smiley benny well no because it was like oh i wonder if that's the connection where
They all have a big.
He got caught because he was shot.
He told, so they now know.
So maybe that's the connection.
Someone's like, you need to go back and make sure.
Someone's like, you need to go back and make sure.
I don't remember Smiley's last name is, but it was Smiley.
So I'm wondering if that's who they're referencing.

(57:19):
They're stinking traitors.
Is that the Irish twang there?
It's like there.
he's your president too i'm telling you he's tried really really hard to hide that
It's really hard.
usually i'm not hearing it but you know now you think you're like oh i heard a twing there

(57:40):
and there he's like kevin costner and robin hood it comes and goes
It's like Kevin Costner.
He's English, he's not English.
Or is he from London?
Nobody knows.
We'll be right back.
Everyone's curious in this film.
I like you, sir. You've got guts. You must have been a good soldier.

(58:02):
He's a lot better for a killer.
It's a lot of energy.
Killed 27 Jerries all by myself.
You're a born killer, that's all.
So it is interesting, like, he, the sheriff keeps on kind of mentioning, like, oh, you're a born killer.
It's like, was he or was it just circumstance and then, you know.

(58:24):
Later on, he found a niche for himself, right, that just happens to be killing.
But, you know, maybe.
A guy vents a bomb and kills 100,000 people just like that.
Here, you put a slug in a double-crossing squirt that isn't even worth burying,
you have to take the gas.
See the exact stuff at the economy?

(58:45):
Smiley bitters.
It's not like bitters.
So we had a different person.
So he said he just, there's a card in a nutshell where he said you plug, there's another gangster
term, all these men when you're wearing a uniform and you get a medal, you plug a guy
that nobody even cares about in civilian life and you get the gas.

(59:11):
And they mentioned that theme over and over and over again about.
And it makes sense because that's what it means.
It's like, how do you tell somebody that it's okay to kill under certain circumstances, but it's not okay over here?
And if you send somebody who already had problems anyway...

(59:34):
then you are, because probably he was.
was lost in the green.
And as you know.
You desensitized him.
I can kill 27 men with 27 men.
It's one more.
Well, and I think it's also important.
Well, and I think also it doesn't even matter that it's the president.

(59:56):
It's just one more man that I'm going to kill.
The war changed everything, eh, Baron?
I'm no traitor, Sheriff.
I want a Silver Star.
We're playing a drinking game. I'd be drunk.
Maybe I did. Maybe that changed everything. Maybe people began to know who I was.

(01:00:18):
And that's, I think, once again, people sort of notice me, know who I was.
The fact that he got an award, which I know we're kind of laughing about, like, oh, the Silver Star.
But the fact is that that's really, really important to him.
It shows that he got recognized for doing a really good job about something, right?
So it is a big deal for him.

(01:00:39):
And it, you know, obviously it made him feel really good about himself that he received that.
So we're going to scan one.
So you can understand why he wouldn't want to let that go.
my own laws about the taxes too popular the guy who's golfing shut up judge listen to him buster
and don't ever say that again ever told him he was goofy you heard him john yeah that's a lot

(01:01:01):
of scratch sheriff it's just scratch how do you know it'll never be paid if it's been paid
So he already has coronal management.
I mean, you could just run
I mean, think about how much it costs
to buy a hamburger
Yeah, well, you figure though
He's a killer with Christmas

(01:01:24):
Let's be fair about it now.
Because tonight at 5 o'clock, I kill the president.
One second after 5, there's a new president.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have taken the job, Sheriff.
so saved by the bell confused so if it doesn't so essentially he's killing it really doesn't matter

(01:01:48):
that the fact that he's gonna kill the president essentially you know once he's dead another
person will be in place that's the reason why he's doing i don't understand why yeah that
Yeah, they're not really nailing down, it's for money.
I mean, I guess it's for money, but even that doesn't seem like he really cared all that much, though, either.

(01:02:11):
I don't know. It's just weird, like how they're portraying that.
as soon as you can and don't be followed.
Or maybe I'm missing something more than that.
No, I just
think they
directed it to go
a different direction and really didn't
play that with
focusing on something else and really wasn't
going to get into

(01:02:32):
the whys.
you don't want to
as close as it came as to give him this
barren character human
was that his parents were
alcoholics and he was thrown into a home.
he's just
when he got out

(01:02:52):
people did jobs other people
And maybe that's
because I can do this, nobody else can.
Which makes it seem so special.
But your lesson.
I agree. My issue with this
movie as a
whole is I'm not really understanding
motivation behind some

(01:03:13):
today, and that happens to be a special that you don't know about, except that you don't.
The henchman messed up.
He didn't realize that the 5 o'clock train wasn't on a normal schedule.
Now the deputy is like, well, it's a 5 o'clock special, special because it's the 5 o'clock.
Well, the fact that he just, like, shoots the deputy...

