Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini-Ep #81: Top Grossing Movies of 1966, Part 2

Episode Date: October 13, 2016

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, diss...ecting and (occasionally) defending their handpicked guilty pleasures and buried treasures. This week: "Georgy Girl"! "The Creature from the Black Lagoon"! Gilbert covers Dusty Springfield! Richard Schaal vs. Richard Stahl! And Jack Palance goes south of the border! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:03:20 Our master researcher And this is Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsessions. Okay. So part two. In case you didn't hear part one, I'll bring everybody up to speed. We've been saluting the year 1966, which is a year I'm obsessed with in pop culture history. We did TV last week.
Starting point is 00:03:38 Now we're doing movies. We're doing the top grossing 25, the top 25 grossing movies of, I'll get it right, the 25 top grossing movies of 1966. We went from 25 to 15. We ended with The Silencers, a Matt Helm picture. And now we're up to number 14. So I'm going to ask Gilbert if he remembers. I know he knows the song from this one. This is Lynn Redgrave.
Starting point is 00:04:05 Again, James Mason. What's it all about? Not yet. Nope. You jumped. This is Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, Alan Bates. Lynn Redgrave plays a virgin in Swinging London. Yes.
Starting point is 00:04:20 1966. Oh, is this Georgie Girl? Georgie Girl. Hey there, Georgie Girl. Hey there, Georgie Girl. There's another Georgie deep inside. That's it. Da-da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-clothes you wear. You're always window shopping and never stopping to buy.
Starting point is 00:04:42 So shed those dowdy feathers. And fly away now. Something like that. Look up that band, Paul. I think is that the New Seekers? The Seekers. The Seekers. Who also sang, what was the other big hit they had? They had I'll Never Find Another You.
Starting point is 00:05:00 That's it. That's the one. Oh, my God, it has that same sound. I know, I'll never find another you. Love that song. That's the one. Oh, my God. It has that same sound. I know I'll never find another you. Da-da-da-da-da-da. Love that song. But there was a New Seekers, too. There were a New Seekers.
Starting point is 00:05:10 There was a New Seekers, and I think there were the New Seekers, which may have had nothing to do with the old Seekers. The old. My wife heard that song. She heard Georgie Girl recently. She said, this is terrible. It's cruel. This poor girl. You're calling her an ugly duckling, and you're playing Jane.
Starting point is 00:05:24 It was 1966. 66. We were talking about sexism before. There's another example of it. 1966, on a measly budget of $400,000, Georgie girl brought in $16 million for Columbia. That's a winner. The late great Lynn Redgrave. And James Mason is all over the map here. We finished talking about James Mason. He's in this one. Alan Beetz. Great Alan Beetz.
Starting point is 00:05:50 Charlotte Rampling. Yeah, Charlotte Rampling. She's still around. Oh, she was hot back then. She's still hot, actually. She's still. She's swimming pool, which must have been the last 10 years. It's spooky.
Starting point is 00:06:03 Yeah, spooky, but she looks terrific. Yeah, she's around. On the 13th highest grossing film of 1966, again, made on a meager budget of 800 grand and brought in 18 mil for Paramount, Shelley Winters,
Starting point is 00:06:18 Denholm Elliott. You know that actor from Raiders of the Lost Ark? He wound up being in Trading Places. Correct. That's on The Jerk. Oh, no, that's Maury Sevens in The Jerk.
Starting point is 00:06:28 Forgive me. A Bacharach-David song. Who I think was also an ape. He was. In Planet of the Apes. And Jane Asher, Paul McCartney's girlfriend. Oh, that's right. That's right.
Starting point is 00:06:40 About a cat, about a womanizer who mends his ways. A Bacharach-David song. This is... Sung by Dionne Warwick. Elfie. Elfie.ends his ways, a Bacharach David song. This is – Sung by Dionne Warwick. Alfie. Alfie. Alfie, of course. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:49 Michael Caine again. Michael Caine. You know, I saw that not long ago. Talk about sexism. How is it? Oh, it is absolutely cruel. Really? Cruel with the Georgie Girl song?
