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The OETA Movie Club Podcast is a deep dive into the classic films shown every Saturday night at 9 pm on OETA Movie Club. Join hosts Robert Burch and Jeff Morava as they share all the little-known movie facts and trivia, and movie knowledge that only our own Robert Burch seems to know. OETA Movie Club has been a Saturday night staple on OETA for more than 30 years. We are thrilled to be bringing you a weekly podcast for our dedicated fans and movie lovers across Oklahoma. Listen with fresh popcorn!
Rebel Without a Cause
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminally ill father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
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A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
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Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
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Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier, documents the tense interactions between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).
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The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.
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A star-pilot for hire and his trusty half-dog sidekick must come to the rescue of a spoiled princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.
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Anchors Aweigh:
A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
On the Town:
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
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Follows Lucy and Desi as they face a crisis that could end their careers--and another that could end their marriage.
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A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
Starring Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor
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In Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accidentally kills a member of the other.
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The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
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A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
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A Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, but it's not long before he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
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An all-star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.
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A Mighty Wind:
Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter.
Hoosiers:
A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small-town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship in 1950s Indiana.
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Neil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.
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Young lovers, and soon to wed, Hero and Claudio conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Benedick and Beatrice, to wed as well.
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Casablanca
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
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Love Affair
Two people meet on a flight to Sydney. Although both are engaged to others, they fall in love during their evacuation after a forced landing and agree to meet in New York City three months later if the attraction lasts.
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A fictional account of one incredible night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural upheaval of the 60s.
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Allied officers in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II make a daring plan for a mass escape by hundreds of POWs hoping to draw German personnel and resources away from combat operations.
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Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.
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Private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.
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Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.
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A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.
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Emma:
While matchmaking for friends and neighbors, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.
Mans Field Park:
Fanny, born into a poor family, is sent away to live with wealthy uncle Sir Thomas, his wife and their four children, where she'll be brought up for a proper introduction to society.
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At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.
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Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier, documents the tense interactions between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).
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A couple search for each other years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they'd end up together.
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A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
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Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family.
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Original 1956 black & white version
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
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Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up. Based on the board game.
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2005 version
A widowed Coast Guard Admiral and a widowed handbag designer fall in love and marry, much to the dismay of his 8 and her 10 children.
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Instead of coming in from field work during the Cold War and taking a desk job, British intelligence agent Alec Leamas chooses to take on another assignment.
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The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students, who wants to search through his papers, and her estranged sister, who shows up to help settle his affairs.
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During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
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Linguist Louise Banks leads a team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors.
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"Letters to Juliet"
Sophie travels to Verona where she finds an old unanswered letter asking for love advice. She answers it and when the recipient shows up along with her grumpy grandson, they head off to find the old long lost love while a young love sparks
"Some Like it Hot"
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
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A wily Roman slave schemes to earn his freedom by romantically uniting his master with a courtesan. But matters get complicated and he ends up dragging in his neighbors around him, leading to chaos.
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Barely 17 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.
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1988
A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
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1980
After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
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A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train.
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Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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An English Duke from 1876 is inadvertently dragged to modern day New York where he falls for a plucky advertising executive.
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Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.
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The Magnificent Seven:
Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.
The Great Train Robbery:
England, 1850s. A master criminal aims to rob a train of a large sum of gold. Security is incredibly tight and the task seems an impossible one. However, he has a plan and just the right people to carry it out.
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When Sebastian, a pianist, and Mia, an actress, follow their passion and achieve success in their respective fields, they find themselves torn between their love for each other and their careers.
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In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
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A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was revered for her extravagant political and personal life.
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Four English women, after World War I, who are unhappy with their lives, and their time away on vacation in a beautiful Italian villa.
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When an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that.
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Several different motorists witness a single car crash in the California desert and, after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, turn against each other in a mad dash across the state to get to it.
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Benjamin Button, born in 1918 with the physical state of an elderly man, ages in reverse. He experiences love and break-ups, ecstasy and sorrow, and timelessness by the time he dies in 2003 as a baby.
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Lovely Bones centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
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A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
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A New Yorker newly separated from his wife moves in with his best friend, a divorced sportswriter, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day.
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The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. However, they also have to defend both Earth and the alien race from a reptilian warlord.
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An ambitious television soap actress connives with her producer to scuttle the career of the show's long-time star, but nothing works as they plan.
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A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
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The original 1970s TV family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever.
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A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
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New in Town
A Miami, Florida businesswoman adjusts to her new life in a small Minnesota town.
Pride
The determined Jim Ellis starts a swim team for troubled teens at the Philadelphia Department of Recreation.
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During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
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When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown, but their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil.
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Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.
A musical comedy from 2002.
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A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.
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Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American Midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
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In December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.
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When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.
