Bonus - Assignment: Munich (1972)

[00:00:00] It's Showtime! It's Showtime! It's some bad hat. There he is. I was the way to the car when you got it at a... You know right from home? You're just don't you? Anyway, oh, some some good you said. I... No. I didn't know.

[00:00:20] You're going to need a bigger watch. Hello and welcome to a special bonus episode of The Complete Works, season 4, a deep dive into the career and films of actor Roy Scheider. My name is Mike Smith and join me on this journey across The Scheiderverse.

[00:00:34] It's my friend, cohost, and fellow Roy Boy. Mike Treesha. Hi, dude. Mike. I'm doing great. I'm living my Roy Boy life. I'm excited. How are you? I'm good. You know, I am excited about this episode because we... We're actually going back a little bit.

[00:00:49] As of podcast time travel in the podcast time travel. Yeah, there's some podcast time travel happening here. I think this episode will probably put out shortly after we record it. Got it. But we're recording this like, you know, in a post having done Jaws World. You know? Right.

[00:01:05] Yes, can find it. Yeah, we're going a little bit back on the podcast. The speed pit you see, Roy Scheider was in quite a few TV movies in his career, especially in the 80s and 90s. But there's been a few that have come up already,

[00:01:18] and we have not been covering them. Simply because we couldn't find them anywhere. Yeah, they don't really exist at CM's. We found a few like or a print on demand, VHS rip onto blue onto DVD store, but that doesn't seem real.

[00:01:34] So it seems like a little bit like a scam. Yeah. Which you know, it would be a... I don't know if it could be like... I don't know what the market is specifically for people who are trying to watch like the Galileo movie from the 60s or something.

[00:01:46] Right. But that market would be us. And I don't want to be scammed. You know? Exactly. Yeah, we have not been able to find most of these TV movies from this early in the Roy Scheider career.

[00:01:56] Which is why we skipped the one we're talking about today originally because we couldn't see it. We couldn't find it. We looked around, couldn't find it. I am not like an extra legal means guy for the most part. I don't know how any of that works.

[00:02:08] But my de is. He knows his way around a few things and he couldn't find anywhere. Yeah, I mean, most in the most basic sense, I know how to look for things. But even I am often thwarted, especially in this era of...

[00:02:21] Or like the era that this TV movie is from. First stuff that is not like a high profile movie. So I couldn't find it. And luckily one of our listeners did. Yes. Fallen along at home was like, hey, you guys need this? We were like, yes, we do.

[00:02:36] Yes. Yeah, I gotta give a huge shout out to At Silver Mask on Twitter who... Were they able to find a VHS rip of today's movie? So yeah, Silver Mask tweeted at us saying like, oh man, I'm excited for, you know, Jaws or whatever.

[00:02:49] But a little bum that you're not gonna do assignment music. I spent so much time trying to find it and I was like, wait, I mean, you found it? Like, yeah, I'm gonna get that. Like, oh, let's get a link here.

[00:02:59] And yes, so thank you Silver Mask because, yeah, now we're able to talk about today's film. Also, Silver Mask is the one who gave us the phrase, Hollywood in Shiter. Oh. Which I used once or twice to close out episodes.

[00:03:11] And we'll definitely do so today, intro music to Silver Mask. I feel like that is literally the bare minimum we could do. That's all you're doing. You're exactly. Yes. So thank you again, Silver Mask. So because Roy Shiter is in it and because we could actually watch it,

[00:03:26] it's time to talk about 1972's assignment Munich. I'm just gonna go right into it because there's definitely no trailer for this movie to the confines. So Roy Shiter stars in the assignment Munich as Jake Webster. Alongside Leslie Ann Warren from Clue.

[00:03:43] Yeah, as Kathy Lang, it was very fun to see her in this. It took me a long time to realize like, oh yeah, you're the person that's not Susan Sarandon in Clue. Susan Sarandon is not in Clue.

