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Speeding Bullitt: The Life and Films of Steve McQueen

Feb 20, 2020

Never So Few is a 1959 war movie directed by John Sturges, staring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, and Steve McQueen. On this episode, I talk with the author of Sinatra in Hollywood, Tom Santopietro, about Frank Sinatra’s acting career, and the star’s relationship with McQueen. During the second half of the show,...


Feb 6, 2020

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery was based on true events that happened on April 24, 1953, in St. Louis, Missouri, when career criminal Fred William Bowerman and two other men entered the Southwest Bank with the intention of stealing up to 200,000 dollars. Four years later Charles Guggenheim and John Stix made a movie...