The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (138)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1946 Acrobatty Bunny directed by Robert McKimson. (This cartoon was the second Looney Tunes short to end with the written "That's all Folks!" on target color rings )



This cartoon marks Bugs' second encounter with a lion, the first being Hold the Lion, Please (Leo the Lion). However Nero the Lion differs greatly from Leo the lion from Hold the Lion, Please, as Nero appears to be much more dangerous and aggressive in contrast to the dopey Leo, which is a much tougher figure that make outwitting it more delicious, though much like Leo, Nero isn't any smarter than Bugs


The programming staff at the home office of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour was overwhelmed by the positive responses they got from the broadcast of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes the other week. So they thought that they would put together a double feature of detective movies - the 1946 Sherlock Holmes' film, (again featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce,) Terror by Night and a 1946 Charlie Chan film, starring Sidney Toler, Dark Alibi. So we would like you to relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some popcorn,) and a beverage and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching the first film in today's double feature, Terror By Night.



The film has a slightly ambiguous setting in time. Although a few characters wear 19th Century clothes, many extras can be seen wearing 1940s clothes, implies it's a contemporary update of Holmes.


I'm guess we could all use a break, right about know. As you run into the kitchen and get a beverage refill or run into the bathroom and replenish the eco-system, we here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour want to watch the the 1956 Looney Tunes Daffy Duck/ Porky Pig cartoon, Deduce, You Say.



Look for two inside Warner Bros jokes; the first, the sign at the pub reads Selzer's Water, a nod to producer Edward Selzer, and second, when Daffy enters the pub, a sign next to the door Burton's Bock Beer, a reference to production manager (and future producer) John Burton.


Our second feature tonight the 1946 Charlie Chan film, Dark Alibi, one of four Charlie Chan films released that year. After the Swedish-American actor Warner Oland, a who had portrayed the famed sleuth Charlie Chan in 16 films unexpectedly died in 1938, the Scottish-American actor Sydney Toler, took on the role for the next 8 years and 22 titles. Dark Alibi, was Toler's 18th film in the series. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy watching our second feature this evening.



Dark Alibi is one of the last Charlie Chan films starring Sidney Toler. This film and the three subsequent movies made in 1946 were filmed while Toler was quite ill. He was so weak, he could barely walk during these films. He somehow managed to make these last four films even though he was 72 years old and dying from cancer during the filming.



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