THE CRIMSON GHOST / Republic Pictures Serial - 1946

Well, wellie, well, well... Tonight is last posting for 2009 from The Dungeon Gang, and, glad to get it out of our hairs an' claw!! FUY!.. Iffen you follow what Tabonga saying... We gots some great stuff coming, though, so, better stay tuned in or suffer like a varmint wif' bad gas!! Or, worse!!

And, we have the colorized version from the 1966 edited 93 minute theatrical release as a special treat!

Music is by four uncredited composers, and, two guy in the Music Dept. put it all together and is basically stock studio fare...

Eegah!! decide to put lots of funny dialogue in to help out, so's get ready for last soundclip of 2009, an' it lil' Piff the Gnat honor to push big red 'GO' button for the occassion!.. THE CRIMSON GHOST! Probably Dungeon Pal, Professor Brian O'Blivion, going to enjoy tonight' posting!!

We are ready, you may launch the plane!

All dude have to do is make the call...

And, Crimson Ghost get kidnap inventer of the Cyclotrode machine, it can stop cars, planes or any electrical device dead in tracks! Preddy cool!!

Kenne Duncan play inventor Professor Chambers, Kenne, with 272 acting credits, can be found in these flicks and serials... FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS, BUCK ROGERS, MICKEY THE KID, DEADWOOD DICK, ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL, THE GREEN ARCHER, THE SPIDER RETURNS, BATMAN, PISTOL PACKIN' MAMA, CAPTAIN AMERICA, THE TIGER WOMAN, THE PHANTOM SPEAKS, THE PURPLE MONSTER STRIKES, MY PAL TRIGGER, BUCK PRIVATES COME HOME, RADAR SECRET SERVICE, CALAMITY JANE, THE ASTOUNDING SHE-MONSTER, NIGHT OF THE GHOULS and SUPERMAN vs THE GORILLA GANG!! Also, Kenne was notorious favorite with the gurlz!!!

Crimson Ghost can just ride around in back seat and can command people who wearing special control collar, or, he can shoot stuff with one of his deadly toys! Either way, he gots it dicked!!

Duncan Richards totally pissed at bad guy. Now, if he could just get hands on that SOB, Crimson Ghost, he'd show him a thing or two or three!..

Make Tabonga nostalgic for good old days!

Duncan gettin' BUGGED!!

And, a twenty-three skidoo to you, too, Lou!

Official portrait of THE CRIMSON GHOST!

Okay, that's two cheesburgers, and, hold the cheese?

If you look hard, you see airplane in top photo just before it crash into rock in bottom photo!

Republic Pictures stunt dudes were probably pretty freakin' crazy!

Duncan' gurl pal Diana bail out of airplane only to be picked up on road by Ghost' pals, now she gonna get a control collar!

Tabonga think very first word ever invented was... 'OOPS!!'

Great scene where Clayton Moore use glasses disguise (like Lone Ranger!) to try and sabotage operation to get remote control collar off of gurl pal Diana!

Duncan Richards track down Crimson Ghost, then, what else, get in big fight with henchmen!

Now, that is one cool crash!!

Cyclotrode look totally impressive!

You cannot see him, but Duncan Richards just get hit by Cyclotrode Ray!!

Finally, Crimson Ghost and gang get caught! ...Ah, ratz!

CG get unmasked at end to reveal who real bad guy is, Jack Benny Nixon!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERBLOODY!..

CURSE OF THE CRIMSON ALTAR - Peter Knight - "The Crimson Cult Party" (1968)

Well, I guess that's it for me this year, and I don't know about you, but for me, it's just about the same as it started, Weirdsville!!! I hope you had a good time. I've been holding on to tonight's feature for about two years for some reason. It's a hard movie to track down, but worth the freakin' effort, and this time I mean freak for real!

The "Curse of the Crimson Altar Cult" immediately sets the scene with this remarkable cast of characters, like A Man and His Goat, but at least it's a Toggenburg and not a Nubian!!

Nita Lorraine as A topless gal with a whip and........

A Holy Man of dubious virtue!!!

I'm laying down odds, Chicken Gal is going to meet up later with Goat Man after the show!!

Where did they have to dig this conehead up from??

Oh Boy, Nicholas Head (in his second and last role) as a blacksmith of questionable masculinity in a leather loincloth with antlers......

And Barbara Steele decked out like a dead bride of the devil, and we're only like 3 minutes into this movie!!! I haven't said it in a long time, but, Like Wow!!!

Here's the action at the end of the festivities! Denys Peek as Peter Manning takes the final oath!!

Mark Eden as Robert Manning is the guy who has come to find out what happened to his brother!! Mark Eden has done it all, from Quatermass thru The Avengers and Dr. Who, and walks through this film with a casual spirit usually reserved for the likes of somebody like Anthony Eisley!

There's quite the party going on at the Morley pad, the last place that Peter Manning was seen or ever saw!!

Like new and improved ways of drinking champagne!!

What a gig! How much do you get paid for a role like this? Kevin Smith as The Drunk worked about once every 10 years, but he took the 80's off for rest and recuperation!!

Man, this party is a real gasser, and the incredible thing is, it has nothing to do with the movie hardly at all!!! The wild music is provided by respected English composer Peter Knight!!!

Finally, it's time to get to the guts of this movie, and what a fine array of talent it is! First off is Christopher Lee as Morley, sometimes he's a good guy, but mostly, he's not!!

And the genius of Michael Gough as the nimrod Elder!!

And then, bigger than shit, out pops Dungeon God, Boris Karloff, just like Robert Manning predicted, in what was in reality, his last role!!!

In this village, it's the season for the annual celebration of the burning of the witch Lavinia (Barbara Steele)!!

Huge kudos to the developers of Photoshop, whose artistry made these fotos look at least 500% better for your viewing pleasure!!

Maybe part of the reason this film fell out of circulation was for it's opening reference to psychedelic drug use, and I quote, "........and drugs of this group can produce the most complex hallucinations, and under their influence, it is possible by hypnosis to induce the subject to perform actions he would not normally commit!" You know, stuff like signing your name in blood, and selling your soul to some cat named "Ba‘al Zəbûb!" Right On, Brother!!!

The Howdy Do-It Peanut Gallery for each and every acid induced sacrificial dream, sits in stoic rapture. What could these people possibly be thinking about??? It's no coincidence that the blogger id for this photo ends with 666!!!

Really cool shot of the secret passage to the sacrifice room, replete with tons of fake spiderwebs! No, really, as part of the plot!!

Robert Manning tries his damndest to explain to the local authority, Roger Avon as Sergeant Tyson, what all his suspicions are! Robert Avon made a career out of playing constables, clerks, and receptionists, and can't do anything under the circumstances without a search warrant!!

Just a nice classic picture of the mild-mannered genius, Boris Karloff!!

Well, it all gets pretty twisted toward the end, with deep seated family hatred and sole surviving members sought out for execution, all in the name of the witch, Lavinia! You know, Babara Steele has long been known for having that kind of effect on people!!

Dinner's Ready!!!

The smell of bar-b-qued Morley fills the air! Boris and Mark Eden are joined by Virginia Wetherell as Eve, and Michael Warren as The Chauffeur, for the final viewing!

Christopher Lee should have better sense by now than to be sucked into yet another infernal, eternal damnation! Good thing for him, they're just movies!! See you next year!