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September 20, 2016

Episode 289: Sonny Boy (1989)

Special Guests: Robert Martin Carroll, Graeme Whifler, Michael Boston
Guest Co-Hosts: Maitland McDonagh, Mike Malloy

Produced by Ovidio Assonitis, Sonny Boy 1989 stars David Carradine and Paul L. Smith as Pearl and Slue, two desert-dwellers who end up "adopting" Sonny Boy (Michael Boston). Slue turns his boy into a feral killing machine in something of a Frankenstein tale.

Screenwriter , director Robert Martin Carroll, and star Michael Boston share the history of this fascinating film.

Mike Malloy, author of the upcoming David Carradine: The Lost Auteur, and Maitland McDonagh join Mike White in discussing Sonny Boy.

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Links:
Buy Sonny Boy on Blu-Ray
Buy Little Boy Blue on DVD
Buy Deadly End on DVD
Buy Icky Flix on DVD
Keep up with David Carradine: The Lost Auteur by Mike Malloy
Learn more about Mike Malloys's Plastic Movies Rewound
Buy Mike Malloy's Eurocrime on DVD
Buy books by Maitland McDonagh
Learn more about The Cinematic Spectacles of Ovidio G. Assonitis on Mondo Digital
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Music:
Soundtrack - Carlo Maria Cordio
"Dueling Banjos" - Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell
"Midnight Cowboy" - John Barry
"Road to Mandalay" - Jerry Colonna
"Midnight Cowboy" - Faith No More
"Hello Skinny" - The Residents
"Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night?" - Johnny Copeland
"Maybe It Ain't" - David Carradine

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1 comment:

  1. Another great episode of the Projection Booth. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the creation of such a singular film.

    My introduction to Sonny Boy was an airing by TCM Underground almost eight years ago now. It succeeds in creating a unique cinematic world, something that films with much bigger budgets frequently fail to accomplish.

    Of all the strange films I introduced to my ex-girlfriend, this is the one she brought up when I asked her about the weirdest thing she ever watched with me. Pearl's defense of Sonny Boy at the end of film left quite an impression on her.

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