The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (191)

Thank you for joining us today.

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1952 Oily Hare, directed by Robert McKimson.



Bugs makes a joke about his home is his "little gray hole in the West" is a pun on the title of the sentimental 1911 wartime song Little Grey Home in the West.


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to bring you another Toad Elevating moment:



(While you're listening to this, I'll be in CT watching The Machine in Westport.
 

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 coded messages in the New York Review of Books and maritime distress signals .

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's choice is a little seen 1948 film from China - Spring in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun) by Fei Mu. Although the film was rejected by the communist party at its premiere as being apolitical and therefore reactionary, the film has now been seen as one the the masterpieces of postwar Chinese cinema. The film is a portrait of female desire and subjectivity that ranks alongside Brief Encounter by David Lean. So why not sit back and relax (find the most comfortable seat) get a snack (dim sum anyone,) and a beer or two and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching Spring in a Small Town (the print is not great but please stick with it.) -



State censors at the time of its original release were suspicious of the film’s refusal either to romanticize the lives of ordinary people, or to make two-dimensional fools of the property-owner classes. Instead, they arched their eyebrows over what they called the film’s “narcotizing effect,” and withdrew it from distribution.



Before you go - And now an editorial from PBS NEWS HOUR -



That was a lot easier to take


Demand Euphoria!