Starting point is 00:06:58 Well, it's all the same. Yeah, don't mention Alfie to your wife at all. I love the song. I love the Bacharach song. He definitely, the Alfie character, you know, to him, life is just one kind of moment after another. He doesn't put anything together, and he treats a woman. Who's the woman? Let's see.
Starting point is 00:07:18 I think it's Jane. Is it not Jane Asher? Oh, Jane Asher. Somebody else. But he just treats her with complete disregard. But is this one of those where he gets his comeuppance at the end? I think a little. It's subtle.
Starting point is 00:07:30 A little bit. It's not tied up quite that neatly. They remade it with Jude Law a few years ago. I wonder if they made it. Yeah, I didn't. I sort of. Oh, my God. Sometimes I don't like to see the remakes because you got the original.
Starting point is 00:07:41 It's so great, you know. So I didn't see that. And now we're going to put on the Dionne Warwick Alfie. What's it all about, Alfie? Is it just for the moment we live? What's it all about when we take it out, Alfie? The Gilbert Gottfried jukebox. That's a classic.
Starting point is 00:08:12 I thought, I wonder if this movie episode is going to work. And then I thought to myself, no, he'll really love the songs. He hasn't disappointed. That is one of the very short list of Bacharach David songs, great songs. I think that's one of their very best. Oh, listen, we should do a Bacharach episode. And even better in Gilbert's version. We'll come back and do a Bacharach episode.
Starting point is 00:08:31 One of my all-time favorites of Bacharach music scores is from a terrible movie. I know where you're going. Casino Royale. Casino Royale. I mean, that beginning part, that's what movies are all about to me. Like the lights flickering on and off. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da- Yeah. And I remember at the end, at the end, like fucking idiots, they put in lyrics. Isn't there a Dusty Springfield song too in Casino Royale? Oh, I think there's, I know there's, The Look of Love is in.
Starting point is 00:09:15 Does that turn up in there? Yeah. Look of Love is when Ursula Andrews is in the shower. That's right. I remember Dusty Springfield for some reason. But the end of Casino Royale, they have words, and that sucks. It almost kills the song because it's like, you know, something like, we're going to save the world at Casino Royale.
Starting point is 00:09:37 Yeah, I know what you're referring to. Yes. Never has a film with so much talent that everybody that was involved in it, and John Huston and everybody that was involved in that. Peter Sellers, David Niven. Woody Allen and John Huston and everybody that was involved Peter Sellers David Niven Woody Allen
Starting point is 00:09:47 John Huston William Holden I know Woody Allen how that thing went aground Woody Allen that's right
Starting point is 00:09:54 but it really did well that looks like wasn't that made with like about 20 different directors I think it's 4 or 5 yeah but it's still
Starting point is 00:10:02 obviously neither one knew what the other one was doing. Yeah, we talked about it with Mike McPadden. I also love Dusty singing. Is it the Windmills of Your Mind for the Thomas Cranaffaire? Oh, Thomas Cranaffaire. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:14 I love that movie. That was written by Michelle Legrand. And I think Marilyn and Alan Bergman wrote the lyrics. Okay. Now, who's the singer again? Dusty Springfield. Okay. We have Dusty Springfield.
Starting point is 00:10:24 We have Dusty Springfield. We lost Dusty. the lyrics okay now who's the windmills of your mind. You give new meaning to the word torch singer. Do you know what I mean? Burn down the windmill. The villagers are coming. The villagers. He's a pitchfork singer. Burn down the wheel. Yeah, the villagers are coming. The villagers. It's a pitchfork. He's a pitchfork singer.
Starting point is 00:11:08 A pitchfork singer. Poor Dusty Springfield. Here's one, and I'll be surprised if you know this one. It's like a snowball down a mountain. That's really fun. And by the way, that original Thomas Crown Affair kicks ass. Oh, it does. Yeah, it does. And that the way, that original Thomas Crown Affair kicks ass. Oh, it does. Yeah, it does.
