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Jan. 8, 2025

SE02EP26: Kotch (1971)

SE02EP26: Kotch (1971)

So Walter Matthau made a very successful career playing slightly curmudgeonly but reasonably endearing older (or old) men. Here, directed by his close friend Jack Lemmon, he is cast as a much older man who is a bit curmudgeonly and (eventually) reasonably endearing old man. So really a risky casting decision. But did it pay off? Tune in and find out what we thought.