Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1938 Daffy Duck & Egghead (co-starring Egghead, a prototype Elmer Fudd,) directed by Tex Avery.
(Sorry, I could only find a colorized version.) Daffy would sing his own variation of The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down again, albeit with different lyrics, in Boobs in the Woods.
Before our feature presentation,The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching - When PBS Titans Meet -
Both, in their way, had their je-m'en-foutiste attitude
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 classical New York noir - The Sweet Smell of Success directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, and Martin Milner, and written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman, and Alexander Mackendrick. The character of J. J. Hunsecker is based on larger-than-life columnist Walter Winchell and the film is generally believed to one of the first to refer to blacklisting. Upon its release, Sweet Smell of Success was rejected by critics and audiences, who disliked seeing the popular actors in such unsympathetic roles. And yet the years have proven that these were both Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis' best roles.The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in taking a bite out of this cookie full of arsenic, The Sweet Smell of Success. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
The production company Hecht-Hill-Lancaster purchased the film rights in 1955 and initially considered Frank Sinatra, and then Orson Welles for the lead. Welles had ended his self-imposed exile from Hollywood and was looking to take on as many roles as possible to help finance films he wanted to make in Europe.
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