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After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
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An insurance salesman is oblivious of the fact that his entire life is a TV show and his family members are mere actors. As he starts noticing things and uncovers the truth, he decides to escape.
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An unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.
Starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, and Winona Ryder.
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Moonstruck:
Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.
Bride and Prejudice:
A modern adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, that features the lives of four unmarried daughters in an Indian family.
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The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant.
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Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
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After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
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In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool the very proper barrister Archibald Leach.
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A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
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Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
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In 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
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A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation. Starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.
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Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
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Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems. Jeff and Robert sit down and talk all things "Terms of Endearment." From behind-the-scenes antics to little known trivia. We cover it all!
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Robert and Jeff settle in for a Double Feature. This week it's "Witness" and "Chinatown."
First up, "Witness." While protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.
Followed by, "Chinatown." A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
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Jeff & Robert sit down and discuss Eight Men Out. A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series. Starring John Cusack, D.B. Sweeney, and Charlie Sheen.
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A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome. Starring Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, and Eddie Albert. Written by Dalton Trumbo.
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This episode of The OETA Movie Club Podcast features "Funny Face" starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. An impromptu fashion shoot at a bookstore brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk. Jeff & Robert share the little-known trivia about this movie.
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Robert and Jeff sit down and discuss "Little Man Tate." A single mother raises a child prodigy on her own, struggling to give him every opportunity he needs to express his gift. It stars Jodie Foster and Dianne Wiest.
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Jeff and Robert discuss all the little-known trivia facts about "The Artist." This is a silent, black & white movie but don't let that scare you away. This Oscar winning movie is truly great. When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.
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This week Robert and Jeff talk about the 2016 academy award winning film Fences starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. A working-class African American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
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A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. Jeff and Robert sit down and discuss all things trivia and behind the scenes with A Place in the Sun.
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A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small-town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship in 1950s Indiana. Join Robert and Jeff for some behind the scenes gossip on Gene Hackman! Please listen wherever you get your podcasts and tune in each week Saturdays at 9pm and Fridays at 11pm on OETA!
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Robert and Jeff discuss "Lion". A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of miles from home. Twenty-five years later, he sets out to find his lost family. Starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. Check it out, learn some trivia, and listen each week wherever you get your podcasts. Also, find us Saturday nights at 9pm and Friday nights at 11pm on OETA!
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The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig starring Gary Cooper and Babe Ruth as himself. Robert and Jeff speak on the early days of baseball and how basically, the team owners and managers were jerks. They also throw in a few good trivia facts. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and tune in each Saturday at 9pm and Fridays at 11pm for great movies on OETA!
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A coming-of-age story set in the south of the U.S. when Elvis was King.
Join Robert and Jeff as they talk little known trivia facts from this film.
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Robert and Jeff discuss a double feature this week. It's Jack Black in School of Rock followed by Akeelah and the Bee. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and catch The OETA Movie Club on Saturdays at 9 pm on OETA.
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This week's special bonus episode is all about sequels! Which ones are the best and which ones are the worst according to our hosts? Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and catch The OETA Movie Club on Saturdays at 9 pm on OETA.
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This week's special bonus episode is all about hosts Robert Burch and Jeff Morava's favorite directors! Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and catch The OETA Movie Club on Saturdays at 9 pm on OETA.
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This week's special bonus episode is all about hosts Robert Burch and Jeff Morava's favorite films! Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and catch The OETA Movie Club on Saturdays at 9 pm on OETA.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Indiscreet (1958). Famous theater actress Anna Kalman (Ingrid Bergman) is living the single life, believing she has missed her chance at meeting a husband. Weary of socializing in Europe, she returns to her London flat, where her sister Margaret (Phyllis Calvert) and diplomat brother-in-law Alfred (Cecil Parker) invite her to a banquet. She hesitates until Alfred's banker friend, Philip Adams (Cary Grant), arrives and a flirtation begins.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Shane (1953). The mysterious gunslinger Shane (Alan Ladd) rides into a small town with hopes of settling down as a farmhand. After taking a job on Joe Starrett's (Van Heflin) farm, Shane is drawn into a battle between the people of the town and cattle baron Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer). Shane's fondness for Startett's son, Joey (Brandon de Wilde), forces Shane to realize t
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Guys and Dolls (1955). A compulsive New York gambler, Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), needs to stage a high-profile but illegal craps game before the police catch up to him. In the meantime, his criminal pal, the charming Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), attempts to forge an unlikely romance with straight-laced mission worker Sarah Brown (Jean Simmons).
