Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
188 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsYour hosts Dan and Vicky take you on a hot date through movie history. They'll choose a random month, day and year and pick a favorite movie released on or near that date. It could be a love fest, it could get heated or it could turn into a threesome! Take a wild and funny ride in Dan and Vicky's movie time machine. You're invited on their Hot Date!
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Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead (Episode 137) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
October 15, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 129 MBA star studded cast highlights the crime drama Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, director Gary Fleder and screenwriter Scott Rosenberg's entry in the 1990's spate of talky neo noir thrillers. This is has Andy Garcia, Treat Williams, Christopher Walken, Fairuza Balk, Christopher Lloyd, Bill Nunn, William Forsythe, Josh Charles, Jack Warden, Steve Buscemi, and Gabrielle Anwar. Dan and Vicky discuss the film and it's unfair reputation as a Pulp Fiction clone. They also talk the Tony ...
Blood of the Vampire (Episode 136) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
October 01, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 133 MB1958's Blood of the Vampire had all the earmarks of a Hammer film without actually being one. Hammer regular Jimmy Sangster was brought in to write the script. The film very much echoed the style and flair of a Hammer film. And Hammer actress Barbara Shelley (Dracula, Prince of Darkness, Rasputin, Quatermass and the Pit) plays the female lead. It didn't fool British movie goers however where the film was less successful but found a healthy audience in the US where it ran for years on dou...
Darling (Episode 135) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
September 10, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBDan and Vicky chose the random Hot Date of August 21, 1965 and decided on the film Darling starring Julie Christie, in her Oscar winning lead performance, and Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey as the two men vying for her attention. Directed by John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Sunday, Bloody Sunday), it's a first time watch for our hosts. Along with the main feature, Dan and Vicky talk about some recently seen including The Night House, Don't Breathe 2, 1990's Wild at Heart, Free Guy, Pr...
Street Smart (Episode 134) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
August 27, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 143 MBA passion project for star Christopher Reeve, 1987's Street Smart became instead the auspicious introduction of film audiences to Morgan Freeman and Kathy Baker. Freeman, mostly known for his four years on PBS's Electric Company and a successful theater career, stepped into the spotlight and received an Oscar nomination for his work as vicious pimp Fast Black. Baker, also a renowned theater actress, gained notice in the film The Right Stuff before breaking out as Street Smart's sympathetic...
Rollercoaster (Episode 133) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
August 06, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 120 MBTwo years after having the biggest blockbuster to date with Jaws and three years after the successful disaster pick Earthquake, Universal Studios pulled out all the stops with Rollercoaster, hoping to duplicate the earlier films' box office. They doubled down on Sensurround, the innovative sound system that immersed audiences in every creak, rumble and woosh of the titular ride and hired 70's everyman George Segal as the lead. The movie, however, did not connect with audiences, and was ea...
The Blue Angel (Episode 132) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
July 23, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 165 MBDirector Josef von Sternberg was lured back to Eastern Europe from Hollywood in 1930 by producer Erich Pommer to direct a film about mad Russian monk and con man Rasputin. Sternberg set his sights instead on an adaptation of the novel Professor Unrath by Heinrich Mann. He cast Oscar winner Emil Jannings in the title role and discovered his leading lady, Marlene Dietrich, singing in a local Berlin club, was instantly taken by her and offered her the role. Dan and Vicky discuss this clas...
Street Scene (Episode 131) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
July 09, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 159 MBProducer Samuel Goldwyn wanted to populate his film of Elmer Rice's play Street Scene with a mix of actors from the hit Broadway production and Hollywood. To play the lead Rose, Goldwyn had Nancy Carroll in mind. Signed to Paramount, the studio's managing director Bud Schulberg, would not give Carroll up for the film, instead suggesting Sylvia Sidney for the part. Sidney, also Schulberg's mistress, nonetheless turned out to be inspired casting for the role and anchors the ensemble with he...
It's A Crime - Top Ten True Crime Films (Episode 130) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
June 18, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 164 MBMurder, kidnapping, revenge, sex and love gone wrong. All the subjects, and more, of some of the greatest films based on true crime events. And all getting a Spotlight, wink, on Hot Date's latest Top Ten episode. We cover some of our favorite films based on and inspired by true events. You'll hear about some classic titles but also ones that you may be new to you. So check the alarm system, get your mace, and hide the jewels cuz these films will steal more than your heart. Along with...
