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The Mark of Caine

Michael Foley/Steven Black

37 episodes

8 months ago

Join us on our epic journey through the film career of Michael Caine, reviewing every movie spanning seven decades, from the Oscar winning performances to the dumpster fire movies that would have incinerated a lesser actor. Journalist Michael Foley is joined by Steven Black, the creator and thumbs behind the hugely popular Mallow News satirical Twitter feed to pore over every Caine performance and explore films that range from eternal classics to incomprehensible duds, all in our tireless and yes, inexplicable, quest to figure out what makes the Mark of Caine.

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Join us on our epic journey through the film career of Michael Caine, reviewing every movie spanning seven decades, from the Oscar winning performances to the dumpster fire movies that would have incinerated a lesser actor. Journalist Michael Foley is joined by Steven Black, the creator and thumbs behind the hugely popular Mallow News satirical Twitter feed to pore over every Caine performance and explore films that range from eternal classics to incomprehensible duds, all in our tireless and yes, inexplicable, quest to figure out what makes the Mark of Caine.

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The Mark of Caine

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

It's 1979, our final look at 70s Caine, and what a way to go: drenched in an upturned wreck, scuba-diving about with little Sally Field and 125-year-old Karl Malden in Beyond the Poseidon Adventure! It's the last in a triptych of late-70s Caine-nurtured turkeys alongside The Swarm and Ashanti. What more truly needs to be said....

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3 years ago

42 minutes 34 seconds

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We're off to Africa where Michael Caine is now hunting slave traders who have kidnapped his wife. Yes, it's Ashanti - basically 1970s Taken. Part of a holy trinity of late 70s turkeys, prepare to be astounded by Caine's disinterest, dumbfounded by Peter Ustinov's accent, stunned by Omar Sharif's boredom and amused by Caine spending two full minutes trying to mount a camel. Yes, that's right...

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3 years ago

52 minutes 22 seconds

The Mark of Caine

California Suite

After the tortures of The Swarm, it's Michael Caine moving seamlessly from killer-bee fighter to bisexual antiques dealer in this Neil Simon-scripted flick. Come for Caine, stay for an Oscar-winning performance from Maggie Smith, suffer Bill Cosby.

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3 years ago

35 minutes 44 seconds

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It's the day we've been braced for since the beginning, but finally we encounter the plumpest turkey of Caine's career. The Swarm and its brilliantly organised, genocidal killer bees is most of the things the critics have said and more. Worst movie ever? Is it even the worst Caine ever?! But as constructive people, we offer ways to improve the Swarm - ninja Caine up to fight the bees, give the bees little guns and get Larry Olivier in the picture among other things. Also, as a way of making it better, burn the entire thing to the ground.

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3 years ago

42 minutes 27 seconds

The Mark of Caine

Some Caine Obscura, this time Silver Bears from 1978, as Mr Caine banks the cheque and goes to Switzerland, but we do get Sports Caine, Drunk Caine, Lover Man Caine and Jay Leno. And as the chemistry with yet another leading lady fails to yield even a spark, it's time to ask the burning question: is it possible to see actor Michael Caine as a sexy beast?

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3 years ago

47 minutes 46 seconds

The Mark of Caine

A Bridge Too Far

On this week's episode it's cameo a go go with the cream of 1970's actors collecting a paycheck to ruminate on the horrors of war in A Bridge Too Far. Join us as we discuss Caine's moustache, Robert Redford's attractiveness and the world's tiniest Nazi sniper.

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3 years ago

49 minutes 39 seconds

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The Eagle Has Landed

Mein Gott im Himmel! It's Good Nazi War Caine in the village of Studley Constable - presumably named after a medieval porn star - to kill Churchill. The great director John Sturges pockets the money and goes fishing. Donald Sutherland tortures everyone with the worst accent ever committed to celluloid. Larry Hagman plays it a bit mental. What do we end up with? Begob and begorrah craythureens, break out the oul tea and biscuits for a Bank Holiday classic: The Eagle Has Landed!

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3 years ago

47 minutes 46 seconds

The Mark of Caine

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Joy to the world! Caine as Scrooge! Muppets! A Christmas Carol! What can possibly go wrong? This time, absolutely nothing. Here's the story of Caine's Scrooge based on Wall Street banker gits, Gonzo's Dickens (ahem), what might have happened Tiny Tim and the making of a proper Christmas classic!

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3 years ago

56 minutes 53 seconds

The Mark of Caine

Harry and Walter Go To New York

A dip into heist comedy for our man Caine with 70s movie royalty James Caan, Elliott Gould and Diane Keaton in a movie also known as Elliott and James Wreck A Perfectly Reasonable Movie. But can Caine save the day with a prototype performance he will eventually perfect for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels? Oh the tension!!