(01:03:38):
He's panicking.
He's panicking, yeah.
See, John Bear would have never done that.
He's cool as ice.
And that was a huge shootout.
And you can hear it everywhere, obviously.
And you can hear it everywhere, obviously,
because they're hearing it up on the top of the hill.
Well, yeah, because when you go down the street,
you have to turn the sirens on.
They probably haven't turned those sirens on since 1892, right?

(01:04:02):
I don't know if they've had those vehicles back then.
Well, you get on their wagon.
They had sirens on their wagon.
The horse and Maggie, there were sirens.
Well, I mean, they could have had, I guess, a siren.
You know, you have sirens that are in the towns and that.
I just think it's hilarious that they can't go three blocks down the street.

(01:04:22):
I think the other one was even more funny because it was like, okay, we're going to try to keep this all, like, low key.
But let's turn on the sirens.
You got a megaphone somewhere?
What a big dummy to get out of the car.
Oh, my goodness.
So you have a Tommy gun.
Yeah, a Tommy gun is all over the place.
The guy's still in the car.

(01:04:45):
Well, what people don't know is that there's a gunman out there,
Well, what people...
and he gets out of his car like he's in a truck, like he's just...
Well, I don't know that they're really too aware, right?
Oh, no, no, no.
Well, no, they were telling some people, not everyone, right?
About, oh, yeah, there might be an assassination attempt.

(01:05:06):
Other people might just think, oh.
president is coming through right like not knowing that this is a trap essentially
to trap the the thousand we got trouble so we think now

(01:05:27):
In per penny, in per pound.
So I want you to everybody
The way everybody wants to get her to get a grip on herself, get a handle on herself.
All of us are dead, so be yourself.
They'll come up here to check whether Connie and the sheriff were here, and I want you to go out front.
I don't want them in the house.
I can't. I don't know how. I don't know what to say.
Just go out and water the flowers. Do anything you like, but be busy.

(01:05:49):
let's take a really quick
Okay, lipstick and rouge.
who's that
the sheriff were here certainly they were here they came up to check the house by the
three o'clock they left here
where's the rouge

(01:06:15):
Lady or everybody is dead. Everybody.
See, I don't know about you, but at their point, I'd be like, you know what?
No more threats and whatever.
You know, I get tired of being dragged around and being told to do it.
I mean, this has been, but she's, she's still all weepy.
she kind of tries at the end she tries at the very yeah yeah but
She kind of tries at the end.

(01:06:39):
Then you must be one of Mr. Carney's men.
the guy should be a little bit like look at her face right
everything on her face is saying there's something wrong
is the ruse like camouflaging the concern she has
was it ruse ruse you get it oh okay that's why you told her to put it on because it's like

(01:07:03):
It's like when Superman puts glasses on.
All of a sudden, you can't tell it's them anymore.
Like you, right now?
Oh, my God, who are you?
since they left
Here I am, I'm back
Something's wrong, I know something's wrong
No, no, Mrs. Benson, nothing's wrong
So, I mean, she's trying to get, like, the point across
About saying anything, but

(01:07:23):
Yeah, exactly, it's just like
it's all good yeah it's very unobservant for being fbi agent right i think they're supposed
to have a little bit more all right lady observation skills supposedly but she's all
disheartened that they didn't notice i had to go behind me behind me yeah

(01:07:44):
Very nice. Nice job. Congratulations.
She's not happy.
She's like, do you hear what he just said?
You don't like me, do you?
Weirdest damn question.
Why do you say that?
Why is he talking about roast beef now?

(01:08:06):
I'm holding you hostage.
I'm threatening to kill your kid, what, a dozen times now.
You don't like me, do you?
Boy, she wouldn't do it.
Ooh, foreshadowing.
or sad.
Yeah, just give me, well, you had chances already.
chances already.
Here's your next chance.
Remember the squirt in the cellar.

