Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1963 Aqua Duck, directed by Robert McKimson.
This was the final Daffy Duck cartoon directed by Robert McKimson in the classic era until the cartoon Moby Duck with Speedy Gonzales in the DePatie-Freleng era after Warner Bros. cartoons shut down in 1963. It was also the last solo appearance of Daffy Duck in the classic era until Suppressed Duck.
The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have had a busy week. We all accidental fell upon this vert funny supercut video about the word 'Welcome' by the folks at Burger Fiction that that made several years ago -
I guess I've never thought about how many times people say 'Welcome'.
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 1969 drama, Fellini Satyricon, directed by Federico Fellini, and starring Martin Potter, and Hiram Keller. The film was loosely based on Petronius' work Satyricon, written during the reign of Emperor Nero and set in Imperial Rome. Another movie had registered the title Satyricon first. Federico Fellini fought to use the title for his movie but lost the case. Subsequently the title was changed to Fellini - Satyricon. It’s, by design, an overwhelming film, and sometimes an exhausting one, but the melancholy and wariness keep it grounded. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Fellini Satyricon.
According to an episode of the NPR-WNYC radio program Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, future fitness guru Richard Simmons is in this film. An American student living in Rome in the late 1960's, he was cast as an obese nobleman in the banquet scene.
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