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Maltin on Movies

John Landis

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2662 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

John Landis is never dull, as anyone who has heard him speak can verify. Leonard and Jessie enjoy a wide-ranging conversation with the versatile filmmaker behind National Lampoon's Animal House, Trading Places, Thriller, and An American Werewolf in London, to name just a few. Subjects range from the current Oscar fare to working with music legends like Cab Calloway (in The Blues Brothers). Fasten your seat belt for a jam-packed episode.

 

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0:09.1

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0:20.8

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0:26.0

That's patreon.com slash Malton on Movies.

0:35.6

Hi everybody. I'm Leonard Malton.

0:37.4

And I'm Jesse Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton.

0:38.5

You're listening to Malton on movies and our very special guest today.

0:41.5

The only problem with today's guest is that you two enjoy talking to each other too much.

0:45.5

And we can't start because you're having a good time.

0:47.8

John, you're not supposed to have a good time.

0:50.3

It's not what we're here for.

0:51.7

Our guest is filmmaker and film buff supreme john landis hello and

0:58.1

if you were wondering what his uh street cred was in the horror pre-haloine horror film franchise area was

1:09.8

well there's an american world within London and the less

1:15.5

celebrated but I think equally wonderful innocent blood oh and then there's a little

1:20.2

thing called thriller actually there may be your your close not a

1:27.0

accessory credit it's called, it's called, it's not a possessory credit. It's called Michael Jackson's

1:31.2

thriller. Thriller. Get the title right, Leonard. Like Irving Berlin's blue skies. I understand. John, welcome. Thank you. You know, you and I share a love of the original universal horror films that I think

1:51.5

has infected every one of our generation, the baby boomers.

1:58.5

You know why?

2:00.2

Well, yes, partly because of famous monsters of Filmland Magazine.

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