(01:08:27):
She looks a little green.
That's actually very dangerous.
Let's not think of ourselves.
I didn't give you a whole chance.
that's right he doesn't have the clip in there yeah although like once again does he have a
bullet in the chamber, I don't know.
Well, in one of our

(01:08:48):
we'll find out whether it was a bullet
being in the chamber
with one shot, two shots, three shots.
No? Two shots, three shots, four shots?
Can I tell you to fix the television set?
Do we know what that one is?
what that one is.
We'll see, right?
don't want to give it away no maybe somebody out there if you know what that is please
Please go on to Instagram, go on one of the social platforms, and now that, was it one shot, two shots? No, no, no, it was three.

(01:09:14):
Three shots, four shots, two shots.
That comes from a movie.
We'll be doing it later in the season.
Funnier than this.
This is unintentionally funny in some places.
I mean, women have poor choice in men, but...
One thing I'm noticing is that you really aren't hearing the sound, so you hear us talking,

(01:09:40):
All the way to the cash or anything?
We'll just shorten some stuff.
Farming to the L by way of the boat.
You're one of those big shot guys, huh, with the gold bar on his shoulder.
somebody give me a box to stand on here billy gray tom cruisey like i'm wondering i mean i

(01:10:03):
understand you're trying to get his space and that because obviously this is kind of almost
an emotional thing for him because i think he's more of an officer than than baron
But, right, if you wanted to show a little bit more, like, I think if you put the sheriff on the other side, it would make them look smaller.

(01:10:24):
What is that? You just do like Tom Cruise does, just make him stand...
Seriously, I'm not even kidding. Get him a box, let him stand on a box.
I wonder if that's part of it, though, too, right?
I think he's a little small.
If you look small?
Yeah, it's kind of like you're almost like, I don't know if Venus is the right word,
but just like everything, or just more of like being a small man for...

(01:10:50):
doing this sort of activity right maybe that's maybe that's part of it or you know
shooting down on our PWs, huh?
Well, you got away with it, so...
I got it. Section 8.
You went out on a Section 8.
So let's section 8 then.
mentally

(01:11:11):
having mental issues
um
Klinger kept trying to
Klinger wore dresses
oh right
so he did that
one in the section 8
it's a discharge
but you don't have to be
so
remember how

(01:11:32):
I've said he got before
when he called him goofy
nice time darling
I'm going to keep your top shut.
All of a sudden, she's very lovey-dovey.
She's just all over the place.
This is a very emotional time.
probably the most affection she's shown him ever.

(01:11:56):
I was thinking, Judd, if you were to clamp the main plate lead to a good ground like that table there,
you'd get a better picture of a lot of lines in it.
Clamp the main plate lead to the top.
He's like, wink, wink, wink, enough of being cable.
To the middle leg of the...
The middle leg.
Hey, are you trying to set up a booby trap?
He is.

(01:12:17):
5,000 bucks on the TV.
and voice on the TV.
Yes, I have to find out.
Somebody needs to, I keep thinking I want to call him.
Tell me I need to know if 5,000 volts is a little much for a television,
because it sounds like a whole lot to me.
I don't even know.
I'm not an electrician.

(01:12:39):
I don't think they are either.
Somebody needed, that's why they have consultants on this.
Dad, Dad, what is it?
Edge, my pals, stop drawing.
Oh, he has, okay, heart pulse.
Well, if you use that 5,000 volts,
it'll be just like the jump ring that they do in the hospital.

(01:13:00):
Maybe that's how they figured that out.
So he finds the real gun.
And he looks a little sinister himself.
I don't think this kid has any other acting credits.
I couldn't find anything on him.
So he's hiding the cap gun and kind of replacing it with the real gun.

(01:13:21):
So now he actually has the real gun in his hand.
Of course, you know, everyone's going, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Like, this is, you know, now everyone's looking at the real gun.
Like, stop looking!
It's like, stop looking.
You've been thinking you'd like to take a crack at this rifle.
You think I want to get myself killed?
Frankly, Sheriff, I don't think you'd mind getting yourself killed.

(01:13:43):
Stop looking at the gun.
Everybody shut up.
I wonder what I want to get myself.
I wonder what that kid just done.
I don't know what that kid just decided not to do anymore.
I mean, it really did let you know.
for a kid to be part of that it's kind of not very funny but it's just weird for that

(01:14:03):
not to be acting out we're like you know what we're done
i said nobody ever made it you won't either you don't think so so you got a plane
he touches the gun he pushes the gun as he sits down and he doesn't notice but you know what
It's a distraction, right?
Right.
You know, if I want to get an education.