Starting point is 00:11:26 And that song is great. It says she was peerless. You know this picture. Especially, I meant my version. Oh, yes, your version. Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan. Another underrated actor. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Starting point is 00:11:41 Is this the professional? You bet. Yes. Jack Palance. Yeah, Jack Palance is like a Mexican villain. That's the one. That's the one. And, oh, yes, that was a good one.
Starting point is 00:11:50 I like that picture. 1966, obviously. And I always liked Burt Lancaster. Yep, Claudia Cardinale. Oh, my God. Claudia Cardinale. As Ed Norton would say, va-va-voom. And Ralph Bellamy.
Starting point is 00:12:07 Oh, my God. Wasn't Claudia Cardinale in the original Pink Panther, was it? I think she was. Yeah. That sounds right. In the sequel that was shot in the dark, it was Elka Summers. Right. That's right.
Starting point is 00:12:23 Isn't she in the Once Upon a Time in the West? Oh, I think so. The Leone picture? Yeah, with Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda. Henry Fonda, yeah. How about this one, number 11, Endless Summer, a surfing documentary. Oh, the
Starting point is 00:12:39 surfing documentary. Yeah, made a fortune. For a minute I was thinking of Summer of 42, not the same thing. $20 million on a $50,000 budget fortune. For a minute I was thinking of Summer of 42, not the same thing. $20 million on a $50,000 budget. Endless summer. I was thinking of that. Now, here's, I got a mental block on this movie. This was, there was that movie, something summer, crazy summer or something that had Jacqueline Bissett, Tony Franciosa, and Michael Sarazin.
Starting point is 00:13:10 Wow. And Bob Denver. He's looking it up. Oh, it's one of those Bob Denver, Michael Sarazin movies. Yes. There were so many. That's when they teamed them up. I don't think I know this.
Starting point is 00:13:24 I love Michael Sarazin and The Flim Flam, man. I remember what I remember best about it is Jacqueline Bissett, her opening scene is her arms covering her chest like she lost her bikini top. And Summer was in the title? Yeah, Summer, I think, was in it. Anything, Paul? You might want to go in for Jacqueline Bissett. Yeah, because I'm getting Denver Film Festival
Starting point is 00:13:46 switches. Bob Denver. The Bob Denver Film Festival? I always get them mixed up. The one from Gilligan's Island. Yeah, yeah. Wow. Who was it in Elky Summer? No. No, no. Jacqueline Bissett. Jacqueline Bissett. Tony Franciosa.
Starting point is 00:14:00 I love Tony Franciosa. I'm going to keep working on this one. And Tony Franciosa was in love Tony Franciosa. All right. Go into the... I'm going to keep working on this. We're going to jump with the mix. And Tony Franciosa was in that movie, Fathom. Yes. With Raquel Welch. Yes, I know that movie. Where he used to...
Starting point is 00:14:12 He was calling her Puppet. Wow. And I think like... Your memory. Hello, Puppet. Again, it sounds like Gavin McCloud in the donut bit. We'll go fast. I'll add him to the bit. We'll go fast. I'll add him to the bit.
Starting point is 00:14:25 We'll go fast. Blow Up, Italian film, a very highly regarded film. That got later remade. As Blow Out by Brian De Palma. Yes. Our friend Jessica Walter in the movie Grand Prix
Starting point is 00:14:37 with James Garner and Ava Marie Saint. Grand Prix. Came up at number nine. Grand Prix. And here's one I know that's near and dear to your heart, Gilbert, and I'll just read you the cast. The director was Norman Jewison. I won't get very far.
Starting point is 00:14:52 Cast Brian Keith. And they said he puts the Jew in Jewish. We got to get Norman Jewison. If we lost Arthur Hiller, we got to get Norman Jewison. Okay, so Brian Keith from Family Affair. Ava Marie Saint. Alan Arkin. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:15:06 And Carl Reiner. Oh, the Russians are coming. Very nice. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. And there's the one that plays his son, like Golumbi or Golum or something. He plays his son. He plays Carl Reiner's son in the movie yeah there he was like something
Starting point is 00:15:27 like steve uh i don't have him on the cast list i have michael j pollard okay read the other people uh there was ben blue the silent comedian oh my god yeah how about john philip law your favorite i want to turn down skidoo yes no he oh he The one that turned down Skidoo. Yes. No, he took Skidoo. Oh, he turned down Midnight Cowboy. Yeah, yeah. To take Skidoo. But you had a figure. Sure. On his side that you're going, oh, wait a second.