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3 years ago

34 minutes 8 seconds

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So it's 1975 and Michael Caine is freshly energised by his triumphant performance in The Man Who Would Be King. He's not going to fall back on old habits, grab the first script that comes within an asses roar of him, indulge his love for film noir and play a cockney PI in 1940s Los Angeles.....right?! Please?! Damn you, Peeper!!

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3 years ago

36 minutes 55 seconds

The Mark of Caine

The Man Who Would Be King

We emerge briefly from the tunnel of mediocrity to bask in the light of proper cinema as we discuss this week's entry into the Caine Canon, the John Heuston classic The Man Who Would Be King. It's Caine and Connery, the Rock and Ryan Reynolds of their day in a rip roaring adventure adapted from Rudyard Kipling's short story. And you thought he only made cakes!

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3 years ago

54 minutes 19 seconds

The Mark of Caine

The Romantic Englishwoman

It's Racy Caine with an unpleasant dash of Paranoid Caine in this episode, starring opposite Glenda Jackson in a middle-class melodrama where people talk each other into near-comas, while also making an extra-marital affairs look like an awful dose of hassle. And Glenda gets fairly comfortable with the nudity on and off-screen, much to our man's unease. This is The Romantic Englishwoman.

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3 years ago

50 minutes 50 seconds

The Mark of Caine

The Wilby Conspiracy

It's Conscience Caine with A Cause this time round as our man rises to the occasion opposite the great Sidney Poitier and Nicol Williamson in The Wilby Conspiracy, a curious and quirky anti-apartheid thriller from 1975. Think Trains, Planes and Automobiles meets Cry Freedom. And we mean that as a compliment...

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3 years ago

37 minutes 11 seconds

The Mark of Caine

The Marseilles Contract

It's Michael Caine! It's Anthony Quinn! It's James Maaasssoon!! Strap yourselves in for one of the best bad movies ever committed to celluloid. We didn't see this one coming, but we're so glad it arrived. All hail The Marseilles Contract!

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3 years ago

45 minutes 51 seconds

The Mark of Caine

The Black Windmill

After a sabbatical kicking back with Shakira and their new baby daughter Natasha, relaxing at his Windsor mansion and pruning his roses, Michael Caine is back in 1974 with director Don Siegel (Dirty Harry) and John Vernon (also Dirty Harry) in The Black Windmill, a British spy 'thriller' guaranteed on paper to make oodles of cash for everyone and enjoy a long, happy life of TV repeats. But the path of Caine never runs that smoothly...

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4 years ago

46 minutes

The Mark of Caine

This week we briefly address Michael Caine's retirement/non-retirement before getting down and dirty with Sleuth. It's Olivier vs Caine in a titanic struggle to see who can chew the most scenery before being carted off with a case of acting gastroenteritis.

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4 years ago

1 hour 2 minutes 26 seconds

The Mark of Caine

We met him in a land called Malta

You'd think by now that he'd be much smarta

But yeah

He's not

Pod along with the common people as we join Mick Caine and his Get Carter director Mike Hodges for Pulp, a comedy (?) that also stars Mickey Rooney and Max from Heart to Heart (remember that show, kids?). Can lightening strike twice for our hero? Can it fuck.

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4 years ago

43 minutes 33 seconds

The Mark of Caine

Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Caine together at last in this 1972 movie written by Ireland's own Edna O'Brien. She bought a house off the back of it. Nice to see someone emerge from this with something tangible anyway. Oh boy.

He's the working class 'boy done good' architect

She's his boozy wife who's loud, brash and American.

Also, Susannah Yorke is in this which is nice I guess.

There's infidelity, shouting and spousal abuse (AKA box office gold). It's Zee and Co. Pod it up!

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4 years ago

46 minutes 6 seconds

The Mark of Caine

After hitting a career high with Get Carter, where next for 1971's hottest property? Well, Michael Caine decides to give the world the Robert Louis Stevenson revival it was waiting for, tramping the heather and gazing upon the lochs, and doing a Scottish accent that will oblige him to issue a statement of apology to an entire nation. This is Kidnapped!

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4 years ago

40 minutes 50 seconds

The Mark of Caine

It's 1971. It's gritty and grimy up north and Michael Caine is rough, bleak and completely brilliant in the magnificent Get Carter. Is this the greatest performance of his career? Is Jack Carter the character Caine could have become in a parallel life? Is Get Carter the worst tourist advert for any English city ever? Settle in for a deep dive into one of the greatest UK films ever made.

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4 years ago

42 minutes 25 seconds