The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (232)

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon (featuring Rocky and Mugsy,) the 1957 Bugsy and Mugsy, directed by Friz Freleng.



This short shares similarities with Stooge for a Mouse such as Rocky and Hector/Mike saying to Sylvester and Mugsy "I don't know how youse done it but I know youse done it!" and the mouse and Bugs using a magnet to make it look like Mugsy and Sylvester are fighting Rocky and Hector/Mike. Coincidentally, both cartoons were directed by Freleng.


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to promote the new documentary Roadrunner, about the life of the late Anthony Bourdain.-



If you get a chance you should seek out the film.


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 comedy adventure film directed by John Huston, Beat the Devil, starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, and Peter Lorre. The film has a checkered past - opening in 1953 to bad reviews and poor box office, the film was plagued with mishaps, including Huston’s drunken fall off a cliff and an auto accident that shattered Bogart’s bridgework. box-office success. And yet the film has garnered an almost cult-like status as a parody of a crime thriller. Truman Capote was hired as a screenwriter at the last minute, furiously writing pages of the script nearly moments before they were actually shot. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this very funny film, Beat the Devil. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.



Humphrey Bogart was involved in a serious automobile accident during production of this film, which knocked out several of his teeth and hindered his ability to speak. John Huston reportedly hired a young British actor noted for his mimicry skills to rerecord some of Bogart's spoken lines during post-production looping. Although it is undetectable when viewing the film today, it is Peter Sellers who provides Bogart's voice during some of the scenes in this movie.



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