Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1941 A Coy Decoy , (co-starring Porky Pig,) directed by Bob Clampett.
Versions of this cartoon have edited this cartoon to remove Daffy singing, I Can't Get Along Little Doggie, jumping into the book, Black Beauty, and riding out on the shoulders of a black mammy caricature.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like you join us in watching a 64 year old gentleman singing in a field with his sons (and grandson) in England and the people listening join in -
Most of the crowd was at least a decade younger that the songs Crowded House sang, but the band seems to be a surprise hit of this years Glatsonbury Festival.
An 80 year old man wandered into the same field a few days later and sang a few songs and seemed to keep everyone entertained.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast for this important PSA from NYC Emergency Management - Does NYC Mayor Eric Adams know something, we don't?
ACME believes that a fourth point was left off the chart - Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye, if a nuclear event occurs in the NYC area. To quote Robert Louis Stevenson - Thems that die'll be the lucky ones!
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 courtroom drama, Anatomy of a Murder, directed by Otto Preminger and starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, George C. Scott, Arthur O'Connell, Kathryn Grant, and Orson Bean. It's soundtrack written by Duke Ellington. The film was highly was controversial for its explicit handling of sexual matters and the crime of rape. The film is one of Preminger's best because not only does it get you gripped by the legal battles and what happens in the courtroom but because while it is 160 minutes long, it never ever feels dull or slow. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this taut drama, Anatomy of a Murder. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
The part of the judge was offered to both Spencer Tracy and Burl Ives, but instead went to Joseph N. Welch who was a judge in real life. He was also recognizable for being involved in the televised McCarthy hearings.
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