The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (208)

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1954 Yankee Doodle Bugs, directed by Friz Freleng.



The cartoon incorrectly depicts Betsy Ross as an elderly lady. If Betsy Ross did, in fact, design the First American Flag in 1777, she would have been only 25 years old (having been born in 1752).


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like you to show you what happens when PSAs go wrong -



I wasn't familiar with Christiana Lopez before, I will continue to look out for something new from her in the future.


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 Luis Buñuel's early masterpiece in his newly adopted county, Mexico, the 1950 Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned). Buñuel's brutally neo-realistic depiction of Mexican street youth, was initially condemned by Mexican critics, as an affront to the country. The film would go on to win Buñuel the prize for best director at Cannes that year. So we would like you to relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some nachos,) and a beverage (a shot of tequila,) and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this remarkable film, Los Olvidados.



In 1996, an alternate ending to Los Olvidados was discovered at the Film Warehouse of UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico), among the surviving materials for the film. Apparently, due to potential pressure from the Mexican censorship board, the studios urged Buñuel to film an alternative ending that maintained the image of a progressive Mexico in which no one was "poor or illiterate".

The alternative ending begins with El Jaibo and Pedro fighting in an abandoned warehouse. Pedro pushes El Jaibo from the roof, where he falls to his death. Pedro frisks the body for the money El Jaibo stole from him (in contrast to the original ending, where Pedro is murdered by El Jaibo). Pedro returns to the farm school with the money that the principal entrusted to him.



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