Beyond The Wizard of Oz: Kansas in the Movies - Encore

as you're cooped up at home this week and catching up on some binge watching how about something else where that kansas connection to dave cavey our prisons was originally broadcast on february thirteenth two thousand eleven when you think of heroes in and the movies you probably think is the setting for dozens of sounds i'm kate mcintyre and today and kbr presents beyond the wizard of oz will look at some of those movies many old favorites some really old movies you may have missed ends in your films all set in the sunflower state i'm joined by tom price professor and chairman of history at washburn university towns also the editor of a series of articles on campus and films published every other year by the journal kansas history also with first time ever all writer in residence at washburn university and founder of watch birds center for cancer studies tammy rather teaches a class on kansas in the movies and welcome gentlemen

so we've got dozens of movies to talk about today but of course we need to start with our most famous film the wizard of oz what is it about this movie that still appeals to us or it doesn't appeal to us after all these years we're getting them in time a lawyer said this in print several times of kansans have an interesting love hate relationship with this film probably because it's what everyone asks this about as soon as we step across the state line hours total is the first question but david's decision are critical for moments that has so much in it holman about the nature of roman about its transformation into that other place in all the ten interesting political motives and of course they're the people in the system and playing pink floyd has the background and there's just so much you can do with the final so now it's going to be part of our landscape and that's what i do when i teach it as so many people know it well that i think part of it is that it is a television

movie you know it didn't do that well when it first came out and so on it when i was finally released and watched every spring as a kind of american ritual on television in nineteen fifty six that also have to be the time that the copy right on the book expired so there are a lot of new new editions of the of the novel and realist raisins an abridgment so kids everywhere we just focused on the west was a deity and i think that helps with two when it everybody seen the movie i guess who hasn't seen where there was nobody saw it i show nurse betty which has a lot of laws are elements to it i am i do dark side of the moon by pink floyd and turn a soundtrack often and my students are like really were going to do that i really am and they all walk with a guy who's an immigrant a city that's pretty cool and the references are everywhere i have i've noticed lately because of them watching

buffy the vampire slayer a lot again over and over again just weeden plays out because teams in both buffy and angel just watch tv for a few nights and you will get sued were not in kansas anymore dropped into some the script is always there so it's become very much a prayer of the way americans think about themselves and people are continually use in the world of jewish passover norton whether it's through the way is that came out in the late seventies or or whether it's science fiction to mansour does it doesn't interest and a very good one at it i know frank bomb just hit on something that strikes a universal chord so it's not it's not just about kansas it's about human life of course to the stars and was of asgard judy garland and i'm ray bolger who played the scarecrow the two of them appeared together in another cancers themed movies the harvey girls waits as i watched it i don't have a

feeling that they were actually farther west by the time this movie came out the harvey girls is very much steeped in kansas flor y think the fundamental fact there is that the whole harvey system is central to the way the railroad re shapes the american west and southwest and then it becomes part of the structure of the creation of a real railed based terrorists system that has since disappeared and i think they're trying to re create to some extent these days in mexico for example and it really had to do with just this sense of progress in the country i remember hearing recently about the reverence being responsible for standard rising tide in an suv you can standardize time if you could have communication know how many people on the train when they're going to write in a certain place in winnipeg be all served quickly and there's less food festival is all about some of the franchise franchise in arizona absolutely actually it sort of pre

dates the way our society has today why our culture is today at that time that people might question some of that now but that time it was like wow now as far as the movie does it was released in nineteen forty six the stories about susan bradley who comes out to sand rock and sensibly to marry a local she gets off the train doesn't really wanna marry and he doesn't really want to marry her and she becomes rv girl but really the story it's about the railroads but it's really a love story involving her and the owner of the salon across the street and i was really intrigued to see an appearance by the young into lowlands barry as an one of the dance hall girls in it if you only ever thought of into lansberry as iron murder she wrote or some of her later rose you really need to see her dolled up and on the stage of strut around you know i think in some way every western is a love