[00:03:52] I'm saying, but every time I watch Clue, I feel like Susan Sarandon's, oh wait, no, that's not Susan Sarandon. Exactly, yeah, now Leslie Ann Warren plays Kathy Lang in this movie. Also in the movie are Richard Bayshart who played Ishmael and John Houston's version of

[00:04:06] Moby Dick as Major Barney called well. Werner Kthempler from Hogan's Heroes plays Inspector Hoffman, Robert Reed, the dad from the Brady bunch, plays Doug Mitchell, per Nell Roberts from Benanza, plays CC Brian and Keenan Win from films like Point Blank and Nashville plays George.

[00:04:22] You just watched Point Blank recently, right, Mike? Yes, yeah, the Leamer of the movie, no shit rocks. Nice. Alright, this movie was written by Jerry Ludwig and Eric Berkevici who is also a writer on the

[00:04:33] 1980 version of Showgun, which I know you were a big fan of the new version of Showgun, right, Mike? Yes, big fan, love that shit. I mean, I'm going to get in the season two, which is crazy. Yeah, I think it was originally envisioned as a mini series, right?

[00:04:45] The night series is a mini series based on a book, right? It's based on a novel, yeah, and they finished the novel and they were like, we keep going, we can't stop now, we're making money, I guess. I got to get back to it.

[00:04:56] I watched one and a half episodes, thought was pretty good, and I have not picked up some I guess that a lot. I got to, I mean, I'm busy watching the X-files. I got no time for showgun. You got four and a half hour versions or all versions.

[00:05:09] Four and a half hours of seven-samer I'd watch. You don't have time? Exactly, yeah. Yeah, and this movie was directed by David Lowell Rich. The movie was actually meant to be the pilot episode of a series that did get picked up to air.

[00:05:20] Whoa, it did, but the entire cast was changed once it was picked up to air. That's very funny. With Robert Conrad taking over the role of Jake Webster from Roy Shader, the new show was called Assignment Vienna, not Assignment Munich.

[00:05:34] Me too, too much of a deep touch for people to understand. Well, actually here's what happened, Mike. The 1972 Olympics were happening in Munich. Oh no! And so they did not want filming to get disrupted as a result of the Olympics,

[00:05:47] so they switched the location to Vienna for the TV show. Well, I mean, I guess they sort of worked out for them, considering Munich anyway. Sure. Don't worry about them. Oh, yes, yeah. I know. I was like, what happened in the 1972 Olympics in Munich? Oh, right. Oh, yeah.

[00:06:02] Right. The events of the Spielberg movie in Munich. Yeah. And Roy Shader left the show to pursue his movie career, which makes sense. I believe this was probably filmed probably after he filmed French connection, but before it came out, because French connection came out like, and of 1971.

[00:06:18] So this was probably filmed like in that kind of in-between period, and then this was able to be promoted after French connection on the basis of like, hey, we got Roy Shader in this. Yeah. But then yeah, he wasn't going to do a TV show.

[00:06:29] He got an Oscar nomination. What's he going to do a TV show for? Yeah, I mean, this probably was all, I mean, I don't really know how pilots and TV movies and all that stuff works.

[00:06:36] But like why would they release this version of the pilot that is not the pilot for the show that ended up getting picked up if it wasn't for Oscar nominee winner, forget Roy Shader. Right. Exactly. So yeah, Roy Shader left pursue his movie career.

[00:06:50] Assignment unit became assignment Vienna, but we only watched this movie because that's all Roy Shader's in. The IMDB plot synapses for assignment neonic reads under cover agent using his bars of front, battles three killers to find a stolen fortune. Okay. Yep. That's about all you can ask for.

[00:07:07] I think IMDB plots synapses for a synemic. So yeah, Mike, D. Go into this. What were your overall thoughts on assignment Munich and what's going to come out of it? Yeah, going into it. You know, we talked about this. I think maybe on the the Jeff Goldblum season,

[00:07:23] just like my sort of fascination with the like Archaeological object, yes of the TV movie, especially in this era. I mean, but at the time Goldblum is in in them. It's like more in the 80s I think. Yeah, definitely.

[00:07:38] But so you know, it's just and it's not even something I'm very familiar with. Like, even though I am very curious about them, I haven't made it like a project to be like, I'm gonna watch a bunch of 70s TV movies.

