Ira Glasser
The former head of the ACLU discusses some of the movies – and sports legends – that made him.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Mighty Ira (2020)
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
42 (2013)
Shane (1953)
Panic In The Streets (1950)
Last Year At Marienbad (1962)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
La Strada (1954)
Wild Strawberries (1957) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
The Virgin Spring (1960) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
The Last House On The Left (1972) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary
A Walk In The Sun (1945) – Glenn Erickson’s review
Paths Of Glory (1957) – George Hickenlooper’s trailer commentary, John Landis’s trailer commentary
All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) – Ed Neumeier’s trailer commentary
Lonely Are The Brave (1962)
Casablanca (1942) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
On The Waterfront (1954) – John Badham’s trailer commentary
12 Angry Men (1957)
Inherit The Wind (1960)
Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
Witness For The Prosecution (1957)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
The Verdict (1982)
Twelve Angry Men teleplay (1954)
The Front (1976)
Judgment At Nuremberg teleplay (1959)
My Favorite Year (1982) – Charlie Largent’s CineSavant review
A Little Romance (1979)
Before Sunrise (1995) – Glenn Erickson’s Before Trilogy review
Before Sunset (2004)
Before Midnight (2013)
Let Him Go (2020)
Other Notable Items
The mighty ACLU
Arthur Rubinstein
Jackie Robinson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Great Depression
World War II
Red Barber
The Los Angeles (née Brooklyn) Dodgers
The New York Yankees
The San Francisco (née New York) Giants
Ebbets Field
Muhammad Ali
Ruby Dee
Rachel Robinson
The Passion Play
Chadwick Boseman
Satchel Paige
Josh Gibson
Oscar Charleston
UCLA
Willie Mays
Alan Ladd
Van Heflin
Jean Arthur
Brandon deWilde
Jack Palance
The American Cinematheque
The Skokie, Illinois marches
Sarah Lawrence College
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Italian Neorealism
Ingmar Bergman
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Samuel Beckett
Eugène Ionesco
Søren Kierkegaard
Kirk Douglas
John Ireland
Huntz Hall
Norman Lloyd
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Dalton Trumbo
Carroll O’Connor
Walter Matthau
Humphrey Bogart
Ingrid Bergman
We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Film book by Noah Isenberg (2017)
Claude Rains
Peter Lorre
Paul Newman
Charles Laughton
Marlena Dietrich
Henry Fonda
William F. Buckley
Newt Gingrich
Bob Cummings
Playhouse 90
Sidney Lumet
Lee J. Cobb
Zero Mostel
The New York Mets
The Man Who Brought The Dodgers Back To Brooklyn novel by David Ritz (1981)
Burt Lancaster
Spencer Tracy
Rod Serling
Sid Caesar
Your Show Of Shows TV show (1950-1954)
Carl Reiner
Imogene Coca
Jack Benny
Eddie Cantor
Henny Youngman
Peter O’Toole
Joseph Bologna
Ten From Your Show Of Shows compilation (1973)
This Is Your Life TV show (1948-1961)
Candid Camera TV show (1948-2014)
Howard Morris
Marcel Proust
The Honeymooners TV show (1955-1956)
I Love Lucy TV show (1951-1957)
All In The Family TV show (1971-1979)
Norman Lear
Laurence Olivier
Julie Delpy
Diane Lane
Kevin Costner
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