story because every western as the divorce settlement finally no matter how reckless and dangerous in and lawbreaking know the world is its it's all it's all about making it until it's all about making it safer it's all about about that he row clean up the town and then falling in love with the right girl not to dance world who felt that the cover girl and sort of accepting the picket fence life sheer terror and they're only really breaks down in later western seventies forward right on top sort of a classical an age of westerns which starts in really with the beginning of the film yet and ngos enter into the fifties and then with the turn of the sixties we started and mccabe and mrs miller owns and on sergio leone's were india than in the whole character of western change but in the sort of classic ones you

get that i think kansas is the ideal setting for a western because with so many types of question the territorial struggle that iran traverses farmer question the lawn order one and also then making the west safe from native american tribes and then there are the girls as an experience forward now is the expansion of some modern industrial technology into the west through the railroad through the system and sensation of service one of the things that i love about the harvey girls is i'm a sucker for musicals and then it's got some great music in it including the side did that with a new gadget than the number bought in nineteen oh may want them about bad way on the media and the band they just a stadium but i will tell you it's a name in the world well marianne off the train mother

singing it in all in these wonderful floored costume has had just really extravagant musical number that doesn't belong on it train before anywhere saturday where the fifth circuit is duty and yeah bethany won an academy award for the harvey girls so it's a great movie or really enjoy about one alive i pick up on something you just said about settling the wettest and different types of westerns that theme of making towns save for women and children was one that also came up in that nineteen thirty nine movie devices at where arrow and olivia de havilland i think that's it is the classic with it's all those things that the mineral sketch out for us not just a minute taming of dimes which is of course the main business of it but look at the errol flynn character listen to his back story he's been involved in all this movement and in trouble and rowdiness to see how the cuban war in the end mexican frontier in

and out of the civil war of course and this is the place he's going to settle i'm so again that whole theme of not just came in the city became the man is very much a part of storage and now and again the railroad is so central great opening moment where the golden spike it's relocated to kansas which you know a little bit of friction in the interest of a good story one has to allow a noun that i think and i think it's interesting that particular movie was very important for god city itself because the premier of the movie was actually held and dodd city and errol flynn came undone city at that time had not in a tourist way exploited their cowboy past and the chamber of commerce thought oh wow and that's when voodoo museum started and that's when the whole focus and it started in kind of a hoagie way down that that museum and the archives are there are that places that people visit from all over and and

legitimate historians go to visit there because we have those documents so it really infused that town they dodge city dodge city well i love this movie and i wanna play a clip from it and where errol flynn he's the trail by swayed hadn't he sits down at a meeting with a number the town leaders including dr irving who's played by henry travers who you probably are most familiar with as the angel clearance from it's a wonderful life and un and he put forward a business proposition to wade happen thank you we've invited you hear that at that particular run out of town and want to take that job that city appreciate a kansan remembered a position like that but my lai was committed to and please

i'm about as much of that as i have teaching about it seemed very well qualified it and it was all i think somehow anyone to say no we know what we're asking of the image as you did take but it's finally come to a show about who's going to run that we authorize we're inviting peaceful immigration yet feminine and women and children and we make them with what's come to be called words and when i can set the price of everything his sentence i'm in the cattle business management over time and attention i wish you guys or the lives of innocent people at a refugee camp what happens to you and your family your struggle to make a living in a distant city but not city needs is a man with a sense of public private and the courage to back that up by shooting out that many people still missed tackles baby consists of gunfights that includes a

bonus episode we know we're going to go or it's exactly the telephone the woman because you know that he'd be reluctant sheriff i think is there's a teenager in an awful of those long order westra and like oh well i will carry over into the tv westerns gunsmoke and things like that but the various wyatt earp snow always a reluctant chair and historically as very true a minute if you look at people who play both sides and wild lofts her shtick come out of criminal pet cause it in fact it's something that happened in the american west and this is pretty well documented why erb also makes an appearance in another western said in kansas of winchester seventy three and starring jimmy stewart making fifty million came out of universal and it's set in dodge city eighteen seventy sixers they're celebrating the fourth of july centennial

