Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Merrie Melodies Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1961 Compressed Hare, (featuring Wile E Coyote,) directed by Chuck Jones (co-directed by Maurice Noble).
The sound effect in the background when all the metal objects are drawn to the magnet is the old civil defense siren. At the time this cartoon was made, the Cold War was in full swing. These sirens were tested once every month, usually on a Friday morning, and school children then participated in "drop drills" in the classroom.
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We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's choice is the a biblical epic directed by Cecil B. DeMille, the 1956 classic The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Cedric Hardwicke, Nina Foch, Martha Scott, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price and (literally) a cast of thousands. The film is a sort-of remark of DeMille's 1923 silent version. While the film as generally well received, it was not all well reviewed. Time referred to the film as "in some respects the most vulgar movie ever made." Network television has aired the film in prime time during the Passover/Easter season every year since 1973. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this epic film, The Ten Commandments. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
According to Hollywood lore, while filming the orgy sequence that precedes Moses' descent from Mount Horeb with the two stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments are engraved, producer and director Cecil B. DeMille was perched on top of a ladder delivering his customarily long-winded directions through a megaphone to the hundreds of extras involved in the scene. After droning on to the extras for several minutes, DeMille was distracted by one young woman who was talking to another woman standing next to her. DeMille stopped his speech and directed everyone's attention to the young woman. "Here", DeMille said, "we have a young woman whose conversation with her friend is apparently more important than listening to her instructions from her director while we are all engaged in making motion picture history. Perhaps the young woman would care to enlighten us all, and tell us what the devil is so important that it cannot wait until after we make this shot." After an embarrassed pause, the young woman spoke up and boldly confessed, "I was just saying to my friend here, 'I wonder when that bald-headed old fart is gonna call 'Lunch!'" Nonplussed, DeMille stared at the woman for a moment, paused, then lifted his megaphone and shouted, "Lunch!"
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