Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1962 Wet Hare (featuring Blacque Jacque Shellacque,) directed by Robert McKimson.
This would be the final appearance of Blacque Jacque Shellacque.
Would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? -
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour remembers Marvin Lee Aday
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 1956 Sci-Fi spectacular (think Shakespeare's The Tempest in space,) Forbidden Planet, directed by Fred McLeod Wilcox , and starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, and Robby the Robot. This film marked one of the first times a science-fiction project had received a large budget. The genre had rarely been taken seriously by studio executives, and sci-fi films generally received the most meager of budgets. The critical success of this film convinced many in the film industry that well-funded science-fiction projects could be successful. This was the first mainstream film to have the music performed entirely by electronic instruments. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join (Brad and Janet) and all of us in watching this classic sci-f film, Forbidden Planet. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
Forbidden Planet has been ranked as one of the seminal 1950s science fiction films by many critics and was nominated for an Academy Award for Special Effects, but lost to The Ten Commandments. Gene Roddenberry has been quoted as saying that this film was a major inspiration for Star Trek. Perhaps not accidentally, Warren Stevens, who plays "Doc" here, would later be a guest star in Star Trek: By Any Other Name, where the true shape of the alien Kelvans, like the Krell in this movie, was implied to be extremely non-humanoid but never shown. 1701, which is the serial number of the Starship Enterprise, allegedly comes from the clock mark 17:01 when the C57D enters orbit around Altair IV
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