Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1955 This Is a Life?, (co-starring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Yosemite Sam,) and directed by Friz Freleng.
This is the first time in which June Foray voices Granny. She would go on to voice the character up until 2014.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has once again stumbled upon a great super cut video from the folks at Burger Fiction - Do You Know The Secret Word? So let's check it out -
Unfortunately Groucho is no longer around to give you a 50 if you say 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 1965 exploitation film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, directed by Russ Meyer and starring Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams and Susan Bernard. The film was a commercial and critical failure upon its initial release, but it has since become widely regarded as an important and influential film. Writer-director John Waters stated in his book Shock Value that "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is, beyond a doubt, the best movie ever made." It's hard to root for anyone in this cynical free-for-all, but the characters' collective evil only partially obscures their thwarted humanity. Tura Satana's jaded Varla goes for broke and winds up broken, like Theodore Dreiser's Clyde Griffiths and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby, another flawed hero destroyed while grabbing for her share of the American dream. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!.
The film's lead actress, Tura Satana, legally owned her image and likeness. So, whenever Russ Meyer wanted to change the artwork on any of the film's posters or re-release the film, he had to get her permission to do so and sometimes pay her royalties all over again.
Demand Euphoria!
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