Cinema Sounds & Secrets

Episode 12: Turning Back Time


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Ragtime and Stagecoach

A classic, beloved Western from 1939 - the watershed greatest year of cinema almost didn't happen. At the time, everyone thought the Western was dead, except John Ford – he was right, they were wrong. The other film featured one of the greatest acting legends of Hollywood in his last and rivetting film role in 1981 as a tyrannical turn of the century police commissioner – this actor starred in his first hit role in films in 1939 in a classic gangster drama – any ideas?! …while not a commissioner my producer extraordinaire and wingman, actor and cinephile, John, Schwab polices this show with j'nai sais quoi so... Let's go to the movies.

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Cinema Sounds & SecretsBy Janet Dulin Jones