Friday Film Showcased (FFS) returns with part one of a two part special on adaptations of Kenneth Fearing's novel The Big Clock. We are doing this as a tribute to the late Gene Hackman, who is not in the movie discussed in this episode, but was alive when it came out. But was he a child? Listen and find out!

Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan discuss topics including: Ray Milland (man), ray-millanding (verb), The Powerhouse Charles Laughton, queer coding and the Hays Code, clocks of various sizes and mechanisms, comedic genius Elsa Lancaster of Bride of Frankenstein fame, Maureen O'Sullivan who surely is only in this as a favour to her husband John Farrow (father of Tia, Mia, and this film, if directing is fatherhood), how much can you actually fit behind a bar, President McKinley, and the existential quest to find one's self. Literally!

Heart and Souls. We fell in love with this film: Heart and Souls. We fell in love, except Dean thought... that it was just okay.

Things discussed:

• The 1990s' VHS rental market
• The van-based secondary market for VHS in the form of Video Van Men
• Film tricking you into feeling things or into perceiving motion
• Insanely bad marketing campaigns: When Counterprogramming Goes Wrong
• Robert Downey Jr: a vaudeville kid unstuck in time?
• Ron Underwood, or A Modern Icarus
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love '90s Comedy Scores
• Beethoven (the dog)

Song title: Autumn Mvt 1 Allegro (Tony Vivaldi) / Artist: John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players / Source: Free Music Archive / License: CC BY-SA

🎶Hey hey, we're Friday Film Showcased, and people say we don't showcase around, but we're too busy editing to load any podcasts up... 🎶

From the archives, a bite-sized edition looking at Bob Rafelson's almost-forgotten existential Monkees movie, Head (1968), written by Jack Nicholson!

Whether you're a FFS connoisseur revisiting the hits, or a new listener who finds our full episodes too daunting, this one's for you. So take the last train to Clarksville, you randy Scouse git: this is the podcast that will make you believe in daydreams.

Fun fact: Mike Nesmith's mother invented Tipp-Ex.

See also: https://thesundae.net/2024/08/23/friday-film-showcased-episode-3-jack-nicholson-the-fortune-1975-five-easy-pieces-1970-about-schmidt-2002-more/

Song title: Autumn Mvt 1 Allegro (Tony Vivaldi) / Artist: John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players / Source: Free Music Archive / License: CC BY-SA