Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Merrie Melodies Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1959 People Are Bunny, (featuring Daffy Duck,) directed by Robert McKimson.
This is the second time in which Bugs disguises himself as an usher to send someone into a show that involved Indians and then trick his enemy into a hunter/sportsman related show. The first was Wideo Wabbit where Bugs sends Elmer Fudd into a TV studio playing You Were There, which was reenacting Custer's Last Stand and then trick him into his own show The Sportsman's Hour.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap who like you to join us in watching SpongeBob sing Lil Nas X's Old Town Road -
This was very clever but please don't have him sing Montero, I'm not sure we could take it.
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 Otto Preminger's 1955 film noir, The Man with the Golden Arm, starring Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, and Eleanor Parker. Otto Preminger defied Production Code guidelines when adapting Nelson Algren’s powerful novel about drug addiction, a taboo topic in mid-century America. Although the drug to which Sinatra is addicted is never specified in the finished movie (in the novel it was morphine,) most sources assume that it is heroin. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this absorbing drama, The Man With The Golden Arm. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
Novelist Nelson Algren initially sold the screen rights to John Garfield's company. Although a script was developed, the actor's sudden early death allowed Otto Preminger to acquire the rights. Marlon Brando was offered the role of Frankie Machine, but Frank Sinatra jumped at the opportunity and was signed before Brando could accept.
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