Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1968 See Ya Later Gladiator, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales,) directed by Alex Lovy.
This was the last cartoon to feature Daffy and Speedy in the Golden Age of Animation. Furthermore, it was the last such cartoon to feature any classic Looney Tunes character in the Golden Age of Animation.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to remember the iconoclastic film maker - David Lynch:
His filmmaking is the a clear example of what vivid dreaming is like
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 1973 crime drama Badlands, directed by Terrence Malick, in his directorial debut, and starring Martin Sheen, and Sissy Spacek. The film is loosely based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958. A very bizarre piece of trivia, Warner Bros. initially previewed the film on a double bill with the Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles, resulting in very negative audience response. So push away from the table, get settled in and join us in watching Badlands.
The actor originally cast as the architect who rings at the rich man's door did not show up, so Terrence Malick played the part himself. Malick later wanted to re-shoot the scene with another actor, but Martin Sheen refused to re-do the sequence with anyone else. Sissy Spacek later said that working with Terrence Malick completely changed her whole attitude to film-making. She believes she would have had a much different career if she and Malick hadn't crossed paths.
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