The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (236)

Thank you for joining us today

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1958 Hare-Way to the Stars (featuring Marvin the Martian), directed by Chuck Jones.



The Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator is a small, highly specialized explosive device that remarkably resembles a stick of the Earth invention dynamite. The resemblance is particularly notable for the fact that illudium of any kind, let alone the highly specialized Q-36 isotope, is nowhere to be found on Earth, and cultures that have discovered space modulation technology tend not to have a great familiarity with Terran culture. (Please feel free to share that tonight at your local cocktail party.)


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like to salute a great middle-aged American's response to haters who are going to hate -



Dave Grohl knows that you should be dancing and not hating


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 one of Alfred Hitchcock's so called five 'lost films' (hung up for years in limbo due to copyright issues,) the 1954 classic, Rear Window starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr (you better bet he was wearing his eponymous nipple rouge). This film is much discussed but what is little known is the casting of Raymond Burr. Hitchcock had a long-standing grudge with his former producer, David O. Selznick. The director believed Selznick had meddled too much with his movies, so much so that Hitchcock effectively disowned his first film with the producer, Rebecca. His ties to Selznick ended with the 1947 movie The Paradine Case, though, so Hitch decided to enact a sly bit of revenge onscreen. It involved Raymond Burr playing Rear Window villain Lars Thorwald. Hitchcock gave Burr glasses just like Selznick’s and curly gray hair to match. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching Rear Window. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.



At the time the set for Rear Window was the largest indoor set built at Paramount Studios. The size of the set necessitated excavation of the soundstage floor. Thus Jeff's apartment was actually at street level.



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