Starting point is 00:15:55 I'm going to be in a comedy with Jackie Gleason and Groucho Marx? Right, of course. How could this not be a classic? Right. Oh, boy. Yeah. Jonathan Winters, Brian Keith, Ava Marie Saint, Paul Ford. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:07 Oh, Paul Ford. Paul Ford. I think if we can go back in time just a few minutes. Counter-culture drama with Bob Denver, Tony Franciosa. Mike, this is the one, right? Yeah. The Sweet Ride. The Sweet Ride.
Starting point is 00:16:21 The Sweet Ride. Yes, Sweet Ride. Never heard of it. That's impressive. I've seen that a few times. Tony Francio is an aging tennis hustler. Yes. Who directed?
Starting point is 00:16:32 Who directed? Let me see here. Please say Jack Smite because I like saying that. Oh, and I forget that actor's name. He was in The Pawnbroker. Oh. He has like a weird face. He played one of the gang members.
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Starting point is 00:18:24 Well, I think I ran into him at some convention. Yeah, not the guy who was in, not Mark Lawrence, not the guy in the asphalt jungle. He's got like a pug nose. Wow, I never heard of that movie. That's impressive. Anyway, the director of this, are we still on? Yeah, the guy who plays Paul Reiner's son. I'm having a colossal of Are we still on? Yeah, we're still on the ride. The guy who plays Paul Reiner's son.
Starting point is 00:18:47 I'm having a colossal... He's now a dentist. He's jumping. The director of the sweet ride was Harvey Hart. Harvey Hart. Can I ring a bell at all? No, no. But listen to the cast of The Russians Are Coming.
Starting point is 00:18:58 Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Ava Marie Saint, who I'd love to get on the show. Brian Keith, the late Jonathan Winters, Paul Ford. Your favorite, Theodore Bacall. Oh my God! He was the Russian captain. Tessie O'Shea. Wow! Why is that name significant? Because she was on the Ed Sullivan
Starting point is 00:19:13 show, The Night, The Beatles. Oh my God! 1964. John Philip Law, Ben Blue, who I believe turns up as the airplane pilot and it's a mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World when Sid Caesar rents the plane. Cliff Norton.
Starting point is 00:19:29 Remember that actor? When I show him to you, you'll know him. Richard Shaw. Oh, yeah. He wound up. He would pop up in the odd couple episodes. Yes. You might be thinking of Richard.
Starting point is 00:19:42 No, that's the right. Richard Shaw. Either Richard Shaw or Richard Stahl. Oh, maybe. There were two guys. One of them was married to Valerie Harper. Yeah. And that's it.
Starting point is 00:19:51 Boy, that is a terrific comedy. If you haven't seen it. Have you seen The Russians Are Coming? I love that. The Russians Are Coming? I'd like to see that again. I love that movie. Let's wrap it up quickly with the last seven.
Starting point is 00:20:02 Robinson Crusoe, USN, starring our pal Dick Van Dyke. Oh, geez. And Nancy Kwan. Oh. And Akeem Tamaroff. Oh, my God. Or Akeem Tamaroff, if you want. Number six, a big film, a big, big film that made $25 million on a $1 million budget.
Starting point is 00:20:23 I guess the all-time spaghetti Western. Eastwood, Morricone, Sergio Leone, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Da-da-da-da-da. That was the... I'm sure it didn't have trend, right? Oh, yeah. I think so.
Starting point is 00:20:37 Da-da-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da-da. What was that? It's no windmills of your mind. The last five, A Man for All Seasons, which I think was the best picture of 1966. Paul Schofield. Paul Schofield, what a great actor. That's a wild movie.
