ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (445)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1937 Porky's Super Service, directed by Ub Iwerks, Bob Clampett, and Chuck Jones .



This is the final time Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones are assistant directors together and the final time Clampett was an assistant director. This is due to Ub Iwerks's subcontract with Warner Bros. Cartoons coming to an end, although he got a similar subcontract at Screen Gems.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to take a moment to mourn the following announcements made the other night





To paraphrase Charles De Gaulle - Honor, common sense, and the superior interest of the Nation command to all the people to continue fighting wherever they are and however they can. So remember bunkies, Resistance is a duty


We've selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1978 drama The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Tom E. Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Ray Barrett, and Bryan Brown. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, based on an actual incident, was critically well received but a financial failure upon its initial release. The film’s disappointing box office performance left Schepisi disillusioned about the state of filmmaking in Australia, and he soon left for Hollywood, only returning to make another film in Australia a decade later. This remains one of the key Australian films of the 1970s, as it directly challenged the myth that there was no Aboriginal resistance to white settlement in the country. While the film has since gone on to receive international acclaim, it has also prompted an ongoing ethical debate: is it morally justifiable for white filmmakers to tell Aboriginal stories? So join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour, sit back, get comfortable, and enjoy tonight’s feature: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.



When first classified by the Australian Film Censorship Board, this film garnered an R-rating, restricted to persons 18+ and over. The rating was appealed, and the Australian Films Board of Review over-turned this rating and the film was re-classified with an M rating, suitable for persons 15+ and over.



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