Episode 729: Schloctoberfest 2026 #4: A Discussion of Machine Gun Kelly, with Jeff Shuster!
Episode 729 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).
So far in all our Schloctoberfesting, Jeff Shuster and John King have not focused on either a Roger Corman film or a Charles Bronson film. Both of those oversights are addressed in this convo about what turns out to be a fairly good and psychologically interesting gangster story that successfully de-romanticizes the genre. Machine Gun Kelly came out in 1958, the last year of the 1950s…
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