Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - GGACP Classic: Gilbert and Frank's Halloween Recommendations

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

GGACP celebrates Halloween 2025 with this ENCORE of a mini-ep from 2015, featuring Gilbert and Frank's Halloween movie recommendations. In this episode: Lon Chaney Jr. fills Karloff's boots, Walter Huston meets Agatha Christie, Gilbert’s nana praises Barry Fitzgerald and the strange passions of Lionel Atwill. PLUS: The boys (finally) track down Janet Ann Gallow! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's another Gilbert and Franks Colossal classic Hi, I'm Gilbert Gottfried, and this is Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsessions. I'm here with Frank Santopatra, and which one of us should go first? Well, this is our special Halloween episode. Yes. You go first, because you're going to talk about a film that relates to a guest. Yes, we spoke to, we found and spoke to an actress by the,

the name of Janet Ann Gallo. And, I mean, to somebody like me, who's a horror film nut, she's bigger than Julia Roberts. She was, there's a scene in Ghost of Frankenstein. She's a little girl playing with a ball. And these bullies grab the ball from her and throw it on a roof. And the Frankenstein monster played. of course by Lon Cheney Jr., because Boris Karloff wouldn't do it again,

he shows up and gets the ball and befriends this little girl. And in real life, that was the relationship they had. She just the same way the little girl wasn't afraid of the monster. She wasn't afraid of Cheney as the monster. and Cheney loved her and her brother and he even offered to adopt them. That's how crazy he was. And it's just, it's not, you know,

considered one of the classic Frankensteins by interest. Is it the fifth one in the original? It's the fourth one, right, after son of Frankenstein. Yeah. Right. Is it in the house of Frankenstein, the fifth one? Yeah. Okay.

No, no, no. Frankenstein meets. The Wolfman, right. I got to get my order right. Yeah, and then it was House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula. Got it, got it. She was as hard to book as Julia Roberts, but. But it's just so it's not, it's not considered one of the classics, but it's fun.

In those universal old monster movie fun, Lagosia's back as Igor. Right. And that was like a fun portrayal, and you could see Lagosie having fun playing that part. For a change. Yes. And Ralph Bellamy shows up Evelyn Anchor, Sir Cedricedric Hardwick, Lionel Atwill, and it's the whole cast of Universal Crew. And it, yeah, just a fun, quick moving picture. Lionel Atwill, who you brought up during the live Lewis Black episode, and we had to explain to the audience who Lionel Atwill was.

Yes. He was in a lot of these horror movies and sinister part, and he's the one who's mocked in Young Frankenstein. By Dennis Mars. Yeah, with the wooden arm. That's right, the mechanical arm. And he in real life was supposed to be quite the perv and throw these big, like, wild. or geez. I didn't know that. Yeah, that's what I...

When did you come up with this? I heard that, like, the police were pretty much after him. Really? And a couple of times... A couple of times he felt like, well, it's all over for me now. Let me write this down. Lionel Atwill was throwing sex parties. Yes. Wow. That's a scoop.

Yeah. I don't know if Boris Karlo ever showed up. I doubt it. Or Evelyn Anchors. The movie I want to talk about, because this is our Halloween episode, and this is maybe a slightly more unconventional choice, because it's not really a horror film, but it's a spooky film. And then there were none in 1945. Renee Claire, the French director's adaptation of a very famous Agatha Christie story, Ten Little Indians, which was remade.

Never as well. Yeah. It was made many, many times. Never as well as this picture, because it has an all-star cast. Walter Houston, who's great. Barry Fitzgerald, a Jew, by the way. I know if you knew that. Do you want to know something?

Yeah. One time I remember talking to my grandmother years ago, and she had just watched a movie the night before on TV. And she said, oh, this actor Barry Fitzgerald is in it. He's so wonderful. And then she goes, Is he Jewish? Wow.