[00:07:48] I'm just not gonna see the personality now. No, exactly. No, I'm just fascinated that they exist and in such a weird time where it feels like today just need stuff to put on TV. I don't know. You know, I mean, you know, I guess. So why?

[00:08:04] You nailed it, Mike. That's it. Yeah, it's so wild to exist in where, you know, in today's world where there's simply too much things. Too many things. And to think about it, time went, oh shit, we don't have enough stuff. That's crazy.

[00:08:20] So, but I'm, but yeah, I mean, that I know that is a pretty common thing to turn a, like either unpicked up pilot or something like, you know, in this situation and turn it into and release it as a TV movie because, hey, we filmed it.

[00:08:32] We've got it exists. We might as well release something, right? Right. Which is a practice that continued even until like the 2000s. Right. You know, I think we talked about Goldblum's war stories, which was meant to be the Palatua TV show that didn't get picked up,

[00:08:44] but they released it as a movie. They aired it as a film. Right. Exactly. So that's wild. That's all I guess just to think about that as a concept. But yeah, I mean, a semi-munic is sort of fun. I don't know. It's got a cool idea.

[00:08:57] I didn't know it was a pilot and that, you've said that like, oh, it kind of makes sense. Actually. Yeah, like you feel like more adventures have been set up. Right? Yeah. But it is like surprisingly violent, even well, maybe not violent isn't the right word.

[00:09:11] Because you don't think there's like a lot of on-screen deaths, but like a lot of people die. Actually, no wait. You see severed heads in this movie, right? This new open to choice. I can help that. I'm remembering stuff. He opens a locker at a train station.

[00:09:23] And there's like the guys, one of the guys severed heads in there. So they're pretty wild movie. But yeah, it's interesting as a TV movie like that. Where, you know, in my mind, like there's like the HBO movie, also, right? Those are HBO originals and stuff like that.

[00:09:36] Those are usually pretty high budget considering the fact that they're just going to be released on TV. Right? Just stuff now that we see like straight to Netflix looks like garbage or whatever. I mean, that is like, you know, our closest compare it.

[00:09:47] Because really, I think HBO still occasionally makes their own movies. But even that has like decreased a lot. Yeah. And then more focused on max originals or whatever the fuck. Which I heard they're going back to HBO originals because they're like acknowledging that max means nothing.

[00:10:03] Like HBO has like 40 years of a dedicated, you know, fan. Like yeah, they built a brand of like extremely well regarded stuff. So it makes sense just called the HBO. Yeah, weird. But yeah, HBO is kind of decline making like actual movie movies.

[00:10:19] But yeah, like Netflix is putting out, you know, a couple of movies every week. And most of them are garbage. But every once in a while, there's like, oh, here's a real movie that Netflix is putting out.

[00:10:29] And this is going out in like selects theaters and you know, they're coming from a claimed filmmakers. And those feel like big movies. But then like, you know, there's other stuff that comes out of Netflix. It's like it's all going to the same place.

[00:10:40] But they're treated like exactly the same. Yes. You know, by the algorithm. Yeah. By the algorithm. Yeah. But you know, there's I think the vast majority of Netflix movies or whatever you are.

[00:10:50] Out there streaming movies feel like yeah, that's our modern day of equivalent of like what TV movies work. Yeah. Well, it's interesting too. And I was thinking about it, you know, because this is from the 70s that that like, oh, the equivalent to the sign

[00:11:02] of it would be something that would be filled by the like direct to video market. Like one tone video comes around. Sure. But like they're still making TV movies at the same time as they're making direct to video movies.

[00:11:12] So it's just always been there and it's not that fascinating. Yeah. And there are like, you know, a few TV, I feel like it's very rare that like a TV movie from the 70s and 80s, 90s like that they continued on.

[00:11:23] Like, still like became mainstays of pop culture in some way. But it did happen. Right. And there are like TV movies that are like, you know, pretty beloved cult objects like Steven Spielberg's first movie, Dual Toby Hooper's a Salem's lot is another one of those.

