{"podcast":{"title":"Awesome Movie Year","slug":"awesome-movie-year-868341","podcast_index_feed_id":868341,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/awesome-movie-year/","website_url":"https://awesomemovieyear.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/d1b9c842-e32c-4557-aa85-bed1396d6bfa/1489641635971105.jpeg","author":"Awesome Movie Year","episode_count":389,"summary":"Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T14:19:59.460602+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341"},"episode":{"title":"Duel in the Sun (1946 Box Office Champ)","slug":"duel-in-the-sun-1946-box-office-champ","published_at":"2026-06-17T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341/duel-in-the-sun-1946-box-office-champ","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341","url":"https://awesomemovieyear.com/duel-in-the-sun-1946-box-office-champ","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/255548a8-5349-43bf-ad2b-48ae5d9213f0.mp3","summary":"The first episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features the box-office champion, King Vidor’s Duel in the Sun. Directed by King Vidor and starring Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lillian Gish and Lionel Barrymore, Duel in the Sun was producer David O. Selznick’s effort to match his success and acclaim with Gone With the Wind. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1947/05/08/archives/duel-in-the-sun-selznicks-lavish-western-that-stars-jennifer-jones.html ), William Brogdon in Variety ( https://variety.com/1945/film/reviews/duel-in-the-sun-1117790601/ ), and Edwin Schallert in the Los Angeles Times. Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie di…","meta_description":"The first episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features the box-office champion, King Vidor’s Duel in the Sun. Directed by King Vidor a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3982,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/awesome-movie-year-868341/episodes/duel-in-the-sun-1946-box-office-champ/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341/duel-in-the-sun-1946-box-office-champ.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}