Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1939 Looney Tunes Porky and Teabiscuit directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton.
The horse's name, Teabiscuit, is a play on that of Seabiscuit, a real-life thoroughbred racehorse, ungainly and mistreated in his early life, who was rehabilitated by an empathetic trainer and, by the time of this cartoon, had gone on to become a racing champion and a sentimental favorite of the American public. The cartoon's story is an affectionate screwball parody and celebration of Seabiscuit's rise to fame.
The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour, as well as many of you, have often wondered why the Professor could manufacture many modern conveniences and yet could not help the castaways get off the island. And wow, the folks at Amazing Fun Facts have seemed to answered the question. Please join us in watching their video.
I'm guessing that if you were stuck on an island with Ginger and Mary Ann, why would you want to leave?.
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 1989 drama Glory, directed by Edward Zwick and starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, and Morgan Freeman. Glory was well accepted by both critics and most audiences. Denzel Washington won both a Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the movie.
The film covers the history and impact of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry regiment, the first African American regiment in the Civil War. It highlights the relationship between the white officer Robert Gould Shaw and his men, the regiment’s formation, the soldiers’ trials with unequal pay to their white counterparts, and their fight to establish respect for the United States Colored Troops. Though the regiment is best known for attacking Fort Wagner, the 54th Massachusetts continued to serve through the remainder of the war. At the Battle of Olustee, Florida, members of the regiment pushed a broken down train loaded with wounded Union soldiers for 13 miles with the assistance of horses.
Please find a comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this rousing drama: Glory.
Edward Zwick claimed that, for the flogging scene, Denzel Washington was lashed at full contact with a special whip that would not cut his back, but still stung. For the final take of the scene, Zwick hesitated to call "Cut!" to signal the flogging to stop, and the result was Washington's spontaneous tear down his cheek.
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