ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (476)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1938 The Lone Stranger and Porky directed by Bob Clampett



This cartoon is a spoof of the only theatrical Lone Ranger cartoon ever made, in which the Lone Ranger and Tonto foil a stagecoach robbery.


Hey Bunkies it's Valentine's Day and maybe you're on your own. The staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour want you to know that you're never alone when you tune into our show. Get yourself a snack and settle in to watch with us this classic episode of The Bullwinkle & Rocky Show -



Wossamotta U's football coach is named Rocky Knute, a spoof on Knute Rockne, the celebrated football coach at the University of Notre Dame from 1918 to 1930.


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 one of Akira Kurosawa's favorite films, the 1987 period drama The Dead, directed by John Huston (his last), adapted from a James Joyce short story by Tony Huston and starring Anjelica Huston, Helena Carroll, Cathleen Delany, Dan O'Herlihy, Marie Kean, Donal Donnelly, Seán McClory, Frank Patterson, and Colm Meaney. The Dead was released several months after John Huston's death and received much critical acclaim. (A personal aside - this film is one of Dr. Caligari's favorites and it is a much watch every holiday season.) 

Huston originally planned to shoot the film entirely on-location in Dublin and Ardmore Studios. However, due to his declining health, the interiors were all shot on a soundstage at the California Institute of the Arts, while a second unit filmed exterior location footage in Dublin. The film was a family affair for the Hustons. John Huston directed the movie, her daughter Anjelica acted and starred in the movie, one son Tony wrote the screenplay for the picture while his other son, Danny was the second unit director.

This was the third collaboration between John Huston and Tony Huston, with their work on this film. Tony previously working on an earlier film of his father, as an uncredited second assistant director on Wise Blood, and as a billed actor on The List of Adrian Messenger. Each of the three films was made in a subsequent decade, one each in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Anjelica Huston worked several times with her father, John Huston. The films include the 1967 film, Casino Royale, A Walk with Love and Death, Sinful Davey, Prizzi's Honor, and today's presentation. John Huston also co-wrote the film, Mr. North, in which Anjelica Huston appeared, making their output six collaborations in total.

Please find a comfy chair and join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this very moving film: The Dead



In the early 1950s, director Luchino Visconti and his regular screen writer Suso Cecchi D'Amico collaborated on an adaptation of The Dubliners story to be part of a portmanteau film, but the whole production was canceled. During the mid 70's, Joseph Losey had planned to film The Dubliners from which this story comes, and had hoped for Trevor Howard and Robert Shaw to star.



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