Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck/Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1952 Thumb Fun, directed by Robert McKimson.
Daffy's artistic talents would also be used by fellow cast member Will E. Coyote.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to know - Of all the gin joints in all the world, why did you continue to show up at this one?
Always a great watch - an interesting documentary about Casablanca.
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 1964 movie, Dr Strangelove, (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), directed by Stanley Kubrick, and starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, and Tracy Reed. Dr. Strangelove is often considered a comedy and the film is often considered one of the best comedies ever made. Peter Sellers was asked to play four characters in the film - Group captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove, and Major T. J. "King" Kong. Sellers felt he could not correctly do the Texas accent of the Major.
The character of Dr Strangelove is an amalgamation of RAND Corporation strategist Herman Kahn, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (a central figure in Nazi Germany's rocket development program recruited to the US after the war), and Edward Teller, the "father of the hydrogen bomb". Rumors claimed that the character was based on Henry Kissinger, but Kubrick and Sellers denied this - you be the judge. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy watching this classic work, Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
The scene where Gen. Turgidson trips and falls in the War Room, and then gets back up and resumes talking as if nothing happened, really was an accident. Stanley Kubrick mistakenly thought that it was George C. Scott really in character, so he left it in the film.
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