[00:11:36] There's a, wasn't threads a TV movie also. I think a BBC movie or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. I think it did air on a BBC. Yeah. Yes. Like stuff like that. Like there are movies that, you know, really did affect people and have gained a cold audience

[00:11:50] over the years. But I think like the vast majority of TV movies have mostly been forgotten to time. Yeah. If they're not a Columbus, nobody really remembers them. You know, every episode of Columbus basically had TV movie. So that's crazy. That's insane. I sure watch Columbus.

[00:12:07] I've flirted with being a Columbus guy for many years. I think I know that I would love Columbus. You would, I 100% could see that life. Yeah. I was like, I got really into poker face last year with Natasha Leo and which is basically Columbus.

[00:12:20] And watching it as like, man, I got to get into Columbus. But first you got again to do and you got to get into Star Trek. Well, I finished reading to you and that's like, oh, no, we haven't had a tune update in a long time.

[00:12:30] I finally finished doing it. It took me three months, but I finally finished doing it. Yeah. And then immediately afterward, I started reading Jaws and I'm already halfway through it. Like I started like, I'm sorry. Like yeah. It's a much easier read than do.

[00:12:45] It is so trashy compared to what I assume do and is like, yeah. But in any case, assignment music. Yes. Yeah, I think it's fine. You know, it's okay. It's okay. Yeah. It's cool to like as a cultural artifact kind of thing.

[00:12:59] But I was actually mostly struck by how like not cheap it looks. I don't know. I just sort of expect it to look good. Yeah. So look like a soap opera or something or what? I don't really know what I was expecting.

[00:13:11] But yeah, it looks pretty cool. It's pretty cinematic. There's not really anybody's fun in it in or anything like that. Like they're going for it. And I guess it makes sense if they were going for a pilot. Like you're trying to get picked up.

[00:13:22] Obviously, you're going to put a lot of effort into it. Right. And they did get picked up just not these people. I guess. Yeah. No, I think this show movie, whatever it looks good. It was actually filmed on location in Munich and you can tell.

[00:13:36] You can see the architecture and it like they really utilized the city really well. Yeah. And yeah, I think everybody's like giving it a performance. Roy Shatter, especially is a really fun lead for this movie which is cool to see.

[00:13:46] Uh, yeah. No, I had a good time with this. I mean, it's it's a weird. I had a good for getable time with this. I mean, I think it's like, yes. Almost as soon as the movie was over. I was like, well, I forgot everything.

[00:13:56] This is washed over me and I had a nice time. Yeah. I was thinking about it again. A pleasant enough experience that you know, I kind of just doing like a rehashed version of a lot of like spy-capor thrillers that I've seen in a million other times.

[00:14:08] But I still want to fairly well, it's okay enough. Right. Shatter and Leslie, I'm more and I really fun together. Uh, I've seen comparisons of this movie online to the movie Shrade with Carigrant, Aubrey Hepburn which I have never seen and that's huge blinds for me. That's crazy.

[00:14:23] You've never seen that one either? No. I've been weirdly, I mean, this week people have been talking about it on Twitter because I think Io at a beer he was in the Criterion Closets and picked out Sharees.

[00:14:32] Oh, Shrade and some guy was like, oh, these pretentious ass movies or whatever. And people were like, this is like one of the most delightful papers. Like, these really accessible movies you could ever possibly watch. Yeah. Scary Grant. Orgie Hepburn. Like what do you turn around? Yeah.

[00:14:47] Like to the biggest actors and like a kind of a fun, screw-bully kind of thing. So it made me want to watch Shrade. It was this entire past week of my Twitter timeline. I've just been charade in Miami vise. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:14:58] It's kind of a little Casablanca also, right? Like his restaurant called Jake's where he like sort of runs. And he like runs in illegal smuggling operation out of. And all that stuff has got a little toint between Do that in there, you know? Yeah. It's fun. Yeah.

[00:15:09] Absolutely. And so yeah. I think that it has some fun with that. I think the set pieces are pretty well done. There's an opening kind of chase scene that is really cool. And all that. So yeah. Have a good time. Assign me. I could say it's alright. Yeah.

[00:15:22] You don't know. It was kind of struck by how it's interesting that they would turn Roy Shire's character Jake into a like main character of a TV show. Because he is like so duplicitous, right? Like immediately. Like or not immediately.

