Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1965 Astroduck, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales) directed by Robert McKimson.
This cartoon is a semi-remake of Friz Freleng's The Fair Haired Hare, but with Daffy and Speedy in place of Bugs' and Yosemite Sam's roles.
Back when the earth cooled and formed a hard crust, believe it or not, I was a spry lad at the Academy of Malevolent Miscreants. I had an art teacher named Mrs. LaMarca. Besides giving us an excellent education in the classic arts, she taught us how to use a pallet knife as a lethal weapon. Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to share with you another fine recipe from Mrs. LaMarca's website:
All of her recipes are delicious but I hope you noticed her knife work on those potatoes.
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 1970 made-for-television drama, The Spider's Stratagem , (Strategia del ragno, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, and starring Giulio Brogi, and Alida Valli. The Spider Stratagem is an offbeat political thriller - told mostly through flashbacks in which the son learns that his father was not a hero but a penitent traitor who contrived his own death in order to give the anti-Fascist cause a martyr. What began as a search for truth evolves into a philosophical study of consequences. There are no easy answers in the film; it lull you into a sort of languid torpor, and resists any definitive interpretation. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching The Spider's Stratagem.
The film is based on the short story Tema del traidor y del héroe (Theme of the Traitor and the Hero) by Jorge Luis Borges. The story was set in nineteenth-century Ireland and was only two pages long.
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