One Night In Miami (Episode 129) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
June 04, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 147 MBOscar winning actress Regina King directs One Night in Miami, a fictionalized account of the meeting in 1964, post the Clay/Liston fight, between Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and Malcolm X. It is adapted by Kemp Power from his own play of the same name. Kemp made history himself as the first African-American to co-write and direct a Disney animated feature with 2018's Soul. Dan and Vicky cover their first film released during the pandemic with One Night in Miami. They also discus...
Love And A .45 (Episode 128) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
May 21, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 157 MB1994 was a very busy time for 25 year old future Oscar winner Renee Zellweger. She found work in six films that year - everything from a Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel to grunge classics Reality Bites and Dazed and Confused. But it was Love And A .45 that gave her the opportunity to play her first lead role. The lovers on the lam film also boasted the varied talents of Ally McBeal heartthrob Gil Bellows, Peter Fonda, ReAnimator's Jeffrey Combs, Rory Cochrane and David Lynch regular Jack N...
No Questions Asked (Episode 127) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
May 05, 2021 03:21 - 1 hour - 148 MBThe 1951 noir No Questions Asked was a rarity for MGM. The studio, mainly know for epics and musicals, steered clear of edgier material. But when producer Dore Schary became head of production he had a clear goal of reproducing the success he had at RKO and rushed several noirs into production, the first being the New York set No Questions Asked. The film stars Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, Jean Hagen and George Murphy. Dan and Vicky discuss the forgotten thriller along with some recen...
Tampopo (Episode 126) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
April 16, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 165 MBJuzo Itami's 1985 film Tampopo, about one woman's search for the perfect ramen recipe, has become so popular over the years that the restaurant industry around the world adopted it's name for many of it's own ramen and Japanese establishments. The film teams the director with his real life wife Nobuko Miyamoto, along with Kurosawa regular Tsutomu Yamazaki and Ken Watanabe, who would go on to be one of the most bankable Japanese actors around the world. Dan and Vicky discuss the culinary c...
Ode To Billy Joe (Episode 125) - Hot Dat with Dan and Vicky
April 02, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 157 MBBased on the popular folk song of the same name by Mississippi born singer Bobbie Gentry, Ode to Billy Joe was a huge hit when released in the summer of 1976. The film was the brainchild of Max Baer Jr., best known for playing Jethro Bodine in the popular 60's sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. When acting jobs became scarce after the cancellation of the show Baer put his focus on film production and made and starred in what was thought to be the most successful independent film of all time, ...
What A Carve Up! (Episode 124) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
March 19, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBThe obscure 1962 film What A Carve Up!, retitled No Place Like Homicide! for it's American release, brings British comedians Sidney James and Kenneth Connor together in a comedy thriller with touches of vaudeville revue and murder mystery. James was UK comedy royalty having been the star of the successful Carry On series of films while Connor first found success in radio and later joined James in the Carry On franchise. Here they're bumbling buddies hoping to claim an inheritance while not...
High Life (Episode 123) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
March 05, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 184 MBRenowned French director Claire Denis was shooting her dour thriller High Life while nursing her dying mother. She credits the real life tragedy in her life for the somber, sometimes oppressive feeling that pervades the film. It stars Robert Pattinson and an international cast including Juliette Binoche (a Denis regular), Mia Goth, Andre (3000) Benjamin, and Lars Eidinger and was Denis's first English language film and her second true attempt at genre after 2001's vampire drama Trouble Ever...
Secret of the Blue Room (Episode 22) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
February 19, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 129 MBShot in 6 days for the super stingy price tag of $69,000, Kurt Neumann's Secret of the Blue Room, a remake itself of a German film, was enough of a success for Universal Pictures that they remade it twice in the span of eleven years. Once in 1938 as a semi-comedy called The Missing Guest and again in 1944 as a musical called Murder in the Blue Room. Dan and Vicky discuss this often forgotten thriller in Universal's 1930's spate of horror and suspense output. They also talk about recentl...
