THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING - Elisabeth Lutyens - "Scream & Scream Again" (1965)

"The Earth Dies Screaming" is really a great little movie and a lot of fun to watch! The fab-tastic music is by Elisabeth Lutyens, one of the few women working in a largely male dominated field at the time. We've written about Elizabeth before, because she has a number of cool credits like "The Skull", Paranoiac" and "The Terrornauts" to mention a few! Elizabeth also seemed to work very well with musical director Phillip Martell on a number of features!! 

 

Get ready, because they're coming to get you!!! Yeah, You!!! 

 

Now you gotta admit that this looks like a real fun group of people to party with!! 

 

Don't worry, everything will be okay, just don't get to close, Oops!! Zap!!! Oh, sorry lady!! 

 

She just doesn't seem the same, you know, kind of vacant, strange, and not interested in sex anymore! 

 

Oh, Man!! Alien Peeping Tom Perv, what could be worse than that?? 

 

BUSTED!!!

 Despite everything, the guys still have time to hang out at the local T & A Centre!! 

 

Remember, the title does include the word "Screaming!" 

 

Do you got a goosestep to go along with that salute there trooper?? 

 

Stupid alien robots weren't really that tough after all!! 

 

The "Official Campaign Manual" basically breaks down to, Go see this movie!!

THE FOUR SKULLS OF JONATHAN DRAKE / Robert E. Kent Productions - 1959 / Music by Paul Dunlap

Tonight we feature old pal Paul Dunlap in music arena, he already appear on Dungeon before! And, more of Paul still to come!!.. After theme, check out cool creepy organ! Nice!!.. Theme, Skulls, Ritual

 Director Ed Cahn number 1 here at Dungeon too! A few other movies he direct... VOODOO WOMAN... CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN... INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN... CURSE OF THE FACELESS MAN... ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU... IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE... INVISIBLE INVADERS... THE SHE-CREATURE!!! 

 

Jonathan just relaxing at home with little pal!.. 

 

Man, flick have excellent props!! 

 

Hey, where all the fun go?!..

 Oh... 

 

Jonathan have big curse on him, so, hot daughter try and help out in some kind gurlie way... 

 

But, no!.. Zombo show up and ruin everything!!.. 

 

An' poke butler in neck with curare knife!! YEAAAH!!! Score point for Zombo!! 

 

Then NY copper show up in jungle!.. 

 

... And have cigarette break!.. Girl don't mind back then. 

 

Lots fun to dress up and play act in basement... Sometimes wear bra and panties!! 

 

So you know, dude talking to copper is real bad guy, great actor Henry Daniell. He put curse on Jonathan and have horrific secret!.. 

 

One last great prop!!..

 Henry secret is he 160 year old and has body of black native. He have to get his head cut off to end curse!!.. OOUCHIEEE!!!

EL ASESINO INVISIBLE - Various Artists - "In The Club" (1964)

"El Asesino Invisible" esta uno pelicula loco!!! You've got a hero called El Enmascarado De Oro pitted against an invisible killer, and even though there's a lot of wrasslin' going on with some extreme characters portrayed by real wrestlers with names like 'Karloff' Lagarde, Dorrell Dixon, and my favorite El Bizarro, most of the movie is spent chillin' inside the club with the detective watching Ana Berta Lepe go through about a million costume changes and almost as many varieties of music. Kind of like a sophisticated "Gong Show" and the audience just eats it up and appears to love each and every moment of it!!! 

 

The musical credits are immense as you can see, but a gentleman by the name of Sergio Guerrero gets credit for the original score!! Sergio just passed away this year after an amazing career that had him composing music for over 225 movies!!! Bravo Sergio!!! 

 

Introducing Miss Mexico 1953, Ana Bertha Lepe, a national treasure!! 

 

It was ironic that the handsome and very popular Jorge Rivero portrays Enmascarado De Oro in his very first film outing, and wears a mask through the whole movie! He went on to have an excellent career in Hollywood and Mexico, and was in "Rio Lobo" with John Wayne a few years later. 

 

The best song of the movie is right here, and is called "Negro Blues" I do believe, and you get to see Ana duckwalk too!! 

 

Then it's time for "Un Poco Mas" by Alvaro Carrillo, combined here for your listening pleasure with..... 

 this "Charleston" number written by Enrico Cabiatti that brings down the house! 

 

Right about here I start getting lost, I know it's time for the candle song, but there's just too many things going on, listen to this, and maybe you'll have a little better understanding!!!! "La Pollera Colora" and mucho mas!! 

 

Ana is so dedicated to her job, she has a pole in her house!! 

 

There's only one real way to take in this much information, and that's to get a copy for yourself, so just in case you havn't started thinking about those weirdos on your X-Mas list yet, it might be just about the right time!! "The Grand Finale"

THE BOWERY BOYS MEET THE MONSTERS / Allied Artists - 1954 / Music by Marlin Skiles

Around the Dungeon, we love this gang of filmmakers! Over the years, Allied Artists has become my favorite production company. Director Ed Bernds and writer Elwood Ullman both worked with The Stooges, and, in our book, that's the very coolest!!.. So, its tonight's Sunday Classic! Marlin Skiles is a regular around here, too. A few other films you can hear his music in are 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH, THE GIANT CLAW, SPOOK CHASERS and ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU! This fairly short segment is basically a mix of background music with the boys' dialogue over it... Meetin' the Monsters!

 GREAT TITLE CARD!..

 Paul Wexler plays Grissom, the butler. Looks like he's the model for Lurch! 

 Huntz as the ultimate clown... 

 

The meter says it all, folks!!

 Grissom is asked to drink a potion, and, this is the result! 

 

This here little lady is Ellen Corby! I swear, she was one of the busiest actors ever in the history of Hollywood, totally incredible resume!! She's watering some weird looking plant, like a deformed tree!

 Okay, I have to be honest with everyone, this is Tabonga's older cousin, Flora!.. He went into hiding tonight because I'm posting this movie and he's totally embarrassed that they're related, and, that she's!.. HOMELY AS HELL!!

 No 'spending the night' scene is complete without ear muffs, stripes, a tie or headgear! 

 

In the lab, the robot's always knocking it's head off when the guys aren't paying attention! That's an uncredited Norman Bishop playing Gorog, the robot! 

 

Recognize this ape from a Stooges short?!.. I do! That's an uncredited Steve Calvert playing Cosmos, the ape! 

 

CLASSIC!!

 Flora has a strange way of showing affection!!.. How does a tree have sex, anyway?! We'll have to ask Tabonga! 

 

I think it was Moe that wore those stretch arms!! I'd bet that some of that stuff came from cartoons! 

 

Huntz drinks some of that potion and finally gets some revenge on Leo!!