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The Important Cinema Club

BONUS - Everyone Loves Dick Miller

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7576 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In honour of the passing of great actor Dick Miller, here's the Patreon episode we recorded about him in which we talked about his roles in A BUCKET OF BLOOD, ROCK ALL NIGHT and THE TERMINATOR.

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0:00.0

Hey, it's that guy.

0:02.0

What's his name again?

0:02.9

You know, he was in Gremlins.

0:04.3

Oh, yeah, the guy from War of the Satellites. You remember? Of course, War of the Satellites. Also, uh... I used to watch it on the million dollar movie every week in the 60s. Uh, uh, The Burbs, Twilight's on the movie, Lunitin's Back in Action. So really anything that Joe Dante made. It's on the tip of your talk, right?

0:20.6

After Hours.

0:21.5

He was in After Hours.

0:22.2

That's right.

0:22.6

You know what I'm talking about, the bartender.

0:23.8

Yeah, Jonathan Hayes. back in action. So really anything that Joe Dante made. It's on the tip of your talk, right? Oh, after hours.

0:21.5

He was in after hours. That's right. You know what I'm talking about the bartender. Yeah, Jonathan Hayes. No, not Jonathan Hayes. We're talking about Dick Miller. Of course, Dick Miller. The actor that every young cinephile eventually goes, hey, that guy, I like him. Yeah, best known, in addition for all those

0:39.1

Joe Dante movies, for being one of Roger Corman's muses in the 1950s, a guy who was in

0:44.7

movie after movie, and Roger Corman had a sizable rap company that he kept returning to over

0:49.7

and over again because they were cheap. That's right. They would do the work, and they wouldn't

0:53.1

complain too much, and they'd show up when

0:55.0

he asked him to and probably the shitty accommodations that he would get for them.

0:59.1

And Dick Miller was one of those guys.

1:01.0

And I think the consensus favorite, right?

1:03.0

He's the one everybody likes.

1:04.0

Yeah, everybody likes Dick.

1:06.0

Have you ever met somebody who's like some contrarian who went something like, I hate Dick

1:10.0

Miller? I don't get why people

1:11.2

like him. No way. I mean, if people know who Dick Miller is, if they know him enough to identify him, surely they like Dick Miller. They have to, right? But why do they like him? Like, that's the question that, like, I was asking myself while I was reading the new biography that recently came out, you don't know me, but you love me,

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