The Last Passenger (Episode 122) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
February 05, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 142 MB2014's The Last Passenger was the feature directorial debut of British filmmaker Omid Nooshin and tragically his last. After a long battle with depression, the ambitious and talented director, who was rumored to have snuck his way onto the sets of Eyes Wide Shut and Star Wars: Phantom Menace to observe filming, committed suicide in early 2018, leaving a wife and young child. National Suicide Prevention Hotline : 800-273-8255. https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ Dan and Vicky discuss t...
Top Ten Funny Men (Episode 120) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
January 22, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 178 MBHot Date has reached another Top Ten episode - just what we do here every tenth podcast - and this time Dan and Vicky discuss their favorite all time male comedic film performances. Spanning movies from the 20's to the 2000's, we hope you'll have a chuckle recalling these very funny men. No names revealed here. You'll have to listen to Hot Date 120! Your hosts will also get into lots of recently seen including some early Hitchcock, some screamers from Shudder, classic noirs and a few TV...
Under Milk Wood (Episode 119) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
December 31, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 149 MBHere we are at the end of 2020 taking stock of the strange and intense year that was. There's lots of introspection, reflection, and depression happening. So does Hot Date have the movie for you! 1973's Under Milk Wood, starring Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Elizabeth Taylor, Glynis Johns, and a bevy of wonderful British character actors, is a film adaptation of Welsh writer Dylan Thomas's tone poem. Dan and Vicky ring in the New Year with a discussion of this forgotten and unique exp...
The Blue Gardenia (Episode 118) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
December 18, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBBy all accounts a job for hire, The Blue Gardenia nonetheless benefited from having German director Fritz Lang at the helm. On a tight 21 day shooting schedule, Lang and cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca came up with shooting techniques that would save time while also contributing a sense of suffocating paranoia and intensity. They are aided enormously by an able cast led by Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern and Raymond Burr and classed up musically be the appearance of Nat King Cole...
Trollhunter (Episode 117) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
December 04, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBBefore Norwegian filmmaker Andre Øvredal found acclaim with his festival fave The Autopsy of Jane Doe and box office clout with 2019's teen horror hit Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, he wrote and directed 2011's Trollhunter which won him acclaim both at home and around the world. The found footage fantasy follows a group of college journalists getting to the bottom of Norway's best kept secret - the government sanctioned hunting of real live trolls! Dan and Vicky discuss the quirky fi...
Don't Answer The Phone (Episode 116) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
November 20, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 130 MBOriginally a screenplay titled Nightline, 1980's Don't Answer The Phone was shot under the title The Hollywood Strangler - perhaps a nod to director Robert Hammer's stated purpose to make a film exploring the proliferation of serial killers in the 1970's. The eventual title was a bid to get the audiences that had made 1979's phone themed thriller When A Stranger Calls a success. Dan and Vicky discuss this notorious early eighties cheapie along with a bunch of recently seen including The O...
Jewel Robbery (Episode 115) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
November 06, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 122 MBReleased in 1932, Jewel Robbery flaunted the sexual chemistry between it's two leads, introduced marijuana as a comedic motif and had it's debonair criminal escape police capture at the end -- all things that wouldn't have been allowed only a few years later under the restrictive Hayes code. The film stars William Powell and Kay Francis - their sixth film appearance together -- and is ably directed by William Dieterle (The Life of Emile Zola). Dan and Vicky discuss the film and lots of re...
The Haunted Strangler (Episode 114) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
October 23, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBAt 73, Boris Karloff was looking for material that would finally give him the chance to show his range as a performer. He knew he couldn't escape his reputation as a reliable box office horror star but he hoped for a role that would allow him to play more than the sympathetic monster. 1958's The Haunted Strangler, written for the actor by friend Jan Read, gave him that opportunity -- partly. Dan and Vicky pay tribute to Karloff and this film, one many consider to be his best. They also...
By Night's End (Bonus Episode) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
October 06, 2020 17:00 - 29 minutes - 55.5 MBCourtesy of TriCoast Entertainment, Dan and Vicky review By Night's End from director Walker Whited. The home invasion thriller, co-written by Whited and Sean McCane, stars Michelle Rose and Kurt Yue as a couple in trauma facing financial ruin and deep personal loss. A violent intruder unknowingly offers them a way out but they must first fend off the intruder's cronies and survive the night. By Night's End hits on demand services (Amazon, iTunes, DirecTV, FlixFling, Google Play, Vudu ...
