Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini-Ep #11: Island of Lost Souls & Time After Time

Episode Date: May 28, 2015

Each week, comedian Gilbert Gottfried and comedy writer Frank Santopadre share their appreciation of lesser-known films, underrated TV shows and hopelessly obscure character actors -- 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This has been Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast with my co-host Frank Santopadre. And this is... I fucked that up. Yes, you were signing off. This is Gilbert and Frank's Amazing... Oh, my God. Oh. Oh. I'm sorry.

What is my name? Maybe it helps if you sing it. Could someone help me home? It's come to that. I feel like Henry Fonda in Hunt Golden. Or Harrison Ford in Regarding Henry. Well, let's pick those blueberries together. Yes.

Shall we start again? No, no. I like that beginning. 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 all-around man because he gets shot in the head and brain damaged. There was another movie where Richard Krenner, a TV movie. Oh, God. Richard Krenner 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 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. Yes. Or he's 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 Crenna 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, and 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 in. That's right.

Did you get on with him? Did you get along with him? Did I get it on with him? Not that you get it on with him. I got it on with him. Did you get along with him? Yeah, get along with him? Did I get it on with him? Not did you get it on 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, that was a horrible season. I know, I know. You've purged it from your memory banks. Yeah, but yeah. Actually, in that episode is 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 the bottom five. It was called the Jack the Stripper. Wow. 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 awful. 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 Warner. Quick, get him on the phone. They both would be. And it's actually the movie where Malcolm McDowell met his future wife, Mary Steenburgen.

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 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? outrageously implausible tale done to perfection and i think that's a 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 hg 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 and now i heard that hg wells hated the jews really yes which puts him in good company with oscar wilde and william shakespeare and paul lind and paul lind right This seems to be a thread. And John Wayne.

Himmler. Yes. Yeah. Well, Himmler. Could go either way. Yeah. No, this was based on a book by H.G. Wells, and it was made into a movie, The Island of Dr. Moreau.

Oh, my gosh. Wow. No, and actually, no, the book was The Island of Dr. Moreau. Right, yeah. You weren't going to recommend the one with Burt 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. For how, what, everything that could go wrong goes wrong. With Val Kilmer. Brando, well, that actually influenced the Austin Powers film. That's right. Of him having a tiny mini-me. That's right.

That's good trivia and brando of course weighs 7 000 pounds and he was the island he had yes he has he has white makeup on the island and wears a a metal bucket of ice 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 would 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

who directed that. And there's an earlier one with Burt Lancaster in the 70s. Oh, yes, and that one's also awful. Yes. Not awful, but in the way that Brando won, 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 a good one i just saw it yes yeah and uh that one is is the first made out of that book and still the best and the creepiest and um it's like like in the in the brand over

i'm not in the brand of version and the lancaster version they really zoom in on all the monsters like look at these monster makeups right uh in in this version it's very quick it's atmospheric this movie. They 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. Yes. Wow. Which lets you know. That's like weirder than Ed Wood's. What was it? His chiropractor or the guy that replaced Lugosi 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, saying in Britain, saying this is against the laws of nature. Oh, yes. And Charles Lawton's wife, Elsa Lancaster, the bride of Frankenstein herself. Right, right. Lanchester. Lanchester. I always got that.

Right. Elsa Lanchester, who is Lawton's wife, she said, well, Mickey Mouse is against the laws of nature. That's right. She was right. And Lugosi is like the leader of the animal people. He's almost unrecognizable. It's creepy. Covenant hair.

And he's the lawgiver. Right. 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 the law. Are we not men? It's incredible the stuff you remember. Yes. And they've got creepy scenes in the House of Pain. Mm-hmm. And where there are scenes where also you just see bits and pieces of like surgical equipment and screams. 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. 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 talk about on a future show. And Charles Lawton was a... Well, you just told us he was married to Elsa Lanchester. 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. He was quite the skirt chaser, Charles Lawton. Had an eye for the um-um-um ladies. I like to look at the opposite sex. I see. So the beard in Lugosi didn't have the only beard in the movie. Yeah, exactly. Okay, so this week, time after time, and Island of Lost Souls,

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