Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1944 Tom Turk and Daffy , (co-starring, of course, Porky Pig,) directed by Chuck Jones.
This is one of the earliest Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts to be written by two storymen instead of just one; in this case both Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce wrote this cartoon. Neither are credited by their actual names; instead, they are credited as "The Staff".
Before the start of today's feature, the ACME staff would like to share with you a special Word of the Day - PANDICULATION:
It's the act of stretching oneself (often accompanied by yawning), not that we think that about today's feature.
(I'm so sorry I posted the wrong film last week)
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 drama The Young One (La joven) directed by Luis Buñuel, starring starring Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Crahan Denton, and Claudio Brook. This was Buñuel's second (and last) film in English; the first being the 1954 version of Robinson Crusoe. Although the film was critically acclaimed at the time, receiving a special notation at Cannes, the film, dealing with issues of racism and rape (handled quite sensitively), is largely forgotten today. The Young One takes an amoral stance on race and sex (which seem to be closely related) and leaves us with a much more troubling puzzle. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this forgotten work, The Young One. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
The Young One did not find a large audience when it opened in the U.S. Some have pinned it directly on The New York Times review, written by the influential Bosley Crowther, which more or less killed its chances in theatres at the time.
Demand Euphoria!
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