and i love the opening of this movie could that starts out as many of those films do with you know the words across the screen this is the story of the winchester rifle model eighteen seventy three the gun that won the west to the cowboy i'll lock peace officer or soldier the winchester seventy three was a treasured possession an indian would sell his soul to own one i love love how almost every western starts with it for his spikes star wars with that though there's goal of tax to cross creek and convincing you that this is historically accurate this can't be true for example broad city was a cowboy cetera but the railroad didn't really get there in eighteen seventy three or i don't even think quite an age seventy six maybe maybe early on and he convinces a whole bunch of history and in that opening little bit as winchester has to know that they can scroll through too much text and

pursued and different times talk about condensing a whole lot of history into one movie and the plane's minute came out in nineteen thirty six cecil b demille the director all i can say about this movie is it epic in scope or was ill treatment right exactly and it starts out with those star wars letters that it's almost like a disclaimer it says among the men who thrust forward america's frontier were wild bill hickok and buffalo bill cody the story that follows compressed as many years many lives and widely separated events into one narrative in an attempt to do justice to the kurds of the planes none of our west it's pretty much a disclaimer that what you're going to see has nothing didn't really happen in disorder or in this kind of setting the word in a rapid up and not one piece but as disclaimers go you know you we would wish for be something they're good with cigar command which completely mythology as as contras right so the other end and i mean i like the plate and i

think it's a really interesting one i like it just on the level of myth me i think what they what we're talking about a lot of these things is not his historical accuracy that mythical akerson if somehow if you want to know what we think is true about native americans are about buffalo bill or about the cavalry at or about courage and in the settlement the manifest destiny and an entitlement that we have to the time and the all those things are a godsend to a mythic history rather than straight history and many respects i've got a clip here from the plane's been where weill built a cat played by gary cooper is is summoned to cede to an officer but abbott thousand john ensign across europe or the republicans but we got to get it and that's not you know that

are going over this oval and ended up mortgage rates won't fundamentally are working listen when they tell you one point the month and you know as an indian more women it only plays with it you know that they're going to do before they go in you know yes there's only one man who can who could do the lead and he's the one that can cross those boundaries between

whites and native americans knows a bit about both sides and yet of course this story is ultimately also a love story between and wild bill hickok and calamity jane played here by dean actor here and i thought that i found one got a lot of great lines are slow century humor even in the dialogue that you have there which fairly serious pileup from point cease to know what you think phil you just mentioned a couple minutes ago our next movie dark man waits i'm not really sure why they went so far it into a fixed lighting it's a story that we do it routinely this is the interesting thing and until ride with the devil i'm is from nineteen ninety nine the filmmaker accounts of contours radar strikingly unrelated to the history of the commanders perhaps the most egregious but the jaspers look at the others saw one of your family you're gay you john tibbets did a nice aragon kansas

history in which he looked at the whole cinematic legacy of the condor at and amazing what they do with the very interested in stories i think one of the surprising things about this though is that not only did they change the facts of the raid but they changed his name to william cantrell and i don't know if that's because they thought that he was just too exotic for people back in nineteen forty or a course or in a mission that the mets quite telling the story on tour or something like that but it's nice to know the john wayne cancer learns from us he can and i'd like to play a scene from back to the theme of the reluctant martial where john wayne who is the texas cowboy bob stephen comes into town and down and is thinking about a career change i'm

rachel martin jenny mr weekley you might get it right course another love story hits the girl that really gets in the lawrence and as a love triangle because cantrell is also in love with dave cloud and so and his jealousy that leaves him and opposition so different explanation than anything like actual some sympathy or something like that it changes the whole on trolls reda into sort of a us spurned