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Birdcage (1996). In this remake of the classic French farce "La Cage aux Folles, a gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents. This comedy classic stars Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest in an ensemble cast.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Addams Family (1991). A man (Christopher Lloyd) asserting he is Uncle Fester, the missing brother of Gomez Addams (Raul Julia), arrives at the Addams' home, the family is ecstatic. However, Gomez's wife, Morticia (Anjelica Huston) begins to suspect the man is a fake. With the help of crook lawyer Tully Alford (Dan Hedaya), 'Fester' manages to get the Addams evicted from their home. Gomez soon realizes the two men are planning to steal the Addams fortune.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Sunset Boulevard (1950). An aging silent film actress refuses to accept that her Hollywood stardom has ended. She hires a screenwriter to help set up her comeback. The screenwriter believes he can manipulate her, but he soon finds out he is wrong.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Z for Zachariah (2015). Ann Burden (Margot Robbie) has been living a secluded life on her family farm, accepting that she may be the only survivor of an apocalyptic event that has been 'God's will.' One day, John Loomis (Chiwetel Ejiofor) stumbles into the valley in his failing anti-radiation suit. As Loomis slowly regains his strength, he becomes part of Ann's humble rustic life, and a bond develops between them.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Brothers Bloom (2008). Twenty-five years of swindling is too much for Bloom (Adrien Brody) and he wants to be done. However, his brother, Stephen (Mark Ruffalo), convinces him to do one final hustle, targeting a heiress named Penelope (Rachel Weisz).
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Eye of the Needle (1981). A ruthless German spy, Henry Faber (Donald Sutherland), is on his way back home from England after gathering information about the D-Day invasion for Hitler.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)! Henry Holland is a fussy supervisor who oversees gold bullion deliveries to the bank that he works at. In secret, he is planning to steal a load of bullion and retire early, but he can't figure out a way to sneak it out of the country. What could go wrong?
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss TWO films! It's a double feature with The Great Escape (1963) and Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). First, in The Great Escape, imprisoned during World War II in a German POW camp, a group of Allied soldiers are intent on breaking out, not only to escape, but also to draw Nazi forces away from battle to search for fugitives. After, in Birdman of Alcatraz, sentenced to life in solitary confinement after killing a prison guard, despondent inmate Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) combats loneliness and tedium by nursing an ailing bird back to health.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Magnificent Seven (1960). A Mexican village is at the mercy the leader of a band of outlaws. The townspeople, too afraid to fight for themselves, hire seven American gunslingers to free them from the bandits' raids.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Great Train Robbery (1978). Edward Pierce (Sean Connery) is a master thief of the Victorian Era and he has yet to find a heist that he couldn't pull off. For his next heist, he plans something that has never been done before: rob a moving train.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Stargate (1994). Professor Daniel Jackson (James Spader) teams up with retired Colonel Jack O'Neil (Kurt Russell) to unlock the code of an interstellar gateway to an ancient Egyptian-esque world. They arrive on a planet ruled by the despotic Ra (Jaye Davidson), who holds the key to the Earth travelers' safe return.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Autumn in New York (2000). Follow the successful restaurateur and womanizer, Will Keane (Richard Gere), who is a master of the no-commitment seduction until he runs into Charlotte Fielding (Winona Ryder). It is a season long encounter that will shatter Will's preconceptions about women, relationships, and responsibility.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Eight Men Out (1988). The Chicago White Sox are set to play the in the World Series of 1919, and are at odds with their team's owner, Charles Comiskey (Clifton James), who pays his players terrible wages. A group of professional gamblers offers the Sox's best athletes a fortune to throw the series and the players agree on the deal. What could go wrong?
