1931 - Midnight Spaghetti | One Week, One Year, a Film History Podcast

Iconic voices abound in this episode jam packed with classics! Charlie Chaplin and Fritz Lang both direct their best(?!) movies, Warner Bros. releases two quintessential gangster pictures, and Universal gets dark with two of the most famous horror movies ever made!
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Intro - 00:00:00
News of the Year - 00:03:25
City Lights - 00:05:23
M - 00:25:02
Little Caesar - 00:52:15
The Public Enemy - 01:03:10
Dracula - 01:34:48
Frankenstein - 01:58:02
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It’s also interesting to note that along with the Fritz/ygor amalgamation that most impressions of ygor are done in a Peter Lorre stylee when to my knowledge he has never even played a mad scientist’s assistant let alone one from a Frankenstein film

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Seriously, I had no idea that it wasn't Ygor and it wasn't Peter Lorre. That's just what was in the cultural mileu

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Recommendations for 1932: l’atlantide, doctor x, Chandu the magician, 6 hours to live, f.p.1 antwortet nicht, island of lost souls, castle sinister, doctor x, freaks, island of lost souls, Kongo, the mask of fu Manchu, the monster walks, the most dangerous game, the mummy, murders in the rue morgue, the old dark house, Unheimliche geschichten, vampyr & white zombie