[00:15:33] But by the third act he's just like cut me in on the deal. Right? Like he just wanted to end with the bad guys. But yeah. It seems like to screw them over eventually. You know, to get one over on them.

[00:15:42] But um, he's just like in right away and then people are getting murdered left and right and stuff. And it was like, well, this is pretty intense. Like he's kind of turning out to be a bad guy.

[00:15:50] But I guess he's not because he's the main character of a TV show. Ah, yeah. But what do you think of Roy Shader in this movie? Like how do you think this fits into their roles that we've seen in place so far? Well, it's interesting.

[00:16:01] I'm trying to remember the exact sort of timeline where this would have fit in. You know, pretty post right around French connection and yeah. This is 72. So it's basically like in between French connection and French conspiracy. Right.

[00:16:14] Like the French conspiracy outside man kind of combo and is like late 72 or at least 73. I think it's 73 when it hits the US. So yeah, this is like right in between those two things. So that's interesting because you know, we he's in the French connection.

[00:16:28] He's for sure a major supporting role but the supporting role right in the list. He would have been the lead of a TV show. I don't like, you know, if it had all worked out right?

[00:16:37] So that's very fascinating that he could have potentially been, you know, a Colombo kind of guy. Or whatever. Like you know, he could have been like a main stay on TV. Right. Not that I really know what a how successful a lot of TV shows were back then.

[00:16:49] Think it up like 10 speed and brown sugar to connect it to Goldloom again for a TV pilot. Which was 1980 I think so about eight years after this like 10 episode of the whatever right.

[00:16:58] Yeah, and that did get picked up to series and it was like yeah 10 13 episodes was built. Clinton's favorite show. The detail that I remember the most of that 10 speed.

[00:17:06] It was a little bit of a full but yeah, no, we talked with that pilot episode and how it is like a. Yeah, it feels like a fairly fully formed thing, but it's also like very distinct from what the rest of the show probably is.

[00:17:18] And that's also a thing with a lot of pilot episodes that the show gets reworked so much in between. Like the pilot and then when it gets picked up series.

[00:17:25] And so when you get to episode two, you don't have as much as much money as you did to make the pilots.

[00:17:31] As for one thing and you're probably like trying to establish like a new status quo because the pilot probably had like a lot of exciting things happening And those things can't happen every week on an out of TV show. Yeah, yeah, like that one.

[00:17:43] What's the other Govloom show? Turns out he's been talking to a ghost the whole episode. Oh geez. The rain. The rain. Yeah, yeah. Yes. Where he was an detective who could speak to the dead or something. Yeah, yeah.

[00:17:56] What a wild show that was also like 10, 13 episodes and that was good. Yeah. So, I don't know if the timing had worked out. Right. Shoulder could have been one of our greatest law in order. Oh man. Right. Right. Right. I'm more in order. He would have been incredible.

[00:18:14] Good. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, long order premiered what? Like the mid 90s. I think he probably could have been on long order if he wanted to be. Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing. Because at that point, you're a villain who knows. Yeah.

[00:18:28] Although I think Richard really didn't, he made some TV movies and stuff. I don't think he really liked working in TV or like doing ongoing TV stuff. Right. Because he was on the, he's in the main cast of Sequest DSV. Yeah.

[00:18:40] Which is around the long order time actually now that I'm thinking about it. Maybe a couple years beforehand. Yeah. Yeah. But I know from the stories about his, like, you know, his role on Sequest. I haven't not seen any of Sequest yet.

[00:18:50] We'll get to that at some point. Well, definitely cover at least first episode. You know, he was at the main cast and the first two seasons or something of Sequest. And then it was like really didn't like the direction the show was going.

[00:18:59] Didn't like, you know, had was kind of difficult to work with. Didn't like, you know, the, the grueling TV production schedule. Right. And so it was kind of like, you know, he, he, like, sort of left the show in like season three.

[00:19:09] Like they sort of wrote him out and he popped up in a few episodes here and there. But like he was like, leaving season three of Sequest. And I think that like sort of sourd him on TV in general.

