Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - GGACP Rewind: Mini-Episode #11: "Island of Lost Souls" & "Time After Time"

Episode Date: August 10, 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: Charles Laughton chases skirts! Malcolm McDowell chases Jack the Ripper! And Marlon Brando inspires Mike Myers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Oh, my God. Oh, I'm sorry. What is my name? Maybe it helps you if you sing it. Could someone help me home? It's come to that. I feel like Henry Fonda in Hunt Golden Fow. Regarding Harrison Ford and regarding Henry.

Well, let's pick those blueberries together. Oh. Oh. Yes. Shall we start again? No, no. I like that. Oh, you like that?

Okay. Harrison Ford in regarding Henry. Yeah. There were a bunch of movies that came out at the same time. Harrison Ford becomes a better husband and father and an all around man because he gets shot in the head and brain damage. Yes. There was another movie where. Richard Crenner, a TV movie.

Oh, God. Richard Crenner becomes a better policeman and man because he gets raped. Oh, the Richard Beck. Yes, the rape of Richard Beck. He gets raped. So he's a much better man after that. And then I think William Hurt in the doctor becomes a better doctor husband. He gets a brain tumor?

Yes. Because he's or has got brain cancer. Right. What would you call that subgenre? It's called if something really awful happens to you, be glad about it. You'll become a better dad. Wow, that Richard Krenner reference, that's a movie Dave Boone and I have spoken about many times. Okay.

And I guess I'll start. I want to talk about, last week I spoke about a Jack the Ripper picture, and I'm going to do it again. This is a movie called Time After Time. I know this is a movie you know, starring Malcolm McDowell. Malcolm McDowell was one of the hosts on Saturday Night Live. That's right. The season I was there. That's right. Did you get on with him?

Did you get along with him? Did you get along with him? I got it on with him. Did you get along with him? Yeah, we were a little drunk. Were you in a sketch together? Yeah, it was, well, I was a horrible season. I know, I know.

You've purged it from your memory banks. Yeah, but yeah, actually, in that, in that episode is that the one sketch of Saturday Night Live that there's been horrendous sketches, but up there, if they picked the top five, at least, this would definitely make it. The bottom five. It was called the Jack the Stripper episode. Wow. And it was like a Sherlock Holmes type movie.

Wow. Where the men dressed up as women and the women as. men and it was about a guy instead of being Jack the Ripper, he was Jack the Stripper. It's a wordplay. Yeah, it was quite jaw-droppingly off. Well, that was 1980. Is it possible that because he made time after time in 79 and it's a Jack the Ripper movie, that's what they were going for?

Maybe. Let's do a Malcolm McDowell Jack the Ripper thing. Maybe somebody saw the movie. Who the hell knows? It's a terrific movie. Oh, yes. written by Nicholas Meyer, who we talked about the 7% solution last week, which he wrote. And he plays H.G. Wells.

He plays H.G. Wells, who has a time machine, and he goes back into the time machine to track, he goes forward in the time machine to track Jack the Ripper, played by the other great British actor, David Warner. Oh, yes. From the Omen and Time Bandits. And Straw Dogs. Straw Dogs, an actor we've talked about a couple of times. And my best friend was a vampire. That's right.

That's right. He'd be great for the show, by the way. David, David Warner. Great, get him on the phone. They both would be. And it's actually the movie where Malcolm McDowell met his future wife, Mary Steenberg. Oh, yes. They would marry and fall in love and marry. It's a terrific film.

It's part fish out of water comedy because H.G. Wells is lost in modern-day San Francisco. There's a great scene where he goes into a McDonald's and tries to order a meal. There's some comedy. There's some social comedy. commentary. It's a terrific movie. I love McDowell. He was never better than he is in this movie. Oh, please try to overlook the cheesy special effects when they travel in time. It's a fun movie. It's a popcorn movie. And somebody described it as an outrageously implausible tale done to perfection. And I think that's an apt description. So my movie this week, time after time. And you?

Now, my movie, oddly enough. Will not be a comedy. No, will not be a comedy, obviously. And I also has to do with H.G. Wells. You're kidding. This is so weird. This is a coincidence because we don't know. We should tell the listeners we don't know each other's movies when we sit down to start.

And now, I heard that H.G. Wells hated the Jews. Really? Yes. Which puts him in good company with Oscar Wilde and William Shakespeare. And Paul Lind. And Paul Lynn. Right. This seems to be a thread.

