Here's one of my all time favorite AIP movies. This is the second posting of this great film, the previous featured John Ashley doing his teen idol thing, "You Gotta Have Ee-Ooo," so, search the Dungeon archives to hear that one!
Paul Dunlap has been featured here many times for his musical mastery. Besides this film, he also did the music for both I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF and I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN besides BLOOD OF DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN 1970, INVISIBLE INVADERS, ANGRY RED PLANET, BLACK ZOO and CASTLE OF EVIL, all of which we've already posted!!
WOW!!.. Look at all that talent there! First is Robert H. Harris as Pete, the studio make-up artist, and, he's definitely a master as you can see! Then, there's Paul Brinegar as Rivero, Pete's assistant. Harris was in INVISIBLE BOY and Brinegar was in THE VAMPIRE!
Gary Conway and Gary Clarke play the monsters.
Two Garys!!.. Conway was the original TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN and Clarke was in MISSILE TO THE MOON. And, the great Thomas Browne Henry plays the director of the movie they're filming, and, he was in BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS!
Pete gets the word from the new owners of the studio that the monster cycle is over and they're letting him and Rivero go after their movie finishes shooting. The execs want to do teen romance musicals, after all, that's what everyone wants to see nowadays!
Pete reminences over his creations, then, comes up with a devilish plan for revenge!
Just had to show the shot with that AIP studio arch! Inside, Pete prepares Gary (Larry) with his special zombifying make-up base for the first attack.
What's funny here is that the werewolf's on the screen too!
Security guard Monahan seems to know a little too much, and, he let's Pete know it!..
Bad poker face!!
So, Pete works a little 'movie magic' and surprises Monahan on his rounds and beats him to a pulp with a club, then, retrieves his little black book with all the evidence!
The cops come snooping around, asking about monsters some poeple have seen...
Gary (Tony) gives a small interview to the local press club before Pete sends him out for more murder and mayhem!
The cops zero in on Rivero to Pete's chagrin. Oh, that's Morris Ankrum there doing some of the grilling.
Pete gets paranoid that Rivero is going to spill the beans, so, he puts a blade into him!! The place goes up in flames, killing Pete as the cops arrive.
My big beef with this movie, though, is that they burned up priceless monster heads from Paul Blaisdell's personal collection without his knowledge, knowing that he would have refused lending them out... An unconscienceable act!
Yes, Mildred, of course there is a Santa Claus!! Whaddaya thinkin'? And his real name is "The Mighty Gorga"!!!! 
Anthony Eisley does another one of his remarkable, 'let me smoke a cigarette, and I'll do any scene you want' performances! Anthony is a perennial favorite around these parts, and you don't have to delve very deep into his list of titles to understand why! Starting right about 1966, Anthony had an almost unparalleled run of stinkers starting with "The Navy Vs. The Night Monsters," followed by "Journey To The Center Of Time" and "The Mummy And The Curse Of The Jackals!" That's like having the bases loaded, and you walk up to the plate, and knock it out of the park and into the parking lot with "The Mighty Gorga!" My word, what a movie, and Anthony is in there all the way!!
Anthony Eisley passed away in 2003, but his work will live on forever!!!!! What a sport!!
Anthony, Megan Timothy and Lee Parrish ponder the many hidden and subtle intricacies of the plot after he arrives at the zoo, I mean, in Africa!!
Using the zoo in L.A. for random shots of animals, and placing brightly coloured giant plastic flowers in strategic locations doesn't exactly make the mountain areas of California look like an African jungle, but you can't blame Anthony for that!!
Now, come on, doesn't this shot look pretty cool??
Mighty Gorga crashes the party!!!
You'd think with that big monkey chasing them around all the time, these natives would be in a little better shape! It was at this point, I really started doubting the authenticity of this film's historical value!
Time for another smoke!!!!
Gorga's big problem is his eyes don't move!!! That's pretty much it!!
The big eggs looked pretty real!!!
Arguably the worst dinosaur ever filmed!
Mighty Gorga A Go-Go as far as I can tell is nothing more than a massvie collage of music tracks put together by music supervisor Charles Walden! The last airy vibes and keyboards part is from another movie we've written about I know, with added jungle noises, but I just can't remember it right now. I thought it was Forry's scene in "The Time Travelers" but that isn't it. I'll figure it out one of these days, but in the meantime, the big show must go on!!! "The Mighty Gorga" is out there, and you really need to experience it in person to get the full effect!!!