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Pink Panther (1963). European thief Sir Charles Lytton (David Niven) plans to steal a diamond, also known as the Pink Panther. However, his nephew, George (Robert Wagner) also plans to make off with the gem, and to frame Charles for the crime. French police inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) intercedes, but finds his career, and his freedom, jeopardized.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Red Violin (1998). The intricate history of a beautiful antique violin is traced from its creation in Cremona, Italy, in 1681, where a legendary violin maker (Carlo Cecchi) paints it with his dead wife's blood to keep her memory alive, to an auction house in modern-day Montreal, where it draws the eye of an expert appraiser (Samuel L. Jackson). Over the years between, the violin travels through four different countries, where it has a profound impact on all those who own it.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Stanley & Iris (1990). Iris (Jane Fonda) has a rough go of it after the death of her husband. Though still grieving, she lands a job at a bakery. Things start to look up when the kindhearted Stanley (Robert De Niro), a cook in the bakery, comes to her aid after she is mugged.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966). When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander (Theodore Bikel) orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov (Alan Arkin), to get them moving again before there is an international incident.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Apartment! C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) lends his apartment to company bosses to use for extramarital affairs. When his manager begins using Baxter's apartment in exchange for promoting him, Baxter is disappointed to learn that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the elevator girl at work whom Baxter is interested in.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss In the Heat of the Night (1967), where Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger), the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss a New England sea captain in the 1880s arrives at his fiancée's sprawling Texas ranch, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Hoosiers! Failed college coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to direct the basketball program at a high school in a tiny Indiana town.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Love & Mercy! The life of reclusive Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson (John Cusack), from his successes with highly-influential orchestral pop albums to his nervous breakdown and subsequent encounter with controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Baby Boom (1987)! J.C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton) is a New York City businesswoman who is career-oriented, has a relationship with Steven (Harold Ramis), and is a successful investment broker. J.C.'s life takes a surprising twist when a relative dies and makes her the caretaker of a baby. Soon, the baby's arrival causes J.C. to lose Steven, and then her job. She moves to Vermont and embarks on a series of life-changing events.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Beach Blanket Bingo (1965). Frankie (Frankie Avalon) and the gang hit the beach for some shenanigans! To get the party underway, the manager (Paul Lynde) of pop singer Sugar Kane (Linda Evans) decides a skydiving publicity stunt will really do the trick. As Frankie and the others are pulled into the plan, things get out of control. Throw in Bonehead (Jody McCrea) falling in love with a mermaid (Marta Kristen) and a kidnapping biker (Harvey Lembeck), and the party's just getting started.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Pride (2007). In 1970s Philadelphia, Jim Ellis (Terrence Howard), who is driven by a love of competitive swimming, saves an abandoned pool building with the help of a janitor named Elston (Bernie Mac). When city officials mark the place for demolition, he fights back by founding an all-black swim team. Facing racism, violence, and a hostile city official, Jim struggles to prepare his novice swimmers for the state championships.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss WarGames (1983). High school student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly hacks into a military supercomputer while searching for new video games. After starting a game of Global Thermonuclear War, Lightman leads the supercomputer to activate the nation's nuclear arsenal in response to his simulated threat as the Soviet Union.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Run Silent, Run Deep (1958). After Japanese forces torpedo his submarine during World War II, commanding officer "Rich" Richardson (Clark Gable) is placed in charge of the USS Nerka. The crew on board the Nerka -- led by Lieutenant Jim Bledsoe (Burt Lancaster), who had been passed over for promotion when Richardson was brought in is openly hostile to their new commander, especially when it becomes clear that Richardson's sole obsession is finding and destroying the Japanese ship that sank his old vessel.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Inherit the Wind (1960) and Lilies of the Field (1963).
In Inherit the Wind we follow Tennessee teacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) as he is sent to trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law prohibiting public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of creationism in the 1920s. This drew national attention from the media.
In Lilies of the Field we follow traveling handyman Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier) as he stops by a rural farm in Arizona. There, he is greeted by a group of Roman Catholic nuns who emigrated from Germany. After realizing that the rural farm needs work done, Homer takes on various repair projects for the nuns. Impressed by Homer's kindness, the nuns begin to believe that he has been sent by God.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Paths of Glory (1957). Commanding officer General Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) orders General Mireau (George Macready), to attack a German trench position during World War I. Though the mission is completely reckless, Mireau commands his own subordinate, Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas), to plan the attack. When it ends up being a disaster, General Mireau demands the court-martial of three random soldiers in order to avoid humiliation.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Birdcage (1996). Engaged couple Val Goldman (Dan Futterman) and Barbara Keeley (Calista Flockhart) introduce their future in-laws. Val's father, Armand (Robin Williams), a gay Miami drag club owner, pretends to be straight and attempts to hide his relationship with Albert (Nathan Lane), his life partner and the club's flamboyant star attraction, to please Barbara's father.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) was cut off from his aristocratic family when his mother eloped with an Italian singer. After the family refused to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member (all played by Alec Guinness) who stands between himself and the fortune. What could go wrong?
