The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (219)

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Merrie Melodies Bugs Bunny cartoon (featuring Elmer Fudd,) the 1956 Bugs' Bonnets , directed by Chuck Jones.



Bugs' chastising of Elmer for calling his rifle a gun is a very inside reference to a dirty joke popular among WW2-era soldiers, based on their use of the word "gun" as a slang term for "penis." The entire joke is, "This is my rifle/This is my gun/This one's for fighting/This one's for fun."


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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 1952 controversial (for the time) western film, High Noon starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. Considered a fulfillment of a contractual obligation by the studio, almost immediately after it's release, High Noon achieved critical acclaim and box-office success. And yet the screenwriter, Carl Foreman was drawing the attention of the House Un-American Activities Committee (H.U.A.C.). An ex-member of the American Communist Party, Foreman, while finishing the High Noon screenplay, was subpoenaed in June 1951 by H.U.A.C. and told he would take the stand three months later — during the middle of the film shoot. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching High Noon. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.



John Wayne set up and ran an "anti-Communist" organization for the film industry. He strongly disliked this movie because he knew it was an allegory for blacklisting, which he and his friend Ward Bond had strongly and actively supported. Twenty years later he was still criticizing it, in his controversial May 1971 interview with  Playboy Magazine, during which he claimed that Gary Cooper had thrown his marshal's badge to the ground and stepped on it. He also stated he would never regret having driven blacklisted screenwriter Carl Foreman out of Hollywood. The fact is that while Kane threw his badge to the ground, he did not step on it.



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