Welcome, Bienvenu, welcome to Malton on Movies with Baron Vaughn.

I'm not Joel Gray, your master of ceremonies, but I am Leonard Malton.

And with me, Baron Vaughn.

But you know, there was a very famous revival of Cabaret a couple years ago, starring one of

the actors that we're going to talk about later. That is absolutely true. Yes. So, good reference.

That's, that's, that's Leonard Moulton foreshadowing. Oh, that's all part of the plan. It's all part of

the master plan. Okay. That's what we're all about planning. Perfect.

Well, hello, folks.

Thanks for joining us, as always.

And we do have a theme today, and the theme is inspired by a current film.

Yes.

Russell Crowe has a new movie out called The Water Diviner, and it marks his feature film directorial debut.

Oh, goodness.

But he's also in it.

He's the star and director of the film.

Now, this is a tradition that goes back literally over a century because even before Charlie Chaplin did it, his boss, Max Senate, was directing himself in early biograph

comedies.

And so Chaplin, of course, became one of the more celebrated actor directors.

His early co-star Mabel Norman, one of the first female actor directors.

And a long, long, long list we could draw from then to now with stops at

such celebrated figures as Orson Wells, such more recent figures as Clint Eastwood.

There are many, many examples of this.

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