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss West Side Story (1961). A musical in which a modern-day Romeo and Juliet are involved in New York street gangs. On the jarring streets of the upper west side, a couple of gangs battle for control of the turf. The situation becomes complex when one gang member falls in love with the rival's sister.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Fiddler on the Roof (1971). This Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway musical is about life among the Jewish community of a pre-revolutionary Russian village. A poor milkman (Chaim Topol), determined to find adequate husbands for his daughters, consults a long-established matchmaker. He also has a word or two with God.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Yours, Mine and Ours (1968). This film follows as Navy Officer Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda) is struggling to raise his 10 children in the wake of his wife's death. He soon begins having a romance with Helen North (Lucille Ball), who is a widowed nurse with 8 children of her own.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon returns home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) is highly praised as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra), finds himself plagued by terrible nightmares and, together with fellow soldier Allen Melvin (James Edwards), races to uncover a horrible plot.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Man in the White Suit (1952). Chemist Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness) is at an intersection in his career. He has been trying to invent a specific clothing fiber. Eventually, Sidney creates a white suit that is impenetrable to the elements. At first he is celebrated as a hero. However, the clothing manufacturers soon realize that the perfect suit is terrible for business.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). From his birth to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ of Bethlehem (Max von Sydow) is given the all-star treatment in this retelling.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Sweet Smell of Success (1957) . New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) holds great influence over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he ca not seem to influence is his younger sister, Susan (Susan Harrison), who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas (Marty Milner). Hunsecker strongly disproves of the romance.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss a double feature: Cross Creek and The Ghost Writer! In Cross Creek, we follow columnist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen) in the late 1920s, as she moves to Cross Creek, Florida, to dedicate herself to writing a serious novel. In The Ghost Writer, we are introduced to a successful ghostwriter, the Ghost (Ewan McGregor), that has agreed to finish the memoirs of Adam Long (Pierce Brosnan), England's former prime minister, his publisher assures him it's the chance of a lifetime.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Tender Mercies! Down-on-his-luck country singer Mac Sledge (Robert Duvall) has nowhere to turn when he wakes up in a motel, short on cash. Eventually, he takes a job from Rosa Lee (Tess Harper), the widow who runs the motel that he's at.
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This week's special bonus episode is all about The Top 5 Funnest Movies according to The Rolling Stone! Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and catch The OETA Movie Club Saturdays at 9 pm on OETA.
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This week's special bonus episode is all about The Top 5 Requested Movies for The OETA Movie Club! Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and catch The OETA Movie Club Saturdays at 9 pm on OETA.
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This week's special bonus episode is all about the Top 5 Grossing Movies of all time! Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and catch The OETA Movie Club every Saturday night at 9 pm on OETA.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Alamo! In 1836, General Santa Anna and his troops sweep across Texas to bring the emerging republic to its knees. General Sam Houston (Richard Boone) needs time to get his troops ready, so he orders Colonel William B. Travis (Laurence Harvey) to defend a small mission along Santa Anna's route at all costs.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Exodus! Based on Leon Uris' novel, this historical epic provides a backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 after World War II. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to take 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss TWO films! It's a double feature with "The King's Speech" and "The Madness of King George". First, in "The King's Speech" we meet Prince Albert (Colin Firth) of England who must take the throne as King George VI. However, he has a speech impediment. After, we meet King George III (Nigel Hawthorne) of England who exhibits signs of madness, which was a problem not understood in 1788.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels". In this comedy, two con men (Michael Caine and Steve Martin) try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of fifty thousand dollars first.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "Spaceballs". In a distant galaxy, a star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of evil.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "Some Like It Hot". After witnessing a murder, saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his pal, Jerry (Jack Lemmon), improvise a quick plan to escape from Chicago. After disguising themselves as women, they join a female jazz band and head to Florida. While Joe pretends to be a millionaire to win over the band's singer, Sugar (Marilyn Monroe), his friend Jerry finds himself pursued by a real millionaire as things heat up and the murders close in.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "On the Town". In this 1949 film, Sailors Gabey (Gene Kelly), Chip (Frank Sinatra) and Ozzie (Jules Munshin) have 24 hours in New York City. While Chip hooks up with the sassy cab driver Brunhilde (Betty Garrett) and Ozzie swoons for anthropologist Claire (Ann Miller), Gabey falls in love with an actress he sees in an advertisement, Ivy Smith (Vera-Ellen).
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "National Velvet". In this 1944 film, Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor), a 12-year-old living in rural Sussex, becomes the owner of a rowdy horse, she decides to train it to race. Aided by former jockey, Mi Taylor (Mickey Rooney), the determined Velvet gets her horse ready for the big race day. However, a last-minute problem arises with the jockey and an unexpected rider must step in as a replacement.
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "The Black Stallion". In this 1979 film, Alec (Kelly Reno) encounters a magnificent black Arabian horse while traveling aboard a steamship around the coast of North Africa with his father (Hoyt Axton). When a disaster destroys the ship, Alec frees the horse and escapes with it to a nearby island, where they form a close bond. When Alec is rescued, he insists the horse be rescued too, and both return to America. There, Alec and former jockey Henry (Mickey Rooney) work to train the horse, which Alec names "The Black," for a race.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "The Black Stallion" on Saturday, December 17th, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "An American in Paris". An American in Paris is a 1951 American musical comedy film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition by George Gershwin. Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is an American ex-soldier who stays in post-war Paris to become an artist. He then falls for Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron). However, his art comes to the attention of Milo Roberts (Nina Foch), a wealthy heiress, who is interested in more than just the art.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "An American in Paris" on Saturday, December 10th, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week's special bonus episode is all about our hosts Favorite Christmas Movies. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to the OETA Movie Club every Saturday night at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week's special bonus episode is all about the 60th Anniversary of James Bond Movies. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to the OETA Movie Club every Saturday night at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "The Yearling". The Yearling is a 1946 American Family Western film directed by Clarence Brown, produced by Sidney Franklin, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Based on the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, this drama focuses on the family of Civil War veteran Penny Baxter (Gregory Peck), who lives and works on a farm in Florida with his wife, Orry (Jane Wyman), and their son, Jody (Claude Jarman Jr.).
