Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the iconic 1953 Duck, Rabbit, Duck, The final installment of the "Hunting Trilogy", (co-starring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, ) and directed by Chuck Jones.
Bugs Bunny stuck out four signs to lead Elmer Fudd to shoot Daffy Duck. (They are all in capital letters.) In order they are:
1st: GOAT SEASON OPEN;
2nd: DIRTY SKUNK SEASON;
3rd: PIGEON SEASON;
4th: MONGOOSE SEASON.
Before the start of our feature presentation, just wanted to let you know that the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour made it through the rain
Hopefully you did as well.
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 very scary BBC docudrama War Games, directed by Peter Watkins. Despite being produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the film was banned from television. The official reason was violence and depiction of human suffering, but others hinted that the real reason was because it went against the official government line concerning the survivability of a nuclear attack. The ban didn't forbid cinematic distribution, so the film had a wide theatrical release and won four major film awards. The BBC finally aired the program in 1985; the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch War Game.
Although this film is not a documentary, it won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, the only fictional film to win this award. After it won an Oscar for Documentary Feature, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences changed the eligibility rules for the category.
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