Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1948 You Were Never Duckier , (co-starring Henery Hawk,) directed by Chuck Jones.
This cartoon marks the start of a direction change for Daffy Duck, from a "screwball" character, to a greedy, self-centered one.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour wants to wish you all a very happy and healthy Earth Day:
Don't listen to Ronny, thank the earth for being our home.
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 1963 psychological drama, The Servant, directed by Joseph Losey, written by Harold Pinter and starring Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, and James Fox. The film is the first of three collaborations between director Joseph Losey, who left to England after being 'blacklisted' in Hollywood, and writer Harold Pinter, The Servant shares with Accident and The Go-Between an jaundiced view of England and class structure. Losey’s film was released while British audiences observed the scandal of the Profumo affair and, later, the ousting of the unpopular Conservative government. Given the atmosphere of the times when The Servant was released, the response from British reviewers was wildly enthusiastic. To say more about the film would ruin it for first time viewers. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching The Servant. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
When producer and director Joseph Losey was hospitalized for two weeks during this shoot, Dirk Bogarde continued filming assisted by minute, daily instructions over the phone from Losey's hospital bed. When Losey returned to the set, he did not re-shoot any of the script, much to the relief of cast and crew.
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