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The Important Cinema Club

#155 - Joseph H. Lewis: The Perfectionist of Poverty Row

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7576 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the career of director and film noir master Joseph H. Lewis and his films Gun Crazy, The Big Combo and Terror in Texas Town. We have a NEW BOOK called THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB JOURNAL and you can buy a copy now at: Amazon Canada www.amazon.ca/Important-Cinema-C…rnal/dp/1794544585 Amazon US: www.amazon.com/Important-Cinema-…nal/dp/1794544585 Amazon UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Important-Cinema…al/dp/1794544585 On this week's Patreon, we discuss the film People on Sunday. Become a member for $5 a month: www.patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop us a line at importantcinemaclubpodcast@gmail.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, my name's Justin Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

0:07.0

And you're listening to the Important Cinema Club.

0:10.0

Special alert! Before we start the episode, I want to advertise the Important Cinema Club journal, which we published officially last week.

0:19.0

On the last podcast, we talked about how we wanted to put a challenge out to Important Cinema Club Nation. Let's get us as the number one movie book on Amazon. And we were kind of joking, right? We didn't think it would happen. Well, bam, Important Cinema Club Nation United. And we were the number one book for a brief moment. For a brief moment in movies on Amazon. So thank you for rocketing us to success.

0:39.4

And I think the next step is to get us on top of the New York Times bestseller list. Number one. Let's do it. We can do it. As long as people go to Amazon.ca, Amazon.com, Amazon. dot UK, Amazon. Dot DE. Yep. And they buy the important cinema club journal

0:53.2

for the low, low price of whatever it is

0:55.3

on the platform that you're on.

0:56.5

It's all different.

0:57.4

It's $12. DE. Yeah. And they buy the important cinema club journal for the low, low price of whatever

0:54.9

it is on the platform that you're on. It's all different. It's $12 US. I know that. It's about

0:59.6

$15 and change Canadian. Yeah. And you'll get it in a few days, as we've seen from a bunch of people

1:04.9

who are nice enough to text us images of them reading copies of the journal. Classic articles

1:10.1

about everything you could possibly want.

1:11.5

And hey, we've actually got a launch coming up.

1:14.4

On Sunday, February 24th at the Imperial Pub in the heart of downtown Toronto.

1:18.9

Dundas Station, if you're going by the subway.

1:20.6

Justin and I will be hosting a soire at which we will record a live episode of the podcast.

1:25.9

On the Oscars.

1:27.0

Because we are on the same day as the

1:29.3

Oscars before though so we're getting you primed up for it yeah we'll be doing a little episode

1:37.1

talking about the history of that wonderful annual ceremony you sarcastically talk about the

1:42.1

Oscars all the time and I know better than anyone that you love it. I love it with all your heart. And then Justin and I will each be doing a

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