Sydney Greenstreet
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Sep 10, 2026
Sydney GreenstreetSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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Don StanleyNARRATOR
You have been listening to The New Adventures of Nero Wolf, starring Sydney Greenstreet.
Don StanleyNARRATOR
[upbeat music] Tonight's transcribed story was based on the characters created by Rex Stout.
Don StanleyNARRATOR
This is an Edwin Fadiman program.
Jason HarrisHOST
Maybe not.
Jason HarrisHOST
I think it was more a Sydney Greenstreet that time.
Josh BellHOST
Right.
Josh BellHOST
Right.
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Josh BellHOST
Uh, he did work with, with the director, Robert Florey, on another kind of horror-ish movie called The Face Behind the Mask, where he is this, uh, immigrant who gets disfigured in an accident and becomes sort of like a crime boss, and that's a much better movie than this.
Josh BellHOST
I think that's a fun Peter Lorre movie to recommend.
Jason HarrisHOST
I mean, and again, I would, I would go back and say he, Bogart, and Sydney Greenstreet did a few movies together, and he was Mr. Moto, the first James Bond villain.
Jason HarrisHOST
So, uh, you know, watch Casino Royale, watch Passage to Marseille, or Marseille, Josh, if you prefer, and, uh, of course, Casablanca.
ChrisHOST
Because he went from being too slimy to being too many legs to being too humanoid, right? And they got it.
ChrisHOST
And they referred to him, like George says, if this guy was a human, he would be Sidney Greenstreet.
ChrisHOST
Do you even know who Sidney Greenstreet is? I think so.
ChrisHOST
Sidney Greenstreet was one of the bad guys in Casablanca.
ChrisHOST
So even as a child, like I know it was a long time ago, I didn't know what they were talking about at all.
ChrisHOST
It was such a weird thing.
Joan WinfieldSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, I've made seven pictures, and when I'm not before the cameras, I'm visiting other sets.
William KeeleyHOST
Did you see the filming of Warner Brothers' new thriller, the picture Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre have just finished? The verdict? Uh-huh.
Joan WinfieldSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh, yes, and it was so exciting.
Joan WinfieldSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But what impressed me especially on the Warner lot was the lavish sets for their new musical, The Time, the Place, and the Girl.
November KellyHOST
I say gay guy, I mean, he's playing it gay.
November KellyHOST
It's kind of downstream of, like, Sydney Green Street in Maltese Falcon.
November KellyHOST
I'm not gonna do the impression, listen to Big A Self-Crimes on your own time, but like, it's, uh, yeah.
November KellyHOST
It's a little bit homophobic, if you ask me.
Zach EastmanHOST
John Huston, through Dashiell Hammett's words, wrote a character that is like the epitome of the bullshit artist.
Zach EastmanHOST
It's the con man's dream to be able to be as falutant as sydney greenstreet is so you could give him like nonsensical phrases that like if you read them it just sounds like it's nothing but flourish
Sterling CookGUEST
but then he has kind of like a Like, John Goodman reminds me of, like, a Green Street of today in a lot of ways.
Sterling CookGUEST
And we're not
SimonHOST
This film marks their final pairing, and they do not disappoint in bringing to life a story filled with intrigue and suspense.
SimonHOST
The plot centres around George Edward Grodman, played by Sydney Greenstreet, a once-respected superintendent at Scotland Yard who is disgraced after a grave mistake leads to the execution of an innocent man.
SimonHOST
Grodman is replaced by the arrogant and self-assured John R Buckley, played by George Caloris, who is eager to prove himself.
SimonHOST
However, when a mysterious murder occurs, Grodman sees an opportunity to exact revenge on Buckley by allowing him to stumble through the investigation.
Tom GriswoldHOST
It's like Falcon.
Tom GriswoldHOST
No, it's because that's what Sydney Greenstreet says.
Tom GriswoldHOST
Who's Sydney Greenstreet?
Chick McGeePANELIST
Oh, he's, he's-
Josh ArnoldPANELIST
Oh, you, you know him.
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with the
Zach EastmanHOST
slick intelligence of, insert any Sydney Greenstreet role here.
Zach EastmanHOST
He is the Sydney Greenstreet, but he's also the Strasser.
Zach EastmanHOST
And I think one of the few detriments of it is the slow burn malevolence would work better in the big sleep than it does in this movie you almost want this guy to be a little bit more uptight vichy coordinated you know sack of shit and instead he's kind of just like a slow menacing presence
Sterling CookGUEST
He's like a canker sore.
Brian SaurHOST
But obviously based on Dashiell Hammett, and just a great hard-boiled, uh, you know, noir, I guess, and, and detective film.
Brian SaurHOST
But, like, the cast between Bogart, Mary Astor, uh, Peter Lorre, and of course Sydney Greenstreet, like, these are all-timer performances.
Brian SaurHOST
And I love all of them.
Brian SaurHOST
I love how they manipulate each other.
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