Yeah. What was she watching? Was it going my way or one of those Fitzgerald things? Couldn't be less Jewish. This is a story about a bunch of strangers who are invited to an isolated island, and they're all accused by this mysterious host named Mr. Owen, and they don't know who Mr. Owen is, and they're all, basically, the caretaker at the island who's waiting for them,

puts on, he's instructed to put on a record, and he puts on a record, and it's recording of Mr. Owen's voice. Do you know this film, Paul? No, our friend Paul Rayburn is here. He doesn't know it either. And every guest is accused of being a murderer, and then gradually you find out their backstories and what they're hiding, and that each one of them has a secret. And then one by one, they're bumped off, and it's a great who done it.

But it's also, it's very stylish. Must have been a stage play. It was a stage play. It was a stage play. And it's a little bit stage bound, you know, but it's, it's, Renee Claire was a great French director who worked in silent films. And James Judith Anderson is in it. And see Aubrey Smith. You know these actors.

Yeah. And Rowan Young from Topper. And it's just, and Misha Hour. Ah. Remember him? You know, I think Misha Hauer might be of a certain religious. I know where you're going with us. It's a wonderful who done it.

It's atmospheric and it's funny, but it's also unsettling. It's just, it's very moody. And it was a movie that I loved as a kid. And I try to, I pull it out on Halloween. It's, you know, it's not, as I said, it's not a convention. It's not a shocker. Yeah. It's not a ghoulish film.

It's not a conventional horror film. But it keeps you watching it. Yeah, it's great. It's very, very well made. So check it out. And Barry Fitzgerald is just wonderful. Richard Hayden, you know that actor, H-A-Y-D-N. Do you know him?

You know him to see him. Do you remember? This is too easy a question. Remember who Barry Fitzgerald's brother was? Oh, God, you're going to stump me. I think I know this, but forgot. Okay. Give me a hint.

His brother's name was Arthur Shield. I'm stumped. And he was in. Naked City. I didn't know that. He was, that was one of those cases of where, like, the siblings had different names. So there was Barre Fitzger. Like Warren Beatty and Shirley McClellan.

Yeah, and Arthur Shields, or James Arnaz and Peter Graves. Or Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estabas. Yeah. Right. I didn't know that. Yeah. Barry Fitzgerald's a great actor who did a lot of wonderful stuff. He's terrific in this.

So is Walter Houston. The director is smart enough to give them scenes together. Oh, yeah. And they're both wonderful. And obviously, it's a whodunit, and I can't say too much about it. But it's very rewarding, 1945, I think. Yeah. And what's the, what's the, did you give us the plot of, of, of Ghost of Frankenstein?

Okay. You just told us about it, Janet Ann Gallo. Ghost of Frankenstein, I mean, you see, they're, they're running out of ideas, and it's going a little nutty. but it still works but Igor somehow you know there's no sense rhyme or reason

he's still alive after being hung that's right but he's got the broken neck yes right but other than that he's fine right and he's he wants

his brain put in the monster's body and there's a chilling scene with the monster kidnaps the little girl and points to her head and then points to his own head as if as to tell him he wants the little girl's brain in his body, in his head, which is kind of chilling. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And who was the other guests we were working on booking that was a child star that was in one of the Frankenstein son of Frankenstein, Donnie Dunnigan? Right. So we're working on Donnie too. So by the time you hear this, we may have interviewed him. Yeah. From son of Frankenstein. Yeah, son of Frankenstein.

When you first brought up Janet Angallo back in the day when we started this, I misunderstood. I thought you were talking about the little girl in the original Frankenstein. Oh, no, no. Who winds up in the water. He throws her in the water. Right. Yeah. Totally different.

Totally different. Should we track her down to? Well, I guess we should track down her cemetery. She's in right now. So happy Halloween, everybody. And the Halloween movies this year are... Mine goes to Frankenstein. And then there were none directed by the great Frenchman, Renee Claire.

And next time we talk and next time we do this, I might have some information about Papi on Susu. Oh, don't tease me. I'm going to tease you. See you next time. Give it a fract, colossal obsessions.