Friday Film Showcased (FFS) returns with the second and final part of our two-part special on adaptations of Kenneth Fearing’s novel The Big Clock, ostensibly in tribute to the late Gene Hackman. That is borne out in this episode, as Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan discuss a film Gene Hackman is actually in: No Way Out (1987), in which he stars opposite Kevin Costner.
Ciara and Conor discuss topics including: bad alternate titles, Mel Gibson and Roger Donaldson re-enacting Who’s On First, remakes vs readaptations, limo-based coitus, inaccurate IMDb trivia, Cold War paranoia, Will Patton’s Smithers energy, magic computers, Iran-Contra, bad music, great twists, and whether Kevin Costner could play baseball in the Old West.
No Way Out (1987) – The Big Clock/No Way Out Special Part 2 – Friday Film Showcased
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Catch up on Part 1 here!
Mentioned in the podcast:
Kevin Costner on Oprah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4gHNGa2sCs
Richard Schickel’s review of No Way Out for Time: https://web.archive.org/web/20080408202708/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,965232,00.html
Paul Haspel, Agency Games in Cold War Washington: Politics and Gender in No Way Out, Journal of Popular Film and Television, 38(3), pp. 133–142. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01956051003725236
Kevin Costner on baseball movies vs westerns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDbEYJ9Mbtk
