Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1963 The Million Hare, (featuring Daffy Duck,) directed by Robert McKimson.
The jetpack Daffy uses was still being perfected in real life, though it would star front and center a few years later in the James Bond film Thunderball.
We here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to share with you a video of something you don't see every day -
According to official reports, over 80 captive ostriches escaped from a farm in Chongzuo City in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and were videotaped running down the street. I can bet this is something many of you have never seen
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 Alfred Hitchcock film you may not have seen - The Wrong Man. The documentary-like thriller stars Henry Fonda as Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero, a down-on-his-luck musician, and Vera Miles as Rose, his long-suffering wife. I don't want to say too much about the film in case you haven't seen it but in both look and tone, the film differed greatly from Alfred Hitchcock's other movies of the 1950s. Hitchcock narrates the film's prologue. It's the only time he actually spoke in any of his films. Sherman Billingsley, the well-known proprietor of the Stork Club, also appeared as himself in the film. The Wrong Man marked British actor Anthony Quayles' American feature film debut. The film was also Tuesday Weld's first production, although another film in which she appeared, Rock, Rock, Rock! was released first. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this different film noir from Hitchcock, The Wrong Man. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
Alfred Hitchcock utilized some of the actual real-life locations where the events took place including some of the actual witnesses. Among these are the jail cell where the real Manny Balestrero was incarcerated, the caretakers at the country inn and the inn itself, and the sanitarium where Manny's wife was committed. As much as Hitchcock hated filming his movies on location, he felt that authenticity was crucial to this film due to its real-life "elements that are stranger than all the fiction" he had filmed in his movies prior to this.
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