THE TWILIGHT PEOPLE / Four Associates Ltd. - 1973

Welcome to Monster Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. What we gots here is another trip to Blood Island with Dungeon fave, John (THE BEAST OF THE YELLOW NIGHT) Ashley. The story's about a man who's captured while skin diving and then transported to a remote island where a scientist is intent on turning him into a super-being. The man tries to escape with the help of the scientist's daughter and a band of half-human, half-animal mutant creatures.

Check out the list of producers!.. John Ashley, David J. Cohen, Beverly Miller, Eddie Romero, Larry Woolner and Roger Corman.

The music's by Tito Arevalo and Ariston Avelino. Tito worked on films like HONG KONG 999, BLACK JACK, THE RAVAGERS, MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND, BEAST OF BLOOD, THE MAGIC CARPET and PHANTOM LADY. Ariston composed music for MISS PHILIPPINES, KANTO GIRL, TERROR IS A MAN, TIGER UNIT, MORO WITCH DOCTOR and BLACKWORMS.

Lettuce bring in our fuzzy lil' Dungeon helper and button pusher, what else, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Howdy dort, Ralphie! He's here to start the show, sooo, on wif' it! Push that big red 'GO' button located directly behind the slab, now, Ralphie! Here's the very cool soundclip for... THE TWILIGHT PEOPLE!

Our hero, Matt Farrell, is sought out and unceremoniously captured by Dr. Gordon's henchmen.

Then, he's transported to the doctor's remote mansion where he decides to explore the place at night.

And, what does he discover?.. Delicious cheesecake and pastries!!

Pat Woodell plays Dr. Gordon's daughter, Neva. She finds Matt irrestible!..

Pat played Miss Thompson on THE MUNSTERS and Bodine in THE BIG DOLL HOUSE. Charles Macaulay plays Dr. Gordon, he was Clarence in THE TOWER OF LONDON, Jaris/Landru in STAR TREK and Inspector Shrink in HEAD!

John was married to Deborah (hubba hubba) Walley, played Frankie Avalon's best pal in the beach party movies and produced THE A-TEAM. He died at age 62 in 1997.

Area 51 works on it's next Republican presidential candidate...

Neva has had it with her dad's ass hole buddies and decides to let her Twilight People go!

Ken Metcalfe plays Kuzma, the Antelope Man...

Pam Grier plays Ayesa, the Panther Woman...

Kim Ramos plays Primo, the Ape Man...

And, Tony Gosalvez plays Darmo, the Bat Man. This is actually pretty funny where Darmo tries to fly for the first time, he plummets to the ground and lands flat on his face!

The doctor's men are in hot pursuit.

Kuzma's a freakin' dead shot and Ayesa just chews the Hell out of her opponents!

I like this shot because it reminds me of working in the garden!

Darmo pays the doctor a little visit.

He finally learns the finer details of flying!..

Darmo takes care of business and flys away into the sunset...

CATALINA CAPER - Various Artists - "Wild Adventure & International Intrigue" (1967)

I searched and searched for a copy of "Catalina Caper," for a couple of years after reading that it had a cracking soundtrack! It's kind of like an extension of the beach blanket bongo scene as quasi-thriller, and I'm not sure what's older, the story or the kids, but I am sure they had a great time on the island over the course of a weekend with Director Lee "Rollem" Sholem at the helm!

You know, it's like this, "Okay, somebody start a bonfire, now everybody start dancing, Roll camera! Yeah!! That's a take!! Smoke 'em if you got 'em! Next!!"

Tommy Kirk has two roles, one as himself and the other as the girl he falls in love with! Tommy Kirk is in the the deepest part of the 'Dungeon Hall Of Fame' and never fails to deliver an all-star performance no matter what film he's in! Actually the girl is Ulla Strömstedt, the multi-lingual Swedish beauty probably best known for her role as Ulla Norstrand on the "Flipper" TV series! I can't find out what happened, but for some reason Ulla died in 1986 at the age of 46!

Wheeeee! Guys just want to have fun, and they haven't even started drinking yet!!

It was just a Superbowl introduction to the one, the only, Little Richard!! It takes an hour or so to get to the island, so when everybody's not puking, they're dancing!

Totally Mesmerized!

What don't you know about Little Richard, the "Architect of Rock and Roll? He was one of THE key figures in the transition from Rhythm & Blues to Rock n' Roll, and he'll be 79 in a couple of weeks on Dec 5th! Here he belts out the classic "Scuba Party" written by himself and Jerry Long. Jerry wrote most of the music in this film and his only other big credit was the surfin' snowball, "Wild, Wild Winter!"

A large portion of Catalina Island still looks the same today, some 45 years later!

This crew is a bunch of cheapskate swindlers! Del Moore as Arthur Duval, Sue Casey as Anne Duval, and in the middle, Jim Begg as the stooge Larry!! Del Moore was a mainstay on 1960's TV on everything from "Batman" to "Wagon Train," Jim Begg was "Fatso" in "Village Of The Giants," and if you're old enough, and Sue Casey looks familiar, it's probably not from her 83 film and TV credits, but more likely from her 200 appearances in commercials for everything from Chrysler to Kelloggs!

These are the bad guys!

The Cinematography was done by none other than Mr. Ted V.(Astro-Zombies)Mikels!

It's like dance fever! Dance with your best girlfriend or your best pal, but just keep moving!

This motley crew was called The Cascades, and had a smash hit that was released in 1962 that was all over the radio for weeks, titled "Rhythm Of The Rain," but it wasn't until 1963 that it reached #3 on the charts! Here they perform "There's A New World."

Carol Connors is the only woman to have ever written or co-written a major hot rod song! It's a fact! The song I'm talkin' about is "Hey Little Cobra" recorded by The Rip Cords in 1964, and she also co-wrote the Rocky theme, "Gonna Fly Now!" An amazing woman, Carol is still cooking today, and in this scene was performing "Book Of Love," a song she co-wrote with Roger Christian, the writer of the all time classic "Dead Man's Curve!"

It was an itchy witchy teeny weenie black and fuzzy bikini that she wore for the first time today!

The guys are all hypnotized by the ravishing charms of Ulla Strömstedt! "After you been eating steak for a long time, beans, beans, taste fine!" - Shel Silverstein

And after all that madcap partying, the beach is nothing more than one big crash pad!

This was a pretty cool, but random 15 second shot in the middle of all the other musical madness!

I went to Catalina Island last year, and this area and that building look exactly the same today!

Somewhere in there, there was a story about a theft of a scroll, and the clumsy insurance investigator Fingers O'Toole played by Robert Donner, but it's all secondary to that fact that this was just one big music video! Robert Donner had a very successful career in some interesting roles like the morgue attendent in "Agent For H.A.R.M." or Ebenezer Twitchell in "The Spirit Is Willing!"

There's basically only one other California Island with any film history, and that is Alcatraz, but they never had any beach parties there that anybody lived to talk about!