[00:19:18] Like I think he's like, so maybe they were trying to get him from the order back then and just couldn't do it. But he would crush it on the order. He would have been a problem. Just to some old cranky judge or something.

[00:19:27] They would have been so fun. Yes, exactly. I mean, I could see him like, you know, when they were casting law in order in 1995 or whatever, instead of like Sam Waterston getting the role, right? Shoulder would have easily slid on there. Yeah.

[00:19:38] What a different world we would live in. Yeah. So better, I mean, I guess the show does get picked up and he, I don't know the necessarily the timing of it. But he does leave to continue his movie career, right? He doesn't. He's like, I'm out of here.

[00:19:48] I'm not going to Vienna. I did Munich. Goodbye. Yes. And, and the rest is history so to speak. So yeah. All right. It's how he music is fun. You know, it's a good, it's a twisty turny thing in general and, and lots of, I think,

[00:20:00] Capers a good, a good description for sure. Yeah. I think Capers a good description for it. And I just, I just glance at the right shot of aography mic. Re� shutter was on one episode, no way.

[00:20:10] Of law-norder criminal intent in 2007, which I think is like right before Jeff Goldblum's on the show. Amazing. But yeah, he was on one episode of the Law-Norders. He's an amazing, he's in the universe somewhere.

[00:20:21] Man, you know, if the thing that eliminated Re� shutter from being on the season four of the complete works is that he was in one episode of Law-Nordered with Jeff Goldblum. I don't know. We covered that one already. Yeah. Wow. Just missed. But yeah, there it is.

[00:20:39] All right. Any other random scenes or moments in assignment universe stands out to you mic? This will be a short episode. I don't know if that's been clear. But yeah, assignment is not much to talk about here. I'm glad that we got to talk about it.

[00:20:51] I'm glad we got to talk about TV movies in general. Yeah. And I'm especially grateful to Silver Mask for getting us this episode. So I hope that they don't feel ripped off. That's, uh, it's going to be like a 20, 30 minute episode. Sorry about that.

[00:21:03] But yeah, super grateful for that. But yeah, any other moments in this movie, the Stan Attsy mic? Well, I mean, that sort of opening chase sequences kind of intense. And it was like, wasn't really sure. I think it's, it's a little funny also.

[00:21:13] But, um, yeah, the, the kind of plot of the movie of the movie is that, um, this guy is released from prison. After like eight years or ten years or something, he's pulled it and pulled off a massive

[00:21:23] Gold-Hiced, um, was the only one left alive from the crew. But when he was arrested, the gold was never recovered. And now he's been released from prison. And he, like, a few minutes he gets out of the prison. Like, it gets down the street.

[00:21:35] There's three guys telling them. And they're just like immediately found and they're like, oh, walking like the Terminator chase in the moment. It's like kind of funny and kind of intense. Yeah. And yeah, it's revealed. He ends up being run over by a car during this chase sequence.

[00:21:46] And his daughter comes to Munich. And everyone is now after her because she must know where the gold is. And that's the plot of the movie is everyone's searching for this lost Gold from this heist. Um, that's the Twisty turn to you, Capers stuff.

[00:21:56] So yeah, that, that opening sequence that opening chase scene is like, kind of intense. It's pretty scary. It's also like I said a little funny because they're kind of all just everyone's in overcoats and Fedoras, and they're all like walking real fast.

[00:22:06] Because they're like trying not to make a scene until he finally breaks out. And they're like, breaks into a run. So yeah, that opening sequence is good. Yeah, yeah. The opening sequence is probably the highlight of the movie. It's pretty intense, pretty cool. All that stuff.

[00:22:18] And yeah, I don't know. Again, I don't really remember too much about the movie, honestly. But I do remember the ending being kind of cool. But I don't exactly remember, like, it takes place in a church. There's like a standoff. Yeah, it's pretty neat. That sounds familiar.

[00:22:31] Yeah, exactly. It was like, yeah, I can't remember it either. That's crazy. But it's there. There's also like a chase around the church. Like where Leslie Ann Warren's being chased by somebody in Rochetta's series. Yeah. All that. Yeah, there's some fun stuff in the movie.

