Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1961 Daffy's Inn Trouble, (co-starring Porky Pig) and directed by Robert McKimson.
The scene where Daffy tries to make a deal with Porky over being partners at the hotel (which ends with Daffy threatening to shoot Porky and ends up shooting himself with his own gun) is usually edited out by many channels showing this short.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour found a funny video on Youtube - Sidewalk (an instructional film)
It should be required viewing
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 1968 independent drama, Faces, directed by John Cassavetes and starring John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, Fred Draper, and Val Avery. Even with it's clichéd plot about the breakup of a marriage, Faces offers a searing, emotionally bruising film about confronting a decaying marriage, filled with Cassavetes’ trademarks: intense long takes, handheld camerawork and performances that will take your breath away. The most remarkable thing about Cassavetes’ fourth film is that it was made with such a small pot of cash. They in fact started with only $10,000, which grew over the course of three years to $275,000 – still miniscule by Hollywood standards. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch Faces.
While filming a part on Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre in 1963, John Cassavetes saw Steven Spielberg lurking around the set, as he was then in the habit of doing. Cassavetes approached Spielberg and asked what he wanted to be. When Spielberg replied he wanted to be a director, Cassavetes allowed the young man to direct him for the day. He later invited Spielberg to work on this film with Spielberg serving as an uncredited production assistant on Faces for two weeks.
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