Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1966 A Taste of Catnip, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester,) directed by Robert McKimson.
This is the last theatrical cartoon featuring Sylvester in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series in the Golden Age of American Animation, although his screen time is limited to two cameos.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been watching another episode of The Puddles Pity Party Show -
ACME would surely become a sponsor of his show
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 1971 western, The Hired Hand , directed by Peter Fonda, and starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, and Verna Bloom. Due to the huge financial success of Easy Rider, which Peter Fonda co-wrote, produced and starred in, Universal Studios gave him full artistic control over The Hired Hand, his debut as a director. László Kovács recommended his friend Vilmos Zsigmond to Fonda as a cinematographer for the film. Later that same year Zsigmond was hired by Robert Altman for his western film McCabe & Mrs. Miller. When The Hired Hand opened, the film received a mixed critical reviews and was a commercial failure. After a brief airing on NBC in 1973, the film drifted into obscurity. Currently the film has had a resurgence and critics have positve reviews for the film. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching The Hired Hand.
After the success of Easy Rider, Universal Pictures hit upon the idea of letting young filmmakers make "semi-independent" films for low budgets in hopes of generating similar profits. The idea was to make five movies for low budgets ($1 million or less), not interfere in the filmmaking process and give the directors final cut. The other movies were: The Last Movie, Taking Off, Silent Running, American Graffiti.
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