Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Merrie Melodies Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1959 Wild and Woolly Hare (featuring Yosemite Sam), directed by Friz Freleng.
After many years of deliberately miscast villain roles, this cartoon marks the first time since High Diving Hare that Yosemite Sam returns to his original cowboy roots as seen in his earliest cartoons such as Hare Trigger and Bugs Bunny Rides Again.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap who like you to join us in watching someone who has taken celebrating Halloween a little too seriously -
Anyway, Happy (early) Halloween.
We've picked another fantastic entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's choice is the directorial debut of the great Satyajit Ray - the 1955 family drama, Pather Panchali, starring Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee and Karuna Banerjee. The film burst Satyajit Ray onto the international film scene, which is amazing if you consider that on the first day of the shoot, the director had never directed, the cameraman had never shot a scene, the children in the leading roles hadn't been tested and the soundtrack was composed by a then obscure sitarist (the great Ravi Shankar). The films has consisted appeared on various Ten Best Films of All Time list since it appears on the 1962 Sight & Sound survey. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this wonderful film, Pather Panchali. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
Because of all the many delays in this film's nearly three-year production, director Satyajit Ray became increasingly apprehensive that some event might occur to prevent his finishing it. In fact, he attributed his success in that regard to three miraculous occurrences (or rather non-occurrences), referring to his cast by their character names: "One, Apu's voice did not break. Two, Durga did not grow up. Three, Indir Thakrun did not die."
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