The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (180)

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 1951 The Fair-Haired Hare, (featuring Yosemite Sam) directed by Friz Freleng.



It was the first short released in which Yosemite Sam was drawn with his mouth in his red mustache for almost the entire film, barring the scene in court, and the scene after Sam drinks the carrot juice, where his bottom lips can be seen. It is also one of the few cartoons where Sam refers to Bugs by name.


Before the start of our feature presentation ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to bring you another important message during this pandemic - please, wear your mask.



Don't be like the governor of a certain southern state - wear a mask!


We hope you are doing well with your self quarantines - the programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been vigorously scrubbing themselves with ACME Eagle Hand Soap - If your eagle's hands are dirty, we'll wash them clean! and sanitizing themselves for your protection. We are also engaged in social distancing - we are communicating with each other via mandatory pant-less zoom meetings and drone-o-grams.

We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today choice - the 1944 Otto Preminger classic noir detective story, Laura, introducing David Raskin's haunting main theme to popular music. Like all classic noir films, the mood and the mise en scene are so perfect, that the actual mystery is almost secondary to the film. Please join ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this classic noir tale, Laura -



When Producer and Director Otto Preminger had a chance to look at the first batch of dailies that came back, he was aghast, "I had chosen a simple dressing gown for (Dame) Judith Anderson but (Rouben Mamoulian), influenced perhaps by association (by) the Medea role for which she was famous, had dressed her in something flowing and Grecian. It was totally wrong for a contemporary story and so were his sets. The performances were appalling. (Dame) Judith Anderson was overacting, Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney were amateurish and there was even something wrong with Clifton Webb's performance." Preminger promptly had the rushes air-mailed to Twentieth Century Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck in New York City so that he could see for himself what was happening with Laura. Zanuck agreed that it was a mess and ordered Rouben Mamoulian to shoot everything over again. Preminger, he reiterated, was still barred from the set. When the second set of dailies proved to be just as bad as the first, if not worse, Darryl F. Zanuck decided to remove Rouben Mamoulian from this movie altogether. Finally the words that Otto Preminger had wanted to hear all along came from Zanuck's mouth when he returned to Los Angeles, California. "Monday", he told Preminger, "you can start directing 'Laura'. From scratch."


Before you go - Bunkies, here's another one of our favorite alter kockers, seen wandering around a Long Island neighborhood, with time on his hands (please excuse the nausea inducing camera work.)-



Once again, it's interesting to see how 70 something year old millionaires are spending their days.



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