lover or political failure that being his impetus rather than political leanings right now of course the changes the end the dark man also is the only movie and waits john wayne and roy rogers appear together a writer's plays the younger brother of john wayne's love interest and another short a hot head kid who needs to settle down and at the end when lawrence was burning and everything's been saved and controlled and run off you know why roderick thinks it's all swelled that ends well a john wayne's host what this six percent and violence has changed her he must've been from texas as we say down there so this notion of still being over it just for having the right hard for a for a job like this week the kind of future again let's turn directions to a slightly less fictionalized version of the radon lawrence

the nineteen ninety nine film by ang lee i ride with the devil and although most of this movie is actually set in missouri was aboard or afro add think this is an interesting movie in a number of respects but doesn't lawrence nerd the contras read much more historically accurately than anything that had been known before it does the material culture of the time with real attention to detail i am kills off time avril brother in the middle of the film tom where it is but i think the other interesting dynamic here films the circle films are always about their own time as much as they're about the time that they're about and in this case this is on to israel in the border war in the territorial period done for post balkan war era in which the dynamic of war although there are a few very brief mentions nobody's talking about slavery or abolition isn't much is really about that and then a hint about vengeance is about giving back that

great speech or quadros right before the raid kind of summarizes the perfectly ideal voice down the sadness and sad because i mourn our sisters and mothers who slept in a kansas city jail has slipped into the walls fell down around them and they died i and said boys and i'm tired of the best of us and did a malware just dogs chased into the woods we eye and said boys but i am very unusual and i shall not sleep i shall not sleep again until i

stand on mount or a head and i look down upon the abolitionists of lawrence as a writer is to get their voices and meet any yankee army put my way because i will fight for myself if i have to but i shall reached lawrence that's right i will myself listener be in a minimal knew you would ride with me so i'm asking you all that and an actor so that

vision of the catholic church not as ideological struggle but as than that as personal as always at that level it informs this movie in a kind of interesting way and i think it was only possible and that little interesting window between the cause of the balkan wars which seem like back at war exactly iran two thousand one after after nine eleven i don't think that our conception of this forward women possibility is that you hear the desperation and it part of corn kernels rain it was such a surprise because it was so desperate for most suicidal i think you're thinking of a conclave going all the way from zurich into lawrence kansas and no one would've predicted that and in the lead was there so that it were that had it had desperation is and if you look at the personnel there they end up and in the long term our and jesse james of course comes out of this conflict on from self known not only

is is involved in this conflict that ends up and temperament opposition areas or state from that they are younger brother's an adult tom tangney sold so many of those come out of that and in their later lionized as outlaws they did in a whole different tribes i think there's an interesting moment in ian ride with the devil that shows the class of controversial to this and culture which witch is so different from that the northern puritan culturally with the boys are stained with a man if you got that one too long in iraq announced evans levi b to welcome alliance thinks so far is water again robin has to offer that sell those northerners bill that town i witnessed the seeds of our destruction be inside china that

town was to the beginning of the incubation and that's a bigger numbers now even abolitionists trouble making it was the school last fall they've built their church even a bill at school last may lead and oprah taylor son member farmer's daughter in that country misspelling on the old no it won't last chance but my point is merely that they rounded every pop up into that school house because they fancied that everyone should think and talk same free thinking way they do no regard to station custom presley and that is why they will win because they believe everyone should live and think just like them and we show was because we don't care one way or another

for about ourselves but essentially fudge enough and far from a mr charles you can find everything that we're at this device on stress and mr clinton's when you get back from texas or be here waiting for you gentlemen will seek to here's the patient and once again it turns back into a love story of sorts that with the jewels only gone wrong i'm pretty good with her that it does boogie is truly great and it is so much about very young man i think it prevails only like sixteen played by tobey maguire here goes away for a victim really famously spiderman or us if you're just joining us we're talking about kansas

