Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1948 Daffy Dilly , directed by Chuck Jones.
Daffy's role as a salesman would be used again in The Stupor Salesman, Fool Coverage, and Design for Leaving. Elmer Fudd is Daffy's foil in the latter cartoon.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour saw this video last week and knew that we had to share this with you - The Origins of Your Favorite Cocktails from the folks at Weird History Food (a topic we discuss all the time here):
While the video was fun, it didn't discuss the murky origins of the Martini. Perhaps, next week we'll post a video about it.
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 drama, Hud, directed by Martin Ritt, and starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Brandon deWilde, and Patricia Neal. The film, considered an anti-Western, was both a financial success and critically acclaimed when released. All of the performances were well received; Melvin Douglas and Patricia Neal won Academy Awards for their work. Strangely, although Ritt and Newman had meant to show through the character of Hud, the corruption of modern capitalism and the pitfalls of admiring an individual blindly, without observing his character, and playing Hud as a villain, audiences and some critics found him, 'likeable, almost heroic'. Hud paved the way for movie audiences' acceptance of - and even a preference for - unsympathetic, brutal lead characters. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching Hud. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
Paul Newman's commitment to the character spilled over into off-camera moments. One such incident involved the rare opportunity for him and Patricia Neal to hang out poolside at their motel. Neal found herself opening up emotionally about her daughter Olivia, who had died suddenly just months earlier of measles encephalitis. After her long outpouring, Newman stared at her for a long moment, then simply uttered "tough" and walked away. She was taken aback by his reaction. It was early in production, and they had not yet done a major scene together, so she hadn't really gotten to know him well or to understand his methods. Later on in the shoot, however, she realized he was already very much in character as Hud.
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