Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1965 Suppressed Duck, directed by Robert McKimson.
This is the only solo Daffy Duck short in the DePatie-Freleng era.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been watching season three of The Bear. We saw a cute video featuring the cast:
The cast really seems to like each other. We wholeheartedly encourage you to catch the series
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 classic 1969 violent western elegy, The Wild Bunch, directed by Sam Peckinpah , and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The film received mixed reviews when it first opened, it is now considered a masterpiece. Sam Peckinpah set a new standard for screen violence with his film’s bloodthirsty, slow-motion orgies of action and gunfire. The film reflected it's time - a new, more brutal form of western fit for the time of the Vietnam War. The film offered Peckinpah's mythic lament for an outdated code of masculine honor. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching The Wild Bunch.
Robert Ryan's incessant complaints about not receiving top billing so annoyed director Sam Peckinpah that he decided to "punish" Ryan. In the opening credits, after freezing the screen on closeups of William Holden's and Ernest Borgnine's faces while listing them, Peckinpah froze the scene on several horses' rear ends as Ryan was listed.
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