The Rocketeer Minute Podcast

Nov 19 2019 116 ep. 31 mins 668

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Minute-by-minute analysis of the 1991 Walt Disney adventure film, The Rocketeer

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Minute 001: Walt Disney Pictures Presents

Apr 23 2017 35 mins

Summary A blank screen. James Horner’s Rocketeer main theme, “Takeoff” begins. Orange titles appear: “WALT DISNEY PICTURES” More orange titles: “WALT DISNEY PICTURES PRESENTS” Title: “IN ASSOCIATION WITH SILVER SCREEN PARTNERS IV” Title: “A GORDON COMPANY PRODUCTION” Title: “A JOE JOHNSTON FILM” Main Titl

Minute 002: All the Way to the Nationals

Apr 24 2017 60 mins

Summary The Gee Bee Model Z continues to roll out of the hangar. Title: “JENNIFER CONNELLY” The port side of the Gee Bee is framed against the blue sky. Title: “PAUL SORVINO” An overhead view of the Gee Bee, displaying the number 4 on the left wing, and the aircraft’s identification, “NR77V” on the right wing. Skeets is pushing the left win

Minute 003: Make ‘er Hot!

Apr 25 2017 57 mins

Guest Host: Tom Gire Tom Gire is one of the principals of Brand X Music, a major music composition house for feature and film trailer soundtracks. He’s composed and arranged music from films as varied as Pirates of the Caribbean 2 to Transformers: Dark of the Moon. If you’ve seen a movie trailer for a major action feature film, Tom probably put the music you’re e

Minute 004: Based on the Graphic Novel

Apr 26 2017 42 mins

GUEST HOST: BRIAN FIES Brian Fies is a writer and cartoonist who created the award-winning graphic novels Mom’s Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow, as well as the Eisner Award-nominated webcomic The Last Mechanical Monster. He’s been a newspaper reporter, environmental chemist, science writer, husband, and dad to twin girls. Just like The Rocketeer, he lives

Minute 005: Los Angeles 1938

Apr 27 2017 31 mins

Summary In the far distance, the Gee Bee circles Chaplin Field. Title: “PRODUCED BY LAWRENCE GORDON, CHARLES GORDON AND LLOYD LEVIN” The camera tracks with the Gee Bee as it passes behind the air race pylon. Two monoplanes seen earlier are parked near the hangars, next to Peevy’s brown Model T truck. Peevy watches the Gee Bee in the distance, as Goose and Skeets l

Minute 006: Careful What You Wish For

Apr 30 2017 24 mins

Summary FBI Agents Wooly and Fitch are chasing a getaway car driven by Wilmer, while Lenny shoots at them with a machine gun from the getaway car’s rumble seat. An LAPD patrol car is between the FBI agents and the getaway car. “I wish that black-and-white would get out of the way!” shouts Fitch, as he tries to aim at Lenny. Lenny shoots the tire of the LAPD car, w

Minute 007: Something Ain’t Right

May 01 2017 31 mins

Summary Cliff punches a hole through his oil coated canopy. He suddenly sees what looks like an oncoming biplane, but it’s only the top of a billboard advertising Neville Chinclair in “Wings of Honor,” produced by Lawrence Franco and directed by Volmar Fidgge. Secord does his best to wipe the grime off his goggles as he heads for the runway at Chaplin Field. Meanw

Minute 008: Sorry Lenny

May 02 2017 29 mins

Summary Wilmer closes the lid on the Hoover vacuum cleaner that he’s put in the “AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY” case. Meanwhile, Cliff continues to struggle with the crippled Gee Bee, as he makes his way back to the runway. Wilmer puts the case with the vacuum cleaner in the rumble seat, on top of Lenny’s body. “Sorry, Lenny!” says Wilmer. Outside, p

Minute 009: Time to Get a Real Job

May 03 2017 27 mins

Guest: Billy Campbell Best known for his television roles as Rick Sammler on Once and Again, as Det. Joey Indelli on Crime Story, as Jordan Collier on The 4400, and as Dr. Jon Fielding on the Tales of the City miniseries. He is also known for his recurring role as Luke Fuller in Dynasty which was his first prominent role. His most notable films include Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Minute 010: Blown to Hell

May 04 2017 24 mins

Guest: Billy Campbell Best known for his television roles as Rick Sammler on Once and Again, as Det. Joey Indelli on Crime Story, as Jordan Collier on The 4400, and as Dr. Jon Fielding on the Tales of the City miniseries. He is also known for his recurring role as Luke Fuller in Dynasty which was his first prominent role. His most notable films include Bram Stoker’s Dracula