The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (197)

Thank you for joining us today.

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon (featuring Yosemite Sam,) the 1953 Southern Fried Rabbit, directed by Friz Freleng.



This cartoon is usually edited due it's Confederacy content. The scene with Sam yelling "CHARGE!" after Bugs first tries to cross the Mason-Dixon Line is usually cut due to the short scene featuring the Confederate "bars and stripes" flag (which is considered a very controversial flag in American culture/history). Also usually cut out is the entire part where Bugs poses as a slave, then gets his cover blown when he sings Yankee Doodle, shoves a whip into Sam's hands, begging Sam not to beat him, and Bugs posing as Abraham Lincoln to chastise Sam about whipping slaves.


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap remembers Alex Trebek -







We will always answer the questions in the form of a question.


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 a Tor IP address and Steganography.

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 another of the underappreciated 1948 film noir film on this list, The Reckless Moment was directed by the master of camera movement Max Ophüls and starred James Mason and Joan Bennet. The film received good reviews but a noir melodrama released at Christmas wasn't what the public wanted, and Ophüls returned to France in the 50s to direct his masterpieces Earrings of Madame de..., La Ronde, and Lola Montès. The Reckless Moment would be his last film made in America. So we would like you to relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some chips,) and a beverage (a highball or two,) and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching terse drama film, The Reckless Moment.



Walter Wanger, who produced the film The Reckless Moment, and Joan Bennett were married from 1940 until 1965. In 1951 Wanger shot Bennett's agent, Jennings Lang, apparently based on the assumption of a romantic involvement between the two.



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