Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the Daffy Duck/Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1952 Rabbit Seasoning, directed by Chuck Jones. The short is widely considered among Jones' best and most important film.
Rabbit Seasoning is the sequel to Rabbit Fire, and the second entry in the "Hunter's trilogy" directed by Jones and written by Michael Maltese (the only major difference in format between Rabbit Fire and Rabbit Seasoning is that the former takes place during the springtime, while the latter takes place in autumn. The third cartoon in the set, Duck! Rabbit, Duck!, takes place in the winter.)
Before the start of our feature presentation, given the San Gennaro Festival is just weeks away, staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to share with you this funny video reviewing the feast.
Matteo Lane is becoming my favorite new comedian.
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 musical comedy, A Hard Day's Night , directed by Richard Lester, and starring the Beatles - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington, and John Junkin.. The film was the film debut of The Beatles, and is considered one of the greatest rock-and-roll comedy adventures ever. By 1964, it seemed impossible for the Fab Four to acquire greater fame and love but A Hard Day’s Night did just that. Two years before the films release, The Beatles had their first hit with Love Me Do and by the time of the film’s release, they were reaping the rewards of their first three massively successful albums and had triumphantly returned from their now historical world tour. Alun Owen’s screenplay and Richard Lester’s direction combines the boys’ natural Liverpudlian repartee with lashings of slapstick and surreal comedy, creating something downright bizarre and even magical. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy turning back the clock by watching, A Hard Day’s Night.
United Artists executives didn't really care about the movie itself, they were mainly interested in exploiting a legal loophole which would allow them to distribute the lucrative soundtrack album. In fact, they fully expected to lose money on the movie. With a final cost of about $500,000 and a box-office take of about $8 million in the first week, this movie is amongst the most profitable (percentage-wise) movies of all time.
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