in the movie is my guest today tom price and time ever all both at washburn university i'd like to switch gears for a moment and talk about at kansas playwright who made his way into the movie if william it ends in just such a strikingly interesting figure for lots of reasons and then i have some insight into this because my wife marcia supposed to play about ranges life after the end festival a few years back so now fascinating life born in independence deeply kind of problematic relationship with the class system clearly closeted gay seriously alcoholic treated at the men here as well and threw his friendship above all else with them and as usa way and he comes into play writing and he makes the air at the height of his career he is more performed on broadway then williams is tennessee williams so here can a deeply competitive

for wallet that i'm end to his four great place bust the picnic dark at the top the stairs scumbag lil sheba all made into a hugely successful movies by ammon splendor in the grass as one official screenplay for which you got an oscar all of them deeply rooted in kansas are but the interesting thing about image is is there's video of dark patches and mantua is real struggles with the ways in which this nation was changing in that period with trying to hang on the community with the challenges of being a kind of honor and an outsider cause it again all the rest that god figures into that and so there's no real darkness at the heart of these things too severe ferrie and figures and the plays themselves were often picnic is the classic example our picnic was massively change before it hit broadway his version of it which he published under a different name later com

darker ending a darker story and a great range of points along the way and then of course from the play to the movie they cheered up even more you don't have a hollywood endings he got it shifted from kind of ensemble and was always really an ensemble writer a picnic bust up both work that way very much you know hollywood is the star system so it gets converted in that way as well so looking at the players looking to movies there's always these interesting ways in which insures been softened i cheered up are the dark spot sort of hidden a little more they can always sense that under the surface i think there's a scene that comes right out of the westerns of the west rancher about settling down they're in displays are about being unsettled i love characters are finding themselves in the midst of some kind of crisis there about rape branch is about regular mary ellen see more ghostly country club and and then she finds help our economy unsettling figure and ruben flood and in the dark the top the spirituals know he's

he's had a rambling job as a heart a salesman and he's going to lose his job in the current technological move into the automobile and into different kind of horsepower and and he's very unsettled out how what does he have to contribute to take to the current society and in here and bust up to the cowboy you can't because they're an alcoholic unless our professionalism of her a readout of the movie they're all about guns settling and what you do what you do when you can't be set up and i think it's very interesting that the argument that wanes an inch that tennessee williams in women's together there the album that gave writers are reporting which you can't quite say you're gay writers they're finding ways to express their discontent through have other kinds of characters characters that can resemble them in don't doubt and then there's a deeper tension and an unease

about the really expresses a lot that's going on in america mid fifties and very early successes a deep suspicion of the family went into which he had a deep suspicion of short of that the culture the classic you know you mention the classes because the severest the structure of every small town which doesn't give people who are creative and different a lot of leeway but at the same time a kind of longing for preserving family and community that is under threat by my new institutions buying the harvey girls by all other stuff you know that that is being undermined so the family is simultaneously suspect and hallowed really interesting stuff there's probably no better scene that exemplifies this in picnic and then one we're about to hear where magic balance and played by kim novak is i'm having a talk with her mom about would rather her mom is having a talk with her about why she should marry the riffs came to trust him

get busy just a few years the clintons you can walk out shouting like this in the house that she loses her chance when she was young you as well for our prisoners away i'm only nineteen and next summer you'll be twenty nine twenty one and then forty don't have to be a marvel mags you live in comfort cytokine savalas dollars and automobiles and trends and you know i don't feel like those people

grandfather was in the state legislature that is they are girls as pretty as you watch your mama could you suggest to be pretty a good question and i get tired of only look you puzzled me when to talk that way the unhappy mother coaching her her daughter jordon happiness a sense that there is a very limited window of opportunity that spencer this is a scary serve alternative talking about sex you know all those things we really breaking down barriers and in film at the time even in theater but the subplot too of rosemary and howard also never go to the picnic and then there's the bad boy of course i'm old and yes and by the way the one thing worth noting injured the tail end of his life

