#427 - Old Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau Were Huge Comedy Stars in The 90s

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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We discuss the work Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau did together: GRUMPY OLD MEN, THE ODD COUPLE 2, THE FRONT PAGE, BUDDY BUDDY. Send us stuff like zines, movie related books, physical media or memorabilia c/o Justin Decloux, Unit 1010, 3230 Yonge St, Toronto, ON, M4N 3P6, Canada Join the Patreon now for an exclusive episode every week, access to our entire Patreon Episode back catalogue, your name read out on the next episode, and the friendly Discord chat: patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub Subscribe, Review and Rate Us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…ub/id1067435576 Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ Check out Justin's other podcasts, THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast), THE VERY FINE COMIC BOOK PODCAST (www.theveryfinecomicbookpodcast.com) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie), as Will's MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us).

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Justin the Clue and I'm here today with Will Sloan.
0:08.7	And you're listening to the important cinema club and we're the odd couple.
0:12.9	That da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da
0:16.4	All right so who do you think you are the Jack Lemmon or the Walter Mathau?
0:19.6	Look around the room before you guess. Well, it's actually quite organized in this room. I was going to say that I was Jack Lemon. He's awesome. No, he's Felix. Yeah, you're definitely Jack Lemon.
0:31.4	Because I'm fussy and I'm neurotic. And you, I'm the cool guy who has no money and loves sports. That's right.
0:37.7	Very literal of those two guys.
0:39.8	So we're turning into the Victorville Film Archive this week.
0:43.3	We're talking about the cinema of Jack Lemon and Walter Mathau, the reigning comedy duo of, well, the 90s and earlier.
0:51.4	And if people are wondering like, wait, wait, who is Jack Lemon?
0:54.9	Who is Walter Mathout?
0:56.1	Classic Hollywood stars.
0:57.3	But the real reason we're talking about them is that in the 90s, they came back together,
1:03.0	started a movie that was a hit.
1:05.3	And Hollywood decided, we need to take these old men and keep putting them in movies.
1:10.8	Man, so they appeared together in 10 movies total.
1:14.6	That's if you're including JFK, which they're both in, although not together.
1:18.4	Yeah, it doesn't count.
1:19.0	As well as a movie called The Grass Harp, which is still a mystery to me.
1:22.6	Yes, that was directed by Charles Mathel, I believe.
1:25.3	That's the one for them movie.
1:26.6	But basically, there are two movies that are really essential in shaping their on-screen
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