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Maltin on Movies

C. Thomas Howell

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.3665 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

When your film career starts out with E.T. the Extra Terrestrial and The Outsiders people expect big things to follow. C. Thomas Howell has made good on this promise by working steadily ever since those early 1980s milestones—and promoting literacy through screenings of the S.E. Hinton classic. He has scores of film and television credits, but Leonard and Jessie are most impressed with his work ethic. The quality that Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola noticed so long ago still fires his work, most recently in the features One Mile: Chapter One and One Mile: Chapter Two, both now available on digital.

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0:00.0

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0:09.1

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0:15.7

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0:22.6

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0:29.6

Hi, I'm Leonard Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton.

0:38.1

You're listening to Malton on Movies.

0:39.7

And today we are so excited to have C. Thomas Howl with us.

0:43.7

I've been watching him my whole life.

0:46.6

And he's just such an incredible talent.

0:48.9

And he's done so many different kinds of things.

0:52.0

And we're just so excited to have you here. Thank you so much. You had such an

0:59.0

astonishing beginning to your film career. I don't know who else could match the one-two punch

1:05.5

you had of E.T. the extraterrestrial and the outsiders. Which.

1:12.8

Well, you know, when you start with Spielberg and go to Coppola,

1:17.9

Yeah.

1:18.6

13, 14, it's pretty much downhill from there.

1:22.8

I was so blessed to have an incredible example on how to approach the work at a young age

1:33.5

from both of those wonderfully talented men.

1:40.8

And it really is something that I still, there are lessons and experiences from those times that I still apply to work today.

1:53.0

So, you know, an absolute pleasure to start that way in a blessing.

1:58.0

Sure.

1:59.0

I mean, that's, we always say the same thing, which is that

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