I give ‘em the truth and they think it’s hell!” Give ‘Em Hell, Harry! is also the title of a 1975 biographical stage play and subsequent movie, both written by Samuel Gallu and both starring James Whitmore as Harry Truman.

As legend would have it, he was giving a speech when someone in the crowd yelled out, “Give ‘em hell, Harry!” Truman supposedly replied, “I don’t give anybody hell. “Give ‘em hell, Harry” was President Harry S. The “I may be wonderful, but I think you’re wrong” riff on the song title originated with Groucho Marx, who said it in the 1930 Marx Brothers comedy Animal Crackers. First published in 1929, it was popularized by Doris Day’s rendition of it in the 1950 film Young Man with a Horn. “I May Be Wrong (But I Think You’re Wonderful)” is a song written by Henry Sullivan and Harry Ruskin. I may be wonderful, but I think you’re wrong. The ensuing outrage and massive protests led to an agreement with the movie industry to allow the AHA to oversee animal treatment on film sets, which up until then had been largely unregulated. The practice of the AHA evaluating films for their treatment of animals dates back to the 1939 film Jesse James, wherein a horse was blindfolded and ridden off a cliff to its death.

No employees were killed during the making of this film.Ī paraphrase of the famous credit line “No animals were harmed in the making of this film.” The American Humane Association holds a copyright on that phrase. Southern rock group Black Oak Arkansas released a popular cover of it in 1973 their lead singer, Jim Mangrum, goes by the nickname “Jim Dandy” Mandrum. “Jim Dandy to the Rescue”) is an R&B song written by Lincoln Chase and originally recorded in 1958 by LaVern Baker. The MST3K Special Edition DVD of Manos, The Hands of Fate includes a documentary covering the history of the Jam Handy Organization. Founded by former Olympic swimmer Henry Jamison “Jam” Handy (1886-1983), numerous Jam Handy productions have found a home on MST3K, including Uncle Jim’s Dairy Farm (Show 607: Bloodlust!), Young Man’s Fancy (Show 610: The Violent Years), and A Case of Spring Fever (Show 1012: Squirm). The Jam Handy Organization was a prolific producer and distributor of educational films, also called “social guidance” films, from 1935 through 1968. 424: Manos, the Hands of Fate by Wyn Hiltyīreakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo is a 1984 film about local breakdancers trying to stop a developer from tearing down their community center.

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