Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1944 Tick Tock Tuckered , (co-starring, of course, Porky Pig,) directed by Bob Clampett.
This short is a color remake of Porky's Badtime Story. In this short, Daffy Duck replaces Gabby Goat as Porky Pig's roommate.
We're still doing some research on supercut mashup videos for a future special feature and came across this video, so before the start of our feature presentation, ACME would like you to watch with us, Mel Blanc screaming his head off.
Blanc is considered one of the greatest voice character actors and this is merely a small taste of his talents.
(Before we start with our feature presentation, I need to apology for mis-posting the wrong film last week. I meant to post Luis Buñuel's The Young One (La Joven) and reposted Michael Powell's Peeping Tom - sorry about that. I've corrected the problem.)
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 another one of Luis Buñuel's films - the 1961 scandalous classic, Viridiana , starring starring Silvia Pinal, and Fernando Rey. This is the film that Buñuel made upon his return to his native Spain, right after the controversy of The Young One had in America. Viridiana was both banned in Spain from playing in the country until 1977, after Franco’s death and denounced by the Vatican. And yet, the film is considered a masterpiece. In order to protect themselves from embarrassment, or merely because they wanted it censored entirely, Viridiana was erased from existence. All documentation pertaining to the film was destroyed; it's like it had never been made. In another ironic twist, because the film was officially buried, it means that it had never been made, and if it had never been made, Buñuel and the film's producers escaped any kind of censureIf you haven't seen the film, to say anything more would rob the film of the power to still shock. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this brilliant work, Viridiana. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
After years of living in Mexico, Luis Buñuel was persuaded to make his first film in his native Spain, since 1936 by the vanguard of contemporary young Spanish film-makers who admired his work. The script was initially approved by the Spanish authorities with a few minor changes. They had no opportunity to view the finished film until it played at the Cannes Film Festival where it won the Palme d'Or. Nevertheless, they were horrified enough by what they saw to ban the film and fire José Muñoz Fontán, Spain's governmental Director of Film for allowing the film be shown at Cannes.
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