On this episode of the Video Archives podcast, Schools in Session, Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery go back to class in The Substitute.

When an inner-city Miami school teacher gets kneecapped after standing up to her school's gang leader, her spec-ops boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk.

What he finds he never expected, a complicated conspiracy of criminals at work that only he

and his team can take down.

Quentin and Roger discuss how Diane, Vanora, and Tom Barringer's on-screen chemistry

makes this movie work, the excellent extras casting, and how this flick just has no right

to be this good. The most dangerous thing just has no right to be this good.

The most dangerous thing about a school used to be the students, until now.

Next up.

I promise to love you forever.

But would you keep your promise to me, even if you didn't recognize who I was?

Quentin and Roger keep theirs in 1979's The Promise. A rich student fiancé has her face

mangled by a car accident. Her future mother-in-law offers to fix her up on one condition. She

never sees her son again. Roger and Quentin discuss how this movie mashes up two of Quentin's

favorite genres, the smash performances by the actors in the film,

and some of Rogers' speculations about the true meaning of what director Gilbert

Cates is actually saying with this film. And on our last stop, the train is being hijacked

by none other than Pancho Villa. In 1969, General Poncho Villa escaped from the clutches of General Goyo.

What ensues is a rag-tag Paya Western directed by Eugino Martin.

And believe me, guys, you'll never know quite where it's going.

Quentin and Roger focus in on the interesting choice in casting, the quick and witty dialogue,

and some of the scenes where you just have to see it to believe it.

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