Episode 374: Kings and Desperate Men (1981)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Two terrorists -- Daniel Kremer and Jonathan Marlow -- break into The Projection Booth to discuss the 1981 Canadian thriller Kings and Desperate Men.

Produced by, directed by, and starring Alexis Kanner, the movie is the story of an arrogant talk show host -- played by Patrick McGoohan. He and his family are taken hostage by a handful of gun-wielding terrorists. The main terrorist -- played by Kanner -- goes on the air with McGoohan’s character and they engage in tense battle of words.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:06.8	A text for the servant today, a library of members from school by a poet called John Dunn.
0:14.4	Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.
0:21.6	Oh, if you're thinking of screaming, don't do it.
0:34.6	Because we got the old lady and the kid in the bedroom.
0:41.2	Presenting Patrick McGowan in his most harrowing role since the prisoner.
0:42.0	No!
0:46.2	No! No! No! No! No! No!
0:48.5	A prisoner again.
0:55.8	My name is Lucas Miller, and I intend to hold a public retrial of a man who was wrongly convicted.
0:58.9	A radio personality held to ransom.
1:01.1	And this place is soundproof.
1:06.7	I want that federal squad, and I want them here now. I want them on the way right now. A trial by ordeal live on the airwaves.
1:10.0	Hello.
1:11.9	Hello. Hello.
1:13.8	His program used in a desperate attempt to release a political prisoner.
1:20.0	God damn it, Henry.
1:21.9	Where would we be if every time some punk grabs a hostage, we cave in?
1:27.3	The shotgun is pointed at my belly and my wife and child in a room adjacent to 20 pounds of
1:35.3	Gellic knight, so would you be kind enough, sir, to clear the air?
1:40.3	Guilty.
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