Week 48: Watch Out, Baby…It’s Eddie Constantine

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Eddie Constantine, Jean Luc Godard, Jess Franco, Jesus Franco Manera, neo-noir, tough guy cinema, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast

A Russian-Pole cabaret singer and contemporary (and collaborator!) of Edith Piaf, Eddie Constantine made his fame in the bohemian Left Bank of Paris…first as a proto-Serge Gainsbourg chanteur…but more famously, as the unlikely star of a long running series of generally hard boiled neo-noir (but just as often, self-mocking and comedically oriented!) crime pictures.

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Week 44: The First Gay Action Hero? George Nader and the films of Jerry Cotton

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Edgar Wallace, Eurospy cinema, George Nader, Harald Reinl, Jerry Cotton, krimi, Peter Thomas, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast

Groomed as a potential leading man and heartthrob for the Hollywood studio system of the 1950s, George Nader went from a debut in an acknowledged camp classic (Robot Monster) through roles alongside the likes of Tony Curtis, Maureen O’Hara, Esther Williams, Hedy Lamarr and John Saxon, eventually winding up in the career-defining role of FBI G-man Jerry Cotton in an unforgettable series of two fisted German action films that drew equally from the Bondian excess of the Eurospy craze and the wild and wooly vibe of the Edgar Wallace krimi.

Week 42b: Revisiting Bond: the Finale

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Daniel Craig, James Bond, Pierce Brosnan, Roger Moore, Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast, Woody Allen

And here you thought you heard it all the first time around…

The long awaited finale to Week 42’s incomplete revisitation of Bond covering everything from Never Say Never Again through Spectre…and even a little more!

The last gasps of Connery and Moore! Dalton! Brosnan! Craig!

Hell, there’s even a nod to both versions of Casino Royale…

Week 25: Lights! Camera! and a whole lot of Action!

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Breakin', Cannon films, Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris, Golan Globus, Michael Dudikoff, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast

Starting life as a low end distributor of Joe Sarno’s Swedish-era softcore epics, the advent of Menachem Golan and Yoram Globus elevated Cannon films to the top tier of cult cinema, specifically in terms of action films!

Week 19: Fight the Power!

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Bernie Casey, Blaxploitation, D'Urville Martin, Duane Jones, Fred the Hammer Williamson, Gloria Hendry, Isaac Hayes, Jim Kelly, Marlene Clark, Max Julien, Pam Grier, Richard Roundtree, Ron O'Neal, Tamara Dobson, Thalmus Rasulala, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast, William Marshall, Yaphet Kotto

Tonight, we’re gettin’ down and taking on The Man!

One of the most consistently entertaining of genres, the blaxploitation film was an ersatz lovechild of the civil rights movement, often helmed and produced by established white directors (Jack Hill, Greydon Clark) but tailored to inner city urban audiences.