Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1942 My Favorite Duck , (co-starring Porky Pig,) directed by Chuck Jones.
This short is the first Porky and Daffy in color. It is also the second Looney Tunes short in color, the first being, Old Glory.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME would like to answer the questions the youth of America wants to know - Why are there so many pigeons in New York:
Thomas P.F. Hoving, the former city parks commissioner and longtime director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is credited with coining the epithet, “rats with wings,” when referring to pigeons.
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 1960 kitchen sink drama Saturday Night and Sunday Morning directed by Karel Reisz and starring Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, and Rachel Roberts. The film has been categorized also as one of the best Angry Young Men movies that came out of from England in the late 1950s and ’60s. For the first time in this film, the working classes were treated with respect, not condescension. This was Albert Finney's first starring role, although he had a bit in The Entertainer that same year. Over sixty years later, the film still packs an impressive punch. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this impressive drama, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
The film had to go through some dialogue changes before release, mainly owing to the swear words in the original script. Although 'bastards', 'bloody', and 'bleedin' were allowed the censors refused to pass 'sod', 'christ' and 'bogger' (the latter being a script substitution for 'bugger'). The censors were not too keen on the scene in which Arthur wakes up on Sunday morning in bed with his mistress. It directly implies extra-marital sex, a notable first for British cinema.
British rock band the Arctic Monkeys were heavily influenced by this film. The title of their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not is a direct quote from the movie, and many of the songs were inspired by Albert Finney's character. Also the art design of the album was influenced by the realist images of British working class neighborhoods and night life in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
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