On this week’s episode, we take a look back at one of two Universal Studios sequel bombs from 1983 that starred Jackie Gleason: Smokey and the Bandit Part 3.
On this episode, we’re going to do something we haven’t done in nearly a year and a half. Dedicate a show to films for whom their release was the only release ever done by a particular distributor.
The Orphans.
Since it’s very hard to do a full show on a distributor that only ever released one movie, I collect these orphans like a crazy cat person collects felines, and every so often unleash them grouped together so they can have their moment in the spotlight.
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For our second episode of 2023, we look back, as we did with Neil Diamond’s only starring role last week, at the one and only acting role the late, great football star Pelé would ever make: Escape to Victory, a football-themed World War II drama that would also feature Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone and Max von Sydow.