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Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Your hosts Dan and Vicky take you on a hot date through movie history. They'll choose a random month, day and year and pick a favorite movie released on or near that date. It could be a love fest, it could get heated or it could turn into a threesome! Take a wild and funny ride in Dan and Vicky's movie time machine. You're invited on their Hot Date!
Episodes
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What A Carve Up! (Episode 124) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The obscure 1962 film What A Carve Up!, retitled No Place Like Homicide! for it's American release, brings British comedians Sidney James and Kenneth Connor…
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High Life (Episode 123) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Renowned French director Claire Denis was shooting her dour thriller High Life while nursing her dying mother. She credits the real life tragedy in her life…
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Secret of the Blue Room (Episode 22) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Shot in 6 days for the super stingy price tag of $69,000, Kurt Neumann's Secret of the Blue Room, a remake itself of a German film, was enough of a success for…
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The Last Passenger (Episode 122) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
2014's The Last Passenger was the feature directorial debut of British filmmaker Omid Nooshin and tragically his last. After a long battle with depression, the…
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Top Ten Funny Men (Episode 120) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date has reached another Top Ten episode - just what we do here every tenth podcast - and this time Dan and Vicky discuss their favorite all time male…
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Under Milk Wood (Episode 119) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Here we are at the end of 2020 taking stock of the strange and intense year that was. There's lots of introspection, reflection, and depression happening. So…
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The Blue Gardenia (Episode 118) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
By all accounts a job for hire, The Blue Gardenia nonetheless benefited from having German director Fritz Lang at the helm. On a tight 21 day shooting…
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Trollhunter (Episode 117) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Before Norwegian filmmaker Andre Øvredal found acclaim with his festival fave The Autopsy of Jane Doe and box office clout with 2019's teen horror hit Scary…
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Don't Answer The Phone (Episode 116) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Originally a screenplay titled Nightline, 1980's Don't Answer The Phone was shot under the title The Hollywood Strangler - perhaps a nod to director Robert…
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Jewel Robbery (Episode 115) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Released in 1932, Jewel Robbery flaunted the sexual chemistry between it's two leads, introduced marijuana as a comedic motif and had it's debonair criminal…
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The Haunted Strangler (Episode 114) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
At 73, Boris Karloff was looking for material that would finally give him the chance to show his range as a performer. He knew he couldn't escape his…
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By Night's End (Bonus Episode) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Courtesy of TriCoast Entertainment, Dan and Vicky review By Night's End from director Walker Whited. The home invasion thriller, co-written by Whited and Sean…
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Mary Queen of Scots (Episode 113) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Your Hot Date hosts travel back in time to 1561 and the tumultuous return of Mary Queen of Scots from France to stake her claim to the English crown from her…
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The Crime of Helen Stanley (Episode 112) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
At just under an hour, the 1934 murder mystery The Crime of Helen Stanley hardly overstays it's welcome. It was the fourth film in the Inspector Steve Trent…
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Dealin' With Idiots (Episode 111) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
SOUND QUALITY ALERT: THERE WAS AN UNFORTUNATE HUMAN ERROR IN THE RECORDING OF EPISODE 111. WE'D FIRE THE SOUND TECHNICIAN BUT HE'S ALSO YOUR CO-HOST. SINCEREST…
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Top Ten Favorites of the 80's (Episode 110) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The Me First Decade. The Decade of Greed. The Yuppie Decade. There are many names for the 1980's. But the decade also represented an eclectic one for movies…
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Baron Blood (Episode 109) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
For 1972's Baron Blood, director Mario Bava brought together the talents of some of the era's greatest genre stars and designers. German actress Elke Sommer…
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Narc (Episode 108) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
For it's assured visual style and performances from Ray Liotta and Jason Patric, Joe Carnahan's Narc was the talk of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, winning…
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Becky Sharp (Episode 107) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Our original episode 107 was lost to the sound gods so we've kept the Hot Date chosen at the end of that podcast and move forward with the Vanity Fair…
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Wristcutters: A Love Story (Episode 106) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
Please excuse our sound issues during this episode. We hope it doesn't detract from your enjoyment of it. Not your typical romantic comedy, director Goran…
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Foreign Correspondent (Episode 105) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Despite the success of his Daphne Du Maurier adaptation Rebecca, Alfred Hitchcock thought the film too sentimental and romantic and longed to return to the…
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Orpheus (Episode 104) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
It's hard to imagine any cast being better than the one director Jean Cocteau eventually assembled for his 1950 loose film adaptation of the Orpheus myth. But…
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My Cousin Rachel (Episode 103) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
NOTE: In trying to accommodate necessary social distancing, this week's podcast was recorded with Vicky calling in via Zoom. We apologize in advance for the…
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Oldboy (Episode 102) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Please note that Hot Date 102 was recorded BEFORE the Covid-19 pandemic hit crisis levels. Our discussion of it reflects that moment in time. We encourage all…
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Cottage To Let (Episode 101) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1941's Cottage To Let started life as a play in London's West End. It was a huge hit and film director Anthony Asquith (Browning Version, Pygmalion, The…
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100 Shows of Hot-itude (Episode 100) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date with Dan and Vicky hits it's 100th episode with a look back at the podcasts that made us. Your hosts choose their ten favorite films discovered (or…
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Criminal Lovers (Episode 99) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
French provocateur Francois Ozon's uses the frame work of fairy tale Hansel and Gretel to tell his violent and twisted story of Luc and Alice, a young…
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A Day At The Races (Episode 98) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
There were so many variables in bringing the nearly two hour Marx Brothers classic A Day At The Races to the screen -- translating tried and tested…
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To Be Or Not To Be (Episode 97) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Ernst Lubitsch left his native Germany in 1922 as an ambitious 30 year old looking to make his mark in American movies. With the help of Hollywood royalty like…
