Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the first appearance of Daffy Duck in a Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1937 Porky's Duck Hunt (co-starring Porky Pig,) directed by Tex Avery.
The cartoon is also notable for the fact that it is the first cartoon in which Mel Blanc voices both Porky and Daffy. Originally scheduled to voice of Daffy, Blanc won the part of Porky earlier that year. Joe Dougherty, who was Porky's original voice actor, was fired following the cartoon Porky's Romance because he could not control his stutter.
Since we are beginning our review of Daffy Duck on the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour, let's take a moment to review his career -
Should this come up in conversation - Daffy's middle name is Sheldon, but he prefers Armando because he thinks it's cooler. But he has also say that his middle name was Dumas and has been referred to as Daffy Horatio Tiberius Duck.
Before our feature presention,The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching a fun compilation of Star Trek Red Alerts -
John DiMarco created a compilation showing us that when you hear the alert, things are going to get serious on Star Trek.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the only sequel to win the Palme d'Or after the original was also a winner - the 1956 second part of The Apu Trilogy (Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Elia Kazan and Wes Anderson, all claim to have been influenced by the trilogy), Aparajito (The Unvanquished) directed by Satyajit Ray, starring Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, and Ramani Ranjan Sengupta. Aparajito picks up where the first film leaves off, with Apu and his family having moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Varanasi (then known as Benares). The film was nearly lost when a fire in a London film lab severely damaged the original negative. Intensive work by the Academy Film Archive and The Criterion Collection were able to restore the film. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this beautiful film, Aparajito. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
The critical acclaim this movie received encouraged Ray to make another sequel in 1959, Apur Sansar (The World of Apu), which was equally well received, and thus concluded one of the most critically acclaimed movie trilogies of all time, as Roger Ebert later pointed out-"The three films ... swept the top prizes at Cannes, Venice and London, and created a new cinema for India - whose prolific film industry had traditionally stayed within the narrow confines of swashbuckling musical romances. Never before had one man had such a decisive impact on the films of his culture."
Before you go - While we keep Ukraine in our thoughts -
The world needs to turn a watchful eye toward the country and people of Moldova, neighbor of Ukraine.
Demand Euphoria!
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