Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - GGACP Rewind: Mini-Epidode #17: "1941" and "The Incident"

Episode Date: September 21, 2026

In this series of topic-focused mini-episodes, Gilbert and Frank share their love of unheralded films, underrated TV shows, underappreciated pop songs and (often) unknown performers, discussing, dissecting and (occasionally) defending their handpicked guilty pleasures and buried treasures. This week: Steven Spielberg spoofs himself! Martin Sheen terrorizes Ed McMahon! And Robert Stack cries his eyes out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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with my co-host, Frank Santopatra. Now, what movies? What do you got? Well, the first... Yeah, the first one, also a movie that, you know, I don't know

that it was a big hit when it came out. I don't think so. And I don't think the critics liked it. Okay. So this is another one with reservations. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Recommendation with reservations. Gotcha. Don't come to me and say, that wasn't gone with the win. People, has that happening to you? Yes. People approaching you in the mall to bitch about your movie selections? And this one is a strange one called the incident.

Oh. Is this the one with Ed McMahon? and Tony Musante and... It all takes place. The entire movie takes place on a train car. A subway train. I know this movie. Yeah.

Ed McMahon, Jack Guilford. Oh, I love Jack Guilford. Brock Peters. Yeah, we like him. Is a young Martin Sheen in this movie? Martin Sheen and Tony Mascente are the two thugs. I see. Who terrorized the train.

Was he Raul Estevez or whatever? whatever Ramon Estevez then? Oh, no, no, he was Martin Sheen. Okay. And also, oh, Bowbridge is. Wow. And, oh, I know. Did we say Ed McMahon?

Yeah, it's a suburban night. Or this businessman on the train? Yeah. And, oh, this old character actor, Mike Kellam. Wow, that stumps me. Yeah. Mike Kellum? Yeah.

If you saw him, you'd know. I'm going to Google. It's rare that you stump me. Yeah. And this one, Martin Sheen and Tony Monsente are... I think it's Mousante. Yeah. Yeah.

Fuck you, you guinea. Well, he's alive. I don't want him to come after us. No, no. He died recently. Did he die, Tony Moussante? He had a series. He played Toma.

Oh, yes. Which was a Beretta knockoff. Yes. Yes. Oh, I'm sorry, Tony. Well, all right. In that case... We're sorry you're dead.

Mangle his name anyway you see fit. Okay. Tony Mervivin'li and Tosie Moivin'pawful. Hoosin'fufel. Tony Mersalvi and you're dangerously near me. He's not dead now. He will be. So, yeah, they terrorize this subway car throughout the entire movie.

Right, it's two hoods, right? They get on the train. And they terrorize all the passengers. Oh, yeah. Why doesn't the train come to a stop? Why don't they? I think at one or two points in the movie, the train comes to a stop, and they block the doors to stop people from getting off. I've seen it, but so many years ago.

And it's a very, very weird and disturbing film. And it's showing old. I mean, it's one of those movies that could have worked as a play because it all stays in one subway. It's kind of set bound, yeah. And it's kind of bringing out things of people. When each one is terrorized, something of their personality comes out. So it's like a character study. Yeah.

Really. The incident. Yeah. You don't want to say anything more about it because you don't want to give to you. much away. Yeah. Well, other than that, Irvey Village. Does he show up?

Yeah, he plays a blind former Army sergeant. I already play the conductor. Yeah. Why do you recommend it with reservations? Because I'm part Indian. Oh, that makes no sense. I love it. Okay.

So the incident, Frank Wernerosa, our engineer, is out there. Look up Tony Musante. I don't believe he actually died. Two years ago. Oh, damn it. Two years ago. You just killed him. See?

You said he just died. The incident. Yes. With reservations. Yes. Okay. That means call in advance. Because you might not get room.

What does it say about us that we keep recommending films that are disturbing? Yes. On some level. Films that upset people. Here's a comedy. And it's a comedy that actually upset people. Oh, okay. Mostly the studio.

This is a movie, real reservations on this one, major reservations. I'm wondering if you've even seen it. This is, I think, if I'm going to misspeak here, and people are going to write me. Unless Catch Me, if you can, as a comedy, or the Terminal, I guess the Terminal is a comedy, the Tom Hanks movie. This is really the only out-and-out comedy that I think Steven Spielberg ever directed, called 1941. Now, there may be people recoiling in horror. Yes, that is with major reservations. Major reservations because it's super flawed and it has a lot of problems.

