Friday, April 25, 2014

'WAY OUT ~ Dissolve To Black / Talent Associates - 1961

It's another Way Out Friday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Here's our second dose of weirdness from that far out TV series Eegah!! and I got to check out way back in 1961. This fun little story's about an actress who's been hired to play a murder victim in a production, then, she finds herself running for her life after she's trapped in a dark studio with a bizarre night crew and weird actors.

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip from this great TV series for our earjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there by the moldy script and pack of smokes, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's a taste of... DISSOLVE TO BLACK!

It's already time for a dreamy L & M commercial, soooo, light 'em up if you got'em!..

Blogger pic upload is out of control! Here's what makes us mad.. We take the extra time to make sure the photos look the best they can using brightness, contrast, etc. on Photoshop, and, Blogger The Gremlin makes them look like freakin' crap!!!!, like the photos today. Arrrrgh!!

Anyway, back to the show...

Host Roald Dahl weaves a twisted little yarn at the beginning that has nothing to do with the story, as heard in the soundclip!

Actress Bonnie Draco gets the call for night shoot, she'll be playing the part of a murder victim! Everything seems fairly normal at first.

Then, the night crew shows up!... Ay! Caramba!

Then, the other actors start getting hostile toward one another and start pulling out their knives!

Bonnie tries to hide in the darkness to get away from the others, which doesn't work.

Later, she's stalked by a dead actor!

And finally, actress Bonnie Draco just dissolves to black!

Roald leaves us with final thought, see you next week, same time, same channel!

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

TIMESLIP - "The Atomic Man" - Merton Park Studios (1955)

"The Atomic Man!" What a great title! The movie itself is not all that exciting, but for the price, it's well worth an hour or so of your time! The original UK title was "Timeslip" for reasons you'll find out about soon enough!

Just in case we get disconnected, you should know that "The Atomic Man" can be downloaded for free right HERE from The Internet Archive! What a bargain and a half that is!

Here's how this story goes, they find this guy shot up and almost dead, and when he comes to, he's got a serious case of amnesia, and somebody needs to figure out who he is, and what happened! The man in the picture is Eddie Arne in one of his earliest roles as Dr. Stephen Rayner, the man with a formula to turn dirt grade metal into precious metal!

If for no other reason, this movie is worth watching to see the performance by one of The Dungeon's favourite heroines, Faith Domergue! The three films Faith made before this one in the same year are "Cult Of The Cobra," This Island Earth," and "It Came From Beneath The Sea!" Pretty amazing run!

Faith is newspaper photographer Jill Rabowski and her boyfriend Mike Delaney is played by Gene Nelson! Born Eugene Leander Berg, Gene Nelson started out his career as a dancer! For a guy who was a dancer, and sang in quite a few films, this movie was a real change up for Gene! Except for the opening theme, this movie is almost completely devoid of music! Gene was also a director and directed the John Agar classic, "Hand Of Death!" In this shot, Jill has just taken a picture of the atomic man in his hospital bed, they're not quite sure why he is still alive!

This is a serious film, but some of the fast-paced interaction between  Delaney and Rabowski is often quite comedic, and mostly the highlight of the film!

It's the olde "How can you be in two places at once, if you're not anywhere at all" gig! The man in the hospital bed has been identified by Delaney as Dr. Stephen Rayner, and yet when investigated, it's found out that Dr. Rayner is indeed at work, where he is supposed to be, but for some reason he's got bandages on his face, and a cockamamie story about being bumped from behind in his car and hitting his face on the windshield! There's something fishy going on around here! I smell a rat!!

Delaney accuses Jill Rabowski of not loading the film properly when the photo of Dr. Rayner comes out glowing. It takes a little while, but they will eventually put two and two together!

Vic Perry, the 'world's greatest pickpocket' is the face of bad man Emmanuel Vasquo!

Delaney is not real a crime journalist, he's supposed to be writing articles on science, so when he can't give up the chase, he gets fired, and relocates to the local bar!

I like this part of the story a lot! When he's conscious, Dr. Rayner seems to only speak gibberish!

But as it turns out, he died for 7 1/2 seconds when he was shot, but his brain somehow managed to live through it, so now he lives 7 1/2 seconds in the future, and that's why it sounds like he's talking nonsense, because he's answering the questions before they are asked! Presto Change-o, "Timeslip!"

Jill finds the evidence, photos of the plastic surgery plans for Dr. Rayner in Emmanuel Vasquo's office!

Her big mistake is lollygagging around too long and calling Delaney on the phone from Vasquo's office, when she should have left the buiilding! Now she's in big trouble!!

Don't worry, believe it or not, the happy couple comes out unscathed, and their relationship is stronger than ever! Aaahhhh! It's atomic, it's free, you can't lose, ka-boom!!

Monday, April 21, 2014

YOU'LL FIND OUT / RKO Radio Pictures - 1940

It's Monsterous Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Here's a rare movie that's the only time Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Peter Lorre appeared together on the screen! There's plenty of fun to be had, and, the fun never lets up with a hefty budget of $353,000!

Eegah!! sent over a musical soundclip from the beginning of the show, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there by the ghost mask assortment, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... YOU'LL FIND OUT!

And, there's a special second soundclip at the end you'll definitely want to check out.

Kay Kayser was a popular Radio personality along with his talented band members, and, he starred in 12 movies between 1939-45. Here he is asking audience members silly questions related to music.

Kay's band manager books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky old mansion! There's always plenty of clowning around going on, as you can well imagine.

Here's Boris as Judge Mainwaring, this is the look of disdain he exhibits throughout the flick! Blogger the Gremlin is still up to it's same old mischief, tinting cretain photos sepia, or washing them out, so, it's not our fault...

Then, Bela pops in, he plays Prince Saliano, mystic!

The first time we see Peter is at the window, he's Fenninger!

Kay and the band do their act for the guests, which includes lots of get-ups and Ish Kabibble as the sad ice cream man. The droll Ish was also Kay's real band manager.

I just had to show another wonderful photo of Boris, boy, if looks could kill!

One of the guests gets a near death experience when the chandelier (with a giant metal spike) nearly makes her a dish-kabob!

Kay goes exploring and finds all kinds of interesting things!

Classic shot of the wrecking crew, first and only film appearance together!

Here's our hero, he blows up the bad guys with dynamite and doesn't even get a damn credit, c'mon man, what gives?!!

Okay, it's 1940, look at how far ahead of it's time this voice enhancing gadget was, check out this amazing soundclip!.. Harry On The SONAVOX Machine...

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