Episode 496: The Phynx (1970)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

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

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 163 minutes

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Summary

Lee H. Katzin's The Phynx (1970) is a story of espionage, intrigue, rock and roll, and the generational divide. It's about a fake rock band, the titular Phynx, who are sent on the road to infiltrate Albania whose evil government has been kidnapping America's elderly celebrities.

Mike Sullivan and Terry Frost join Mike to discuss the film as well as other generation gap movies like Skidoo, Sextette, and more. Interviews include writer/producer Bob Booker and actors Lou Antonio and Larry Hankin.
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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.
0:11.3	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:23.6	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:25.6	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off. This is Alba!
0:40.3	This is Albania below us.
0:56.0	And it's right there that one of the most dastardly men of modern times is hauled up.
1:00.3	Where? We don't know.
1:02.8	No doubt you've been reading about all the important world figures who in the last few weeks have mysteriously disappeared.
1:10.0	The enemy has grabbed Georgie Jessel, Dorothy Lamor,
1:15.1	the one and only Colonel Sanders,
1:17.4	and a few bozos want to believe it, Johnny Weishmuller.
1:21.9	We got to get somebody into Albania,
1:24.6	and we got to bust them all loose.
1:26.4	Form a pop musical group and get invited to Albania. and we gotta bust them all loose. Form a pop music old group and get invited to Albania.
1:30.7	A pop group playing Albania?
1:33.1	My dear adult, it can't fail.
1:35.4	National boundaries cannot separate teeny freaks.
1:38.5	All lucky stiffs are about to get the greatest honor
1:41.3	any American can receive.
1:42.8	A volunteer to be
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