Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1939 Scalp Trouble, (co-starring Porky Pig,) directed by Bob Clampett.
Currently, this cartoon doesn't air on American television anymore due to heavy Native American stereotyping.
Before our feature presentation, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this wonderful mash-ups created from various movie musicals -
If you check out the youtube link, you can find a list of the movies used.
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 1958 horror classic, Dracula (aka Horror of Dracula,) starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, and Melissa Stribling. This was the first in the series of Hammer Horror films starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula. In the United States the title was changed to Horror of Dracula to avoid confusion with the classic 1931 version. This was a real concern since the Bela Lugosi version was still being booked into theatres until the Shock Theatre package of classic Universal horror films was released to television. Considered extreme for its day (the film was originally rated FOR ADULT'S ONLY in Britain,) it now seems relatively PG by today's standards, the film's stylishness remains undiminished. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching, Dracula, perhaps with the lights on. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
Christopher Lee would go on to reprise the role in six of the eight Dracula sequels including, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Taste the Blood of Dracula, Scars of Dracula, Dracula A.D. 1972 and The Satanic Rites of Dracula. Peter Cushing would reprise the role of Professor Van Helsing in the 1960's Brides of Dracula.
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