Fred Williamson
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Oct 14, 2026
JohnnyHOST
Who knows? But, uh, yeah.
JohnnyHOST
So, like, a s- like a guy like Fred Williamson, who I know-
MikeHOST
[laughs]
JohnnyHOST
... uh, but, like, I don't know him well, like-
41 MINS LATER
MikeHOST
Like, the only pass I would give it is that the fact that they had to d- the, the people who died in the initial attack, they're, they probably knew about how much time until they came up.
MikeHOST
And then, uh, I d- I did, I went through the same kinda intellectual exercise.
MikeHOST
Like, it's like, yeah, Fred Williamson changed so fast.
JohnnyHOST
Yeah, exactly.
Neil RogersHOST
Um, even-
CormacGUEST
I think that's why he's so loved by people who, like, are filmmakers, because they know, like, all the bureaucracy and bullshit that you have to go through to make anything, and you've, like, done commercials in the past.
CormacGUEST
Like, you've seen-
Neil RogersHOST
Yeah
John ReedHOST
He was in Dawn of the Dead and Knightriders.
John ReedHOST
Fred Williamson was Frost.
John ReedHOST
He was in Black Caesar and The Inglourious Basterds.
John ReedHOST
Michael Parks, who passed in 2017, was the Texas Ranger Earl McGraw.
Neil RogersHOST
I watched it for the first time, like, over a year ago.
Neil RogersHOST
Like, 'cause again, I was in anticipation of, like, doing this podcast and closing some gaps on some filmmakers.
Neil RogersHOST
It was one I really wanted to track down.
Neil RogersHOST
I found it.
9 MINS LATER
Neil RogersHOST
We, it's, it's, it's, again, like a lot of Coen's films, it is entertaining in its own right, but the story behind it, again, is what makes it so rich to discuss and kind of break down.
Neil RogersHOST
A- and it certainly heightens the viewing when you realize the kind of context behind it.
Neil RogersHOST
So the, the contentious part of this film, the main character, the director who murders a young woman, is based on filmmakers Michael Cimino and Peter Bogdanovich, both of whom experienced, uh, highly publicized career declines in the early 1980s after, uh, majorly expensive box office fl- failures and flops.
Neil RogersHOST
Now, to be clear, they've not killed anyone.
Ernie FergusonHOST
I think that was, was that Roundhow- Roundtree or something like that? Richard Roundtree? Uh, I think he was the guy that played Shaft.
Ernie FergusonHOST
Uh, so Fred Williamson.
Ernie FergusonHOST
Uh, yeah.
Ernie FergusonHOST
I mean, so you get the use of that.
Catbus RussHOST
Two of them are horror movies, but if you look at director Shane Carruth's Wikipedia, he's kind of a monster, so I think Upstream Color is a nice fit between Th13 Ghost from 2001 and 2019's VFW, starring everybody's '70s second-tier action heroes.
Catbus RussHOST
We're talking Steven Lang, David Patrick Kelly, George Wendt, Fred Williamson, Martin Kove.
Catbus RussHOST
I think I've got them all nailed there.
Catbus RussHOST
Oh, and, uh, William Sadler, so do not want to forget about him for my good buddy Brian Plato from the NOLA Film Scene Podcast.
21 MINS LATER
Catbus RussHOST
Like, the first time I watched it, you know, it was just fun seeing old supporting actors kick ass.
Catbus RussHOST
So this film's about a VFW hall that's just minding their own business when a young woman with a bag full of superheroine that she stole as vengeance for the dealer killing her sister.
Catbus RussHOST
And as she enters, basically drugged-up zombies come to attack the VFW hall, and it's up to Stephen Lang to lead his platoon featuring Fred Williamson from From Dusk Till Dawn and MASH, William Sadler from Die Hard 2, David Patrick Kelly from Commando and The Warriors, George Wendt from Cheers, and Martin Cove, best known for his work in the Karate Kid franchise.
Catbus RussHOST
So that sums up what the movie is.
BrettHOST
Donning gay apparel here.
TyHOST
No, no. Olivier Grenier and then Gary Busey, Fred Williamson and Martin Cove, friends of the show.
TyHOST
So.
TyHOST
Kind of.
5 MINS LATER
TyHOST
So, oh, and let's see.
TyHOST
I think it's just, the idea is good.
TyHOST
You know, I got all these great people, but it didn't really go well, you know, and Fred Williamson is in it.
TyHOST
Wow.
IanHOST
...
IanHOST
so low budget Italian action war movie with sorta, like, schlock moments in it, 'cause, like, Fred "The Hammer" Williamson's in it, and there's another, there was, is it Bo Star? There's an American guy in it, but it's all sorta B movie actors.
EvanHOST
Mm.
IanHOST
There's no really any big, big names.
GregHOST
[laughs]
MenaceHOST
And I'm just like, "What the hell?" It also has Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo, uh, Fred Williamson, Tom Savini, uh, John Saxon, Kelly Preston, John Hawkes, and who directed? Is it Quentin Tarantino-
GregHOST
Uh, Robert Rodriguez
MenaceHOST
...
Mike AshquieHOST
See, I used to think the big Black guy, Frost, I used to think that was-
David DenoyerGUEST
Fred- Fred Williamson.
Mike AshquieHOST
Yeah.
Mike AshquieHOST
See, I thought that was Ken Foree for-
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