Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1956 Barbary Coast Bunny (featuring Nasty Canasta,) directed by Chuck Jones.
The winning hand that Bugs has in the climatic poker game with Nasty Canasta that he describes as a "Two Pair. A Pair of Ones and another Pair of Ones." That result is called a Quad of Aces, the highest value of a Four of a Kind that can only be topped by a Straight Flush or a Royal Flush.
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 1953 Pickup on South Street, Samual Fuller's Red Scare film-noir classic starring starring Richard Widmark, Jean Peters and Thelma Ritter. The film is based from an original idea by Samuel Fuller originally called Pickpocket, it received somewhat mixed reviews but over the years, critical appraisals of the film have warmed considerably and with many claiming it a film-noir classic. Pickup on South Street is also note-worthy thanks to the amazing performance from Thelma Ritter, who earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching Pickup on South Street. So sit back, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had lunch with Samuel Fuller and studio head Darryl F. Zanuck, and said how much he detested Fuller’s work and especially Pickup on South Street. Hoover objected to Widmark’s unpatriotic character especially his line “Are you waving the flag at me?”, the scene of a Federal agent bribing an informer and other things. Zanuck backed Fuller up, telling Hoover he knew nothing about making movies, but removed references to the FBI in the film’s advertising.
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