Jesse V. Johnson
Acclaimed stuntman and action director extraordinaire Jesse V. Johnson (Avengement, Triple Threat, Accident Man) joins us to discuss the U.S. based action films and filmmakers that have influenced him the most.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
On The Waterfront (1954)
Fultah Fisher’s Boarding House (1922)
Undisputed (2002)
Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (2006)
Undisputed III: Redemption (2010)
Boyka: Undisputed (2016)
The Killer Elite (1975)
Convoy (1978)
The Osterman Weekend (1983)
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
Straw Dogs (1971)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Birdcage (1996)
Cross of Iron (1977)
Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974)
Easy Rider (1969)
Fail Safe (1964)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Ride The High Country (1962)
Major Dundee (1965)
Jinxed! (1982)
Beowulf (2007)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
The Girl Hunters (1963)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
Point Blank (1967)
Falling Down (1993)
M (1951)
M (1931)
The Black Vampire (1953)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Scum (1979)
Elephant (1989)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), possibly Joe’s favorite John Ford film
The Last Hurrah (1958)
The Searchers (1956)
Charley Varrick (1973)
3 Godfathers (1948)
Rififi (1955)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Getaway (1972)
Never Give A Sucker An Even Break (1941)
The Killers (1964)
The Beguiled (1971)
The Beguiled (2017)
Casablanca (1942)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Flaming Star (1960)
King Creole (1958)
The Shootist (1976)
Rough Cut (1980)
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Seven Angry Men (1955)
The World In His Arms (1952)
Avengement (2019)
This Is England (2006)
Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)
Bustin’ Loose (1981)
Other Notable Items
Orson Welles
The Richard Stanley Podcast Episode
The Thomas Jane Podcast Episode
Five Tall Tales: Budd Boetticher & Randolph Scott At Columbia, 1957-1960 Blu-ray set
Jean-Pierre Melville
Robert Aldrich
Richard Brooks
Elia Kazan
Frank Capra
Frankly: Unmasking Frank Capra by Joseph McBride
Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success by Joseph McBride
The Name Above The Title memoir by Frank Capra
Netflix
Scott Adkins
Masaki Kobayashi
The Human Condition film trilogy
Sam Peckinpah
The Criterion Collection
Kirk Douglas
James Coburn
Mitch Miller
Robert Zemeckis
Ralph Meeker
Brad Pitt
Travis McGee
Film noir character Doc Savage
Mickey Spillane
Raymond Chandler
A.I. Bezzerides
The Bradbury Building
Walter Hill
Joseph Losey
Raoul Walsh
Humphrey Bogart
James Cagney
Priscilla Lane
Gladys George
Alan Clarke
Scum TV play (1977)
Danny Boyle
John Ford
John Wayne
Martin Scorsese
Who The Devil Made It book by Peter Bogdanovich
Lee Marvin
James Stewart
Woody Strode
“(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance” song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Don Siegel
Lindsay Anderson
Amoeba Records
Clint Eastwood
Walter Matthau
A Siegel Film: An Autobiography memoir by Don Siegel (1996)
Lucien Ballard
Michael Curtiz
Sam Wood
Michael Curtiz: A Life In Film by Alan K. Rhode (2017)
Erroll Flynn
Olivia de Havilland
Bring on the Empty Horses memoir by David Niven
Lauren Bacall
John Brown
Jeffrey Hunter
Colonel George Armstrong Custer
J.E.B. Stuart
The Hays Code
Pat O’Brien
Gregory Peck
Thomas Turgoose
EastEnders soap opera (1985- )
The Eli Roth Podcast Episode
Richard Pryor
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