Two episodes in one day? It's a double drop! Hot on the heels of The Haunted Palace (1963), Ben and Chris trade the haunted castle for the high seas with The Searchers' first-ever pirate movie: Robert Siodmak's The Crimson Pirate (1952), starring Burt Lancaster and his old circus partner Nick Cravat, with Eva Bartok and a young Christopher Lee. Is a swashbuckler a fair October pick? Is Burt swinging from the masts doing his own stunts the most Jackie-coded thing in Golden Age Hollywood? What does the "Crimson" in the title have to do with the Hollywood blacklist? Plus a brand-new guess-the-Letterboxd-rating game, a hair-raising Christopher Lee stunt story straight out of a Lancaster biography, some listener mail, and Ben powering through a cold. Listen and find out!
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