(01:14:25):
So the sheriff's distracting him, and so he's not even thinking the fact, like, oh, I just touched a little gun.
Spend the money in South America.
he should have been doing this whole like trying to get the the other two henchmen

(01:14:46):
to back out of it right well one's gone we're down to two right but i mean if you had done that
rolling her on
really try, like, honestly, they could have both gone off, you know, on him or both left, right?
So then it's just him with all these other people that, you know, how is he going to be able to do anything?
The thing is, all of them have to die for the very fact that...

(01:15:09):
And it's proven that bad guys have to die because people don't like it when bad guys live.
So it's like they're going to have to, somehow or another, there's going to have to be a reckoning.
Otherwise, it's like people don't like it.
I haven't mentioned it before, but do you recognize his mug?

(01:15:31):
It's a gangsta talk.
We were saying that's Hayden.
Sterling Hayden.
Sterling Hayes.
He's playing my boss.
It took me a minute.
A whole lot of minutes, a little bit of cheating.

(01:15:52):
Okay, I'll cheat a little bit.
um but one of the greatest movies of all time the godfather right so he was he was the police
stop the irish police officer that's the way it is that was murdered in the restaurant when
Michael Corleone was...
Hit the guy in the bathroom.

(01:16:12):
uh...
And the whole plot was to...
Take him out, because he's part of the plot, too.
kill his father so it was a revenge killing and so he was the cop there that got killed
interesting yes so he wasn't always the good guy right he was a very villainous in that

(01:16:37):
First time I got one of my hands and killed a man, I got some self-respect.
Now here's where it gets where he should be served with a sign of school slot.
He'd be a kind of a god too.
Well, this is one of those, so this is, like, kind of showing, kind of, once again, like, the gun helped him rise in society, essentially.

(01:17:00):
Or, like, essentially...
Or respect, like, essentially, power, kind of, almost more respect, right?
Whether it's, like, true respect or not, but what he feels is more respect towards him.
The way he feels like he's respected.
and intimidation and violence.
So we got a booby trap, I think, coming up pretty soon.

(01:17:27):
So remember, we have the...
Power that's clamped, so they have the electricity that's going to be clamped down to the table leg.
The water's going to ground them.
The water, the father-in-law just spilled some water, so now he's stepping in water.

(01:17:47):
TV's plugged in.
He's touching metal.
Oh, I hear the train.
He's going to be a baby child.
So the henchman got it.
He is being electrocuted.

(01:18:10):
And unfortunately, he also has his finger on the trigger,
so he's kind of unconsciously pulling the trigger as he's being electrocuted.
Well, he's been electrocuted and shot.
Well, now he's being shot from, yes.
Which is interesting.
Actually, you know what?
Reminded me of, that was earlier.
Big, beautiful booby trap.
Yeah, because it was, that was, that, right.

(01:18:32):
There's two, there's two booby traps, if you think about it.
Well, multiple ones, actually.
We even said the third, but.
Oh, yeah.
The main two were the fact that, you know.
they set up that like the the table in front of the window with the gun from the house that
points down into the train station and that's kind of like the first big beautiful booby trap

(01:18:55):
And the second one was now.
But then also we were talking about technically there's a third.
He took a shot at him.
I think this is the climax.
He's going to look at him.
Look how happy he is.
He's so excited he's going to meet the president.
All this.
The train didn't stop.

(01:19:15):
So the mother has the gun now in her hands.
I don't mind replying.
I think he tired of him at this point, too.
I was saying that third booby trap, right, was, so that third booby trap, once again, was the fact that they, essentially the feds, created a booby trap for the assassin.

(01:19:39):
Because the train didn't stop right and that's what he was there for now, of course, they didn't find him in time
So they didn't really prevent they didn't prevent it obviously with people in the house, but I was kind of another aspect of it
of it.
right simply canceled the stopover we couldn't take a chance on the president's safety once it
was proven the assassins were in town

(01:19:59):
Okay, so we didn't tell Bruce that the assassins were there.
Okay, then we didn't tell.
That's interesting. I would assume, like, if there was any, like, potential, they would just, like, no, we'll just skip there and do it.
We'll just skip there and do it.
Then there would be another 45 minutes of the movie.
Well, there is that, yes.
But no, that kind of brings it back to then the booby trap idea, right?
Where it's like the kind of train, you know, obviously, you know, what, three hours earlier, we're just going to say, don't stop.

