Out of Frame: The Cotton Club Murder
WHAT WENT WRONG
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Before ‘The Cotton Club’ became one of Hollywood’s most notorious flops, it was connected to something much darker. In this episode of Out of Frame, Chris and Lizzie dig into the death of Roy Radin — a small-time producer whose obsession with breaking into Hollywood by financing ’The Cotton Club’ ended in murder. Find out how Radin got involved with Lanie Jacobs, a cocaine dealer with movie ambitions of her own, and why the entire case revolved around one of the most influential producers of all time: Robert Evans.
Listen to this episode first as a primer, then come back Monday when we break down exactly what went wrong with ‘The Cotton Club’ in our full main-feed episode.
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| 0:00.0 | On June 10, 1983, a beekeeper named Glenn Fisher was looking for the perfect place to set up his 120 hives. |
| 0:11.5 | He wanted somewhere remote so that the bees wouldn't be disturbed, and he found the perfect spot at the end of Caswell Canyon Road near Gorman, California. |
| 0:19.7 | But unfortunately for Glenn, it wasn't his |
| 0:22.9 | bees who would be disturbed that day, because as he walked into the canyon, he was hit with |
| 0:27.3 | the unmistakable smell of death. That's when he saw the decomposed remains of a man named Roy Radin. |
| 0:39.3 | Music named Roy Radin. Hello and welcome back to What Went Wrong, your favorite podcast full stop that just so happens to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone an absolute dumpster fire that involves an actual murder. |
| 1:12.5 | I am one of your hosts, Lizzie Bassett here, as always, with Chris Winterbauer, and Chris, how are you doing today? Doing fine. My |
| 1:18.5 | car broke down in Gorman one time. Fun. Like seven or eight years ago. That car didn't make it. |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah, so. But yeah, it's a, it is in the grapevine. |
| 1:30.7 | It's this tiny little town north of Los Angeles, I-5 cuts through the mountains there. It's very |
| 1:36.6 | desolate. It's like a very steep incline to get up there. And there are many inlets, |
| 1:42.7 | canyons, remote places to theoretically, I suppose. |
| 1:46.8 | Store your behalf? |
| 1:47.5 | Dump a body. |
| 1:48.3 | Oh, yes. |
| 1:49.0 | Oh, yeah, both of those. |
| 1:51.0 | Yes, yeah. |
| 1:52.5 | All of the above. |
| 1:54.0 | All right. |
| 1:54.4 | So why are we talking about a body and a canyon, many miles north of Santa Clarita? |
| 1:59.5 | That's because on Monday, we will be covering Francis Ford |
| 2:03.0 | Coppola's The Cotton Club, and the story behind that movie is completely insane. But as you may |
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