They've watched good movies. They've watched more bad movies. But never have Suzan and David watched a movie as utterly confounding as In Which We Serve.
Year Eligible: 1943 (Nominated)
Additional audio from In Which We Serve (1943)
(Explicit language, as always)
Starring Greer Garson and Ronald Coleman, both of whom are in better movies nominated this year, Random Harvest features the the rare x2 double amnesiac combo multiplier in a plot that is so ludicrous it strains the bounds of Suzan’s sanity and somehow makes David more resistant to its glaring problems.
Year Eligible: 1942 (Nominated)
Additional audio from Random Harvest (1942)
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Being anti-Nazi is literally the least a film can do. It's also the most The Pied Piper does.
Year Eligible: 1942 (Nominated)
Additional audio from The Pied Piper (1942)
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Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, and Cary Grant star in The Talk of the Town, a screwball comedy about… the nature of criminal justice and worker exploitation? Or, more accurately, an unintentional romantic comedy about two men falling in love with each other, and their wingwoman. You decide!
Year Eligible: 1942 (Nominated)
Additional audio fromThe Talk of the Town (1942)
(Explicit language, as always)
A propaganda film churned out and into theaters just 8 months after the battle for which it is named, Wake Island is a fascinating historical artifact… but is it a movie?
Year Eligible: 1942 (Nominated)
Additional audio fromWake Island (1942)
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Suzan and David disagree on just how good (or not) this Lou Gehrig biopic starring Gary Cooper, and featuring Babe Ruth as himself. But they both agree that baseball is… the sweet science? The beautiful game? The President’s apple pie?
Year Eligible: 1942 (Nominated)
Additional audio from The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
(Explicit language, as always)
In a bit of film history podcast imitating film history, our first shot at recording this week’s episode will forever be lost to history— just like Orson Welles’s intended version of The Magnificent Ambersons.
Year Eligible: 1942 (Nominated)
Additional audio from The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
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The winner of the 1942 awards, Mrs. Miniver starring Greer Garson is the quintessential representation of the British “Keep Calm and Carry On” response to World War II.
Year Eligible: 1942 (Won)
Additional audio from Mrs. Miniver (1942)
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A musical cum biopic starring James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy, recycles some of our hosts’ least favorite old Hollywood clichés as it stumbles in its homage to Broadway historical figure George M. Cohan, but manages to pull out some unexpected and nigh on accidental moments of genuinely good film making.
Year Eligible: 1942 (Nominated)
Additional audio from Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
(Explicit language, as always)
It should say a lot that our hosts found one of the least abhorrent parts of Kings Row to be Ronald Reagan. A jumbled melodrama depicting horrifying and unevenly denounced medical malpractice, murder/suicide, and child abuse, it’s the first movie Suzan has ever considered not even finishing.
Year Eligible: 1942 (Nominated)
Additional audio from Kings Row (1942)
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Originally released in the UK in 1941 as 49th Parallel, this week’s movie and 1942’s first nominee was released in the US as The Invaders. Starring Laurence Olivier in possibly his most embarrassing role, and Leslie Howard as… well, Leslie Howard, it’s a disjointed bit of pro-war propaganda that’s so all over the place our hosts had to come up with a new way to rate it.
Year Eligible: 1942 (Nominated)
Additional audio from The Invaders or 49th Parallel (1942)
(Explicit language, as always)