But I saw it recently. You know, it also has a lot going for it. You know, it's kind of like those all-star comedies that they made in the 60s where they would throw everybody in. Oh, yes. But the kitchen sink. Like we talked about the Great Race before. We haven't talked about it, but you and I are both fond of it's a madman world. Oh, yeah.

This is that kind of a film. It was made at the end of the seven. 79, a year I talk about a lot on the show. And they do throw in everybody. It's hard to hate a film that has all of these funny people in it, like Slim Pickens and Dan Aykroyd and Belushi and John Candy. And I remember it begins with Spielberg satirizing his own film, Jaws. Yeah, there's a little bit in the beginning. The girl, and I think it's the same girl from Jaws.

I think it is. Susan Backline. Yeah, and she's swimming, and this time it's a submarine. Right. You hear the same John Williams. Yeah. Because John Williams did the music for this, too, as he did for, I think, every Spielberg movie, or almost every Spielberg movie. I mean, it has wonderful set pieces.

If you don't know the film, it's about, it's based on an actual incident called the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, which you can look up. And the screenplay was by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, who. went on to make the back to the future movies, and Zemekos, of course, made Forrest Gump, and John Millius, of all people, the serious filmmaker. Yes. Writing this comedy, a very, very serious guy, you know, a gun enthusiast. It has a lot of funny moments. Murray Hamilton is very funny from Jaws.

Oh, yes, and the hustler. Right. And Eddie Dyson turns up. Oh, my God. We talked about Eddie Dyson. He was kind of like a poor man Sammy Petrillo. Yes. Not even a Jerry, but a poor man Sammy Petrillo.

A couple of old-timers show up, too. Alicia Cook is in it. Oh, my God. Lionel Stander is in it. I think there's a cameo, a very quick shot of Sam Fuller, the director. Robert Stack, of all people, who would go on to be funny in an airplane. I don't think he had done anything funny to this point. plays General Stillwell, who was a real guy, who cries when he goes to see Dumbo.

I mean, it's one of those films. I guess you would say that the pieces are better than the whole part. But Ned Beatty's hilarious. It's just a little overwrought. And it's one of those, what would you say? It's sort of a cake that doesn't quite rise in the oven. But it has wonderful things in it. Christopher Lee, Tishira Maffoonie.

I mean, everybody, Warren Oates, there's a very funny scene with Tim Matheson, and I know we'll get negative mail and posts from even recommending this one. And I'd be very curious to see how many of our listeners actually like it. We talked about Ishtar with Paul Williams, which is a similar. Oh, yeah. Another movie that was a debacle. Yeah, horrible. But I like. Yeah.

And I like the songs. I like Paul's songs in it. And I'm going to put this in the same category. See it for yourself. don't have sky-high expectations, but there are some very, very funny things in it. And it's a curio. And it's got a great score by John Williams. It's got an all-star cast, 1941.

You seen it recently? Not recently. Years ago. Yeah. And I also remember running into Tony Monsente or Morsante. It was coming out of 1941? Yeah. At a party.

And first thing I said to him, other guy who chopped off Eric Roberts' thumb. Oh, in the Pope of Greenwich Village. Good call. And he said when he was doing that movie, he was a young actor, and they ran out of money in the middle of it. And he decided on his own to go to people to get them to invest. The Pope of Greenwich Village.

No, no. Oh, the incident. Oh, really. And they said, okay, well, you know, who are the start? in it. And he said, well, Martin Sheen, Ed McMahon, Brock Peters, Jack Guilford, Beau Bridges. And the guy said, yeah, but who are the stars? Hey, those are names. I love Jack Guilford. We should talk about Jack Guilford on a future show. I remember Jack Guilford that I remember him. It was blacklisted, by the way. Oh, wow. That's, yeah. He was the, he would do the crackerjack commercials.

You bet. See, that's a 60s memory. Yeah. You're giving your age away in mind with that one. Look up Jack Guilford, you guys. Anybody of a certain age will remember him from the Cracker Jack commercials. So, 1941 and. And the incident.

And of Gilbert as always picks a disturbing film. Yes.