Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1967 Rodent to Stardom, (co-starring Speedy Gonzales,) directed by Alex Lovy.
This cartoon is a remake of A Star Is Bored, with Daffy wanting to be a movie star, only to be cast as a stunt double for the studio's main star
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour getting ready for Thanksgiving. Before they all left, they asking is you would watch another episode of Puddles Pity Show -
Once again we have to look in to Lumberjack's Firewood Snacks becoming a sponsor.
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 psychological thriller, Straw Dogs, directed by Sam Peckinpah, and starring Dustin Hoffman, and Susan George. The film was highly controversial when released, is now considered one of Peckinpah's best films. Straw Dogs is an undeniably hard film to watch and was censored in some places and outright banned in others. The pushback came from the film’s disturbing violence, in particularly a challenging rape scene that upset people for a variety of reasons. So push away from the table, get settled in and join us in watching Straw Dogs.
In the scene where David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) first enters the local pub, director Sam Peckinpah was unhappy with the other actors' reaction to this stranger entering their world. Eventually, he decided to do one take where Hoffman entered the scene without his trousers on. He got his reaction, and these are the shots shown in the final film.
Demand Euphoria!
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