The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (160)

Thank you for joining us today.

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1949 Chuck Jones directed, Long-Haired Hare:



Bugs Bunny's conducting performance as "Leopold", is a send-up of conductor Leopold Stokowski's energetic style, including his shunning the baton. As Bugs enters the concert hall wearing a Stokowski-like hairpiece, the orchestra members begin whispering among themselves, "Leopold! Leopold!".


Once again, the inmates in the programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been watching a slew of movies to showcase this year. We've also been re-reading an excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. We came across a pre-Hollywood Alfred Hitchcock film, that Hitchcock was always conflicted about but we disagree with the director - we enjoyed it. Based on the novel Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, Sabotage (1936) is a very suspenseful thriller, containing one of Hitchcock's most tense sequences. So we would like you to relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some bangers and mash,) and a beverage (a lager?) and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this Hitchcock film, Sabotage.



In his interview with Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock doesn’t have much regard for this film. Truffaut agrees with him, calling it "disappointing." Hitchcock believed that he made a terrible mistake with the "Boy with the Bomb" suspense scene. Hitchcock said that he will never let the bomb go off in a "suspense scene", because the audience gets worked up. If the bomb is going to explode, then Hitchcock won't shoot the scene in "suspense". Other critics objected to the way Hitchcock chose to end the sequence involving the delivery of the bomb on the bus. Hitchcock, stung by the criticism, said on The Dick Cavett Show that he regretted his decision. Nonetheless, the treatment is faithful to Joseph Conrad's book.


Please stick around for this incredible short based on the famous reference book, 1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, created by Jonathan Keogh.



From what we've read, it appears that it to Mr. Keogh more that a year to assemble this short.




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