And John Wayne. Himmler. Yes. Well, Himmler. Go either way. We will return to Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast, but first a word from our sponsor. No, this was an H-Discan. This was based on a book by H.G. Wells, and it was made into a movie, The Island of Dr. Monroe.

Oh, my gosh. Wow. No, and actually, no, the book was the island. Right. Yeah, you weren't going to recommend the one with Bert Lancaster or the Brando one, which is worse. The Brando one, I would recommend just for something that you stare at. Yeah, it's an unintentional comedy. And go, oh, my God, what has happened? The Brando one is great.

for that reason. incomprehensible. Or how what, everything that could go wrong. Right. Goes wrong. With Al Kilmer. Brando,

well, that actually influenced the Austin Powers film. That's right. Of him having a tiny mini-mee. That's right. And, um, that's good trivia.

And Brando, of course, weighs 7,000 pounds in it. He was the island. He had, yes, he has white makeup on. He played the island.

And wears a, a metal bucket advice on his head. It's that great period of Brando's career where he could, like the Missouri breaks, where he would just do whatever he wanted to do and just play it strange. And the directors we go, well, we can't tell him not

to because he is Brando. I think it was Frankenheimer. I think it was the great John Frankenheimer directed that. And there's an earlier one with Bert Lancaster in the 70s. And that one's also awful. Yes. Not awful, but in the way the Brando one, but just not good. So if I may jump

the gun here, you're recommending the original with Charles Lawton, the island of lost souls. Charles Lawton and my boy, Baylor goes... It's a good one. I just saw it. Yes. Yeah. And that one is the first made out of that book and still the best and the creepiest. And it's like, like in the Brando version

and the Lancaster version, they really zoom in on all the months. It's like, look at these months. makeups. Right. In this version, it's very quick. It's atmospheric this movie. We probably didn't have the budget to do that kind of monster makeup. And it's like they, so the monsters are shown really fast and they go in and out and it's

much creepier that way. Right. And Charles Lawton based his portrayal of this evil mad scientist on his dentist. I did not know that. Which lets you know. That's like weirder than Ed Wood's, what was it? Is chiropractor or the guy that replaced Lagosi in Plan 9? And I think there were complaints about it where I think like they were saying like they were going to censor it or stop its release in Britain saying this is against the laws of nature.

Oh yes. And Charles Lawton's wife, Elsie. Lancaster, the bride of Frankenstein herself. Right. Lancaster. Lancaster. Lancaster. Right.

Alsa Lancaster, who is Lawton's wife. She said, well, Mickey Mouse is against the laws of nature. She was right. And Legosi is like the leader of the animal people. he's almost unrecognizable. It's creepy. Covenant hair. And he has to,

he's the lawgiver. Right. And he goes, and he always goes to them, you know, what is the law? And they go, not to spill blood.

That is the law. Are we not men? What is the law? Not to run on old force. That is. still are we not men. It's incredible, the stuff you remember. Yes.

And they've got creepy scenes in the house of pain. And where there are scenes where also you just see bits and pieces of like surgical equipment and screams. It's very, it's almost expressionistic that movie. Oh, yes. Yeah. And it wasn't made by. Universal. Was Earl Kenton, the director, Earl C. Kenton?

Oh, I'm not sure. I will have to look that up. For some reason, that name's popping into my head. I could be way the hell off base. But it's spooky. I saw it recently. Yeah. It's creepy, and Lawton's very effective.

Yeah, and it holds up. He's an actor I love. Oh, yes. And also directed a terrific movie, The Night of the Hunter. Oh, yes. Which we'll have to. Robert Mitchell. Which we'll have to talk about on a future show.

And Charles Lawton was a... Well, you just told us he was married to El Cilentchen. Oh, yes. What could you possibly be referring to? He was a real he man, we'll say, Charles Lawton. He was quite the skirt chaser, Charles Lawton, had an eye for the, um, um, um, um, ladies. Uh, uh, like to look at the opposite sex. I see.

So the beard in Lagosie didn't have the only beard in the movie. Yeah, exactly. Okay. So this week, time. After Time and Island of Lost Souls, the original movie based on H.G. Wells, Island of Dr. Moreau. Not the Lancaster. Yes. Or hilarious brand.

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