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "The Yearling" on Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "Doctor Zhivago". Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic historical romance film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt, based on the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak. The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "Doctor Zhivago" on Saturday, November 12, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "Tucker: The Man & His Dream". This film is a 1988 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Jeff Bridges. The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "Tucker: The Man & His Dream" on Saturday, November 5, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "Little Man Tate". This film is a 1991 American family drama film directed by Jodie Foster (in her directorial debut) from a screenplay written by Scott Frank. A single mother raises a child prodigy on her own, struggling to give him every opportunity he needs to express his gift.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "Little Man Tate" on Saturday, October 29, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "Arsenic and Old Lace". is a 1944 American black comedy film directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant. A Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation when he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "Arsenic and Old Lace" on Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "Bringing Up Baby". Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained heiress and a leopard named Baby. The screenplay was adapted by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a short story by Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10, 1937.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "Bringing Up Baby" on Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "Citizen Kane". Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film produced by, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. He also co-wrote the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz. The picture was Welles' first feature film. Citizen Kane is frequently cited as the greatest film ever made. The film is about a reporter that is assigned to decipher newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane's (Orson Welles) dying words, and his investigation gradually reveals the fascinating portrait of a complex man who rose from obscurity to staggering heights.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "Citizen Kane" on Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "East of Eden". This film is a 1955 American period drama film directed by Elia Kazan, and loosely based on the fourth and final part of the 1952 novel of the same name by John Steinbeck. It is about a wayward young man who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the affection of his deeply religious father against his favored brother, thus retelling the story of Cain and Abel.
The film stars James Dean (in his first major screen role), Julie Harris and Raymond Massey.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "East of Eden" on Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "Giant". This film is a 1956 American epic Western drama film, directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferber's 1952 novel and stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "Giant" on Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "Rebel Without a Cause". This film is a 1955 American coming-of-age drama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers. Filmed in the then recently introduced CinemaScope format and directed by Nicholas Ray, it offered both social commentary and an alternative to previous films depicting delinquents in urban slum environments. The film stars James Dean, Sal Mineo, and Natalie Wood.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "Rebel Without a Cause " on Saturday, September 17, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "A Mighty Wind". This film is a 2003 American mockumentary comedy film about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades. The film was co-written, directed, and composed by Christopher Guest and stars Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and many more!
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "A Mighty Wind " on Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "After the Thin Man", the 1936 murder mystery comedy film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, and James Stewart. The movie is about private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "After the Thin Man " on Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we have a double-feature! Join our hosts as they discuss "The Third Man", the 1949 film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. The movie is about Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. Then, listen as Jeff and Robert talk about the 1944 psychological thriller, "Gaslight", directed by George Cukor and starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, and Angela Lansbury (in her film debut). Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "The Third Man" and "Gaslight" on Saturday August 27, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week's special bonus episode is all about the American Film Institute's Top 10 Movie Scores of All Time. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to the OETA Movie Club every Saturday night at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week's special bonus episode is all about IMDB's top 10 most watched films of all time. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to the OETA Movie Club every Saturday night at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "All the President´s Men", the 1976 drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula, and starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford. The movie is about "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovering the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "All the President´s Men" on Saturday, August 6, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "Akeelah and the Bee", the 2006 drama film directed by Doug Atchison, and starring Laurence Fishburne; Angela Bassett; Keke Palmer; Curtis Armstrong. The movie is about a young girl from South Los Angeles trying to make it to the National Spelling Bee. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to Akeelah and the Bee on Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss "Christmas in Connecticut", the 1945 romance and comedy film directed by Peter Godfrey, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, and Sydney Greenstreet. The movie is about a food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife. She must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to Christmas in Connecticut on Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week, the OETA Movie Club talks "A Star Is Born", the 1954 American musical drama film directed by George Cukor, written by Moss Hart, and starring Judy Garland and James Mason. The movie is about a film star helping a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to A Star Is Born on Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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On this week's episode, we do a deep dive into the 1960 classic Ocean's Eleven. Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) calls on some of his World War II buddies, including Jimmy Foster (Peter Lawford), Sam Harmon (Dean Martin), and Josh Howard (Sammy Davis Jr.), to pull off an elaborate New Year's Eve heist at five casinos in Las Vegas. Eleven members of Danny's crew come together to pull off the perfect robbery, but they suffer a series of setbacks when Duke Santos (Cesar Romero), a former gangster, tries to prevent Ocean's plans to disappear with the money. