Damn Good Movie Memories

Episode 325 - Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

One of the greatest Christmas films ever made, featuring terrific performances from Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood, and John Payne.

Episode 324 - Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

A forgotten gem of satire and parody in the vein of Airplane! and The Kentucky Fried Movie.  Featuring skits directed by John Landis, Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Robert K. Weiss, and Peter Horton.  Actors include Michelle Pfeiffer, Carrie Fisher, Rosanna Arquette, Steve Guttenberg, Arsenio Hall, David Alan Grier, Griffin Dunne, Kelly Preston, Joe Pantoliano, Henry Silva, William Marshall, and Ed Begley Jr.

Episode 323 - One Night in the Tropics (1940)

The film debut for Abbott & Costello, but can even their timeless comedy routines save this film?  Features "Who's on First?" and stars Robert Cummings, William Frawley, Allan Jones, and Nancy Kelly.

Episode 322 - Pretty in Pink (1986)

One of the vital "Brat Pack" films of the 1980s starring Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy, Annie Potts, James Spader, and Harry Dean Stanton.  Written by John Hughes and directed by Howard Deutch.

Episode 321 - Christmas in July (1940)

Dick Powell stars as a lowly office worker whose life is suddenly changed after a prank played on him by his co-workers boosts his confidence and his bank account.  Written and directed by Preston Sturges.

Episode 320 - Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

An iconic film that helped define 1980s culture and another example of the immense talent of writer/director John Hughes.  Starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Jennifer Grey, Jeffrey Jones, Mia Sara, and Charlie Sheen.  This is a crossover episode with our friends from the Growin' Up Rock Podcast.

Episode 319 - The Palm Beach Story (1942)

A very fun screwball comedy starring Claudette Colbert as a creative-minded wife who decides the only way to save her marriage and allow her inventor husband (Joel McCrea) to succeed is to divorce him and find another husband who's rich to finance her ex-husband's inventions!  Co-starring Rudy Vallée and Mary Astor. Written and directed by Preston Sturges.

Episode 318 - National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)

One of the best road-trip comedies ever made. Starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, Randy Quaid, John Candy, and Eugene Levy.  Directed by Harold Ramis and written by John Hughes.

Episode 317 - Halloween (1978)

The greatly influential horror classic written and directed by John Carpenter, which spawned numerous sequels about the crimes of psycho killer Michael Myers. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, and P.J. Soles.

Episode 316 - True Grit (1969)

John Wayne stars as a hard-living US Marshall hired by a teenage girl (Kim Darby) to capture the man that killed her father.  Co-starring Glen Campbell, Robert Duvall, Strother Martin, and Dennis Hopper.