Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1942 Conrad the Sailor , directed by Chuck Jones.
This is the only short featuring Conrad the Cat where he has dialogue. In his other two shorts, The Bird Came C.O.D. and Porky's Cafe, he is completely silent.
Before the start of our feature presentation, we haven't heard from our favorite 7 foot tall sad clown, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like you join us in listening to a mash-up of a George Michael/ Led Zeppelin tune
Hopefully we'll get another new song from Puddles sometime very soon.
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 third part of the Apu triology, the 1959 drama, The World of Apu (Apur Sansar), directed by Satyajit Ray and starring Soumitra Chatterjee , and Sharmila Tagore. The film brings Apu’s journey full circle. Ray's mastery is on full display with this movie - you can appreciate both as the conclusion of a brilliant cinematic film series or as a stand alone film. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this classic film, World of Apu. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
Sharmila Tagore, who plays Aparna, the wife of Apu (played by Soumitra Chatterjee), and who was only 14-years-old when she appeared in the film, later recalled filming the scene in which Apu brings his new bride back to his untidy apartment in the city. The director, Satyajit Ray, gave Tagore no direction, other than that she was to enter the room and look around, and she did not view the apartment set before they shot the scene. So when Chatterjee opened the door and they both walked in, Aparna's reaction to Apu's living quarters was actually Tagore's own spontaneous reaction. Later, she realized that Ray deliberately did not prepare her, in order to obtain exactly that spontaneous response from her.
Demand Euphoria!
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