Mary Queen of Scots (Episode 113) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
October 02, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBYour Hot Date hosts travel back in time to 1561 and the tumultuous return of Mary Queen of Scots from France to stake her claim to the English crown from her cousin Queen Elizabeth. It's a story of sex, religious intolerance, and female empowerment told by two of the world's rising stars in Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronin, fledgling film director with a background in British theater Josie Rourke and House of Cards creator Beau Willimon. Along with the Oscar nominated 2018 film Mary Quee...
The Crime of Helen Stanley (Episode 112) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
September 18, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 118 MBAt just under an hour, the 1934 murder mystery The Crime of Helen Stanley hardly overstays it's welcome. It was the fourth film in the Inspector Steve Trent series with Ralph Bellamy playing the always able and ready gumshoe. This time he's investigating the murder of a famous, and infamous, movie actress who leaves a trail of suspects in her wake. Fitting that the shortest movie they've every discussed yields Hot Date's shortest podcast. But it's still jam packed with lots of recently s...
Dealin' With Idiots (Episode 111) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
September 04, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 117 MBSOUND QUALITY ALERT: THERE WAS AN UNFORTUNATE HUMAN ERROR IN THE RECORDING OF EPISODE 111. WE'D FIRE THE SOUND TECHNICIAN BUT HE'S ALSO YOUR CO-HOST. SINCEREST APOLOGIES. HOPE THE SOUND ISSUE DOESN'T DETRACT TOO MUCH FROM YOUR ENJOYMENT OF HOT DATE 111. Dan 2013's indie comedy Dealin' With Idiots was a passion project for actor Jeff Garlin (Curb Your Enthusiasm). Directed, co-written and produced by Garlin, the film employs the talents of comedic all-stars Fed Willard, Bob Odenk...
Top Ten Favorites of the 80's (Episode 110) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
August 14, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 179 MBThe Me First Decade. The Decade of Greed. The Yuppie Decade. There are many names for the 1980's. But the decade also represented an eclectic one for movies. It was the decade that Hollywood really leaned in to the blockbuster after the successes of Jaws and Star Wars in the 70's. It was the decade of bad hair and bad fashion. It was the decade the film tastes of your Hot Date podcast hosts took hold. So for their next Top Ten episode, Dan and Vicky countdown their lists of their ...
Baron Blood (Episode 109) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
July 17, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBFor 1972's Baron Blood, director Mario Bava brought together the talents of some of the era's greatest genre stars and designers. German actress Elke Sommer played the female lead and would do so again in Bava's Lisa and the Devil. Future Oscar winner Carlo Rambaldi provided the gory make-up. Bava fave Stelvio Cipriani composed the sometimes jaunty, sometimes dramatic music. And American Joseph Cotten stepped in when Vincent Price turned down the pivotal role of Alfred Becker. Dan and...
Narc (Episode 108) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
July 03, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBFor it's assured visual style and performances from Ray Liotta and Jason Patric, Joe Carnahan's Narc was the talk of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and putting Carnahan securely on Hollywood's radar. The film, co-produced by Liotta and his wife and snapped up by Tom Cruise and partner Paula Wagner for distribution, was set in Detroit but shot mostly in Toronto. Dan and Vicky look at the gritty procedural along with an eclectic mix of recently seen...
Becky Sharp (Episode 107) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
June 26, 2020 18:54 - 1 hour - 96.4 MBOur original episode 107 was lost to the sound gods so we've kept the Hot Date chosen at the end of that podcast and move forward with the Vanity Fair adaptation Becky Sharp from 1935 starring Miriam Hopkins and directed by Rouben Mamoulian. The film was the very first to employ the three strip Technicolor process which allowed for the full spectrum of color to be represented on film. Your podcast hosts, recording remotely after weeks of sound issues, check in on each other during the co...
Wristcutters: A Love Story (Episode 106) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
May 30, 2020 21:16 - 1 hour - 103 MBPlease excuse our sound issues during this episode. We hope it doesn't detract from your enjoyment of it. Not your typical romantic comedy, director Goran Dukic's Wristcutters: A Love Story, based on Etgar Keret's short story "Kneller's Happy Campers," imagines an afterlife reserved for suicide victims trying to find meaning and acceptance. Starring Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham, Shannyn Sossaman and Tom Waits, the film was the darling of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was released na...
