Transcript: Christian Faith and Classic Movies: Insights and Reflections

3, 2, 1, 0, 0, and liftoff! Welcome to the Retro Drive-In Podcast with Jason Pastor Jay Locker. Say the secret word and divide $100. It's a common word, something you find around the house. We want to thank all our sponsors for their help in making this podcast possible. My dog is if he gets to go much faster, this thing is going to leave the ground. Don't look now, but it is Jethro, you better get up there and tell that bus driver to slow down Now let's rewind the tape and join Pastor Jay for some retro entertainment talk on the Retro Drive-In Podcast I was a laugh, what are you doing here? Greetings classic cinema and TV fans, Pastor Jay here with you once again on the Retro Drive-In Podcast podcast and today we're looking back at one of my favorite actors. I love Cary Grant. His suave, sophisticated ways. You know, it's interesting because classic Hollywood was a very, very fun time because classic Hollywood, you had so many great actors and actresses, but they carried themselves in such a really, really cool way. When you would see these classic actors, they were always dressed fit to kill. They always looked good. No matter when they were going out or whatever, they always looked amazing. Well, I suppose you're right in a way, Walt. Sure, I'm right. it's a different time and um and that's not i'm not knocking anybody i'm just saying back in the day they all dressed uh very very you know hollywood it was it was just a unique time and and carrie grant was uh one that was just like that he he always dressed in such amazing suits and just looked really, really cool. But Cary Grant, what a great name, right? Cary Grant, yeah, it's a lot better than his real name, which is Archibald Alec Leach. Yeah, I don't know how well of a Hollywood icon he would have become under the name Archibald Leach. I don't know. A couple of pretty fancy monicas there. But, yeah, Hollywood probably did a good thing. The studios did a good thing changing his name there for that. It probably wouldn't have, he wouldn't have become the icon. But anyway, today on this podcast, we're talking Cary Grant. And what we're talking is some of the cool new releases and some of the new additions and stuff that we have got in our collection. that are Archibald Leech or Cary Grant. But I love Cary Grant. I think it's so cool. And Kino Lorber and Warner Archive have done some really cool releases of Cary Grant, and we're going to share some of them with you really, really quick. But before we do that, I want to share with you one that we have recently picked up because this is one I've always wanted and I couldn't find it. and I finally picked it up on Amazon because, you know, what can you do? Sometimes you've got to do that. But this is Alice in Wonderland, and this is very, very cool. Alice in Wonderland. And this is a very cool release. It is star-studded. It is awesome. And Alice in Wonderland, Cary Grant here plays the Mock Turtle. That is very, very cool. and just great actors in this thing, a star-studded cast, including Gary Cooper and one of my favorites, W.C. Fields. So many others are in this. I mean, just so many great actors. I definitely suggest checking out Alice in Wonderland, one of the original classics. I mean, this is so very cool, and the special effects are just amazing And just to let you know there is a little something interesting with the film His Girl Friday that Cary Grant kind of spoofs this movie in take a look at this Yes. That's the stuff, Billy. Keep it coming. You're passing your can. Get back in there, you mock turtle. See what I'm saying? See what I'm saying? Yeah, he spoofs the fact that he's the mock turtle in Alice in Wonderland in the film His Girl Friday. What a cool thing. I love it. It's so cool. But Kino Lorber and Warner Archive did some amazing things. First, I want to share with you the Kina Lorber release. This one is spectacular. We've highlighted this one before, but this is just such an amazing release. It deserves checking out again. This is a three-Blu-ray set of Cary Grant. Unbelievable. I love this. These are the early Cary Grant films. This one is, the first one here, is Joan Bennett and Cary Grant. Very cool. Love that. That is called Wedding Present. What an amazing film. This was an early time of Cary Grant's life when he was more of a comedic actor. He still did comedy through most of his career, but he transitioned later in life to more dramatic action roles and stuff by Northwest. But in his early career, he was a comedian and a pretty amazing comedian as well. Also, in this collection, we get another Joan Bennett release, which is Big Brown Eyes. This is Cary Grant and Joan Bennett again in Big Brown Eyes. Very, very cool. love that. And then Cary Grant and Francis Drake in Ladies Should Listen. Probably not the best title in this day and age. But these were films done in a different era. But anyway, I love this release. This is so very cool. And I do highly suggest checking out the full written review. We'll go into great detail on this release at retroac.blogspot.com you can get a link below. But anyway, check out the full written review of this amazing set. It's just amazing. Keenal Orber really came through and did something special with this release, and I'm so excited. And then we're going to transition to the Warner Archive releases from Cary Grant. I'm looking forward to more from Cary Grant, from Kena Lorber, and Warner Archive. These two companies are really doing some great things. And I love, absolutely love seeing what they're doing. They're just blowing it out the water. The first one that was one of the newer releases was this one from Warner Archive with Cary Grant. and very, very cool. Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, and this one is Room for One More. Wow, what an amazing film. All about a couple who have a bunch of kids, but they start adopting more. And that's the whole point. There's always room for one more. It's a really sweet tale, but it's got a little bit of comedy in it. It's not overly comedic, But it has a little bit of comedy in it, and it is amazing. It is so good, well-produced, and just a great, great feature. Filled with awesome stuff. Two cartoons, classic Warner Brothers cartoons and a theatrical trailer. Really cool stuff. Yeah, Warner Archive, amazing stuff there with that one. And then here, the most recent release from Warner Archive about Cary Grant is probably one of my favorite Cary Grant films. I have many, of course, but this one is probably one of my favorites, and this is Mr. Blanding's Builds His Dream House Yeah very very cool film It kind of reminds me of George Washington Slept Here you know I love that classic film with Jack Benny But yeah Mr Blanding Builds His Dream House Again you can check out both full written reviews of these two films at retroac.blogspot.com. Yeah, Warner Archive and Kina Lorber bringing in some amazing, amazing things for classic film fans. So much great things that Cary Grant did throughout his career. And just to kind of just tell you that I don't know if I can really pinpoint my favorite Cary Grant film because he did so many amazing things. When you go through his career and you look at it, it's just amazing. I love his take from the great Hitchcock film, North by Northwest. He is so dramatic and so amazing to all of his amazing comedies that we've seen from Keanu Loiber and Warner Archive here, just some of them, to his public domain classic, which is His Girl Friday. He was amazing. Another amazing film that has fallen into the public domain is Charade. It kind of has a Hitchcockian feel to it. And if you look at Cary Grant's career, has he transitioned? And that's the cool thing that many actors can't transition, but in his early career, he was so comedic, he was so funny, and he was so amazing in that type of stuff, and as he transitioned and as he got older, his ability to act went more adult and more dramatic, and he transitioned, and he did it in such sophisticated and such an amazing way that people accepted it. A lot of people can't accept comedians changing and being more dramatic. And Cary Grant did it with such style and such grace that I think that's why people accepted it so much, because he did it in such a graceful way. he was known for his comedy and then he slowly transitioned as he got older into the more dramatic and so people accepted it and wow such a great great great actor and I want to thank Keanu Lorber and Warner Archive for releasing these amazing Blu-rays of Cary Grant I say to both those companies keep them coming And we love, love, love Cary Grant. He is so amazing. I'm hoping, I won't say what I'm hoping for, but there's a certain film I will say that I love that I'm hoping that maybe one of these companies will be able to get the rights to and release it. And let's just say it has an idea of Boris Karloff in it. I'll just leave it at that. And you can maybe search that out and find out what one I'm talking about. That's your homework if you don't know what it is. And if you do know what it is, leave a comment, and then we'll know you won the prize. I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. Let's do it that way. Let's do it that way. Leave a comment below on this page here. And if you know what film I'm talking about that has Cary Grant in it, and it has a hint of Boris Karloff in it, just a hint, just a little nod to Boris Karloff in it. If you know what it is, leave a comment what the film is. And of all the ones that get it right, we'll pick a name out of the hat, and we'll send that person a digital copy of a movie. So how about that? We'll do that for you, okay? That's a little something as a way to kind of thank you for listening in and commenting and all that type of good stuff, okay? So yeah let do that All right we doing that on the fly but that okay We do it that way See if you know your Cary Grant films as much as I do Alright, but anyway, we want to thank you for joining us on this little journey today through classic cinema on the Retro Drive-In Podcast. Again, visit Warner Archive and Kina Lorber and check out their amazing releases. pick up one of these great sets, like the Kina Lorber Cary Grant set, or one of these amazing ones from Warner Archive. Great stuff. Check them out. Pick them up. And, yeah, enjoy some Cary Grant. His classic style and grace is just amazing. Great, great actor. Definitely one of my favorites. and as we said something you may want to watch with the whole family it is very very good is Alice in Wonderland Cary Grant's not heavily in that but as with all the actors they all have their little parts so it's pretty cool alright well as a conclusion here we want to remind you to like, share and subscribe and be sure to subscribe to our channel here because we want you to be informed when a new video comes up. And we have something very special coming up very, very soon, which is a new feature called Classic Cinema Plus. Do you like classic movies? How can you sing gypsy song without gypsy chorus? So, ladies and gentlemen, I will ask you for a little favor. You help me with a little chorus that sounds beautiful, wonderful. I will give you a little beat you make for me. Zoom, all right, please, everybody. Zoom. Very nice. Now, show up, eh? So, I like it. Classic Cinema Plus will be bringing you something very special. You've really got what it takes. 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You'll be there for days and days and days, I promise you, because it's unbelievable. alright well that's all the time we have we want to thank you for joining us today as we have taken a look back at some Cary Grant good stuff yeah love this stuff all kinds of good stuff from Cary Grant and it's all thanks to the good folks at Warner Archive and the good folks at Kena Loider we thank them both for all the great stuff they send our way so that we can share it with you until we see you next time this is Pastor Jay reminding you that if you want to see a great film check out a classic and we will see you next time here on another Retro Drive-In Podcast have a blessed day, bye we want to thank you for joining us today on the Retro Drive-In Podcast with Jason Pastor Jay Lockhart have you heard the latest about McTavish? he's living on the roof Why would he be living on the roof? He heard someone say the drinks are on the house. The drinks are on the house. You don't. But me. 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