The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (187)

Thank you for joining us today.

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1952 Foxy by Proxy, directed by Friz Freleng.



This cartoon is considered a remake to Of Fox and Hounds from 1940


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to bring all of you college students a message that bears repeating. -



Bunkies, may we speak, while on campus, wear your mask, stop going to frat parties, and wash your damn hands.


We hope you are doing well with your self quarantines - the programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been vigorously scrubbing themselves with ACME Eagle Hand Soap - If your eagle's hands are dirty, we'll wash them clean! and sanitizing themselves for your protection. We are also engaged in social distancing - we are communicating with each other via encrypted Halloween greeting cards and sky writing.

We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today's choice - the 1948 film, Letter from an Unknown Woman from the brilliant director Max Ophüls . His camera work seems to dance around his characters. Actor James Mason, who worked with Ophüls on two films, wrote a short poem about the director’s love for tracking shots and elaborate camera movements:

A shot that does not call for tracks
Is agony for poor old Max,
Who, separated from his dolly,
Is wrapped in deepest melancholy.
Once, when they took away his crane,
I thought he’d never smile again.

Please join ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching the heartbreaking, A Letter from an Unknown Woman -



The film was adapted from the original Stefan Zweig novella by screenwriter Howard Koch. The film is mostly faithful to the book, though featuring minor divergences. The most noted divergence is a structural change: there is no duel in the original story, nor is there a character such as Johann. The "unknown woman" from the book never marries, but lives off a series of lovers who remain unnamed and mostly unintrusive.



Demand Euphoria!