495 - Bang the Drum Slowly - The Golden Age of TV (1956)

Paul Newman plays a literary baseball player who is the reluctant friend of a dying catcher. And he doesn't like paying taxes. And it's in a live made for tv movie from the 50s that was collected and presented by a PBS affiliate in the 80s before it was given the Criterion treatment. And it's named after a line in a country song.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Miloš Firemen's The Fireman's Ball (1967).