Foreign Correspondent (Episode 105) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
May 01, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 95.6 MBDespite the success of his Daphne Du Maurier adaptation Rebecca, Alfred Hitchcock thought the film too sentimental and romantic and longed to return to the type of sharp thriller that had made his reputation around the world. With 1940's he found that film in Foreign Correspondent, a globe hopping World War II adventure that starts with a horrifying murder on the steps of the Amsterdam Parliament and ends with one of the most visceral plane crashes ever captured on film. Dan and Vicky get...
Orpheus (Episode 104) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
April 17, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 32.4 MBIt's hard to imagine any cast being better than the one director Jean Cocteau eventually assembled for his 1950 loose film adaptation of the Orpheus myth. But there are stories that Cocteau offered the part of the princess, played to icy perfection by Maria Casares, to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. Both turned him down. French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont also claimed that Cocteau had him and his wife Maria Montez in mind for the leads, a claim that the director refutes. And there must ha...
My Cousin Rachel (Episode 103) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
April 03, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 89.7 MBNOTE: In trying to accommodate necessary social distancing, this week's podcast was recorded with Vicky calling in via Zoom. We apologize in advance for the sound quality and hope to get better at remote recording! Enjoy and stay safe everyone. The work of Daphne du Maurier has been adapted many times for the screen, most notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940's Rebecca and 1964's The Birds. Lesser known among her stories is My Cousin Rachel, which nonetheless has gotten two films adaptat...
Oldboy (Episode 102) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
March 20, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 97.5 MBPlease note that Hot Date 102 was recorded BEFORE the Covid-19 pandemic hit crisis levels. Our discussion of it reflects that moment in time. We encourage all our listeners to follow the guidelines set forth by health officials about washing hands thoroughly and often, social distancing and staying home if you feel sick. Safe and healthy listening everyone! Based on a Japanese comic of the same name, Park Chan-wook's Oldboy is South Korean cinema at it's boldest, most visceral and most e...
Cottage To Let (Episode 101) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
March 06, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 93 MB1941's Cottage To Let started life as a play in London's West End. It was a huge hit and film director Anthony Asquith (Browning Version, Pygmalion, The Importance of Being Earnest) did well to cast young actor George Cole and former Scrooge Alistair Sim who had appeared in the play -- they're the two most interesting characters. But the cast is full of British screen and theater pros including Leslie Banks, John Mills, Michael Wilding and Jeanne De Casalis. Dan and Vicky share their lov...
100 Shows of Hot-itude (Episode 100) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
February 07, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 151 MBHot Date with Dan and Vicky hits it's 100th episode with a look back at the podcasts that made us. Your hosts choose their ten favorite films discovered (or rediscovered) doing the podcast for the last almost five years! It's a trip down memory lane with some amazing titles from filmmakers like J. Lee Thompson, Akira Kurosawa and Sidney Lumet! Also on hand are two VERY special guests, Hot Date super fans, to tell us their favorite selections from the roughly 99 films we've covered. As an...
Criminal Lovers (Episode 99) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
December 25, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 99.1 MBFrench provocateur Francois Ozon's uses the frame work of fairy tale Hansel and Gretel to tell his violent and twisted story of Luc and Alice, a young murderous couple on the run who find more than they bargained for in an isolated cabin in the woods. The homophonically named Natacha Regnier and Jeremy Renier play the doomed lovers. Dan and Vicky discuss the intense and difficult Criminal Lovers as their final film before episode 100! In the recently seen section of the podcast, they dis...
A Day At The Races (Episode 98) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
December 13, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBThere were so many variables in bringing the nearly two hour Marx Brothers classic A Day At The Races to the screen -- translating tried and tested vaudevillian acts while maintaining a satisfying story arc, shooting on a real racetrack with real horses, keeping the peace between novice comedy director Sam Wood and the cast -- that lawsuits were almost a given. The one that actually went to court was the case of a Marx Brothers fan who suggested in a fan letter that the Brothers should run ...