i became deeply unpopular as a playwright whose last couple major promotions failed utterly by the time of his suicide he had been on previous for almost a decade the right now he's undergoing an interesting sort of revival there been inch plays on broadway and major leaguers like simple from chicago so there's a time to sing tenor revival of interest in in just points right now we want to see an opera based on bond picnic effect after kerry cahill us ever years ago really really wonderful the other thing about him just note in his plots sometimes it is tom price pointed out that they were changed for for hollywood and for broadway no matter what you think of his stuff in on the plot of his characters and his dialogue just amazing in that scene you just played contained so much about the class system about an unhappy mother and a daughter who's not feeling what she thinks

she should be fluent and the constraints of family and the sense of community is it their poignant scene after a poignant scene like that that are just remarkable today and k pr present some kansas themed movies to binge watch later sheltering at home i'm j mcintyre i'll be back with tom avril and tom price and mortgages movies right after this from the university of kansas this is kansas public radio where ninety one five lawrence and ninety one three oscar junction city support for kbr prison song kansas public radio comes from disease divine espresso offering craft rusted organic coffees from three wars locations nine fourteen massachusetts eighteen hundred is twenty thirty and twenty three fifty one west thirty first sees defying dot com and from you local support is crucial to bringing in local programs like today's k pr presents

were suspending their usual spring membership drive this week putting out the word that we still need your financial support calling your pledge at aaa eighty five seven seven five to six eight or a mine a kansas public radio dot org and thanks today on cape pierre presents kansas at the navy's some films set at home while your sheltering at home this show originally aired on february thirteenth two thousand eleven there's another poignant scene like that between a mother and daughter that i like to play from the splendor in the grass this is where the new limits on played by natalie wood is having a talk with her mom or again really a mama's having a talk with the daughter about the knee and her relationship with but stamper played by warren beatty terrible disease he

has no nice your father never laid a hand me and married then it i just at class white guys do it's not just the knee and her mom i'm born baby's character has an equally awkward conversation with his dad and and and even with his doctor where he tries to bring up the subject of sex and both of them pretty much has to use the subject line and splendor in the grass is really hot when it first came out and my first instinct is so quaint almost in may be melodramatic but i've i think it has a lot in that about nineteen sixty one half ahead for iraq when the intro there that i i think of all of his all of his films it is probably most accurate to his vision that starred as haley's breakthrough part

an inch himself a senate as the minister this is a wonderful film speaking of a wonderful film that's very dark the one movie that i ate really did not want to watch in preparation for this program was our next film in cold blood and yet once i started watching it i was utterly drawn into this story well it follows the publication truman capote jungle book about the murder of the clutter family in november of nineteen fifty nine and eighty and if that book itself is cabin in an innovation a novelistic form of journalism new kind of re creations and in the film takes this kind of documentary approach to a black charred black and white the locations are the exact locations where every every part of the story happen except for a drugstore in emporia that had burnt down you know stunning use of location very real sense of landscape of of kansas

landscape and then form it's a long and wonderful adaptation of kaposi's book on witch which was of course a huge bestseller but to translate that into focus mostly on perry smith as as the main character i think out of the thing the most sympathetic character and probably most empathetic quality as well and it had cans are fascinated by that i think americans are fascinated by that as sort of the in the innocents in a farm family of four in a remote part of kansas can end up dead for no reason and to safe anymore in america the continuing almost as oz turn on set now if if if oz is about no place like home some way home is no longer a sanctuary in any sense at all i'd like to play a clip from in cold blood that really captures that theme i'll do eat from the kansas bureau of investigation is played here by john forsythe he's just finished a news conference about the clutter murders when he

strikes up a conversation with a gentleman here this is weekend edition order yours what are its citizens crime or destroyed cities and one of those who thinks is often frightening oh murder he was willing to help people were a lot political writer again that's john forsythe from it

