Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1965 Go Go Amigo, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales) directed by Robert McKimson.
Television was becoming part of American home entertainment, with hi fi stereo consoles a popular must have item of furniture at the time. Transistor radios and record players were also sought after consumer necessity, especially for teenagers.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Puddles released another song and most of us missed it at HQ:
We think Black Sabbath would have been very happy if Puddles sang this for them.
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 drama, Deep End , directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, and starring Jane Asher, John Moulder Brown, and Diana Dors. The film was unreleased for many years due to rights issues. For the critics who did see the film, it received multiple acclaims. Although barely seen by the general public, Andrew Sarris thought it measured up to the best of Godard, Truffaut and Polanski. Although considered a defining British work, as well as one of the most acute screen portraits of London, Deep End is actually a US/German co-production, written and directed by a Pole (Jerzy Skolimowski, best known then for co-scripting Polanski's Knife in the Water), and shot largely in Munich. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Deep End.
Jane Asher recalled that she and John Moulder-Brown would work over their scenes together in an attempt to colloquialise their dialogue to help convince audiences that they were genuinely in the UK. Some scenes were improvised by the actors, such as the "Defacing government property!" section, a line Asher herself contributed.
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