To Be Or Not To Be (Episode 97) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
November 29, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 92.3 MBErnst Lubitsch left his native Germany in 1922 as an ambitious 30 year old looking to make his mark in American movies. With the help of Hollywood royalty like Mary Pickford, he was soon embarking on an eclectic career directing everything from musicals to serious dramas. With the comedy To Be Or Not To Be, Lubitsch had a chance to comment on the horrors of Nazism in his homeland while making people laugh. He did both perhaps too well. Audiences had a hard time reconciling their feelings...
The Fits (Episode 96) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
November 15, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBYoung actress Royalty Hightower had never acted before being cast in director Anna Rose Holmer's drama The Fits. She was, however, an experienced dancer; a skill she then had to unlearn to play the tomboy Toni who discovers a love of dance in the film. Director Holmer was also taking on a new skill; The Fits was her narrative storytelling debut although her extensive background in documentary film no doubt helped in making the film feel so spontaneous and captured in the moment. Dan and ...
The Strange Door (Episode 95) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
October 25, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 90.5 MB1951's The Strange Door had the talents of Charles Laughton in the lead but Universal hung their hopes on Boris Karloff to bring audiences in despite Karloff's smaller supporting role. His name and photo appear prominently in all the advertising as does Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote the short story the film is based on. Stevenson and Karloff had had a previous success in 1945 with the film The Body Snatcher. Your hosts Dan and Vicky discuss the Joseph Pevney directed horror thrille...
Carmen Jones (Episode 94) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
October 11, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 99.3 MBRe-imagined to the American South during the post war era, the film version of Oscar Hammerstein's Broadway musical Carmen Jones was revolutionary to audiences, particularly white audiences, who had never seen a film completely populated by African-American actors. Director Otto Preminger wanted to use this rare opportunity to convey to a racially divided country that the African-American experience was a relatable and important one to display on movie screens. With stars Dorothy Dandridge...
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Episode 93) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
September 27, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 98.8 MBFrom the fertile imagination of Terry Gilliam comes The Adventures of Baron Munchausen from 1989 but it wasn't without it's share of near catastrophes. A Ballooning budget, dangerous working situations and a regime change at Columbia Pictures nearly scuttled Gilliam's attempt to put the much embellished exploits of German adventurer Hieronymus Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Münchhausen on screen. After completing the film, Columbia released it in Germany first and then dumped it into a few US ...
Pickpocket (Episode 92) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
September 06, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 99 MBRobert Bresson, director of this week's Pickpocket and numerous films that helped define the French New Wave, was known to be a task master on set. In his search for absolute separation of art from artifice, he demanded his actors strip away all affectation and just deliver their lines simply and rotely. This often required as many as fifty takes of a single shot or scene! Dan and Vicky discuss the film that inspired a generation of filmmakers from Schrader to Scorsese to Soderbergh. Ou...
Hard Times (Episode 91) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
August 27, 2019 02:47 - 1 hour - 103 MBDirector Walter Hill had his hands full on the set of his 1975 directorial debut Hard Times. He had cast Charles Bronson in the lead role of Chaney, a boxer who says little but can knock a man out with one punch, only to find that the actor could be angry and reclusive on set. James Coburn took the part of Speed, Chaney's manager, but resented playing second fiddle to Bronson and showed it on set. And third starring Strother Martin also tested Hill's patience by playing the eccentric docto...
'Cause This is Thrillers! - Top Ten Psycho Thrillers (Episode 90) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
August 09, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBHot Date has reached episode 90 and that means hosts Dan and Vicky come up with another Top Ten movie list. This time, the topic is psychological thrillers and it's scary how many great films your hosts dig up. You'll hear about movies from classic thriller directors from Hitchcock to Polanski to Fincher and international white knucklers from France, Mexico and England. Movies guaranteed to send a chill up your spine and get your heartbeat racing. It's been almost two months since Dan ...
The Harvey Girls (Episode 89) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
July 05, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 96 MBEven before director George Sidney and stars Judy Garland, John Hodiak and Angela Lansbury finished shooting 1946's The Harvey Girls, it's signature song, On The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe, was burning up the music charts in the summer and fall of 1945. No fewer than six artists recorded the song, the most successful being the version created by Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers. It's no wonder than that the scene in the film that introduces the song is one of the longest and most co...