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Episode 98 - Tom Horn

2023/12/15

Mickey Guinn, retired actor, stuntman, and driver for Hollywood Local 399 Teamsters joins me to talk about befriending Steve McQueen on the star's penultimate film, Tom Horn, and to share stories about working with many actors including William Shatner, Bette Davis, and Jim Carrey.

Episode 97 - The Old Place

2023/11/16

Florence Esposito takes me back to The Old Place in Agoura Hills, California during the early to mid-70s, where she worked and mingled with Steve McQueen and other Hollywood stars at the beloved rustic bar.

Episode 96 - An Enemy of the People

2023/10/27

The Steve McQueen expert Marshall Terrill joins me to provide insight into McQueen's rarely seen 1978 film, An Enemy of The People. We also discuss the extensive interview Steve gave Charles Champlin at Loyola Marymount University in 1978, which I also present in its entirety.

Episode 95 - Fading into the Background

2023/10/12

In 1974, Steve McQueen starred in The Towering Inferno, the top grossing film of the year. By 1975, he became a recluse, and faded into the background of Hollywood. On this episode of the podcast, the Steve McQueen expert, Marshall Terrill, joins me to talk about the icon's time away from the spotlight.

Episode 94 - Lee Marvin

2023/09/22

Lee Marvin expert Dwayne Epstein joins me to discuss his new book, Killin' Generals: The Making of The Dirty Dozen, the Most Iconic WW II Movie of All Time, and to explore the life and films of one of Steve McQueen’s contemporaries, and the man credited with drastically altering the way real violence is depicted on film, Lee Marvin.

Episode 93 - The Best Disaster Movies

2023/09/07

Writer, actor, podcaster, and fellow disaster movie fan Dion Baia joins me on this lengthy episode to discuss the best Disaster movies ever made, The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure. We also review the history of disaster movies and explore the career of Irwin Allen.

Episode 92 - A Tiny Spark

2023/08/04

Documentary filmmaker, producer, and author, Laurent Bouzereau explores the impact disaster movies have had on his career, especially Steve McQueen’s The Towering Inferno. He also shares what he learned about the classic disaster film from talking to his friends, Robert Wagner and Faye Dunaway.

Episode 91 - The Towering Inferno

2023/07/20

Carlena Gower, Angela Allbright in The Towering Inferno, joins me to reveal what it was like working with Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, to talk about being on the set of the greatest disaster movie ever, and to discuss her life and career after the film.

Episode 90 - Blobfest 2023

2023/06/29

It's that time of year again, when movie fans congregate at The Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania to celebrate Steve McQueen’s 1958 classic sci-fi monster movie, The Blob. Chuck Francisco, aka Dash Daring, joins me on this episode of Speeding Bullitt to discuss this year’s Blobfest programming.

Episode 89 - Dustin Hoffman and The Graduate

2023/06/15

After seeing The Graduate in 1968, Steve McQueen couldn’t believe Dustin Hoffman was going to be a movie star. Five years later, they starred in Papillon together. Beverly Gray, author of 2017’s Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How The Graduate Became the Touchstone of a Generation, joins me to discuss Dustin Hoffman and The Graduate.

Episode 88 - Cinema Behind Bars

2023/06/02

Kevin Kehrwald, author of the book Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars, and a professor in the English department at Frostburg State University, where he founded the Film Studies program, joins me to discuss the history of prison movies; exploring films and actors from all decades, including movies about women in prison and prison comedies.

Episode 87 - Life on a Prison Island

2023/05/18

Caroline Delbert, freelance writer and reporter, and contributing editor at Popular Mechanics, discusses her recent article, Forced Exile: The World’s Dubious History of Prison Islands, as we explore the history of life on various prison islands, like Devil's Island from the Steve McQueen film, Papillon.

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Kurtis Scott 2024/02/13

Episode 91

What an excellent and rare interview. Hearing Carlena and her mom’s recollections of their experiences shooting Inferno was fantastic. It would be ama...

KL15 2022/07/02

We are talking about the King of Cool here….

Steve McQueen is the quintessential example of a man’s man. Kelsy does an incredible job of presenting the King of Cool’s life and his work by a wonde...

Christophe Loiron 2022/05/05

Steve McQueen

If you like the actor and are into behind-the-scene stories about the man, you’ll really dig this podcast. Insightful and entertaining. The host Kelse...

JAM 1972 2022/01/27

Entertaining

I am fortunate enough to be able to listen to podcasts while I’m at work. To find a good one with an entertaining host is not always easy. This podcas...

AmerksFanDan 2021/10/07

Speeding Bullitt

This is an absolute joy to listen to. I was turned onto the podcast by a customer in the grocery store I work in part time. He was wearing a tshirt of...

gudstuf 2021/01/17

Best ever

I am so glad I came across this podcast. I am definitely a member of the Mcqueen fan club. The podcaster is very professional and well organized. His ...

JWeatherby76 2020/12/17

Steve McQueen Fan

Thank you for Doing this I enjoyed it a lot and you and your guesses breaking the films locations and man down 👌👍👏

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