THE LOST WORLD / Irwin Allen - 1960 / Music by Bert Shefter & Paul Sawtell (No Longer Available)

**TONIGHT IS POSTING #700!!!
Wow, what a cast!!.. Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Claude Rains and Fernando Lamas. Fernando even sings in this one... Oh, those Latin lovers! Jill's pooch didn't make the credits, though! In 1960, Irwin Allen relies on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for this spectacular story, and, that same year, George Pal releases his awesome THE TIME MACHINE by H. G. Wells. A very good year, if you were there... Like us!

Dungeon veterans Bert Shefter and Paul Sawtell got this assignment to create music from a Lost World, and, did a great job as usual!.. Between the two of them, they had 391 composing credits, mostly by Sawtell, and did both movies and TV!

So, let's get lost!.. Irwin Allen's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's THE LOST WORLD!

Our stills are not the highest quality tonight, but, there's plenty of nice eye candy, nonetheless!

We totally love Claude Rains, but, I have to say, I think one of the biggest casting blunders was Claude playing Larry's father in THE WOLFMAN. That one always bothered me for some reason! He's great playing a cantankerous old professor like Challenger, here, or Professor Benson in BATTLE OF THE WORLDS, same year!

Let the exploitation begin!

...WHOA!!

Holy crap, look at that freaking giant psychedelic colored tarantula!!

Of course, trigger-happy Michael Rennie kills it, in it's own home!

This shot is amazing, as the two 'dinosaurs' wrestle and fall off a cliff and disappear into the darkness!! Still, its disturbing to think about potential animal abuse, getting a shot.

A Lost World wouldn't be complete without tribal caveman cannibals, would it?!

Oh, and, a man-eating terror vine!

"Hey, it tickles!"

Nobody should be surprised when Fernando sacrifices his life to save the exploiting white people's asses at the end! I mean, nothing else makes sense, could it?!

That's not even the biggest explosion! Anyway, The Lost World is lost, again!

This part's a crack up! Get it!.. The porcelain egg is inadvertantely dropped to reveal a tiny baby dino! Challenger quips... "Its a Tyranosaurus Rex!"

Tune in tomorrow when Eegah!! will blow you away with... TWO LOST WORLDS!! Then, next Sunday I'll have another 'WORLD' to show you!!

SEI DONNE PER l'ASSASSINO - Carlo Rustichelli - "Blood And Black Lace" (1964)

Well, it wasn't easy, but even the best gets old after awhile, so you might notice we've changed the playlist on Radio 13 with a whole new set of songs! So get ready to Dig In and Trip Out!! But for right now.....

It's Bava Time!!! In 1959, Mario Bava directed the black and white classic "Caltiki," it would only be fives years later when he got around to tonight's feature, a colour classic thriller from somewhere on the other side of elsewhere, "Blood And Black Lace", and what a film it is!

The stunning Eva Bartok and the sleazy Cameron Mitchell, nice casting, but sick!!

Man of the hour and director Mario Bava was a hands on guy who did a lot of the cinematography himself, but the main guy with the good eye was Ubaldo Terzano, and this is the way he rolled!!

One, Two, Three! It's okay, everything gonna be all right, just Scream!!

We've written about the Masestro Carlo Rustichelli here before for his work on "Long Hair Of Death" and "The Day The Sky Exploded," but in my humble opinion, this is some of his best work, but then there are like 397 more films he composed for too!! A small piece of advice! Just go get it!!

THEY - Bill Rebane - "Hell Fire" (1974)

No, it's not "THEM," Rodan already did that one! By 1974 one-word titles were starting to get scarce, and "THE" just wasn't that scary, so, leave it to Bill Rebane to come up with "THEY" as an alternate title!! You know it's going to be up there with the best of the worst when you have a feature directed by Bill Rebane, the man responsible for bringing us the Über-Classic "Monster A Go-Go" in 1965, but, if nothing else, at least musically, "THEY" delivers the goods!!! And who claims responsibility for the music? Bill Rebane!! Wotta guy, because what we're talking about here starts with an opening theme that sounds remarkably like the theme to "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" pecked out on a 39 dollar Casio keyboard!!

Can you say Canada 1974??

In this scene, there's some pretty dang swingin' jazz coming out of the radio that's probably some stock Nawlins' "Preservation Hall Jazz All-Stars" that Bill got off some album he found at the Goodwill Store! Whatever! It's Bill Rebane, he writes, he directs, he produces, he edits, and he uses members of his family to fill in the gaps, so maybe the film isn't prefect, or even good, but it's understandable, because one guy can only do so much!!! Give that one guy some credit!!

Making movies can be fun if you have money, but it's just a whole lot of unappreciated work, if you don't!!!

Wow! Far Out, man!!! That's so in tune with the universe!!!

LA MALDICION DE LA MOMIA AZTECA / Mexico - 1957 / Music by Antonio Díaz Conde

Like promise, Tabonga bringin' you more Momia Azteca, this installment... THE CURSE!! Making trilogy pretty smart, when you can flashback 1/3 of flick times 2!! And, the more Tabonga think on it, it seem damn smart!

Music by Antonio Díaz Conde again...

Tonight, for first time, because lil' guy feel neglect, Tabonga going to let pet gnat, Piff, press big red button to start music! Okay then, take it away, Piff!!.. SOUNDCLIP NO LONGER AVAILABLE

What is so different about 'Curse' is there is Santo dude name... 'el Angel' aka 'Silver Angel!' What is coincident is, Dungeon crew make flick in 2004 name SILVER ANGEL vs THE DEATH ZOMBIES!! You can see still from it if you go to Monster Alley (links) and go down about half way on first page! Tabonga would not kid about that, go see for self!!

Crooks in Mexico very efficient and always have devilish plan to mess wif' good guy!!

And, because can pack 19 dude in car, Krupp gang always have upper hand!! Whoa, good thing el Angel move out of way!

Krupp one arrogant, lying SOB... And, he prove it time and time again!

Crox Alvarado play Dr. Almada' friend, Pinacate. Secretly, he is el Angel. In part 3, or 'Robot' part, he back to normal person and act total goofy!!.. What hell?! He kickin' ass here! In 1962, he play El Malayo in CAZADORES DE CABEZAS and in 1967 play Caveman in LA ISLA DE LOS DINOSAURIOS!

Tierno slap crap outta Angel, then put in room that has false floor wif' snake pit at bottom!

Good thing Angel call Pepe to come save ass!!

Poetic justice, Momia push Krupp main henchman Tierno down and he fall face first in acid!! Ha ha ha!!.. Make Tabonga feel good to see that part!

More poetic justice!! Krupp scream like little gurl!

Phew!!.. Whotta ride!!