[00:22:46] It's not too memorable, but we did watch it. And it is findable just not by us. Somebody else had to find a phone. So we had to find it for us. Yeah. So yeah. Once again, thank you to Silver Mask for getting us assignment.

[00:22:57] We hope we didn't let you down with the episode. But I do actually have some letterbox reviews. Oh, yes. For this movie. The movie I tweeted a picture of screen chat of. There's only 18 logs of people having watched this and two of them are us.

[00:23:11] So that's before we, that's after we logged it. That's after we logged it. It's 20 now, baby. But no, it's 18. That's just crazy. It has to be the lowest of any movie I've ever logged. Right.

[00:23:23] So yeah, only 18 people have logged this movie on letterbox at some point in the last 10 years or so. Because about how long letterbox is better around right? Man, that's crazy. And there are three reviews of this movie on letterbox. Okay.

[00:23:39] So I'm going to read all three of them. The entirety of the breath and width of all that has been written about the sign name. Yeah. So yeah, I have three reviews here from letterbox for assignment unique. Here is the first one like it's a review from Vigo.

[00:23:52] It's a three and a half star review which reads, I'm so full from milk. Yum. Okay. Interesting. Uh, yeah, interesting take on assignment unique. I really thought I was going to get you to spit out your drink when I, yeah. Do you get ready?

[00:24:08] Do we think that is a quote from the movie that neither of us remember? It's possible. It's certainly possible. I, I, I, I, I, I choose to believe it's just some weirdo on the internet. Okay. That's definitely possible.

[00:24:21] Uh, here's where you from Michael Burjuron with no rating average television movie from early 1970s. Oh, is a bit too much to Shirei to take very seriously although the cast makes it watchable. Which is yeah. I think that where we're at with that one.

[00:24:32] And here's the last review from Laura. It's a two and a half star review. Essentially the Grant head burn film Shirei without the humor. Not bad though, just needed a little more to it. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. So there you go. Shirei.

[00:24:46] We should watch it. Adding it to the watch list. I'm going to happen, sir. And barely Shirei's like in the public domain you can kind of just watch it whenever you want.

[00:24:53] That's what I saw when people were dunking on the guy that with Ayow and her beery called it pretentious or whatever. Yeah. It's like that due to some copyright issues. This is like one of the most available movies. That's like this and that is living dead. Right. Basically.

[00:25:07] But there is a criterion collection disc of Shirei to find a way to once it's like pristine and a blue right quality. There you go. All right. That is assignment Munich. This special bonus episode once again, thank you to Silver Mask for helping us out with this one.

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[00:26:12] And our logo was designed by Mac V or at Fearless Guard on Twitter. Now I'm not exactly sure where I'm dropping this episode in the schedule yet. So I can't tell you what's happening next week on the podcast. I know that we have recorded our jaws episode.

[00:26:25] We've recorded our 7-up episode. We had a lot of good stuff coming on the way. And actually right after this, we're going to record our marathon Man episode, which is pretty exciting. Very exciting. We'll find out if it's safer enough. Yes, absolutely.

[00:26:37] I think this might be coming out afterwards, but it might be coming out first. We're going to have a review of Long Legs, the new Nicholas Cage movie. Up pretty soon too. Yeah, I can't wait. This Gary Smoothie Ever at Astros. Or whatever out of that.

[00:26:48] It is very funny how all the marketing of Long Legs is like this movie will tear your heart out of its soul. And you won't see the gates of heaven when you die because you visit. Yeah, because you visit the theater to go see Long Legs.

[00:27:01] And I think in actuality, it's going to be like a 7-esque thriller maybe. Like, yeah. That's what I heard is like, yeah, if you're just going ready for like a man hunter 7 kind of rip off knock on that rip off, but that kind of style movie Right.

[00:27:15] You'll have fun. But if you're going to be expecting the scariest was disturbing movie ever. You kind of set themselves up to fail. A little bit. But there's a lot of hype around this. I think there are a lot of people going to see this one.

[00:27:26] And yeah, it's another big Nicholas Cage performance. So of course we will be talking about it. Yeah, Long Legs coming up soon. Thanks so much for listening guys. For being a Hollywood Insider.