Remembering Jonathan Kaplan

The Movies That Made Me

SpectreVision Radio

Tv & Film, Film History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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We're remembering the late great director (and Trailers From Hell Guru) Jonathan Kaplan (1947–2025) and re-running our chat with the director of Over The Edge, The Accused, and many more. Jonathan took us on a journey through some of his favorite movies. Movies Referenced In This Episode The Student Teachers (1973) Night Call Nurses (1972) White Line Fever (1975) Truck Turner (1974) Heart Like A Wheel (1983) The Accused (1988) Over The Edge (1979) Modern Times (1936) City Lights (1931) Manhattan (1979) Some Like It Hot (1959) The Apartment (1960) North By Northwest (1959) Moon Pilot (1962) Mr. Billion (1977) White Heat (1949) The Wizard of Oz (1939) The Three Musketeers (1973) The Four Musketeers (1974) Superman (1978) Superman II (1980) The Three Musketeers (1948) Shane (1953) The 400 Blows (1959) 8 ½ (1963) Fellini Satyricon (1969) Richard (1972) Millhouse (1971) The Projectionist (1970) El Dorado (1966) The Shootist (1976) Woodstock (1970) Payback (1999) A Hard Day’s Night (1964) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)Billy Liar (1963) Ford Vs Ferrari (2019) The Wild Bunch (1969) The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) Bad Girls (1994) Masters of the Universe (1987) Giant (1956) The More The Merrier (1943) The Graduate (1967) The Victors (1963) …And Justice For All (1979) Citizen Kane (1941) An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997) The Day of the Dolphin (1973) The Call of the Wild (2020) The Lion King (1994) The Lion King (2019) The Revenant (2015) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Hollywood Boulevard (1976) Day For Night (1973) Being There (1979) Bound For Glory (1976) Second-Hand Hearts (1981) Requiem For A Heavyweight (1962) The Night of the Hunter (1955) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather Part II (1974) The Student Nurses (1970) Valley of the Dolls (1967) Charlie’s Angels (2019) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Psycho (1960) The Oscar (1966) Barry Lyndon (1976) Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) Bird (1988) The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) American Sniper (2014) The Beguiled (1971) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Fort Apache (1948) The Searchers (1956) Straight Time (1978) Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971) True Confessions (1981) Monster (2003) Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970) This list is also available on Letterboxd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spectre Vision Radio
0:02.0	You live your whole life and then in one second you learn what it's like
0:10.0	for primal terror to swallow you, mind and body.
0:20.0	He was standing in the hallway,
0:23.6	lit only on his left side by the bulb.
0:32.6	Just as he appeared in the photograph I'd found, he was very small, much shorter than his brother, my father,
0:40.3	Eric. The family had said he'd always been boy-faced and a bit skinny. Now, standing there,
0:47.0	he looked old and sick as well, but he looked angry too. Not for a moment did I think he was alive, and some terrible mistake had been made.
0:59.0	I knew instinctively that he was not really there, that I was looking at Herman in the depleted physical state he had died in.
1:09.0	He was wrong, he said again.
1:12.4	His whole body trembling slightly.
1:15.2	He jabbed his finger toward me, almost in tears.
1:19.2	I could have been a chemist.
1:21.1	I had the grades.
1:23.8	I think I tried to speak then, but was stable.
1:30.8	Uncle Herman kept his finger pointed in a threatening way as if it were up to me to change the past. He turned with creaky slowness
1:38.4	and took a couple of steps deeper into the hallway toward the kitchen, leaving all light behind him, becoming a
1:45.8	silhouette. He turned back just before he reached the threshold of the other room. His face
1:51.8	was a black blur, but his voice was still clear.
1:56.5	There's a fourth body, you know, he said, voice, hoarse.
2:02.4	Shovel's still in the shed.
2:06.8	Knife Point Horror.
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