Starting point is 00:20:57 The Sand Pebbles, directed by Robert Wise. Wait, wait, wait. The Sand Pebbles had a theme song. Shadow of Your Smile, was that Wait, wait, wait. The Sandpapes had a theme song. Shadow of Your Smile, was that it? Oh, no. No, what was it? I don't have it in front of me. Shadow of Your Smile.
Starting point is 00:21:16 Good picture. Robert Wise, an underrated director. Oh, yes. Made a lot of good films. And he also did The Day the Earth... He sure did. He sure did. And a couple of little films called West Side Story and The Sound of Music.
Starting point is 00:21:27 There was something funny that we had on the show before. Like the movie he did right before West Side Story was some really low budget something. Do you remember that? Robert Wise? Yeah, I think so. I know. He made some good pictures. The setup.
Starting point is 00:21:39 It's a good movie. Whenever I worked, I think it's at Paramount. I know they have like a bungalow that's the Rapid Wise. That's cool. Yeah. I had the pleasure of meeting him in film school. Oh, wow. Richard Attenborough, Steve McQueen, Richard Crenna, an actor we like to talk about.
Starting point is 00:21:58 Simon Oakland, another actor we like to talk about. Oh, my God. And Mako, M-A-K-O. Oh, she was in that. I think he's a he, Mako. He's a Japanese actor. Or Mako. I don't want to say Mako because he sounds like a muffler.
Starting point is 00:22:12 Okay. I know what Robert Wise directed. I think The Creature from the Black Lagoon. No. No? Who was that? No, somebody else. But I think The Creature from the Black Lagoon may have had music from Henry
Starting point is 00:22:25 Mancini. That's good stuff. He used to write a lot of cheap science fiction music early on. Oh, that's right. We established that. Let's wrap this up. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Oh, my God. The third highest grossing film of
Starting point is 00:22:41 1966. Man, that was a good year. Yeah. Again, George Segal. Mike Nichols. Love that picture. That's a desperately sick lie. Oh, yes. Your Burton is good. Yeah. Another George Roy
Starting point is 00:22:56 Hill picture. Julie Andrews, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman, Carol O'Connor. Oh, but wait. And also he goes, and one boy with a gangster father who, he went to a speakeasy and we would all have a drink and he ordered Bergen, Bergen and water. And then we would hear this and we'd laugh. And then everyone in the store,
Starting point is 00:23:31 everyone in the speakeasy would start ordering Bergen. Bergen and water. I love it. It's a little Sydney Green Street. Yeah. I love talking to a man who likes to talk. Name this film, Gilbert. It was the second highest grossing film of the year.
Starting point is 00:23:52 Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman, Carol O'Connor. Directed by George Roy Hill. Called Hawaii. Oh, I remember when that came out. Never saw it. United Artists. Yeah. I've never seen it either, but what a cast.
Starting point is 00:24:09 I really should see everything Hackman's in. Again, scored by the great Elmer Bernstein. And last but not least, what do you think was the number one highest grossing film 50 years ago in the year 1966, our favorite year in pop culture history. I'll give you a hint. I'm going to read you the cast. Michael Parks played Adam. Ola Burgrid played Eve.
Starting point is 00:24:35 Richard Harris played Cain. John Huston played Noah. Was this the Bible? The Bible. Wow. In the beginning. I read the book. Really?
Starting point is 00:24:45 Don't tell me how it ends. Let me just correct the... Go ahead. If anybody cares, The Creature from the Black Lagoon is directed by Jack Arnold. There you go. I said it. You said it already? Yeah. You said somebody else. And then I said Jack Arnold. Okay. This was
Starting point is 00:25:01 some cast. Ava Gardner played Sarah, George C. Scott, Stephen Boyd, and then everybody else is Italian. Gianluigi Crescenzi, Maria Grazia Spina. It was an Italian Hollywood co-production because Dino De Laurentiis. Oh, my God. Was the producer. Has anybody seen the Bible?