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to Ocean's Eleven on Saturday, July 9, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is about a wily Roman slave who schemes to earn his freedom by romantically uniting his master with a courtesan. But matters get complicated and he ends up dragging in his neighbors around him, leading to chaos. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum on Saturday, July 2, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, and Ruth Hussey. The film is about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a tabloid magazine journalist. North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. The film is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization trying to prevent him from blocking their plan to smuggle microfilm out of the country, which contains government secrets. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to our double feature on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy crime film directed by Alexander Mackendrick and stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner, and Katie Johnson as the old lady, Mrs. Wilberforce. Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to The Ladykillers on Saturday, June 18, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week's special bonus episode is all about our hosts Robert and Jeff's top 3 favorite childhood scariest movies. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to the OETA Movie Club every Saturday night at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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This week's special bonus episode is all about our hosts Robert and Jeff's top 3 favorite childhood favorite movies. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to the OETA Movie Club every Saturday night at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical sports drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Colin Welland. In the class-obsessed and religiously divided United Kingdom of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart Sybil (Alice Krige) in his single-minded quest. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to Chariots of Fire on Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 American heist film directed and produced by Norman Jewison and starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. Bored millionaire Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) concocts and executes a brilliant scheme to rob a bank without having to do any of the work himself. When Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway), an investigator for the bank's insurance company, takes an interest in Crown, the two begin a complicated cat-and-mouse game with a romantic undertone. In an attempt to decipher Anderson's agenda, Crown devises another robbery like his first, wondering if he can get away with the same crime twice. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to The Thomas Crown Affair on Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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Lion is a 2016 Australian biographical drama film directed by Garth Davis from a screenplay by Luke Davies based on the 2013 non-fiction book "A Long Way Home" by Saroo Brierley. The film stars Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, and Nicole Kidman. It tells the true story of how Brierley, 25 years after being separated from his family in India, sets out to find them. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to Lion on Saturday, May 14, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
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On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and director Jeff Morava do a deep dive into the 1950 comedy, "Father of the Bride", directed by Vincente Minnelli. The film stars Spencer Tracy in the title role, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, and Leo G. Carroll. In this film, the father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to Father of the Bride on Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and director Jeff Morava do a deep dive into the 2015 biographical drama, "Woman in Gold", directed by Simon Curtis and written by Alexi Kaye Campbell. The film stars Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max Irons, Charles Dance, Elizabeth McGovern, and Jonathan Pryce. The film is based on the true story of Maria Altmann, an elderly Jewish refugee living in Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles, who, together with her young lawyer, Randy Schoenberg, fought the government of Austria for almost a decade to reclaim Gustav Klimt's iconic painting of her aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, which was stolen from her relatives by the Nazis in Vienna just prior to World War II. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to Woman in Gold on Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9 pm and Friday, May 6 at 11 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and director Jeff Morava do a deep dive into the 1972 classic, "Cabaret", a musical drama directed by Bob Fosse and screenplay by Jay Allen. It stars Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The movie takes place in Berlin in 1931, where an American cabaret singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) meets British academic Brian Roberts (Michael York), who is finishing his university studies. Despite Brian's confusion over his sexuality, the pair become lovers, but the arrival of the wealthy and decadent playboy Maximilian von Heune (Helmut Griem) complicates matters for them both. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to Cabaret on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 9 pm and Friday, April 29 at 11 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and director Jeff Morava do a deep dive into Dirty Dancing, a 1987 dance and romance film directed by Emile Ardolino and written by Eleanor Bergstein. It stars Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze. The film tells the story of Frances "Baby" Houseman (Grey), a young woman who falls in love with dance instructor Johnny Castle (Swayze) at a vacation resort.. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to Dirty Dancing on Saturday, April 16 at 9 pm and Friday, April 22 at 11 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and director Jeff Morava do a deep dive into A Fish Called Wanda, a 1988 comedy film directed by Charles Crichton and written by Crichton and John Cleese. It stars Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin. The film follows a gang of diamond thieves who double-cross one another to find stolen diamonds hidden by the gang leader. A barrister becomes a central figure as femme fatale Wanda uses him to locate the loot.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to A Fish Called Wanda on Saturday, April 9 at 9 pm and Friday, April 15 at 11 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and director Jeff Morava do a deep dive into The Thin Man, a 1934 American comedy-mystery. The film stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a leisure-class couple who enjoy copious drinking and flirtatious banter. Nick is a retired private detective who left his very successful career when he married Nora, a wealthy heiress accustomed to high society. Their wire-haired fox terrier Asta was played by canine actor Skippy. In 1997, the film was added to the United States National Film Registry having been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to The Thin Man on Saturday, April 2 at 9 pm and Friday, April 8 at 11 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and director Jeff Morava do a deep dive into The Outsiders, a 1983 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The film is an adaptation of the 1967 novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton. The film is noted for its cast of up-and-coming stars and was shot in Tulsa, OK, where the film takes place. Did you know there's a museum in Tulsa dedicated to The Outsiders? It's a must-visit, Ponyboy!
