The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (282)

Thank you for joining us today

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1939 Naughty Neighbors, (co-starring Porky Pig,) directed by Bob Clampett.

(Sorry, I could only find a colorized version.)

This is the final appearance of Petunia Pig in the Golden Age of American Animation. Petunia is mentioned in two later cartoons Porky Pig's Feat and Dumb Patrol. Coincidentally, both cartoons feature Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig together, with both Bugs and Porky taking cameos in each other's cartoons.


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like you to join us in thinking about our younger days with a bunch of ukulele playing Brits -



Would loved to have heard the Bee Gees sing this, backed by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain


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 1959 iconic classic, North by Northwest, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G. Carroll, and Martin Landau. North by Northwest was the first film Hitchcock made with M-G-M. While North by Northwest has become one of the popular of Hitchcock thrillers, fans of the film enjoy pointing out the glaring gaffe in the scene where Eve shoots Roger, of a little boy extra seated in the cafeteria who covers his ears before the shots are fired. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this very funny film, North by Northwest. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.



The final chase scene was not shot on Mount Rushmore; Hitchcock couldn't gain permission to shoot an attempted murder on a national monument. The scene was shot in the studio on a replica of Mount Rushmore. Everything is shot carefully, so as to avoid associating the faces of the monument with the violence. Hitchcock couldn't get permission to film inside the U.N., so footage was made of the interior of the building using a hidden camera, and the rooms were later recreated on a sound stage.



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