(01:20:27):
Because we know that there's potentially some people here that are going to try to kill you.
We just kind of get it done that way, right?
I can tell you that.
I can say, though, that we have to roll credits a lot sooner than what they're going to.
Well, they could still have, like, the whole movie, I think.
We'll see, I think.
And Chad would still be dead.
His only crowd is to come and fix the television.

(01:20:50):
And he did a marvelous job of setting up that booby trap.
I don't know, it's a bit of a dream job.
Get in, Todd. I'll drive you home.
Wow, she is really...
she's like a flirty now she's like a floozy now a vixen right
People grab her a lot, though.
You know, for some reason, the hands in this picture, people's hands are really weird.

(01:21:12):
People's hands are really weird.
But, you know, there's a theme in this, too.
How many movies have you seen?
That there's the woman and the man, they're in this super dangerous situation.
Steve, name one.
And they end up falling in love with each other through all this adversity.
what now that's the name that's a funny thing brought down

(01:21:37):
I wonder who that guy is.
He almost seems like, is that like a director cameo or something, right?
You know, we should look at that.
No, I know.
But it's the end, so we'll never know.
Well, and we've rolled the credits.
And so a lot of layers there, right?

(01:22:03):
So I'd love to hear everybody's thoughts.
So that's it for today.
And so, you know, it's a very unique entry into the film noir.
You didn't have the shadows, the typical dread, but it was very much into the crime noir, right?
I felt like it was more like the facial, like I said, there was that weird thing where he went from one persona to another persona.

(01:22:29):
He looked very, very menacing.
We'll see you right back.
It's very, very minute.
He looked very, very menacing.
You know, that's sometimes what it's like.
You know, sometimes where it's like the shadow and you just see the eyes, right?
His eyes look cold.
If you just saw his eyes, even just from that little, like, kind of rectangular view,
it would be, you'd feel some nervousness going on, right?
Yeah, and so, yeah.

(01:22:51):
And when you did that, were his eyes brown or blue?
I felt like, I mean...
I felt like
Yeah, so supposedly they say that they're brown, but, you know, I guess technically had blue eyes, and we were watching the colored version.
I don't know. I think eventually it looked like hazel, maybe.

(01:23:12):
Yeah, old hazel eyes.
I think it kind of looked like it was flipping back and forth,
but there were some weird things.
Like I was saying, oh, the hands look weird.
like the shading or something.
And once again, they're like adding color to the picture later on.
Yeah.
So, you know, it's not something where, oh, they're using colored film to film this.
I've seen it both ways.
I like the black and white version better just because if it's going to be.

(01:23:35):
If it's a crime film noir, then I want to see black and white.
This Ted Turner version of it.
I mean, because let's face it, color has been an option for a very, very, and bells were an option for a very, very long time.
Obviously, it was a little more expensive, but, you know, you had Technicolor and all that.

(01:23:57):
But this doesn't hold, you know, didn't really hold up that well.
People had the little green in places, little pink in places.
Well, even like her makeup and that.
Yeah, the rouge didn't even come through at all.
Well, yeah, no, I agree.
I did enjoy the black and white version more.
I think, honestly, it was almost more distracting with the color.

(01:24:18):
Like I said, it was like their hands were looking all like weird shades.
Like, are they wearing gloves?
Right.
And it was, like, distracting me from the actual film itself.
So as any good film noir, it is a lot to unpack.
So, and I definitely, I think we definitely want to hear what other people's thoughts are on this.
We'd love to hear from anybody.

(01:24:39):
See, did you love, you know, did you love it?
Do you like this film genre?
Why do you? Why don't you?
And just, you know, what did you see that we didn't see?
You know, because there is a lot of foreshadowing.
I've said it a couple of times.
There is layering over other things.

(01:25:00):
So let us know.
I think we've had our time for today.
I think overall, like, we enjoyed the movie more than we thought we were going to do, right?
Yeah, and it had some comical moments.
That I don't think it was meant to have.
And, you know, in future episodes, we're going to be watching some purposely comic book movies.

(01:25:26):
And I will always harken back to, I don't think you like me very much.
So on the note of the most, you know, of the top 10, what are the top 10 most stupid questions you've ever heard?
You got we've got one. Give us the nine others.

(01:25:47):
Yeah. Yeah. Is that it for us? I think so. I think that's everything for today.
Thank you so much for joining us. And definitely.
Join us for our future classic crime film and perfect wine pairings.
So definitely be sure to check us out on our previous episodes on the Boobie Trap Podcast.

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