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Synopsis: In 1965, Bob Crane, who had achieved some earlier success as a television supporting actor, was working as a successful morning radio DJ at KNX Los Angeles. Despite enjoying his work, photography (especially of the female form) and drumming, Crane wanted to be a movie star. So it was with some reluctance that he accepted the title starring role in a new television sitcom called Hogan's Heroes (1965), a WWII POW comedy. To his surprise, the show became a hit and catapulted him to television stardom. The fame resulting from the show led to excesses and a meeting with home video salesman and technician John Carpenter, with who he would form a friendship based on their mutual interests, namely excessive sex (for Crane, purely heterosexual sex) and capturing nude females on celluloid. His fame allowed Crane to have as much sex as he wanted, which was incongruent to his somewhat wholesome television friendly image, and the way he portrayed himself to almost everyone except Carpenter and his
Director(s): Paul Schrader
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
R
Year:
2002
105 min
£1,818,622
Website
551 Views


Today it's "Kill Klink."

"Kill Klink." I like that.

Mel Rosen. I do a little radio show

out of the Quad Cities.

I've actually heard

good things about that.

- Coming from you, that's high praise.

- You gotta give me a tape for that.

- Something to drink?

- A grapefruit juice.

- With vodka?

- No, straight. Last of the straight men.

I'll have another Tom Collins.

Doing a show on the new TV season.

Never pass up one of these junkets.

- Well, I'm with you there.

- So this new show...

I loved you on Donna Reed,

by the way.

It's set in a concentration camp.

A comedy?

Prisoner of war camp.

Yeah, it's got all your typical comedy

elements:
Gestapo, police dogs.

So I guess if you

liked World War II...

...you're gonna love Hogan's Heroes.

- No, let's not...

- Actually, I got what I want.

Mel, what...?

I thought you were a fellow entertainer.

I'm also a Jew.

It's the same thing.

Thank you.

Are one of those for me?

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

Bob! Look what I found.

- Hiya.

- Hiya.

This TV reviewer, he just...

I don't mean to offend anybody.

Forget it. Do you see this spread?

Yeah, I gotta hand it to CBS.

They did it for one reason:

The affiliates have seen the pilot.

They love it.

- You play Hogan, don't you?

- I sure do. You want an autograph?

- I've got autographs.

- Darling, you just stop that.

Mr. Crane is a happily married man.

You wanted to see my room, right?

It's right this way.

Did you catch the radio show

this morning? Guess who was on.

Were you listening?

Johnny Winters.

I swear, he's gotta be the funniest

human being ever born.

Honey?

What's wrong?

Why do we have shady magazines

hidden in our garage?

Those? Those are...

- You know, photography magazines.

- Gent? Caught?

I'm a photo nut, Annie, so...

Nature Girls 1965?

They're harmless.

- No wonder you never look at me.

- Would you stop that?

Listen, I'm out the door every morning

at 5:
30. I'm not home until after dark.

You see how hard I'm working?

- Are you seeing another woman?

- Absolutely not.

I want those magazines

out of the house.

Yeah, I'll throw them away.

- I've seen them before. I just ignored it.

- All right, I get the message.

Bad enough I've gotta hide them

like some teenager.

Well, what did you have in mind?

Putting them on the coffee table

for our guests to see?

I apologize.

- Maybe we should see Father Donnelly.

- No, it's our business.

Family business.

We'll keep it at home.

You're never home. I just thought

when you started shooting Hogan's...

...that this would change things.

- It will, darling. Trust me. It will.

Hogan's Heroes premiered

September 17, 1965...

...8:
30 on Friday night.

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Robert Graysmith

Robert Graysmith (born September 17, 1942, as Robert Gray Smith) is an American true crime author and former cartoonist. He is best known for his works on the Zodiac Killer case. more…

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