We go back to the dawn of the talkies to review a pair of fascinating movies. First up, Brad Garoon recommends that Jake Ziegler watch the Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich's breakout film, and the beginning of the end for Hollywood bigshots Josef von Sternberg and Emil Jannings. They talk about art predicting life in the rise and fall of the actors and director involved, the way films of the 1930s were shot multiple times in different languages, and how this peculiar film might have more going on than at first meets the eye.

Jake then assigns Brad the famous All Quiet on the Western Front. They talk about how an exaggerated acting style is embossed upon this story of German youth, how themes of alienation and exploitation are swapped in and out between this and its 2022 remake, and even tough a bit on the forgettable made for TV movie version from the '70s.

Other movies discussed in this episode:

Nightmare Alley (1947), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Come and See (1985), Starship Troopers (1997), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Nightmare Alley (2021), All Quiet on the Western Front (2022).