THE WRONG MANS: Join me and filmmaker, podcaster, author and film scholar, Steven Jay Rubin (The James Bond Encyclopedia) as we talk

North by Northwest and Tell No One, two films about men accused of a murderthey didn’t commit and have to go on the run to prove their innocence.

 

“You gentlemen aren't REALLY trying to kill my

son, are you?” It happens to the best of us. We’re just going our merry waywhen someone gets murdered. We get blamed for it when we’re totally innocent.So do we work with the authorities and hire a good lawyer and private investigator?Of course not. We do what any normal person would. We go on the run and findthe murderer ourselves. Ah, fun times, fun times…

 

Sounds like it’s time for Episode 99 of Pop Art,

where we find the pop culture in art and the art in pop culture. It’s thepodcast where my guest chooses a movie from popular culture, and I’ll select afilm from the more art/classic/indie/foreign side of cinema with a connectionto it. For this episode, I am happy to welcome as my guest, filmmaker, podcaster,author and film scholar, Steven Jay Rubin, who haschosen as his film the Alfred Hitchcock classic North By Northwest, while Ihave chosen Guillaume

Canet’s Tell No One, both films about someone who has been accused of amurder they didn’t commit and have to go on the run to prove their innocence.

 

And in this episode, we answer such questions as: What is the appeal of

wrong man films? Who is the murderer in the book as opposed to the film of TellNo One? What about that crop duster scene? What about that chase over the freewayand through the market scene? Whose idea was it to make Marin Landau’scharacter gay? What actor in Tell No One plays the lead in the French versionof The Office? Why do the French adapt so many American and British authors ofthrillers and mysteries? Where does the title North by Northwest come from? IsHercule Poriot French? What is the age difference between Cary Grant and JessieRoyce Landis?

 

Check out Rubin’s IMDB profile at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748169/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_1_q_steven%2520jay%2520rubin

 

His podcast Saturday Night at the Movies can be found at https://www.stevenjayrubin.com/podcast

 

And his books are available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=steven+jay+rubin&i=stripbooks&crid=3Q0CWCUZ3OQF1&sprefix=steven+jay+rubin%2Cstripbooks%2C186&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

 

Check out my blog at https://howardcasner.wordpress.com/

 

My books, More Rantings and Ravings of a Screenplay Reader,

The Starving Artists and Other Stories and The Five Corporations and One TrueReligion can be found at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=howard+casner&ref=nb_sb_noss

 

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