Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1946 Friz Freleng directed, Baseball Bugs:
This marks the first time Bugs Bunny wins an argument with reverse psychology, though Daffy had used it prior to this in Duck Soup to Nuts. Bugs would win again in reverse psychology arguments with Daffy in Chuck Jones' "hunting trilogy" cartoons later in the early-1950s.
The second of the 14 Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was released by 20th Century Fox on September 1, 1939. Like it's predecessor, The Hound of the Baskervilles, the film is set in Victorian London (unlike the remaining Holmes films in the series, set in contemporary England,) and has Holmes and Watson battling their arch-enemy Professor Moriarty. So we would like you to sit back (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack and a beverage and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this fun Basil Rathbone/ Nigel Bruce outing, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
The film revived the faltered career of Ida Lupino, whose Hollywood roles were dwindling. It was in fact a radio performance on Orson Welles' "Mercury Theatre of the Air" that brought her to the attention of a Fox casting agent, who was impressed with her clear voice and mid-Atlantic delivery. Through what can only be seen in retrospect as mishandling by Fox, the film was relegated to second bill status upon release and considered a failure by the studio, which cancelled its planned series of Holmes adaptations. The next twelve films in the series were produced by Universal Pictures.
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