Starting point is 00:25:24 No. I heard Dino De Laurentiis, when he was making the new King Kong, that horrible, horrible King Kong. Sure, that's a bad one. Although I love Grodin in it. Oh, he sounds like he's doing a Jack Benny. He's chewing scenery and having fun and probably doing Jack Benny, yeah. And I heard that De Laurentiis said, nobody cries when Joss dies.
Starting point is 00:25:52 That's right. Everybody going to cry when Kang dies. I think there's an SNL sketch with Belushi as Dino De Laurentiis saying that very dialogue. Oh, wow. Yeah. And, of course, we had Joe Dante on the show, and he was talking about Orca. Oh, yes. Orca the killer whale.
Starting point is 00:26:12 Orca's on land. With Bo Derek. Right. But Dino was pitching Dante, as if I have the story correct, some version of Orca where he gets on land. He's like, Orca going crazy, kill everybody. He's going to kill everybody. Dino De Laurentiis.
Starting point is 00:26:31 Never thinking about like, well, how does he actually get around that line? This is the last great piece of trivia here on the Bible. Houston, who directed the picture, John Houston of all people, originally considered Alec Guinness, who was unavailable for the role of Noah, and Charlie Chaplin, who declined. Oh. Now, doesn't seeing Charlie Chaplin as Noah take you right out of the movie? Oh, my God. Does he do it in the derby?
Starting point is 00:26:58 It's one of those you wish they had made. Yeah. Is he just like the, why not just do the story of mankind again and cast Harpo as Isaac Newton? Imagine that. You're watching this biblical epic
Starting point is 00:27:10 and Chaplin shows up. And his part would be silent. As Noah. It's a very original conception of the film. I'll tell you, that King Kong movie
Starting point is 00:27:20 is so bad. Oh, horrible. Rick Baker in the suit, I think, is fun. I know. Yeah, we should talk to Rick Baker. But also, Rene Abujunwa is in that movie. Oh, my God, yes.
Starting point is 00:27:30 Who I love. You just like to say it. I do, and I want to get him on the show. That is a truly bad film. Oh, yeah? But it's a testament to the quality of the acting, the talent of Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges, that they emerge basically unscathed. Because that thing
Starting point is 00:27:47 is a ship on fire. It's beyond shit. Yeah. That was early in Jessica Lange's career. Was that her first movie? I think it's her first part. Well, she's, yeah, I got to know the year. She's in all that jazz. What's also creepy now
Starting point is 00:28:03 is in the posters and the final scene has to do with the world trade scene. Right, right, right. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's bad. Whatever was charming and delightful and innovative about King Kong in 33 is completely lost. It is so, so bad.
Starting point is 00:28:21 Although, and we'll have to get Mr. And Ed Lauder's in it. Remember that actor? Oh, my God, yes. and we'll have to get Mr. Skin. And Ed Lauder's in it. Remember that actor? Oh, my God, yes. Ed Lauder. Another good crowd. He was in Death Wish 3. Yep.
Starting point is 00:28:31 Another great character actor who died recently. And I think we'll have to get Mr. Skin in or just look her up. I think there are some scenes you accidentally see Jessica Lange's breasts when she's showering herself. Well, now there's a reason to go back and watch Game Con. Maybe it's not as bad as we thought. I do like Rodan, who's just acting as if he's in an SNL skit. And maybe he was. I think he probably knew this is a piece of shit.
Starting point is 00:29:02 I don't care. He twirls his mustache. Oh, yes. For two and a half hours. He's like, you know, chewing the scenery. Well, that's 1966. That's the top 25. That was a hell of a year.
Starting point is 00:29:15 Grossing films of 1966. And you want to take us out to dinner? Oh, okay. Did you want to sing the theme song from the Bible before we? Just let Charlie Chaplin as Noah be your last waking thought as you fall asleep tonight. And Harry Ritz as Methuselah. Ritz. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:29:43 And Fatty Arbuckle as the Virgin Mary. Exactly. Max Swain. Okay. This has been Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal Obsessions. I'm drained. See you next time. Thanks, Paul. Thanks, Frank. Here we go boys 1, 2, 3, 4
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