Episode 97 - Bugsy Malone Is An Intensely Weird Movie

Bugsy Malone (1976) is an intensely weird movie starring Scott Baio and Jodie Foster. It’s a gangster epic set in the 1930s about a turf war between two rival mobsters. All the normal gangster film cliches are present, including the regular archetypes - the street tough mob boss, a sultry, world-weary femme fatale & a smooth talking con man caught in the middle. But it is cast only with children under the age of 16. And if that doesn’t spell box office bonanza, it’s also a musical - but all the songs were sung and recorded by adults. Oh, and instead of tommy guns, they shoot lethal cream pies. If that bizarrely accurate description doesn’t sell you on one of the strangest films ever created, then you ain’t seen nuthin yet. | 0:00 - Intros | 5:56 - Revolutions (podcast) | 12:20 - All Hail The Silence / Men Without Hats / Howard Jones (Live) | 22:58 - Stuber (2019) | 30:14 - Colossal (2016) | 33:57 - Bert Kaempfert | 36:27 - MAD Magazine | 40:26 - Bugsy Malone (1976) | Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Paul Williams - Overture - Bugsy Malone (Original London Cast) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | All Hail The Silence - The Alarm | Men Without Hats - Pop Goes The World (Live) | Men Without Hats - S.O.S. (Live) | Men Without Hats - Moonbeam (Live) | Howard Jones - Everlasting Love (Live) | Howard Jones - Life In One Day 2.0 (Live) | Howard Jones - Like To Get To Know You Well (Live) | Joseph Trapanese - Not Ryan Gosling - Stuber (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Bear McCreary - The Colossal Finale - Colossal (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Bert Kaempfert - Afrikaan Beat | Bert Kaempfert - Sweet Caroline | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Paul Williams - Bugsy Malone | Paul Wiliams - Fat Sam’s Grand Slam Speakeasy | Paul Williams - You Give A Little Love | Paul Williams - So You Wanna Be A Boxer | Paul Williams - Down And Out | Paul Williams - My Name Is Tallulah | Clip from Airplane! (1980)