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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1968 Skyscraper Caper, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales,) directed by Alex Lovy.
This is one of the rare occasions where Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales are portrayed as friends instead of enemies. This short is also the only one where they are friends throughout the whole short, with no conflict to interfere with their friendship.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to salute ACME's new Wednesday feature, Little Know Animal Facts, with a clip show from QI, featuring Animal Fact You Don't Know:
While you may well know that we love Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig is no slouch
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 1972 murder mystery Slueth, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and written by Anthony Shaffer, starring Laurence Olivier, and Michael Caine. The film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's final film. The oil portrait of “Marguerite,” Andrew’s wife, who is never seen in the film, was based on a photograph of actress Joanne Woodward, a close friend of Mankiewicz. So push away from the table, get settled in and join us in watching Sleuth.
Michael Caine was so very much beside himself to be working with Laurence Olivier that he didn't even know how to address him. Eventually, he broke down and just asked. Olivier replied "Well, I am the Lord Olivier and you are Mr. Michael Caine. Of course, that's only for the first time you address me. After that I am Larry, and you are Mike."
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