Special Report: Dwayne Epstein on "Killin' Generals"

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

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

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Author Dwayne Epstein (Lee Marvin: Point Blank) returns to the Projection Booth to discuss his latest book, Killin' Generals: The Making of The Dirty Dozen, the Most Iconic WWII Movie of All Time, a look at the classic Robert Aldrtich movie in which a group of soldiers on death row are recruited to perform a suicide mission.

Buy it now at https://amzn.to/3XyHKA3

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.5	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:27.5	Turn it off.
0:31.5	Hey,
0:32.1	no! Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgon, Robert Ryan
0:45.1	Jimmy Brown, Charles Bronson, John Casavetes.
0:52.9	Trini Lopez, Richard Jacob, Robert Weber.
0:58.5	Clint Walker, Ralph Meeker, Tally Savalas.
1:03.0	A dirty dozen in Panavision Metro Governor from MGM.
1:10.5	Hey folks, welcome by a very special episode of the projection booth.
1:13.7	I'm your host, Mike White.
1:14.9	On this episode, we have Dwayne Epstein back in the booth.
1:18.9	He was on our Prime Cut episode all those years ago, episode 110, and he is back with a new book looking at The Dirty Dozen.
1:30.3	It is called Killen Generals, the Making of the Dirty Dozen, the most iconic World War II movie of all times.
1:38.1	And let me tell you that it is a terrific book.
1:41.3	Dwayne really puts together a great story about one of the greatest movies. I don't know if it's the most
1:47.8	iconic World War II movie of all times, but it's definitely up there. It's one of those books where
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Projection Booth, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Projection Booth and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.