WILLIE WHOPPER In "The Air Race" - 1933

Well, do I have a one wild and weird cartoon for you, and something that will blow your mind, like it did mine!

The kids notice a poster of the Big Air Meet! happening today.. So, Willie starts telling his tall tale of when he won an air race!

Even here it's a little weird, one of the racer's name is Dirty Dick! flying in his plane, the 'Buzzard.' It's fun to read those old signs.

Here are the pilots getting their DIY planes ready for the race.

Dirty Dick has a very cool plane you gotta admit. In almost every 'race' cartoon the bad guy is a big bully with an awesome black car, train or plane.

Dick fine tunes his gigantic engine with a tuning fork. Great artwork!

He messes with Willie, laughing his ass off about what a sorry excuse he has for a plane!

Another weird part is when Dirty Dick gives Willie the raspberries and Willie looks back at his plane's rear end. What else could it mean except that he thought the plane let one?

And, the race is on!

Okay, get ready for the big one, Elizabeth! This angel was thumbing for a ride when the planes come whizzing by, AND, he flips them off when none of them stop for him!!! Seriously, what the Hell, man!! Can you believe this?!! Wow!

I just like this shot for no reason.

Willie's catching up with Dirty Dick, so, Dick tosses a blanket at him. Willie is blinded when it wraps around his head.

They animated Willie flying into a giant smoke stack, causing it to fall after he crashes through it. The scene was of the actual demolition of the stack, shown falling in a news clip that makes it look like Willie knocked it over as it crashes to the ground! Pretty cool.

Along the way, Willie runs into a fireworks shack and uses some of them to make his plane jet powered.

Dirty Dick sees Willie coming and whips his plane like a horsey to go faster. The top pic is fairly psychedelic for me.

Willie ends up plowing through Dirty Dick's plane and he wins the race.

And of all things, Amelia Earhart praises Willie and gives him a big kiss on his cheek for winning the race!

Back to reality, as Willie is finishing up his story, the big horseshoe hanging there comes loose and conks him on the head, becoming his flower wreath like in the pic above! And the cow is the one that really kissed him. So, leave some comments for this crazy cartoon from Ub Iwerks Studio...

MERRIE MELODIES - "Love And Curses" (1938)

First there was Looney Tunes, then there was Merrie Melodies, and over at Disney, it was Silly Symphonies. The original concept of Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies was to to use a song out of a Warner Bros movie, and then the cartoon would essentially be an ad for that movie!

 

The name of this cartoon was "Love And Curses," and it was released in 1938.

 

"Love And Curses" starts off with this happy couple looking through an old photo album and reminiscing. There's a couple of quick gags, and then it's on with the story!

The happy couple are named Harold and Emily. They are deeply in love, and on a picnic.

The mean and evil Roger St. Clair thinks that Emily should be his girlfriend and tries to kidnap her.

Harold makes a valiant attempt to rescue Emily, but first gets his fingers stomped on, and then he gets a boot to the face for his trouble. Roger St. Clair whisks Emily away, and Harold doesn't know where they have gone, or where to find them.

Six months later, and Harold has not been able to locate Emily, although he has tried desperately.

Harold shows this lewd and crude sailor a picture of Emily and asks him if he's seen her, and the guy tells him "Aw, go on, I've pushed better dames than dat off the boat." He then inhales on his cigar and the smoke comes out of the smokestack on the boat tattoo he has on his chest.

It doesn't look like Roger St. Clair is concerned about trying to hide his whereabouts.

Emily is forced to sing in Roger St. Clair's bar.

And that's where she is when Harold finally finds her!

Roger drops the curtain on Harold, and scoops up Emily and takes off again!

Right out of "The Perils Of Pauline," Roger ties Emily to the railroad tracks, then he tells her that in just a minute, her pretty little head will be "bouncing along the rails."

Once again, Harold shows up right on time, and saves the day, but while he's doing it, Roger St. Clair snatches up Emily again, and runs off to the old sawmill.

Harold gets knocked out, and is on his way to have a splitting headache.

But......apparently Harold has the hardest head in the world, and the saw comes completely apart when it makes contact with his noggin.

Harold seems to be some kind of Superman as he dodges and deflects bullets with his bare hands!

Roger throws some good body blows, but Harold is unfazed!

Harold then unleashes a mighty punch that sends Roger St. Clair completely out of the scene, and into a river!

But just like the proverbial bad penny, Roger shows up again, and whisks Emily off one more time. The story ends, and the world is left to see if good or evil will prevail!

THE MANSTER In Color - 1959

So, here's another classic fifties sci-fi horror movie that was recently colorized by United Artists. And, Eegah and I saw this one at the theater when it came to our town in late 1959 when we were in 6th grade. We loved it, what a wild and weird story, right up our alley!

It's about an American reporter who's given a strange injection by a scientist that turns him into a two-headed man-monster. It stars Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern and Norman Van Hawley.

Things start with this ape-like creature here, he had escaped earlier from the lab and killed a number of women at a bath house, and has now returned.

It is the secret lab of Dr. Robert Suzuki, in the mountains, away from the city. He's experimenting with genetic manipulation, and the creature is his own brother! He has caused too much trouble and must be destroyed...

Larry Stanford is a reporter who was invited to Dr. Suzuki's place for an interview with the doctor for his newspaper.

The whole time, Suzuki planned on knocking out and injecting Larry with his formula.

Larry has changed, he just wants to drink and have fun with his new friend, Tara, Dr. Suzuki's lab assistant. When he goes to his apartment with Tara, he finds his wife Linda waiting there with Larry's boss, Ian. They basically want to know what the Hell's wrong with him.

Later, Larry starts to change...

His right hand has changed into one hideous sight!

Back at the lab, Dr. Suzuki tells Tara that Larry's about to go through a big change!

Let's face it, that would freak you out a little bit!

At this point, Larry's not really there!

Dr. Suzuki has one more murder to commit, he needs to put another of his experiments, Emiko, out of her misery. Alas, Emiko is his wife!

The Manster has made its way back to the lab, and receives one last injection from Dr. Suzuki. Soon thereafter though, the monster tosses the doctor into the incinerator!!

The place is coming unglued, so the Manster heads back outside...

Once back in the forest, the man and the monster split away from each other. The alternative title of the movie is... THE SPLIT!

The monster ends up tossing Tara into the volcano, and...

It goes after Larry, who has changed back to normal now. Larry fights back and ends up tossing the monster itself into the volcano!!

As Larry's carried off on a stretcher, Linda and Ian wonder how much on this is really Larry's fault. Love this crazy movie!