Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1963 Hare-Breadth Hurry, (featuring Wile E. Coyote,) directed by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble.
This is the last cartoon to pit Wile E. Coyote against Bugs Bunny, following Operation: Rabbit, To Hare Is Human, Rabbit's Feat, and Compressed Hare. Unlike those entries, however, Wile E. Coyote acts like his persona in the Road Runner shorts, meaning he doesn't speak.
We here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to share with you this supercut video -
Freelance videographer Nils duMortier put together a seamless supercut of 30 of the most recognizable movie and television references made by different characters in The Office.
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 another (yet more familiar) 1956 Alfred Hitchcock film - The Man Who Knew Too Much, starring James Stewart, Doris Day, and that damn ear worm of a song, Que Sera, Sera. Movie buffs considered this one of the "Five lost Hitchcocks" (with Rear Window, Rope, The Trouble with Harry, and Vertigo) because they were unavailable for thirty years because their rights were bought back by Alfred Hitchcock and left as part of his legacy to his daughter. The five movies were re-released in theaters around 1984. The film is a remake of a 1935 Gaumont-British Picture Corp. production of the same name, starring Leslie Banks and Edna Best and directed by Hitchcock. In discussing his work on the two films in an interview with François Truffaut, Hitchcock stated: "Let's say that the first version was the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional." The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this classic from Hitchcock, The Man Who Knew Too Much. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
It was during the making of this movie, when she saw how camels, goats and other "animal extras" in a marketplace scene were being treated, that Doris Day began her lifelong commitment to preventing animal abuse. She was so appalled at the conditions the animals were in that she refused to work unless they were properly fed and cared for. The production company actually had to set up "feeding stations" for the various goats, sheep, camels, et cetera, and feed them every day before Day would agree to go back to work.
Before you go -
Please keep the people of Ukraine in your thoughts during this tragic time.
Demand Euphoria!
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