Episode

The Long Walk - Stephen King

Podcast: Cold War Cast
Published: Sep 23, 2025
Duration seconds: 1247
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Summary

The film for the Stephen King book The Long Walk just hit the theaters over the weekend. While we have a lot of accounts of the horrors of war, this story is the product of the dread over the prospect of being forced to fight a war from the perspective of a young horror writer. The boomers get a lot of grief for having had it easy, but King captured the horror of having the draft and Vietnam looming over your head as a young man in the 60’s.