The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (186)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon (featuring Wile E. Coyote,) the 1952 Operation: Rabbit, directed by Chuck Jones.



This is Wile E. Coyote's (following 1949's Fast and Furry-ous) second appearance. This is the first in which he is given a name and the first in which the he speaks. His voice, like Bugs', was provided by Mel Blanc, albeit with a smooth, generic upper-class accent, in contrast to Bugs' Bronx-Brooklyn city slicker accent.


Before the start of our feature presentation ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to bring you another Toad Elevating Moment. -



Bunkies, may we speak, I strongly advice you don't drop acid before watching this video.


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The 1946 film A Matter of Life and Death (AKA Stairway to Heaven) another wartime collaboration between Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (this time they got to use the Technicolor cameras.) The film was quite amazing for it's time. The huge escalator linking this World with the Other, called "Operation Ethel" by the firm of engineers who constructed her under the aegis of the London Passenger Transport Board, took three months to make, and cost £320,000, equivalent to £13,910,000 in 2019. "Ethel" had one hundred six steps, each twenty feet wide, and was driven by a twelve horsepower engine. The full shot was completed by hanging miniatures. Please join ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching the excellent, A Matter of Life and Death.-



During a visit to Hollywood in 1945, director Michael Powell decided to cast the then-unknown Kim Hunter as June, the American servicewoman, largely upon the recommendation of Alfred Hitchcock, who had done a series of screen tests of actors and actresses auditioning for parts in his upcoming production, Notorious. The trouble was that in these screen tests Hunter was not seen but, rather, was heard off-camera, feeding lines and cues to the actors Hitchcock was actually screen-testing. But Hitchcock assured Powell that he would arrange a "face-to-face" with Hunter and her agent, so that he could see for himself whether she fit the requirements of the "all-American" girl Powell had envisioned opposite David Niven. And upon first encountering Hunter, Powell agreed with Hitchcock that she, indeed, was a perfect choice for the role.



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