Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1938 Porky at the Crocadero, directed by Frank Tashlin.
Cryman Lumbago and His Boiled Kanadians is a play on Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians.
A few days ago, the anniversary of yet another launch of the Bullwinkle Show premiered, (The folk at Rocky and Bullwinkle kept launching the show under different named.) The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour love anything Jay Ward created, so please watch this mini doc about the show:
I don't think kids, (other than my alums at the asylum I was assigned to,) got it.
We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1980 war epic The Big Red One, written and directed by Samuel Fuller, and starring Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Kelly Ward, Siegfried Rauch, and Stéphane Audran. Although the film opened to generally positive reviews, its release version was a far cry from Fuller’s original vision. His first rough cut ran nearly four hours, which he personally trimmed down to two. United Artists, however, insisted the runtime be reduced further, and the final theatrical release was cut to 113 minutes. Much of the movie was filmed in Israel, and Fuller later recalled how surreal it felt after shooting scenes with German soldiers and SS troops. The actors would remove their helmets, revealing yarmulkes underneath, or spend breaks in full Nazi uniform speaking Hebrew and reading the Torah.
In a documentary about the making of the film, Robert Carradine recounted the group’s first meeting with Lee Marvin. When Carradine, Mark Hamill, Bobby Di Cicco, and Kelly Ward climbed into a taxi with Marvin on their way to the shooting range, the veteran actor sat silently for a long moment before finally speaking: “Which one of you is Carradine?” Robert raised his hand. “I am,” he replied. Marvin’s answer: “Fuck you, Carradine.” Naturally, Carradine was puzzled, and some time later he asked Marvin why he’d singled him out like that. Marvin shrugged and said, “Because yours was the only name I recognized.” So, please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we revisit this deeply personal film for Samuel Fuller -The Big Red One.
Samuel Fuller put the actors through a mini boot camp to prepare them for their roles. Lee Marvin, himself a former Marine, served as the drill instructor, paying close attention even to the smallest details -such as how to properly hold a rifle or change a magazine at the right moment - just as they would have done in real combat.
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