MM41 - Don & Clint feat. John Semley
Added 2025-06-18 11:00:12 +0000 UTCResident Clint-ologist John Semley is back to look at two of Eastwood’s great collaborations with director Don Siegel: 1971’s The Beguiled and 1979’s Escape from Alcatraz. Two tough guy classics showcasing Clint’s surprisingly nuanced-through-gritted teeth performance style
The Beguiled finds Clint as a union soldier injured behind enemy lines, taken in for recuperation by the extremely repressed ladies of a Confederate girls’ seminary. Clint proceeds to use his sexual swagger to charm each of these southern belles in turn, but as the web of seduction (and eventually violence) spins out of control, Clint realize he mayb not be in paradise, but purgatory.
Jumping from Clint vs. Women to Clint and Da Boys, we turn to Escape from Alcatraz, an extremely process oriented film set in actual prison, and depicting the shockingly true story of a confirmed breakout from the Rock. Clint builds his crew, brings prison justice to other inmates, confronts evil in the form of Patrick McGoohan’s nameless warden, all with a soft spot for chrysanthemums.
Keep an eye out for John’s essay in the forthcoming “The Critical Companion to Clint Eastwood”
Comments
Yeah it's well documented that true believers abolitionists were indeed disproportionately represented among the troops, and it was a genuinely popular stance among the north anyway.
Drew Middleton
2025-06-27 13:14:57 +0000 UTCWill’s assessment of Union soldiers (brutish louts who couldn’t care less about ending slavery) is very different from Matt’s (they were a revolutionary force)
nick
2025-06-26 14:10:33 +0000 UTCPlease do a “Lesser Schwarzenegger” episode and it must be “Raw Deal” and “Commando.”
Donnie Stellmaker
2025-06-24 16:23:52 +0000 UTChttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RKKcSuUwvTc&pp=ygUUam9obiBncmFudCBnZXJhbGRpbmU%3D The brilliant John Grant did this beautiful song about Geraldine Page for what it’s worth.
Fernslinger
2025-06-23 10:55:21 +0000 UTCAlcatraz means pelican
MCL
2025-06-21 03:18:57 +0000 UTCOh hell yeah, more Lalo Schifrin praise. As I said before, Peter Guold, Lalo's TV protect needle dropping 'Jim on the move' from the mission impossible TV soundtrack when Jimmy McGill finally emerges out of 'Gene Tachiovic' is the greatest moments of re-purposing of another works score music ever
Eamon Short
2025-06-21 02:26:27 +0000 UTCIt’s weird but I think this is maybe the best episode so far. 🙏
Branden Pedersen
2025-06-20 23:41:33 +0000 UTCCharles Butts: "Chuck Ass", if you will.
Anthony Bunker
2025-06-20 16:00:12 +0000 UTCHesse and the other guy just going "beguiled" and it's derivatives over and over, just reminds me of MST3K just going "manos the hands of fate" two dozen times during the boring opening
Eamon Short
2025-06-20 06:08:48 +0000 UTCi knew a kid named nick butts
Yevka D
2025-06-20 05:41:56 +0000 UTCBoth
John Semley
2025-06-20 04:35:52 +0000 UTCHesse's laugh is so magical and infectious
Craig
2025-06-20 01:49:30 +0000 UTCQuestion for John, priest or maiden?
Brendan
2025-06-19 23:16:15 +0000 UTCThey did Casino at the start of the season.
Grant Spalding
2025-06-19 21:16:57 +0000 UTCHow's your leg doin these days Leebos
Jack
2025-06-19 17:20:58 +0000 UTCBy ł b
Kathy Lindrose
2025-06-19 13:10:41 +0000 UTCBoycotting MM until they either do Kubrick films, particularly 2001, or Heat. Do one for the non extreme film snobs I beg of you.
Peter Sullivan
2025-06-19 01:37:22 +0000 UTCDear Mr. Menacher and Ms. Deni, Please do Martin Brest’s 1988 film “Midnight Run” next season of MM. Thank you. Yours truly, Peen
Peen Israel
2025-06-19 00:17:02 +0000 UTCThey can't reopen Alcatraz cuz everyone knows how to escape now!
Anomalie
2025-06-18 21:51:08 +0000 UTCFor Columbo, McGoohan played Colonel Lyle C. Rumford headmaster of a boys military academy. This was in 74 and the role seems like a kind of precursor to his warden character. McGoohan also has something in that episode called a Boodle Boy. Who comes to his room and blows a horn and fetches him coffee.
Hardcore Virgin
2025-06-18 21:43:18 +0000 UTCThe Butts character was actually based on a real 4th member who didn't make it out in time with them
Joe McIntyre
2025-06-18 19:57:23 +0000 UTCGod no
Tristan
2025-06-18 17:54:00 +0000 UTCAre cotillion classes not a thing up north?
Sam Bondurant
2025-06-18 17:14:41 +0000 UTC"Who beguiles the beguiler?! The beguiled!" Idk why that was so funny
Munir hakim
2025-06-18 17:01:54 +0000 UTCI was in a relationship with a girl who was living in a house of all white Southerners in the North, and at one point, I joked that I had been Beguiled, and she called the joke anti-Southern. I should've seen the writing on the wall 😅
Leebos
2025-06-18 16:49:29 +0000 UTCWasn’t expecting a Red Green reference from MM
Harry Sachs
2025-06-18 15:05:29 +0000 UTCCheck out pod casty for me
ezra
2025-06-18 14:52:47 +0000 UTCThis was a fantastic ep and pairing. MM is such a joy and gift from W&H
Blank
2025-06-18 13:33:48 +0000 UTCMartha’s brother is Dr. Quackenbush
Blank
2025-06-18 13:04:17 +0000 UTCEnglish or Spanish
Reed
2025-06-18 11:05:07 +0000 UTCMy Dick Is Smallset
etienne
2025-06-18 11:04:23 +0000 UTCLast
Chris
2025-06-18 11:04:01 +0000 UTC
