Before our feature presentation,
ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1946 Book Revue, directed by Bob Clampett. (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Porky Pig make a cameo on the cover of a comic book.)
The short is very similar to an earlier short, Have You Got Any Castles?, which also depicts books coming to life with celebrity caricatures in place of the characters.
Once again, we here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to watch with you Apple's annual Lunar New Year film, shot entirely on an an Apple iPhone (a 14 Pro) and directed by Venice Film Festival award-winning director Peng Fei:
The film celebrates the power of overcoming hardships and celebrates the strength of resilience and determination.
We are in the middle of the Lunar New Year celebrations and we're sure you need a break from your family. Here at ACME, we can think of no better way to relax than watching a forgotten 1946 film noir, based on a script, written by John Huston. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching Jean Negulesco's film, Three Strangers (which actually premiered on this date in 1946.) Once again, if you can't watch this today, please put it on a list of films you much watch (you'll understand why we choose it to watch during the Lunar New Year.) So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
At one point this film was intended to be a sequel to The Maltese Falcon. Following the success of that film, Warner Bros. wanted to make a sequel. Falcon write/director John Huston said he'd previously written an un-filmed script for Warner Bros. that would be appropriate and would only require the character names to be changed to the Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet and Mary Astor characters. However, Warner Bros. discovered they did not own the rights to the characters except for their appearance in The Maltese Falcon.
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