Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1949 The Grey Hounded Hare directed by Robert McKimson.
This cartoon has had edited out, in the past, the scene after Gnawbone falls from the sky after chasing a rabbit balloon, where Gnawbone grabs Bugs' throat and prepares to punch him, but gets distracted by the mechanical rabbit, prompting Bugs to light a stick of dynamite and make Gnawbone fetch it, causing it to explode was edited to make it look like Gnawbone exploded when he hit the ground from falling.
February 27, 1920 - Du mußt Caligari werden!
Once again, the inmates in the programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been re-reading an excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. And what jumped out at us, it's the 100 anniversary of the release of a familiar film - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Caligari is one of the most influential German expresionism movies, echoes of the film are seen in the works of Tim Burton, David Lynch, and Martin Scorsese. And yet, we bet , many of you haven't seen the entire thing. So why not sit back and 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 this classic silent masterpiece, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. -
Writer Hans Janowitz claims to have gotten the idea for the film when he was at a carnival one day. He saw a strange man lurking in the shadows. The next day he heard that a girl was brutally murdered there. He went to the funeral and saw the same man lurking around. He had no proof that the strange man was the murderer, but he fleshed the whole idea out into his film.
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