August 30, 2024

S3E26.5: Klute

You know the drill, if we're silly on main we're being sensible on priv. Today's bonus episode concerns the 1971 Donald Sutherland/Jane Fonda thriller Klute. A small-town cop with zero working facial muscles travels to new york city to investigate his friend's disappearance. His only lead? A call girl who lives in fear of a stalker.

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Comments (32)

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Expensive Bag · September 27, 2025

I was looking up this movie and found out the swedish title is "Klute - en smart snut" (a smart cop) I don't know why they decided to give a thriller a cute rhyming comedy title

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BeatDownBaddie · August 13, 2025

I always lick the cat food spoon

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I'm Your Mom Now · February 9, 2025

Only 70's kids will understand: my parents used to just take me to R-rated movies. 99% of the time, I'd fall asleep. One of them was Klute. Mom took me ti the bathroom before the movie started, which meant that my my dad proceeded to spend several minutes getting weird looks from passersby. He couldn't figure out what was wrong until I came back and picked up the Mrs. Beasley doll I'd left on the seat beside him. Everything else I remember about Klute, I learned from this episode.

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Noblese Oblahaj · September 19, 2024

"who's there" I say, before taking out a flashlight the size of my thumb and annihilating my stalker with a 10,000 lumen kamehameha blast

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Noblese Oblahaj · September 19, 2024

Somewhere out there are people who desperately want a creepy phone call and lose their minds when they hear the words "your car's extended warranty"

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Sublight Monster · September 3, 2024

Going into this podcast, my only knowledge of this film was that when I was a teen in the 80s, I said I really wanted to see Clue. My father was horrified as he thought I was talking about Klute.

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Carly · September 3, 2024

Every time y'all reference Aunty Donna my Australian heart grows 3 sizes ♥️

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Rune · September 1, 2024

You just start tagging the not-totally-main-feed-related episodes with like…KJB Film Club because I do feel like I had a great time at a quite intelligent and thoughtful film club meeting!

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John Leavitt · September 1, 2024

IN FABRIC IS A MARXIST NEO-GIALLO MOVIE ABOUT SINISTER LESBIANS it is 100% podcast appropriate

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Jacob King · August 31, 2024

CP is common prostitute. It’s an old legal term. I think the implication is they arrested her for being a prostitute as opposed to engaging in an act of prostitution. So basic police harassment.

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QuoProSquids · August 31, 2024

if you enjoyed fonda’s performance here, i would recommend “They Shoot Horses Don’t They?” which is not perfect but does have Fonda and her co-stars being put through hell and going absolutely ham

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Righteous Lazarus (Four Days Dead) · August 31, 2024

in the middle of november and devon making fun of the name john klute my mother pulled up a picture of mike rutherford (middle names john cloete - pronounced klute)

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An impromptu concert from Bosco Hogan · August 30, 2024

I've been meaning to watch this, it's on a few streaming sites.

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Jon W · August 30, 2024

Imagining Devon and Nova on the mic with puppet strings to a sinister ghostly super sized Abby cackling madly.

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Charlie Banwell · August 30, 2024

I was wondering who chose this, then I saw it was an 60s/70s psychosexual depressing movie featuring a glamorous actress and immediately assumed “November”

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shadowcb · August 30, 2024

Always brace myself whenever I hear an actor attempt an Irish accent 😅

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Jess Price · August 30, 2024

Here’s a thread of people discussing “button freak” between the years of 2006 and 2020 https://filmboards.com/t/Klute/A-'button-freak%3F'-1779441/

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Knights Who Say Sledge · September 1, 2024

Great link. I love that it came to zero consensus but floats basically every imaginable interpretation. I think we need input from folks who were sexually active adults at the time who were also engaging in more fringe scenes. I had the feeling from the post it was a lot of modern folks seeking modern definitions for something quite possibly tightly framed by time and context.

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Cate Kneale · August 30, 2024

Is she literally a kitten, is that what the cat food and the scruff of the neck holds are about? The 70s were so not a good time, except house prices and quaaludes, obviously.

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Miss Venom · August 31, 2024

That…might actually be a decent read.

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AR, rope sharpshooter · August 30, 2024

Devon and Nova's primary criticism of the film: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBhR4QcBtE

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Winson Paine · August 30, 2024

Roy Schider rec if you ever want more Roy, fuckin Bob Fosse directed All That Jazz, which is very much a quasi autobiography movie about Bob Fosse and maybe the most self loathing movie ever made. No one hates themselves like Bob Fosse, it is fucking UNREAL and roy fuckin kills it in the movie, he is so good

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GG Allin Dulles · August 30, 2024

10 hours of silence randomly interrupted by a metal pipe smashing through your window and impaling your skull like a toothpick through a cheese cube on an hors d'oeuvre platter

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Moon Walker · August 30, 2024

Really surprised it wasn’t mentioned that Candy Darling is in one scene of this movie

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Alexander Baez Ubeira · August 30, 2024

"Diabolik was in many ways Johnny Italian" [Under my breath] 'Johnny Ndemonic was right there' "We have reinstated the death penalty for hacking and Welsh marine life trafficking"...

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Alexander Baez Ubeira · August 30, 2024

This makes absolutely no sense, I'm sorry😅

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Justine · August 30, 2024

Love the "Long Island Expressway" shoutout lol

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Beatrix Bunny · August 30, 2024

4:40 Is that the irl pipe that kills you instantly?

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Andrew Dunn · August 31, 2024

I was just about to say, the fact that they didn't call it that makes me wonder if they were intentionally not invoking it and letting us fill in the blanks ourselves

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BarFly · August 30, 2024

I saw Roy Scheider in a white jacket in the photo and didn't even register Jane Fonda or the title of the episode, my brain just went "Sorcerer (1977)? Sorcerer (1977) tonight queen?"

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Brian Taulbee · August 30, 2024

He doesn’t get nearly the recognition he deserves. He’s been in some of the all-time greats, and has always been great in them. Platinum-tier guy I love to see.

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Stephan Krosecz · August 30, 2024

Just gave to the gofundme, and gonna signal boost it what little I can