Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers – 1934: I AM A THIEF & I'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER

On this week's Warner Bros. 1934 Studios Year by Year episode, we look at some of the studio's mid-30s B-output: the jazzy, Modernist, montage-ist, telephonic I've Got Your Number , starring Pat O'Brien as an insouciant and sometimes insolent Everyman (in a comedy team-up we never knew we needed with fuming mentor Eugene Pallette) whose redemption arc is sparked by beleaguered working girl Joan Blondell; and I Am a Thief, with Mary Astor and Ricardo Cortez playing hot potato with the title's claim. Do either of these films qualify as "termite art"? Do both? Listen and learn! Time Codes: 0h 00m 25s: 1934 & Warner Brothers 0h 03m 17s: I'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER [dir. Ray Enright] 0h 26m 41s: I AM A THIEF [dir. Robert Florey] Studio Film Capsules provided by The Warner Brothers Story by Clive Hirschhorn Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler 1934 Information from Forgotten Films to Remember by John Springer +++ * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: "Sunday" by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive ) * Read Elise's latest film piece on Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours , and the Narrative role of comedic scapegoating. * Check out Dave's new Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist's 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers – 1934: I AM A THIEF & I'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER is an episode from Another Kind of Distance: A Time Travel, Twin Peaks, Film, Doom Patrol and Nostalgia Podcast by Dave.

This episode is 36:45 long.

This episode was published on Apr 24, 2026.

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