Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1938 Porky's Hare Hunt, (co-starring a Prototype of Bugs Bunny,) directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton.
This cartoon introduces the well-known Groucho Marx line for the first time that would become one of Bugs Bunny's catchphrases. The exact wording, in this first appearance, is "'Course you know that this means war!" Bugs' rendering in this cartoon is a direct impression of Groucho, including dropping the trailing "r" of "war".
Long time viewers ofThe ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour know that we are in love with Supermarionation (especially when it is in colour - you know that is an expensive process because of the extra "U".) The staff has found a fun documentary - FILMED IN SUPERMARIONATION: The Behind the Scenes Story of Thunderbirds. We invite you to join us in watching it:
In case you didn't know - Supermarionation is a filming technique developed by Gerry Anderson and his peers, the name of which is a portmanteau of the words "Super", "Marionette", and "Animation".
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 1982 bio-pix epic, Ghandi, directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, and Martin Sheen. The film was a commercial success, grossing $127.8 million on a $22 million budget and Gandhi received a leading eleven nominations at the 55th Academy Awards. Surprisingly, no studio was interested in financing this movie. Richard Attenborough said that most of the financing came from Joseph E. Levine, who agreed to finance in exchange for Attenborough directing A Bridge Too Far and a friend. The rest came from Attenborough and his wife Sheila Sim, who owned a share of the rights in Britain's longest-running play ,The Mousetrap, which they sold to fund the production of this movie.
So please, find a comfy chair and join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this wonderful debut film - Ghandi
In 1962, Richard Attenborough received a phone call from an Indian civil servant called Motilai Kothari, who was working with the Indian High Commission in London. Kothari was a devout follower of Gandhi, and was convinced that Attenborough would be the perfect choice to make a movie about him. Attenborough read Louis Fischer's biography of the Indian statesman and agreed with Motilai, though it would take him twenty years to fulfill the dream. His first act was to meet with the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, and his daughter, Indira Gandhi, as well as Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India. Nehru approved of his plan and promised to help support the production, but his death in 1964 was just one in a long line of setbacks.
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