Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1957 Show Biz Bugs (featuring Daffy Duck), directed by Friz Freleng.
The cartoon portrays the modern interpretation of Daffy in a more sympathetic light: In this film, Daffy is a jealous and arrogant competitor to Bugs, but his shabby treatment by the theater management and audience is depicted as being unfairly out of proportion to the genuine talent he possesses.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to you to join us in listening to this summer's catchiest tune (which also contain some of the subtlest filthiest lines-)
Once you hear it, you'll know what I mean.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's choice is the 1954 On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan Academy award winning crime drama film, written by Budd Schulberg starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, and Eva Marie Saint in her film debut. Budd Schulberg based his story and screenplay on Malcolm Johnson's Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles on longshoremen and union corruption, Crime on the Waterfront, which appeared in The New York Sun in 1948. Arthur Miller was approached by Elia Kazan to write the screenplay, but he turned it down because he felt that Kazan might have named him as a Communist during his secret appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Both Kazan and Schulberg had actually cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee in its attempt to ferret out people in the film industry who held communist sympathies. On the Waterfront was often interpreted as a metaphorical rationalization of their decision to name names. Kazan, ultimately, was ostracized for his testimony, and frozen out by Hollywood’s inner circle.
The harsh, naturalistic, well-acted and uncompromising film was hugely successful, critically and financially. Its budget of slightly less than $1 million brought in almost $10 million at the box-office. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this iconic classic, On the Waterfront.
Most of the solo shots of Rod Steiger during the famous taxicab scene were done after Marlon Brando had left for the day. Steiger was deeply hurt and annoyed at Brando's apparent rudeness, but used these emotions to add to his performance. Steiger was unaware but as part of his contract, Marlon Brando only worked until 4:00 every day and then would leave to go see his analyst. Brando's mother had recently died and the conflicted young actor was in therapy to resolve his issues with his parents.
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