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  • Quiet Dell

    Quiet Dell
    2025/11/12

    Robert Mitchum's preacher in The Night of the Hunter was inspired by real murders that also shaped Jayne Anne Phillips's novel Quiet Dell.

    Ed and Melanie trace the link between book and film, exploring how truth becomes myth and how art transforms tragedy.
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    48 分
  • Night of the Hunter

    Night of the Hunter
    2025/09/24

    Robert Mitchum's sinister preacher, Charles Laughton's only directorial effort, and one of cinema's most haunting thrillers — The Night of the Hunter (1955) went unappreciated in its day. Ed and Melanie explore its striking imagery, Shelley Winters' fate, and Lillian Gish's quiet strength.

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    1 時間 4 分
  • Laughing Gas

    Laughing Gas
    2025/08/31

    It's Book Club week as Ed and Melanie take on Laughing Gas (1936) by P. G. Wodehouse. A book with aristocrats colliding with Hollywood child stars in a screwball farce of body-swapping and mischief.

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    1 時間 12 分
  • Falling In Love At Cambridge

    Falling In Love At Cambridge
    2025/08/19

    Melanie and Ed discuss Maurice (1987), the Merchant Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel of forbidden love. They explore the film's emotional tone, literary legacy, and what it meant to tell this story in 1987.

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    🌀 Originally released: July 8th, 2023
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    1 時間 12 分
  • The Champ

    The Champ
    2025/08/03

    A 1931 film about a washed-up boxer and his son turns into one of the most emotional episodes Ed and Melanie have ever recorded. They walk through The Champ scene by scene, with reflections on Frances Marion, child actors, and a performance by Jackie Cooper that still stuns.

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    1 時間 12 分
  • Sexy Rexy

    Sexy Rexy
    2025/07/28

    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), a ghost story with real romantic power. Gene Tierney is luminous, Rex Harrison is "Sexy Rexy," and the ending still breaks our hearts.

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    🌀 Originally released: July 4, 2022
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    1 時間 1 分
  • Rules of Civility - Amor Towles

    Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
    2025/07/24

    Melanie and Ed begin a new movie-book rhythm with their first book episode: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles — a novel of restraint, elegance, and quiet ambition in 1930s New York.

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    1 時間 7 分
  • Klaatu Barada Nicto

    Klaatu Barada Nicto
    2025/07/19

    Melanie and Ed discuss the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still and explore why Klaatu's quiet alien warning still resonates.

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    🌀 Originally released: November 24, 2024
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    1 時間 16 分