The year is 1941 a Hollywood director tries to find heart and they send them back the film

Sullivan's travels

Hey everybody welcome to unspooled I am Paul Sheer

I think it comes in and we are not in the same room

But I think that was a pretty valiant effort on synchronizing our voices

This is the podcast for each week we watch one film from the A.F.I.s top 100 greatest films of all time list the

2007 edition to see if they are really as good as people say do they hold up and how have they influenced the films that we watch now

Today we are talking about a real classic here

This is a film called Sullivan's travels directed by Preston Sturgis before we get into that film

We are going to talk about last week's film which is of course 12 angry men

Amy people were fired up about this episode

People love 12 angry men. Pete. There is a love fest happening for 12 angry men

It is 12 beloved movie viewers. I guess more like 12 million beloved movie viewers in favor of 12 angry men

When the unspooled Facebook group threw it up as their usual poll like does this belong on the list?

I think that has tanked most Altman films or all of all Altman films

Is tanked it was near unanimous which made Frank Paul joke guys if ever we should be unanimous on a verdict

There was one comment that jumped out at me that Lance Davis wrote we talked last week about

Spike Lee and I was saying like how I felt the similarity to 12 angry men and do the right thing

It took place on the hottest day of the year it was dealing with race and Lance pulled out this really amazing quote that Spike Lee gave

After the death of Sidney Lumet he said we lost a master filmmaker yesterday

There could have been no inside man without the superb dog day afternoon

He was one of the best storytellers

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