S3E8 Criterion Crackup feat. Ngaio Bealum w/ Point Blank (1967) & Pressure Point (62)

The Dank Diplomat Ngaio Bealum is back on OMFYS and he's picked a pair of movies to get high to from Criterion Channel's current series HOLLYWOOD CRACK-UP: THE DECADE AMERICAN CINEMA LOST ITS MIND. First, LEE MARVIN is punching dudes in the nuts and throwing them out of high-rise windows all to get his $93,000 back in POINT BLANK (1967). It's heavy on the testosterone but has lots of psychedelic and French New Wave touches from then-young director JOHN BOORMAN, who went on to make some of the trippiest movies ever made with EXCALIBUR (1981) & ZARDOZ (1974). Also starring Angie Dickenson, Sharon Acker, Carrol O'Connor (Archie Bunker), and introducing John Vernon (Dean Wormer from Animal House). Then SIDNEY POITIER is a prison psychiatrist trying to unravel the twisted psyche of a deranged but dangerous nazi played with menace by crooner BOBBY DARIN. This movie is chock full of the tripped-out dream sequences that we live for on this podcast, all set to an awesome jazz theremin score by Ernest Gold and photographed with intensity by Ernest Haller, the man who shot GONE WITH THE WIND and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. This is the forgotten collaboration between producer Stanley Kramer and Poitier, who also made THE DEFIANT ONES (1958) and GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967), but Bob thinks PRESSURE POINT is their best. And if all that ain't enough, we've got a young PETER FALK thrown in here for good measure. Both movies are now streaming on CRITERION CHANNEL, which is really knocking it out of the park these days. We also ask Ngaio about the news that the Justice Department's may reclassify cannabis as Schedule III drug (he'll believe it when he sees it), terpenes vs. strains, and the International Jugglers Association convention. Follow Ngaio on Instagram, Facebook & X (Twitter) at ngaio420 And see Ngaio with Paul Conyers at the Alameda Comedy Club on June 28-29: https://www.alamedacomedy.com/events/91745 Hosts: Bob Calhoun & Greg Franklin Cory Sklar & Philena Franklin are on assignment Old Movies for Young Stoners theme by Chaki the Funk Wizard "Hard Times" by Mike Lisk & Chaki the Funk Wizard with additional dialog by "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes "Blue Mood" by Robert Munzinger & "Sicko" by Yung Logos courtesy of YouTube Audio Library Trailer audio via Archive.org Web: www.oldmoviesforyoungstoners.com Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com NEXT EPISODE: Nick Roth and Lindsey Haun* join us to talk about their new horror comedy HANKY PANKY (now on tubi) and we pair weed with the original VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960) and DEATH RACE 2000 (1974). * Lindsey was one of the creepy blond kids in John Carpenter's 1995 remake of VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED, so we'll talk with her about working the @TheHorrorMaster--now a major, major stoner.