Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - GGACP Rewind: Mini-Episode #12: "Two Seconds" and "Going In Style"

Episode Date: August 17, 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: Edward G. Robinson on the hot seat! Hyman Roth and Ed Norton hold rob a bank! And Gabrielle Anwar tangos with Tattoo! https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/mini-ep-12-two-seconds-going-in-style/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This summer, serve up the cookout classics, craft mayo and dressing. Toss green salads with delicious ranch dressing or zesty Italian. Serve smooth, craveably creamy potato salads with mayo. We all know it's not a cookout without craft. Gilbert Gottfried, I'm here with my co-host, Frank Santo Padre, and let me see if I've got the title right. Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsession. Oh, that's wonderful. First.

Wow. Nine episodes in. And I didn't say Colossal. No, this is progress. Congratulations. Now, so we'll go first. You can do it. You can start.

All right. Two seconds. You're on a roll. You got the title right. Yeah, yeah. You should stay with it. Okay, two seconds, two seconds. Okay.

That's actually the name of the movie. Really? See, I pulled an avid and cut still on there. Seconds, I know that movie. Yeah. This was a movie called Two Seconds made in the 40s starring Edward G. Robinson. Okay.

You have stopped me again. Yes, yes. And it sounds like Captain has. Hey, tell me the name of the movie. It's two seconds. Why can't you tell me now? I told you the name of the movie. It's two seconds.

No, it stars Edward G. Robinson. Of course, Jake Harold Nash. Of course. A favorite of ours pops up in there. And this is a movie. Well, first of all, let me tell you. I'm going to take notes on this. Yeah.

Two seconds. Edward G. Robinson is arrested for murder and he goes to the electric chair. And I didn't give away the end of the movie. I love it. I didn't spoil a movie for you. That's the beginning of the movie. Is this a film noir? Yeah.

Okay. Edward G. Robinson is going to the electric chair. And these two guys are talking. they said, how long is it going to take him to die in the electric chair? And he said, well, a man his size, I'd say about two seconds. And the other guy says, that'll be the longest two seconds of his life. Wow. And the whole movie, I think, is told, like, I guess it's supposed to be in the two seconds that he's...

Is this an... And I haven't seen the movie at all. Is this an anti-capital punishment kind of film? Like, I Want to Live? The Susan Hayward picture? No, no. It's a film noir where he gets, you know, he gets involved with the wrong girl. He's warned and he opens up to the wrong girl.

Let's go right to the top of my list. Yeah, yeah. And it's like one of those tragic movies. Robinson, as always great. Who else is in it? Oh, God. Carol Nash. Yeah, Jay Carroll Nash.

Oh, something Foster, who plays his best friend. Phil Foster? Yeah, Phil Foster. Yes. And Laverne and Shirley, Papa, out of nowhere. Seems so incongruous.

And they're saying, We're going to make it. I love Edward G. Robinson in the Wells movie, the one with... Oh, where he plays, he's hunting a Nazi. stranger. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And yeah, that's the one with that, the clock, like they have in Central Park. Right. Right. But with swords and things. Right. Where Wells is the heavy. Yeah.

Terrific. Well, Wells is the heavy. So two seconds. Two seconds. Two seconds. Yeah, I think it was Melvin Leroy. Really? Yeah.

You mean Mervyn Leroy? Mervyn Leroy. Melvin was his Jewish cousin. Melvin Leroy. Hello? I'm Melvin Leroy. Hi, hi, I'm Melvin Luroy with the camera and the thing and the person with the and I'm Melvin, Melvin Leroy, you want to stand in front of it and I'll go action.

He is revered in France too, wasn't he? Melvin Leroy. Hilarious. Okay. This is an education for me. So two seconds with Edward G. Robinson. You think it was directed by Mervyn LaRoye of Wizard of Oz fame. Well, Mervyn Leroy also directed, speaking of films of that tone.

I am a fugitive from a chain gang. Oh, yes. With Paul Muni. Yes. Another great. And Robinson does an entire speech in the courtroom where he says, it's such an odd speech. And where he says, you know, like,

I deserve to die. I should be executed, but not for this crime. Wow. Okay. Yeah, and he gives a whole impassioned speech. I love my Edward G. Robinson. He's being executed. He should be executed, but he's being executed for the wrong reasons.

How have I never seen this movie? Does it turn up on TCM? Does it turn up in the rotation? I don't know. I just saw it once, and I had not heard about it, and it was fascinating. Okay. It's kind of like the way the story takes place.

I think it's kind of like incident at Al Creek or something. Oh, I love that. Oh, the incident at Al Creek Bridge. Yeah. Yeah. Fascinating reference. Okay. Two seconds.

We think it's Mervyn Leroy. Melvin Leroy. Hello? Hi, Melvin Leroy. With the editing and the film stuff. light, action, and the thing with the camera. Starting a business can seem like a daunting task, unless you have a partner like Shopify.

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slash special offer. Okay, I'm going to jump tones a little bit here from Jerry Lewis to a movie we were talking about before. We had our buddy Richard Kind on the show today and we were talking very briefly about a caper movie called Going in Style. Oh, very good. Yes. Finally, I'm landing on one you're excited about.

Yes. Last week I talked about Quick Change, or a couple of weeks ago, I talked about Quick Change, a caper film that I love. This is also a caper film from 1979, which I contend was a great year for American films. George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasbourg. Yes. Three senior citizens who are bored and decide to rob a bank. Yeah. And you've seen the picture.

