Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, (featuring Daffy Duck,) the 1964 The Iceman Ducketh, directed by Phil Monroe and Maurice Noble. It was the last Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon featuring Bugs and Daffy together until Box-Office Bunny in 1991, and the last that Chuck Jones worked on, though he was fired at an early stage of production and replaced by Phil Monroe
Much like the cartoon Woolen Under Where, Chuck Jones was fired during production of this cartoon. Although unlike Woolen Under Where, Jones did not manage to contribute anything to the cartoon (in Woolen Under Where Jones contributed as the screenwriter, along with receiving onscreen credit as such).
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 1958 western, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, directed by directed by John Sturges from a screenplay written by novelist Leon Uris, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, and John Ireland. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this classic, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster had worked together in the 1947 film, I Walk Alone, and often saw each other at various Hollywood functions. But, as Douglas recounted in his autobiography, The Ragman's Son, they didn't become friends until this movie, which lead to some pretty loose-and-easy moments on the set. For instance, they couldn't focus during a scene in which an unarmed Lancaster is surrounded by several men in a saloon, only to be rescued by Douglas, who steals another man's gun and tosses it to Lancaster. "We go out on the porch", Douglas wrote, "and Burt says to me, 'Thanks, Doc'. I was supposed to say, 'Forget it.' When I came to 'Forget it', the ridiculousness of the scene, our great bravery, our machismo, made us howl. We did the scene over and over. It just made us laugh harder." They were finally laughing so much, an angry John Sturges had to send them home for the day.
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