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The Fits (Episode 96) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Young actress Royalty Hightower had never acted before being cast in director Anna Rose Holmer's drama The Fits. She was, however, an experienced dancer; a…
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The Strange Door (Episode 95) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1951's The Strange Door had the talents of Charles Laughton in the lead but Universal hung their hopes on Boris Karloff to bring audiences in despite Karloff's…
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Carmen Jones (Episode 94) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Re-imagined to the American South during the post war era, the film version of Oscar Hammerstein's Broadway musical Carmen Jones was revolutionary to…
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Episode 93) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
From the fertile imagination of Terry Gilliam comes The Adventures of Baron Munchausen from 1989 but it wasn't without it's share of near catastrophes. A…
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Pickpocket (Episode 92) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Robert Bresson, director of this week's Pickpocket and numerous films that helped define the French New Wave, was known to be a task master on set. In his…
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Hard Times (Episode 91) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Director Walter Hill had his hands full on the set of his 1975 directorial debut Hard Times. He had cast Charles Bronson in the lead role of Chaney, a boxer…
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'Cause This is Thrillers! - Top Ten Psycho Thrillers (Episode 90) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date has reached episode 90 and that means hosts Dan and Vicky come up with another Top Ten movie list. This time, the topic is psychological thrillers and…
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The Harvey Girls (Episode 89) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Even before director George Sidney and stars Judy Garland, John Hodiak and Angela Lansbury finished shooting 1946's The Harvey Girls, it's signature song, On…
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The Krays (Episode 88) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
When director Peter Medak (The Changeling, Romeo Is Bleeding) cast twins brothers Martin and Gary Kemp to play the infamous British gangster siblings Ronnie…
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On The Beach (Episode 87) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
After the success of his 1958 film The Defiant Ones, which confronted issues of racial division, director Stanley Kramer continued on a path of making films…
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Der Lift (Episode 86) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Director Dick Maas can be arguably credited for putting The Netherlands on the horror map with his 1983 film Der Lift. The film, about a high rise plagued with…
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Elling (Episode 85) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
For episode 85 of Hot Date, Dan and Vicky take us to Scandinavia for the comedy Elling, starring Per Christian Ellefsen as the title character and Sven Nordin…
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Lady of the Tropics (Episode 84) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The plot of 1939's Lady of the Tropics strangely mirrored the life of it's star Hedy Lamarr. In the film Lamarr is a woman of mixed race living in pre-war…
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Defending Your Life (Episode 83) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1991's Defending Your Life is the fourth film Albert Brooks' wrote, directed and starred in. He would eventually serve in those capacities on a total of seven…
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The Hustler (Episode 82) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
To get an authentic pool hall feel for his second to last feature The Hustler (he would only make 1964's Lilith before passing away in 1966), director Robert…
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Wigstock: The Movie (Episode 81) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
A documentary film gets the Hot Date treatment for the first time in the show's history. And not just any documentary. Dan and Vicky take a look at director…
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Peas In A Pod: Great On-Screen Pairs (Episode 80) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Dan and Vicky have reached their 80th Hot Date episode and that means more top tens! This time your hosts discuss their favorite on- screen pairings. Those…
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Episode 79) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Karel Reisz had never directed a feature before and was committed to capturing the gritty reality of living in working class Nottingham, England. Not only did…
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Scarlet Street (Episode 78) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1945's Scarlet Street reunited director Fritz Lang with stars Joan Bennett, Edward G. Robinson, and Dan Duryea and cinematographer Milton Krasner from the…
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13 Sins (Episode 77) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Coming off the success of 2010's Lionsgate thriller The Last Exorcism, director Daniel Stamm brought his script for 13 Sins, a remake of a Thai film, to the…
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Killers From Space (Episode 76) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
For the first time in Hot Date history, an episode was lost to the computer gods as our original 76th show became a casualty of Dan's misguided efforts to…
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Blood In Blood Out (Episode 75) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Director Taylor Hackford's (An Officer And A Gentleman, Dolores Clairborne) first cut of his Chicano epic Blood In Blood Out was nearly five hours long but…
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Scars of Dracula (Episode 74) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
After a three month recording hiatus, Dan and Vicky are back to sink their teeth into the Hammer horror entry Scars of Dracula. The 1970 British production was…
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The Mambo Kings (Episode 73) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Essentially an immigrant story set in the 1950's New York music scene, The Mambo Kings is also one of the few mainstream Hollywood films to highlight the…
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Episode 72) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Director Russ Meyer was a World War II newsreel cameraman and Playboy photographer before writing, producing and directing his own feature films. But his early…
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Cover Girl (Episode 71) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Gene Kelly, on loan to Columbia from MGM for 1944's Cover Girl, was finally able to put his talents to full use as the main choreographer for the film. With…
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Shockers Without Borders: Top Ten Foreign Horror (Episode 70) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date has reached 70 and you know what that means: A Top Ten episode! For this one, we take a shocking trip around the world for our favorite foreign horror…
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Tomorrow Never Dies (Episode 69) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
In the late 80's, Pierce Brosnan was approached to assume the mantle of legendary British movie spy James Bond from Roger Moore. But his contract with NBC and…
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Willow (Episode 68) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Star Warwick Davis was only eighteen when he was cast as the lead in the Ron Howard directed, George Lucas produced fantasy epic Willow. He gamely and…
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The Cassandra Crossing (Episode 67) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The 1977 infection-on-a-train movie The Cassandra Crossing was an international affair fraught with potential pitfalls. Funded with British, Italian, and West…
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The Hidden Fortress (Episode 66) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Inspired by the theatrical Noh dramas he loved so much, Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress became a cultural and financial touchstone in 1958. Despite being…