EL TESORO DE MOCTEZUMA / Mexico - 1968 / Music by Enrico C. Cabiati

Tabonga Thursday going to favorite place tonight, Mexico 1968! Flick star Santo and Jorge Rivero as wrassling and crime team... Ariba!! And, also, lot of terrific still... Too!

James Bond dude come on before credit roll, and, have absolutely nuffin' to do wif' nuffin'... Look very cool, though.

Senior Enrico C. Cabiati is at music helm, and kick total butt!! He work on many Santo and Neutron flick and have plenty-o-posts here at der Dungeon!

Santo keeping up with times with awesome crime lab. Here is great portrait of him!

Criminal always look good 'n' evil with gas mask!

Aye chingow, Maura Monti, ultimate man lure! She saying 'hi' to Jorge at wrasslin' match!

So, Maura and buddies waiting for Santo and Jorge to come home! Finally, Jorge flip, punch and knock her out, after she totally kick his rear end, no kidding!!

Santo have to play straight guy here!

Okay, okay!.. Here one for the gurlz!

Santo get stuck in between tag team car rundown!

Santo and Jorge get call about Montezuma' treasure just found in underground catacombs. Hey, where everything go?!

Action never ends! Now, Santo and Jorge chase bad guy' ship in Beechcraft Bonanza that can drop bomb!

Our heroes bail out just before plane get blown to bits!.. DAAAAMN!!

Hey, the Mexican-Chinese 3 Stooges!!

el Tesoro de Moctezuma!!

BLOW UP - Herbie Hancock, The Yardbirds - "História de Um Fotógrafo" (1966)

Well, it seems like the mid-week blues have kind of turned Wednesday into Spy Thriller Mystery Killer-Diller Chiller nite lately, not exactly monsters, but I've been diggin' it, and I hope you have too! Tonight is no exception, cause when you want to talk about rock music in a 60's movie you have to talk about "Blowup!"

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David Hemmings is Thomas, The Photographer!!

The statuesque Veruschka von Lehndorff, a real original supermodel plays herself!! When she modeled, she was just known only by her first name, Veruschka!!

So if for some strange reason, you don't know about this film, Thomas is shooting some fotos in a park, and Vanessa Redgrave as Jane, gets all hot and bothered over it, so he figures out something isn't right because she's rabid about getting the pictures from him, so he starts blowing them up, bigger and bigger until he starts seeing details like that gun in the bushes!

Director Michelangelo Antonioni had some funny vision as Thomas walks under this outcropping in his flat, and just barely clears it without bumping his head!!

These two frisky little birds, Jane Birkin in the back and Gillian Hills in front, pursue Thomas, and Director Antonioni uses them to full advantage!! Jane was billed solely as "The Blonde" and Gillian was billed as "The Brunette!" Hot!

Just seeing The Yardbirds with Keith Relf, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck in it, was then, and is now, well worth the price of admission, and the rest of the movie is pretty damn entertaining too. And you get all that without even mentioning that the meat of the soundtrack was written by a young man in his first major film outing, and still going by the name Herbert, an amazing musician who has gone from Miles to Rock-it and beyond, Mr. Herbie Hancock!! Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is a line up!!!!

Pretty funny set-up, as Thomas moves through the crowd to the throbbing beat of "Stroll On", and I couldn't, and I sure you won't be able to, not tap your foot or something, and yet the whole crowd is completely stoic, and never even twitches a muscle!!

Oh, did I say never? I meant never, like not until Jeff Beck smashes his guitar, and then, and only then, does the crowd go absolutely freakin' wild after he throws the broken neck into the crowd, and like a blushing bridesmaid at a wedding party catching the bride's corsage, Thomas ends up with the broken neck, and runs out into the night with the crowd pursuing him, and when he finally gets away, he just drops it on the sidewalk like a piece of garbage, and walks away!! What a statement!!! What a movie!!

VARAN THE UNBELIEVABLE / Toho - 1962 / Music by Akira Ifukube

Tonight, Tabonga bring you Daikaijû Baran, so, Myron Healy not in this version. Directed by Ishirô Honda in 1958, was release in US in 1962 wif' new US footage and title.

Music god Akira Ifukube does very nice job here!.. If you not know who Akira Ifukube is, just do Dungeon archive search... Then you bow to him!

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People in village get all upset when dude come looking for rare butterfly and military try to desaline lake!

Villagers think sumbloody gonna wake up VARAN, and what you know, they wake up VARAN! Now everbloody gonna have to believe!!

In Japanese version, VARAN fly around!!! He look like giant squirrel wif' rocket-powered nuts!! ...Hell yeah!

VARAN not monster you want to ride!!

BOOM!.. BOOM!! Rat-a-tat-a-tat... pop, pop, pop, SCREEEEEEEEEEE.... KA-BLOOIE!!! POW, POW, POW, POW, POW!!.. EEK!.. N'YOW! N'YOW!.. Rat-a-tat-a-tat!.. SCREAM!.. BOOOOOOMMM!!!

ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE MUMMY - Gertz, Mancini, Maury, Salter, Russell, Brooks, King - "How Stupid Do You Want Me To Be" (1955)

OK, what day is it, and where the Hell am I?? Been wandering thru the burnin' desert sand, picking the cactus thorns out of my eyes for so long now, I guess It doesn't matter anymore, because tonite we're going into a place in space and time still not fully explored to this day! It's the place where "Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy!"

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It all starts off in this club with the most raucous act, that is still to this day as wild as any live set you've ever seen, performed either by The Mazzone-Abbott Dancers or Chandra Kaly and his Dancers, a detail I've run out of time trying to find out about, but whoever the Hell they are, they crack me up every time I watch this! It's an interactive act that ends up right in Lou's lap!!

All that combined with one of the most classic of Bud and Lou's exchanges, just makes for an extra fine good time!!!

The gal with the amazing eyes and more, Marie Windsor tempts Lou more than once!!

One, Two, Cha, Cha, Cha, Three, Four, Cha, Cha, Cha!!!

Eddie Parker as Klaris The Mummy, was an actor in 276 movies dating back to 1931!! Wow!!

Just to keep it lively, right about the middle of the film they toss you this splendid little tidbit sung by Miss Peggy King, "You Came A Long Way From St. Louis!"

Here's a couple of nice shots of the whole gang!! Talk about classic, that's Michael Ansara on the left of Bud and Lou, and Richard Deacon on the right! There's enough combined credits to fill a bank vault!!

In The End they have a freakin' Mummy band, now what was cooler than that in 1955! It would be over 30 years later before the concept would arise again with any success!! Here's what's happening with "The Mummies" today!!

Personally, this is one of my favorites of the "Abbott and Costello" meet series, just because it's so perfectly stupid, you can watch it 100 times, and you are still going to laugh every time, and that's a money back guarantee, and you can actually get a copy pretty easy!!! Go for it!!!