in cold blood which stars robert blake as perry smith and scott wilson as dick a pack and by the way has an amazing soundtrack by quincy jones the story behind in cold blood and the relationship that truman capote he develops with the killers and the people if any county kansas is the focus of the two thousand five film capote he and the two thousands six movie into meth why are we so interested in this man people being fascinated with the podium think in some ways it's that he's so different from from kansas and imagining property in kansas citizens care what works from both of those films especially having to go to the far better of the two hour with philip seymour hoffman to stealing and dynamite job of embodying that very quirky character and then throw him into the plane you see what happens to an end and making quite appealing that is very smart and personable man an imprimatur i am in the films get that but they

also give that he's very out of place in cold blood is very much a crime story and i was surprised how many crime stories i found set in kansas including our next film is' harvest at harvard came out into thousand five it's a dark dark comedy set in wichita directed by harold ramos and starring john cusack let's hear a clip from ise harvest that pretty much sets up the whole film he said there's no such things the perfect plan things carefully enough if you sit through every last tale your nerves of steel comic con the matter what happens there should be no problem you can handle to real character of course of the character fb

i loved eyes harvest but again it's a very very dark comedy and just a bit of a warning much of the movie is set in stripper bars there's a lot about language but having said that i really love this movie is done with a sly hand we don't really know who's doing work for a long time so it's a sight that genre and it works really well in wichita it if you want one big thing about it is that it uses the weather can mean every kansas movie he has got to have a tornado or some kind of weather just like learning tree now opens with the tornados were also serves as central to the myth of kansas city and in this video eyes hearts an ice storm moves in on christmas eve and prevents i'm joined his second his partner in crime from fleeing wichita for safety typical kansas devices i'd like to move back to the country a

little bit and talk about one of my favorite movies paper man it's a wonderful film that the acting course between between ryan and tatum oneal as yours is his wicked excellent and is ceasing its is the quintessential con man film in the new year you're selling bibles to get people basically think that if you can get much more cynical and then in the great depression at kansas and then i think it's very good on and distilling depression motifs to another great depression but also the league agricultural landscape of that period and now with the dust bowl and again he uses the landscape brilliantly to kind of evoke much about my eyes is a comment on one of the great khan i'd like to play a scene from paper moon where moses pray played by ryan o'neal works his con on one of his targets and gets a little unexpected help from addy when things get rough

that event was one of this debate might be at home you know i don't we don't know we meaning passed a woman was just talking to my lesson among the real question was well my main spray cans bible company i'm just here to deliver this bible atlas debates on now yeah thank you well and i'm not exactly sure that dates back with companies in kansas by the company of wichita kansas and the return of jerry brown owl gets tackled loughner oh yeah yeah sure we can again with just fixing a leak this here is my little girl it's just the two of us now also was born his debates and i just had to give back his dollar deposit in you let us know if

there's anything we can do in a way one that minute he actually been ordered the bible it sure did here it is right here a gold recently named lori after she shared him a lot too and he specially have to get the deluxe edition what will that one has the yellow hemingway we have to have an organism apart and consider the circumstances never mind the circumstances and i didn't like that woman and i think of that to another crime movie set in kansas which may surprise a lot of people the birdman of alcatraz i had assumed all wanted this movie is mostly set in alcatraz but in fact it's mostly set in leavenworth yeah and in fact robert stroud was moved to alcatraz from leavenworth because he was getting too much notoriety as the birdman they had given him a lot of

privileges there and he had more than one cell he was doing his research in and some people thought it was pretty good research on the disease of birds again and it was served some a crackdown and a thirty others missing too much publicity was right around the time and dr caryl chessman was brilliant person on death row in california wrote a book and there's a lot of interest in and then perry smith i mean they'll fit in togetherness in this notion that the criminals suddenly much more interesting than the detective or the law enforcement person an act does with the dissolution of the bigger film called drover of those traditional so the boundaries of film where where bright always triumphs were wearing where the bad guys always passion where the lines between them are always clear but that's why there's all the restless up that's beginning to break down and rahman same period yesterday moved robert stroud to to alcatraz and a no burt lancaster he's in some great

