Greatest Movie Of All-Time

Dana and Tom begin Season 4 with their first tiebreaker episode trying to decide between Apollo 13, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein. You can now follow us on Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok (@gmoatpodcast) or find our Facebook page at Greatest Movie of All-Time Podcast . For more on the episode, go to: https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/apollo-13-1995-blazing-saddles-1974-young-frankens...

Dana and Tom are joined by their most frequent guest, Christine Duncan, to wrap up Season 3 with one of the greatest romantic comedies of all-time, When Harry Met Sally (1989): directed by Rob Reiner, written by Nora Ephron, starring Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Bruno Kirby, and Carrie Fisher. Plot Summary: Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) are two young people moving to New York City. They m...

Dana and Tom are joined again by Adam Hitchcock (the Circuitverse) for their annual Christmas episode to discuss Elf (2003): directed by Jon Favreau, written by David Berenbaum, starring Will Ferrell, Zooey Deschanel, James Caan, Ed Asner, and Bob Newhart. Plot Summary: Buddy (Will Ferrell) is an orphan who wound up in Santa’s sack and made it all the way back to the North Pole with him. Santa’s e...

Dana and Tom discuss the current highest-grossing movie of all-time in Avatar (2009): directed and written by James Cameron, starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, and Sigourney Weaver. Plot Summary: Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a former Marine confined to a wheelchair, has been recruited to join an expedition to the moon Pandora, where corporate interests are strip-mining for a mineral worth $20...

Dana and Tom discuss the Best Picture winner from 1953 for the 81st Anniversary of Pearl Harbor, From Here to Eternity (1953): directed by Fred Zinnemann, written by Daniel Taradash, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, and Frank Sinatra. Plot Summary: In 1941, in Oahu, Hawaii, Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is voluntarily transferred after quitting t...

Dana and Tom welcome first-time guest, author/director Jeremy Norrie, to discuss the sequel to the Best Picture winner from 1976 in Rocky 2 (1979): directed, written by, and starring Sylvester Stallone with Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers, and Tony Burton. Plot Summary: After losing the heavyweight title fight, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) attempts to find a life afte...

In this special bonus episode, Tom repays his Oscar bet this year by reviewing Dana's pick for him, Glen or Glenda (1953): directed, written by, and starring Ed Wood with Timothy Ferrell, Dolores Fuller, and Bela Lugosi. Plot Summary: In the 1950s, little is understood about Transvestitism. Director Ed Wood, in a seemingly autobiographical examination, seeks to inform the world on the topic throug...

Dana and Tom discuss one of the seminal film noirs in Double Indemnity (1944): directed and written by Billy Wilder, co-written by Raymond Chandler, starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson. Plot Summary: Late at night, an insurance salesman, Walter Neff (Fred McMurray) stumbles into his office, bleeding from a wound to his left shoulder. He starts to record a memo for Bar...

Dana and Tom welcome first-time guest, writer/director Scott Hardie (Father of the Flying Car), to discuss the movie that started Quentin Tarantino's career, Reservoir Dogs (1992): directed, written by, and starring Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, and Michael Madsen. Plot Summary: Six men are hired to rob the local jewelry store for a recent diamond shipment: Mr. White (...

Dana and Tom discuss a seminal movie of Dana's childhood, The Great Escape (1963): directed by John Sturges, written by James Clavell and W. R. Burnett, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Donald Pleasence, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn. Plot Summary: In WWII, a group of allied officers who have a history of escape, are placed together in a high security p...

Dana and Tom discuss the last film in their month of Journalism movies with Spotlight (2015): written and directed by Tom McCarthy, co-written by Josh Singer, starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, and John Slattery. Plot Summary: When the Boston Globe hires a new editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber), he encourages the "Spotlight" team of crack investigators/reporter...

Dana and Tom discuss one of the most prescient films of all-time in Network (1976): directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Paddy Chayefsky, starring Peter Finch, William Holden, Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway, and Ned Beatty. Plot Summary: Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the lead anchor at UBS, is fired when his ratings tank. Network executive Max Schumacher (William Holden), Howard's best friend, is force...

Dana and Tom discuss the second movie in their month of Journalism movies with, His Girl Friday (1940): directed by Howard Hawks, written by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer, starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, and Ralph Bellamy. Plot Summary: New York newspaper editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) runs his paper with pluck and on an ethical edge. When he discovers that his ex-wife, investigative repo...