Local Hero is a 1983 Scottish film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, and Burt Lancaster. The film is about an American oil company representative who is sent to the fictional village of Ferness on the west coast of Scotland to purchase the town and surrounding property for his company.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to The Outsiders on Saturday, March 26 at 9 pm and Local Hero at 11 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and director Jeff Morava do a deep dive into The Founder, a 2016 film starring Michael Keaton as businessman Ray Kroc. The film portrays the story of his creation of the McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain. Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch co-star as McDonald's founders Richard and Maurice McDonald.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to The Founder on Saturday, March 19 at 9 pm and Friday, March 25 at 11 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
It's a special episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast as host Robert Burch and director Jeff Morava talk all things Oscars! They discuss the major nominations and awards and give you their predictions for this year's 94th Academy Awards.
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and producer Jeff Morava are joined by Gallery America host Robert Reid to discuss the thriving film scene in Oklahoma.
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and producer Jeff Morava discuss the legacy of theOETA Movie Club. From when it started, former beloved host B.J. Wexler, both Burch and Morava's history with the show, how more recently made films are being featured, and so much.
Enjoy a deep dive into the history and legacy that is theOETA Movie Club.
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and producer Jeff Morava do a deep dive into The Iron Lady, a 2011 biographical film based on the life and career of Margaret Thatcher, a British politician who was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the first woman to hold the office. Thatcher is portrayed primarily by Meryl Streep, and, in her formative and early political years, by Alexandra Roach.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to The Iron Lady on Saturday, February 19 at 9 pm and Friday, February 25 at 11 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and producer Jeff Morava do a deep dive into the 2014 film The Imitation Game. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, who decrypted German intelligence messages for the British government during World War II. Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, and Mark Strong appear in supporting roles.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to The Imitation Game on Saturday, February 12 at 9 pm and Friday, February 18 at 11 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
It's an OETA Movie Club Double-Feature with two of the all-time best films ever made! Host Robert Burch and producer Jeff Morava do a deep dive into Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, both starring Humphrey Bogart. Casablanca went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, and it consistently ranks near the top of lists of the greatest films in history. The Maltese Falcon is considered one of the greatest films of all time, it was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress to be included in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to CasablancaSaturday, February 5 at 9 pm and The Maltese Falcon at 11 pm OETA. 🍿📽
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and producer Jeff Morava do a deep dive into the 1952 American classic Singin' in the Rain, directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds. It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to "talkies".
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to Singin' in the Rain Saturday, January 29 at 9 pm OETA. 🍿📽
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and producer Jeff Morava do a deep dive into the 1945 classic Anchors Aweigh. Starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly. In the film, two sailors go on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood, meet a young boy and his aunt, an aspiring young singer, and the sailors try to help her get an audition at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This is the film where there's a live-action Kelly dancing with Jerry Mouse!
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to Anchors AweighSaturday, January 22 at 9 pm and Friday, January 28 at 11 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and producer Jeff Morava do a deep dive into the 2003 drama film Girl with a Pearl Earring.Scarlett Johansson stars as Griet, a young 17th-century servant in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by Colin Firth) at the time he painted Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665) in the city of Delft in Holland.
Listen now and tune in to Girl with a Pearl Earring Saturday, January 15 at 9 pm and Friday, January 21 at 11 pm on OETA. 🍿📽
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and producer Jeff Morava do a deep dive into The Artist,a 2011 French comedy-drama film in the style of a black-and-white silent film or part-talkie. The Artist was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won five, including Best Picture, Best Director for Hazanavicius, and Best Actor for Dujardin, making him the first French actor ever to win in this category. It was also the first French-produced film to win Best Picture, and the first mainly silent film to win since 1927's Wings won at the 1st Academy Awards in 1929.
Listen now and tune in to The Artist Saturday, January 8 at 9 pm and Friday, January 14 at 11 pm. 🍿📽
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and producer Jeff Morava do a deep dive into the 2011 drama "My Week with Marilyn." The film stars Michelle Williams—who won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Marilyn Monroe. The film also stars Eddie Redmayne, Emma Watson, and Judi Dench. 🍿📽
On this episode of the OETA Movie Club Podcast, host Robert Burch and producer Jeff Morava do a deep dive into the 2008 period drama film directed by Richard Linklater, "Me and Orson Welles," starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes.
Listen, then watch "Me and Orson Welles" Saturday, December 11 at 9 pm on OETA!