S4E27.5: The Night Porter

Kill James Bond!

November, Abigail, and Devon

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv & Film:film Reviews

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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This is a preview of a bonus episode! Find the rest, along with our backlog of hundreds of bonus episodes, on our reasonably-priced Patreon!------ Rounding out our little tasting course of 3 movies dealing directly with the Holocaust, November brings us what will surely be the easiest movie we've ever had to talk about. The year is 1957. Dirk Bogarde is Max, a former concentration camp officer, living in hiding working as a night porter at a hotel in Vienna. His friends are all also Nazis, obsessed with regaining their former station, conducting private trials on each other to try to finally stop feeling guilty about their acts. Max's solitude is obliterated when a former victim of his checks in to the hotel. CONTENT WARNING: Just about all of them. Maybe give this one a miss if you're not sure ----- Friend of the show Bella, a refugee evacuated from Afghanistan in 2021, is raising money for her gender confirmation surgery! Anything you can give would be hugely appreciated! https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/team-bella ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. In our home, we talk a lot about how insane everything feels, and agonise constantly over what can be done to best help the Palestinians trapped in Gaza facing the full brunt of genocidal violence. My partner Rebecca has put together a list of four fundraisers you can contribute to- all of them are at work on the ground doing what they can. -Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestinehttps://www.gofundme.com/f/to-preserve-whats-left-of-humanity-global-solidarity -Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotillahttps://www.waterislifegaza.org/ -Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla alsohttps://www.instagram.com/linking/fundraiser?fundraiser_id=1102739514947848 -Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patcheshttps://www.gofundme.com/f/support-thamra-cultivating-resilience-in-gaza ----- WEB DESIGN ALERT Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Kill James Bond is hosted by November Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com , as well as on our Bluesky and X.com the every app account

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of Kill James Bond.
0:19.2	I am November Kelly.
0:20.3	I am joined as always by my friends Abigail Thorne and Devon.
0:23.6	Hello.
0:24.7	Hello.
0:25.8	And I'm scared.
0:28.1	I'm really scared.
0:28.9	A little bit nervous going into this one.
0:30.9	Yeah, yeah.
0:31.7	I think what I've done is I've made a risky decision and done a movie that I like, that I value, that I'm interested to talk about, and with which I am profoundly uncomfortable.
0:44.6	Yes.
0:45.3	And I think there's a decent chance that you, the listener, will be as well.
0:48.9	So on that basis, just to kind of assume, as with the zone of interest, comedy podcast that we're doing.
0:55.0	Comedy podcast.
0:55.7	Just assume that trigger warning for everything, right?
0:59.7	Like, we're going to be talking about a lot of state violence, a lot of sexual violence.
1:04.5	You may want to sit this one out if this is sort of touching a sort of raw nerve for you,
1:08.9	but it's a film partially about touching raw nerves.
1:11.3	I don't know what you two are worried about.
1:13.6	Don't worry, because next episode is going to be really funny.
1:16.5	So I'll be okay.
1:17.9	Yeah, what I did is I took the opportunity to pick two films for our comedy podcast,
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