By RM
saturday, january 31, 2026 at 11:59:00 p.m. est
What's a "Goldstein movie"?
Don't know this one, decided to investigate-sounds like a "McCarthyism" parable-a boy is suspicious of a "strange new neighbor" (presumably foreign to boot, since he's played by Kurt Kasznar)- slanders him, the guy is of course innocent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_About_a_Stranger
The director's background is interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bradley_(director)
Started promisingly with an artsy, well-made Peer Gynt independently-made feature (with a teenaged Charlton Heston!), ended badly with a couple of dull SF movies, 12 to the Moon and Madmen of Mandoras-the latter destined for infamy when it was re-edited and retitled for TV as They Saved Hitler's Brain!
-RM
By Nicholas Stix
sunday, february 1, 2026 at 6:22:00 a.m. est
A Goldstein movie is a pro-communist movie, which depicts patriots as evil. Most of them were made during the blacklist era, by people who were crypto-communists--reds who never joined the party. Goldstein was based on Trotsky, by Orwell in 1984, who was the party's hate figure. However, no hate figure in a Goldstein movie was based on Trotsky, and they were not all based on one man. The most popular "Goldstein" was Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, but there was also Gen. Curtis LeMay, Gen. Edwin Walker, and gossip columnist Walter Winchell.
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A Jewish James Bond flick from 1965. Not widely released.
GoldSTEINer,
He's a man,
A man who won't spend too much,
With his wife goes dutch.
Brings her,
To a place,
Where James Bond would never go,
Prices too low.
lol.
--GRA
--GRA
Wednesday Night at 10 p.m. ET, TCM shows Don Siegel's Charley Varrick (1973) with Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Andy Robinson, Sheree North, and John Vernon.
A gang of small-time crooks rob a small-town New Mexico bank and get in big-time trouble, because the loot turns out to be mob money being illegally laundered. The thieves, led by Matthau in the title role, seek to escape the police and appease the Mafia in this well-crafted and acted film. Baker plays a mob enforcer hunting Matthau's gang. Everything is tied together in the final scene.
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