Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1967 Go Away Stowaway, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales,) directed by Alex Lovy.
This was the last cartoon to use the original version of the "Abstract WB" titles that first appeared in Now Hear This and first came in to regular use in late 1964.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour another post from the wonderful folks at Letters Live -
Michael Palin is always funny even reading someone else's writing (that was not in Python.).
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1972 drama Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes), directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski. The film opened to critical acclaim and is considered a masterpiece. Several critics have noted that Aguirre appears to have had a direct influence on Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. So push away from the table, get settled in and join us in watching Aguirre, the Wrath of God.
According to Werner Herzog's commentary, he paid the men who were to provide the monkeys at the end of the film only half of what they asked for, thinking they would try to run off with the money. The dealers took the money, then sold the monkeys to someone else, and prepared to fly them to Florida. In desperation, Herzog pretended he was a veterinarian and said the monkeys didn't have their vaccination documents. After filming, he released the monkeys into the wild.
Demand Euphoria!
