Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1953 Muscle Tussle, directed by Robert McKimson.
Melissa is modeled after the glamorous platinum blonde film stars of the day, while her muscular suitor reflects the new interest in keep fit and body building, spearheaded by Jack La Lanne's new fitness oriented TV show.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have become obsessed with the site Letters Live, (famous British personalities read aloud letters). Here's a sample:
By all means, jump down this rabbit hole.
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 1965 Czech drama Obchod Na Korze, (The Shop on Main Street) directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos., and starring Ida Kaminska and Jozef Kroner. The film won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Shop on Main Street was shot exclusively in the small Slovak city of Sabinov. The films treatment of the Aryanization program during World War II manages to handle the subject matter with great finesse - a delicate balance between humor and tragedy. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch The Shop on Main Street.
Jozef Kroner studied at Czechoslovakia's Bratislava Film School as a young man. The school was shut down during World War II by the German government and Kroner was sent to a forced labor camp. His intimate knowledge of the effects of the German policies helps make The Shop on Main Street one of the more memorable films to deal with the Holocaust.
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