YUSEI OJI (Prince Of Space) - Katsuhisa Hattori - "Looks Like A Flying Saucer" (1959)

Forget those phony "Teenagers From Outer Space" weenies and all their stinkin' problems, tonight we have the real thing, "The Prince Of Space", and watch out, because although he's a nice guy, he's pissed!

Unbelievable as it may seem, those two movies were released within two months of each other, both in 1959! It's up to you to decide who was more sophisticated, but then again, it might be a moot point!! The Teenagers had a flying corkscrew, these guys have got what looks like a flying fried reptilian chicken!

Joji Oka as the Phantom of Krankor made his first film back way in 1929! Maybe that explains why he has his moustache on upside down!

I need to know, is this really the best they could do? They really couldn't find anybody to do a better makeup job on the noses than that, and somebody really thought that was good enough! I don't get it!

Are they going to need digital converters, or do they only get AM talk radio? Maybe that's why they're so hostile!!!

You see, it's a social problem! These poor cats have been at the bottom of the list for so long, they just can't take it anymore. Can you imagine being in line waiting for your number to come up when you're Z4, and they're on B7000? Yeah, right, you're going to develop an attitude problem after awhile, and it looks like they spend way too much time on their knees!!!

Now how in the Hell am I supposed to explain this???

My favorite line is spoken by The Prince himself, "Now look, give up, or I'll have to kill you!" Tell me Clint Eastwood never saw this movie!

Compser Katsuhisa Hattori had a varied career that included Japanese versions of TV cartoons "Swiss Family Robinson"("Kazoku Robinson Hyôryûki Fushigina Shima No Furône") and "Tom Sawyer"("Tomu Sôyâ No Bôken").

TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE / Tom Graeff Productions - 1959 / Music by William Loose + Fred Steiner

Tonight's little teenage JD monster flick from 1959 is a classic for all the wrong reasons... None the less, still, a classic!

The rocket surgeon there, sees something odd while looking through the telescope and tells professor Squarenuts the weird 'drill in space' theory that just popped into his head!

Wow, and, it looks like the professor uses black shoe polish to care for and maintain his beard!!!

Tonight's music is supplied by two uncredited composers, William Loose and Fred Steiner. Some other movies they worked on are: ESCAPE FROM HELL ISLAND, THE DEVIL'S BEDROOM, TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER, BUMMER, THE ALIEN ENCOUNTERS, THE BULLWINKLE TV SHOW, TV's FRACTURED FLICKERS, THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, MILTON THE MONSTER TV Series and lots more!!

Great sounds!.. TEENAGE JERKS FROM OUTER SPACE!

See, jerks! They just toasted poor lil' Sparky, now he's all bones and no bark!

King Moody has to talk into a microphone and the alien leader doesn't!

Derek is a perfect gentleman and has good posture, Thor is a perfect maniac and needs his ritalin, like yesterday!!

Thor, the hot head with a focusing disentegrator!!

I have never piloted a vehicle like this before!.. I will try again.

Thor is going to need counseling sometime soon!!

He's tough, though! He elects to have surgery without anestesia!!!

I have a copy of the paperback this guy's reading, called THE FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL!

The Gargon comes screaming over the hill, so, Derek climbs the telephone pole to tap into the lines, the focusing disentegrator needs more juice to stave off the monster. Betty goes over to a utility phone and calls the generating plant and tells the guy to blow the place up if he has to, but... "MORE JUICE!!" And, he actually does whatever she demands. We call guys like him, "lonely!"

Jeez! What is it with those freakin' beards?!! Make up dude had to be an amateur!!! Anyway, beleive it or not, that's Derek's father, the supreme leader. Derek tricks him and brings in the ships too fast and they all crash and blow up as they show stock footage of a volcano exploding! The other thing that makes my wig flip are the cages for the Gargons at the beginning!.. Pathetic!

Then, Derek gives his little 'pro Earth' speech at the very end!!

DOOR TO DOOR MANIAC - Johnny Cash - "Five Minutes To Live" (1961)

Now this is really a Saturday Night Special, and once more we gotta give big kudos to Tabonga for rounding up this dirty little unpolished jewel! Wow!

Where else would you expect a "Door To Door Maniac" to live than at The Camellia Gardens Motel and Trailer park? That's where all the low lifes in town end up!!

This film had a pretty small cast, but what a cast it was!
On the left bowling, is smalltime mastermind bank robber Fred Dorella, and on the right is local entrepreneur Max! You might recognize Fred as Vic Tayback with hair or Mel in 191 episodes of the TV series "Alice!" Max was played by amazing musician and songwriter, Merle Travis! Besides writing the hit song by Tex Williams and/or Commando Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke," Merle also wrote the all time classic song recorded by that ole pea picker himself, Tennessee Ernie Ford, "Sixteen Tons!"

Doris will soon find out that she doesn't know Johnny as well as she thinks she does!!

Here's the happy Wilson family! Donald Woods who'll you'll remember as the father in "13 Ghosts" and Cay Forrester as Nancy!

Yep, you're right, little Bobby here was played by Opie, or as some people know him Ronnie Howard! Ron's gone on to have a pretty good run I'd say!!

Lean and mean Johnny Cash as Johnny Cabot is almost not recognizable as the Johnny Cash we have all come to know and love!

Here's the basics, in the guise of a guitar lesson salesman, Johnny asks for a glass of water, sneaks in the house and takes Mrs. Wilson hostage while Fred is at the bank asking her vice-president husband to kick with 70 thousand dollars or Johnny's going to kill his wife!

Johnny's a real mean S.O.B. and this is one lowdown, greasy, sleazy and sometimes brutal film that will conjure up visions of Arch Hall's "The Sadist" and Orson Welles' "Touch Of Evil" in your brain all at the same time!

Whenever Johnny wasn't picking and singing, the music was provided by composer Gene Kauer, who went on to do of all things, "The Faces Of Death" films!

Meanwhile, back at the bank, Fred and Ken have their own completely separate "Fargoesque" scene going on.

There are some light moments like here, where Johnny is getting really frustrated, because he's waiting on the call, and Mrs. Wilson can't get her blabbermouth friend Priscella to shut up!!

Then Opie, I mean Bobby comes home and goofs up the whole thing, as it seems Johnny's got a soft spot in his heart for kids! Aaaaahhhhh! It's all quite touching, and you havn't lived til you've seen American icons, Johnny Cash and Ron Howard in a scene together!

I won't give away the ending! Try and find your own copy, and good luck with that!!