TMBDOS! Episode 344: ”The Sicilian Connection” (1972).

Lee is excited to welcome first time guest host Richard Glenn Schmidt, of Hello! This is the Doomed Show, joining him to cover Ferdinando Baldi's early Eurocrime "The Godfather"/"Bullitt"/"The French Connection" cash-in "The Sicilian Connection" (1972), starring Ben Gazzara. Does this set a benchmark for Eurocrime going forward in the decade or did the genre leave this behind? Is this just a Mondo Cane documentary about how to run the opium trade from a Turkish poppy field to the streets of New York? All of this, and more, including the hosts geeking out over Euro genre film in general and talking about what they've watched as of late. Also, because it is his first time on the show, Richard gets to play the Beyond Belief: Movie Fact or Fiction game, with Jonathan Frakes! Mafia Dons, lock up your wives and daughters, TMBDOS! has enough cream to go around for them in this episode!

"The Sicilian Connection" IMDB 

Richard's various projects:

His podcast, Hello! This is the Doomed Show, on Doomed Moviethon.com.

Hello! This is the Doomed Show on Legion Podcasts. 

Check out Richard's solo music project, The Slow Wizard, on Bandcamp.com.

Buy Richard's books here. 

Featured Music: "Ankara", excerpt from "I picciotti", and "Afyon" by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis.