Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Merrie Melodies Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1957 Ali Baba Bunny (featuring Daffy Duck), directed by Chuck Jones.
The driving force of this film is Daffy Duck's greed, which gets him into trouble. In the 1950s, Daffy's characterization had changed from him being wacky to him ""being greedy, cheap, and without a trace of empathy".
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to salute National Martini Day -
Remember, one is good. Two are better. Three is never enough.
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, Voyage to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) another great Roberto Rossellini film starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders. Once again a film that did not do well when first released but was seminal to the critics of the Cahiers du Cinéma. Martin Scorsese as often spoken of the film as his personal favorite The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this classic film Voyage to Italy .
George Sanders, in his 1960 autobiography, wrote at length about the making of this film, which he found an exasperating and unpleasant experience. He spoke witheringly about Roberto Rossellini, whom he characterized as being more interested in scuba-diving than in film-making. Although the tone of his remarks is one of amusement, it became known that Sanders (who had admired earlier Rossellini films) had been deeply affected by exposure to a style of film-making quite foreign to his previous experience, and had spent the shoot feeling frustrated and angry, often bursting into uncontrollable tears.
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