Ring out the old, ring in the new

Life has no remote, so wake up and change it.

Now that we have your attention -

Let us all welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

- from your friends at ACME, celebrating over 100 year in business.


Thank you for joining us today (sorry for the delay in posting)

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1961 The Abominable Snow Rabbit, (featuring Daffy Duck,) directed by Chuck Jones (co-directed by Maurice Noble).



This cartoon marks the debut of Hugo the Abominable Snowman, a parody of Lennie from John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men.


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap who like you to join us in watching the always moving video TCM creates at the end of the year to memorialize some of the people that they would like to remember whom have passed in 2021



Of course they could not possible mention everyone and since last week when this first aired, several other notable people passed away including the much beloved Betty White. I'm sure that they would have included her in their very touching tribute.


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 only film directed by Charles Laughton, the 1955 classic film noir, Night of the Hunter, starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. The picture has become a cult classic since its release, and is widely regarded by film critics and historians and modern filmmakers as one of the most important pictures of the 1950s. Preacher's "LOVE" and "HATE" tattoos have become a well-known cultural reference and are often imitated or parodied in films and television. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this exciting movie, Night of the Hunter. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.



So disappointed was he by the poor reception of this film on its initial release both critically and commercially, Charles Laughton vowed never to direct a film again, and he never did. Laughton himself said that he much preferred directing in the theatre  "There, you could constantly change and amend the production--adding lines, changing lighting and sets--but with film once it was done it could never be changed." Laughton was planning to direct another film after Night of the Hunter, a screen adaptation of Norman Mailer's novel,The Naked and the Dead.



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