The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (215)

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Merrie Melodies Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1955  This Is A Life? (with Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, and Daffy Duck,) directed by Friz Freleng.



This is the first time in which June Foray voiced Granny. She would go on to voice the character for 59 years.


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is proud help market this fabulous new album: Churchill Sings the Best of Queen -



We can only hope to hear more from Neville Chamberlain and his magic spoons!


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 the 1951 sci-fi classic, The Day The Earth Stood Still, directed by Roberrt Wise, starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, and Sam Jaffe. The movie explores Cold War and Atomic Age paranoia from an extraterrestrial angle. The film's bold anti-war theme, still seems relevant, since the world still hasn’t learned the lessons the film sought to teach.

Bernard Herrmann's memorable score was many all the more creepy by his groundbreaking use of the Theremin. The theremin is basically a box with two antennas. The vertical one controls the pitch of the note, and the horizontal one controls the volume. Herrmann’s use of the theremin was copied by other film composers, and the instrument has been associated with science-fiction and thriller movies ever since. So we would like you to relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some popcorn,) and a beverage (a can of Coke,) and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this still surprisingly scary film, The Day The Earth Stood Still.



Lock Martin, the doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater, was cast because of his nearly seven-foot height. However, he was not a physically strong man and could not actually carry Patricia Neal, and so had to be aided by wires (in shots from the back where he's carrying her, it's actually a lightweight dummy in his arms). He also had difficulty with the heavy Gort suit and could only stay in it for about a half hour at a time.



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