Episode 169
February 10, 2025
Bless That Freak
MST3K 411 • The Magic Sword
Hosted by Charlotte Wells and Chris Piuma
The Magic Sword dangles over Chris and Charlotte while they dawdle over Bert I. Gordon, Estelle Winwood, Basil Rathbone, Sherlock Holmes, and David Lynch.
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Show Notes.
The Magic Sword (Bert I. Gordon, 1962): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer.
Kayfabe, just in case anyone is totally lost.
We discuss Bert I. Gordon a few times, but especially in our episode on Village of the Giants.
Our episode on The Corpse Vanishes.
We talk about Hellzapoppin’ in our episode on The Rebel Set.
And we talk about Paul Frees in our episode on The Beatniks.
You can listen to our bonus bit on Ed Wood’s later adult films for free over on our Patreon!
Rudolph Grey: Nightmare of Ecstasy.
The Twilight Zone: Long Live Walter Jameson.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bull in a China Shop. (And There Was an Old Woman, where Estelle kills Charles Bronson!)
Darby O’Gill and the Little People (Robert Stevenson, 1959).
The banshee scene that Chris watched. The scarier banshee scene that terrified Charlotte.
Sean Connery: Pretty Irish Girl.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sidney Lanfield, 1939); Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (Roy William Neill, 1942); The Woman in Green (Roy William Neill, 1945); Terror by Night (Roy William Neill, 1946).
The episode where Chris talks about A Study in Scarlet on The Spouter-Inn should be coming out soon!
Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders.
Erratum: It’s Captain Hastings, not Colonel Hastings!
They Might Be Giants: She Thinks She’s Edith Head and Mr. Klaw.
St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977).
Dune (David Lynch, 1984).
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986).
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992).
The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999).
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001).
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