kansas movies because he was using comeback of sheba though the inch one he was in gypsy moths which is justin credible i think look at small town and restricted culture which interestingly enough also costars scott wilson who played one of the colors in the movie in cold blood i'd like to switch gears a bit for our next movie easily the most disturbing film we're looking at today the day after filled largely in lawrence and the surrounding areas let's start with a clip set in the lawrence barbershop oh yeah i want to hear the activists west age i really don't think is the first is a nuclear device we really think the chances that like that happened with ellen miller nowhere

does not know where any more recent next to whiteman air force base right now it's about four hundred and fifty minuteman missile silos for an apple announced it was aurora that's not models lives were here the day after our tv series jericho or things like that they look at a post apocalyptic scenario i think kansas becomes their the stand in for america it's middle america's mental illness and liberal sort of way so i think a lot of post a couple bucks or two things have played into that's her troll yeah if you look at the very beginning of the day after the show people in the parks throwing horseshoes a show and no milk being bottled i mean this is the land of families and and malkin churches everything we associate with the goodness of america and any blow that up its plants over the nostalgia slash

killing the clutter over again you mean the whole notion that that that really needed to be made to make a political statement to try to change people's lives and minds about the threat of nuclear explosions very real wet when did you come out at nineteen eighty three november night entering a very public event and that was talked about and possums major craft rights yet peony people watched it together and churches and talked about it afterward and it was a jeweler i kept i mean to use television in a very interesting way how a lot of made for television movies are not trying to change people's lives are a plane into all the hallmarks that i love that i love as the series it's sentimental in this rich and has a lot of intrade song love affair with cancers and again the heartland kind of thing so but not like the day after which is really trying to change people's lives and i think that i'd like to end on a lighter note to philly movies that you might not associate with kansas

city st clair crystal clear they show up into its kansas city is such a satire of rural america one thing geist has lost his job at the asbestos factory out there and there are living with and so and so i'm not yet an end up and basically they're cashing her social security checks or barbecuing a hamburger helper with dough hamburger think it's an end that the kids are sort of deviant is growing marijuana and i'm looking at that spin magazines and think and it is it's like taking everything that this valuable about you know like in the day after that the malcolm the church on that and just turning into torture center till taught force and then the other side of it is the satire of that classic

road trip family vacation there was so much an institution of the fifties and sixties and then i wait culture in america and of course goes disastrously wrong in every possible turn including ending up in places like kansas state's be a disastrous trans i like to end with which planes trains and automobiles which has perhaps one of the funniest scenes ever sit in a hotel room it was yeah it again if anything go wrong is going to go wrong

in kansas and it's also the weather which is keeping them from scientists first we're spending thanksgiving with their with their loved ones and so on and it says another great notion of kansas as the place that you have said get through to go anywhere within rather than as a place to be for a song for jews and write the stuck ness the study is vince donovan's kansas mostly means that you now or you want to be yeah she's a long way from being stuck in ours and try to get back to kansas and this topic as they tried to get anywhere this not in kansas anymore perfect way to help rappaport our time and tom thank you both so much for coming in and sharing her love of kansas movies with i hope you've enjoyed this look a campus in the movies there's lots of movies set in kansas but we didn't talk about you can find a complete list at washburn university is website just google campus in the movie's washburn there you can

also find a list of movies filmed in kansas and a list of kansas the actors and actresses and the movies in which they appeared we close today's k pr preserves with some more cancers movie clips see if you can identify which films they came from i'm j mcintyre kbr prisons is the production of kansas public radio at the university of camper users can use we thought that people would come and take you away because when they found out you didn't do it then commanded so learning things differently in one thing i do know salmon that is you here for a reason estes best cars for it to chase women and we've got bears or games

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