Dana and Tom are joined by first-time guest, Shane Rogers (Host, Midnight Facts for Insomniacs podcast), to discuss the state of journalism with Broadcast News (1987): directed and written by James L. Brooks, starring Holly Hunter, William Hurt, and Albert Brooks. Plot Summary: A highly strung and emotional news producer, Jane Craig (Holly Hunter) works for a network news office in Washington D.C....

Dana and Tom discuss another Alfred Hitchcock classic in Rope (1948): directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adaptation by Hume Cronyn, screenplay by Arthur Laurents, starring James Stewart, John Dall, and Farley Granger. Plot Summary: Philip Morgan (Farley Granger) and Brandon Shaw (John Dall) strangle a mutual friend to death with a piece of rope to experience the supremacy of murder. Planning to capital...

Dana and Tom discuss the Stephen King adaptation Misery (1990): directed by Rob Reiner, written by William Goldman, starring Kathy Bates and James Caan. Plot Summary: After a car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is pulled from the wreckage by former nurse Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), who claims to be his biggest fan, and brought to her remote cabin to recover. However, her fandom turns dar...

Dana and Tom welcome guest, Beth Webster (Over 65 and Talking podcast), to discuss the Steve Martin 80s classic, Parenthood (1989): directed by Ron Howard, written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, starring Steve Martin, Jason Robards, Keanu Reeves, Joaquin Phoenix, Rick Moranis, and Diane Wiest. Plot Summary: Uptight perfectionist Gil Buckman (Steve Martin) faces the undaunting task of raising t...

Dana and Tom welcome Walter Gainer II from Boss Locks to discuss one of the seminal crime dramas of the 2000s, Training Day (2001): directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by David Ayer, starring Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Dr. Dre, and Snoop Dogg. Plot Summary: Seeking a change from his quiet beat in suburban Los Angeles, Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) is assigned to the narcotics division o...

Dana and Tom welcome actor, Andrew Mondia, to the show to discuss possibly the biggest musical of the 1960s, the Sound of Music (1965), directed by Robert Wise, written by Ernest Lehman, music by Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein, and Irwin Kostal, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Plot Summary: When a young nun, Maria (Julie Andrews), proves too spirited for convent life in 1930s Au...

Dana and Tom welcome horror novelist V.P. Morris to the show to discuss the genre-redefining horror film, Scream (1996): directed by Wes Cravens, written by Kevin Williamson, starring Neve Campbell, Drew Barrymore, Rose McGowan, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, and Matthew Lillard. Plot Summary: Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore) and her boyfriend are viciously slaughtered by a mysterious killer in a Hall...

Dana and Tom once again visit Akira Kurosawa's work with possibly his most famous film, Rashomon (1950): written and directed by Akira Kurosawa, co-written by Shinobu Hashimoto, starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, and Minoru Chiaki. Plot Summary: A woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) and a priest (Minoru Chiaki) are sitting beneath the Rashomon city gate to stay dry in a downpour when a commoner (K...

Dana and Tom with Adam Hitchcock (Host, Movies and Podcorn podcast) to discuss the modern sci-fi classic, Interstellar (2014): directed and written by Christopher Nolan, co-written by Jonathan Nolan, starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Michael Caine. Plot Summary: In a future Earth where humans are finding the planet more uninhabitable due to "the blight" that is cau...

Dana and Tom welcome back returning guest, Braden Ganter, to discuss possibly the greatest sequel movie ever made, The Godfather: Part II (1974): directed and written by Francis Ford Coppola, co-written by Mario Puzo, starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and Lee Strasberg. Plot Summary: The saga of the Corleone family continues with two parallel storylines. The first fo...

Dana and Tom discuss one of their mutual favorite comedies, Blazing Saddles (1974): directed by Mel Brooks, story by Andrew Bergman, starring Clevon Little, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, and Alex Karras. Plot Summary: When the new railroad route must change and go through the town of Rock Ridge, the conniving Attorney General Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) looks for a way to drive out...

Dana and Tom discuss the last of their month of Best Picture winners with one of the great Crime Dramas in American Cinema with On the Waterfront (1954): directed by Elia Kazan, written by Budd Schulberg, starring Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, and Lee J. Cobb. Plot Summary: Dockworker Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) had been an up-and-coming boxer until ordered to throw a...