Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1945 Draftee Dafty, directed by Bob Clampett. This was the last cartoon that was released during Bob Clampett's time at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio before he left four months later.
Daffy had already been depicted as serving in the armed forces in two earlier cartoons, Daffy - The Commando and Plane Daffy.
Before the start of our feature presentation, let's take one last look back at 2022 with Mental Floss -
I'm sure 2023 will be just as interesting
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 a unique 1961 western, One-Eyed Jacks, the only film directed by Marlon Brando, and starring Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson, and Slim Pickens. The film was plagued with highly publicized production problems and opened to mixed reviews. Stanley Kubrick was originally signed on to direct the film but left the production and was replaced by Marlon Brando shortly after shooting began. Brando turned in a cut of the film that ran more than five hours before walking away from the production, and Paramount executives eventually shortened the film down to 141 minutes. The film ultimately has become a cult classic. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching One-Eyed Jacks. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
With a budget of $6 million, the film did not do well at the box office. To help offset the costs, Marlon Brando persuaded Universal to pick up the tab. In return, he agreed to make five films for the studio: The Ugly American, Bedtime Story, The Appaloosa, A Countess from Hong Kong, and The Night of the Following Day, none of which performed well at the box office.
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