John Dahl

Yeah, Candy Cane.

Directed by John Dahl.

The star is Steve Zahn.

Minnesota's own Steve Zahn.

You know what I mean? So, but, you know, it's...

I like John Dahl, the director, and it was still a nice experience that I did it.

The last scene, what do we got here?

Lebowski.

Who had already done Vision Quest at this point.

Later on, I do remember her from that movie, The Last Seduction, that John Dahl directed, where she was playing a real manipulative woman named Bridget Gregory.

Um, um, anyway.

Hm.

🎵 🎵 This is a Breath of Fresh movie, and this is the seventh installment of our eight-part series on the life and career of John Dahl, the gay icon that never was.

I'm your host, Victoria Harley, and today we're discussing Spartacus, an American-produced epic historical drama adapted by Dalton Trumbo from Howard Fast's 1951 novel of the same name.

The film was directed by Stanley Kubrick and produced by Edward Lewis and Kirk Douglas of Bryna Productions.

But if you've been living under a rock, Spartacus is about a slave surviving the brutal training as a gladiator and going on to lead a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.

At the movies around this time, you could have seen I'm Alright Jack, Angel War Red, The Magnificent Seven, Psycho, Little Shop of Horrors, the original, of course, The Bad Sleep Well in Japan, that's a Kurosawa film, Ocean's Eleven, Black Sunday, an Italian horror film, The Apartment, and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, a British, I think, kind of New York realism, British kitchen sink, I don't know, something like that.

Now, this series is about John Dahl, and there are so many things we could talk about around Spartacus, but we're going to try to, we're going to at least start with John.

Now, when we last left him, his last film had come out about 10 years earlier.

And in the meantime, he did a lot of theater and a lot of television.

Number six, From Hell, directed by Albert and Alan Hughes.

Number seven, Joy Ride, directed by John Dahl.

Number eight, Cape House, directed by Ian Softley.

Quit talking and start mixing.

It could be Rope because Jimmy Stewart has been in a bunch of films this year.

And John Dahl was in Spartacus.

He was.

It could be Rope.

Yeah.

John Dahl, the film

director and this guy, Michael Polair, who is a producer for David Lynch and Soderbergh lives here.

He's a very nice dude.