And what I remember there is when I first saw the posters for it, I thought, oh, this. It was goofy. Yeah. It was a goofy poster, and I'm thinking all of them are way past their prime. This is going to be a cutesy, stupid movie where they put old actors in it, and they knew how to do it. Yeah, it's a very, very smart film. Well, it goes against the way you would expect Hollywood to make a movie with older actors. The way they do it now, where it's like they go to Las Vegas for one last fling.

Oh, yes. Or the bucket list, and they're always cute, and they're always precious. And going in style, directed by Martin Prest, who directed Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run, goes against that the typical way that you would think this film was going to be executed. It's sweet, it's sad, it's funny, but it's really not a comedy. There are moments in it. I mean, you've got Art Carney and George Burns, who were comedians, really playing straight parts. and Lee Strasbourg, who didn't make many films at all, a handful. Yeah.

Godfather, too. I have boardwalk. Boardwalk. He's in. Oh, oh, that, the one about the Nazis marching on. Yeah, Skokie. Stokey. Yeah.

Yeah, he didn't make many films at all. He's in it. It's really just the three of them. It was made by Martin Brest again at 28. He had just come out of the AFI. It's a very smart film. Three old guys on, living on Social Security.

They sit around all day on park benches, feeding pigeons, and their lives are empty, and George Burns, who's kind of the leader among them, comes up with this idea of doing something to add a little adventure to their lives, and they rob a bank. And it's very, very sweet, smarter than it sounds. The poster is misleading.

They're in groucho glasses, and they've got little canes, and I think they're doing soft shoe or something on the poster. I think it's a movie, too, that was tough for the studio to market. Oh, yeah. Because it's poignant. and super smart. And kind of works as a caper movie.

And I, what, the one part I remember laughing out loud in that movie, that's not even that funny a joke or even a joke, but just the way it's told and everything. Burns, they win money in Vegas.

Right. And he wants to get a case to carry the money in. That's right. And the salesman goes, I suppose you'd like it in leather. And Burns just goes, leather would be nice.

I don't know why. It's nicely done. You know, he's great in the film. I mean, as wonderful as Strasbourg and Carney were as actors, it's the best thing I've ever seen George Burns. Well, I mean, it's a better picture than, oh God. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

You know, it's a better picture than the Sunshine Boys. That might be heresy to say. And Martin Brest himself, the last thing I want to say, is a fascinating story and a mystery because he made this film when he was 28. He was then assigned to direct war games. Remember that picture with Matthew Broderick? Oh, yes.

He winds up not making the movie, or he leaves the movie. He makes Midnight Run, scent of a woman, Micho Black, you know, Beverly Hills cop. He was on a roll, and then Gile. Then this movie that was regarded as the old. all-time bomb. Oh, God. And his career came to a screeching halt.

Now, some people said it wasn't his fault. But he, I don't think he's... Jalo and Ben Affleck. But if you look at his early films, there's some... And Al Pacino. That's right. That's right. Somewhere there's a movie called Hot Tomorrow's, which he made, I think,

either in AFI or when he graduated with two of your favorites, Orson Wells and Hervey Villaschet. Irvey Villalcichet. So look for that. Oh, Mr. Wells. Everybody can find it. I love the one can. Oh, Mr. West.

I admire everything you do. At all your favorite, I love it. That is the best Arbe Villalach's impression ever done. There's a real demand for it, too. Now, here's Jerry Lewis directing Irvay Villalachan. Why can you act with the realistic person acting? Ah, yes, Mr. Lewis. Ah, in France, we admire you.

Oh, thank you, you short midget person. We do not like that dumbed joke. Oh, I'm sorry, little person with the thing, with the thing. Oh, God. I'm sweating. Poor Irve came to a sad end. Do you know that Irvey Villages? No, I don't.

Here's for our people listening. Two or three of them. Irvey Villages, he, you know, his frame, of course, was the frame of a whatever. Very small person. Yeah, really small person. And, well, see, I'm a small person. He was a midget. Anyway, he had the frame of a midget.

Which was the sequel to Sent of a Woman, frame of a midget. It was an Orson Wellesville. That's right. That's right. The frame of a midget. Unfinished, cut by the studio. Oh, Lord. So, and here's Irvey Villages in Cent of a one.

Laugh. Let me, because I smell the perfume. and I hear the Southern acting. Oh my God. Did you just salute to me even though I'm blind? Okay. I'm laughing like I did during the Steve Cox episode. So two seconds with it.

But Irvey Villages, even though he had the frame of a midget. Oh, that's right. That was a story. That was my third film that we're going to be recommending frame of a midget. his frame was midgetized. That's the way a doctor described it to me. But his insides, all of his organs, were actual like normal size like a grown man's organs.

Is this about his suicide? Yeah. So he was in total pain all those times. And especially when he did send him a woman. And he said, in pain. Laude deans de fango. Good Lord.

So the wrap wrapping it up, going in style from 1979 with George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasbourg, directed by the mysterious and missing in action, Martin Brecht. Gilbert's film is

two seconds. Two seconds with Edward T. Robinson. And, you know, few people remember this, but Irvay Villages was in Little Seasons. I knew you were going there. I was just going to set you up. Mother of mercy is near the end of record.

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