AGENTE 077 MISSIONE BLOODY MARY - Morricone/Graf - "Bloody Mary" (1965)

 Well, I'm going to go Super Secret Agent Spy Saturday for a couple of weeks on ya, so break out the vodka and the tomato juice; I just hope you are as big a fan of Euro James Bond Wanna Be Spy films as I am! Most of these films have basically everything you could want out of a movie, there's Technicolor AND Techniscope, and that's a lot of tech stuff, and if nothing else, you gotta admit,  'Agent 077' is pretty clever!

The theme song for "Mission Bloody Mary" was written by Ennio Morricone and Maurizio Graf, and also performed by Maurizio Graf! I was looking up Bloody Mary for some reason, and I came upon this pub site in Wisconsin where they make these awesome Bloody Marys with a massive amount of meats, cheeses, and pickles etc on skewers! Yes, there is a God, Bloody Mary Party here I come, Check it out!!

This type of movie reminds me of those cheap records you'd find at Woolworth's or the corner grocery store back in the sixties that would try and play off of The Beatles phenomena, and put out 99 cent records with guys with their hair combed down over their forehead with names like "The Buggs," or "The Four Beagles and the Liverpool Whigs," and just like those records, the second hand version ain't really half bad!

Speaking of records, it's obvious these people were not teenagers or they would have been listening to The Beatles instead of Nat King Cole!

Ken Clark is Agent 077 Dick Malloy! This was the first of three films in a series about Agent Dick, the other two being "From The Orient With Fury," and "Special Mission Lady Chaplin!" Ken was also in "Love Me Tender," "Attack Of The Giant Leeches," and "12 To The Moon!" After about 7 years in Hollywood, Ken packed it up and went to Italy where he got much better roles! Dick's girlfriend is Franca Polesello who was also in "Hercules Vs The Mole Men," "Operation White Shark," "LSD Flesh Of Devil," and  "Tarzana, The Wild Woman!"

So why did they have to break up Dick's little love affair? A bomb has been hijacked, and it's up to him to figure it all out! Everything else is petty details!

Every secret agent has to have some kind of nifty trick something, and Dick is presented with a pistol that holds 9 shells instead of 8. You don't have to be a rocket surgeon to figure out that later in the movie, after Dick fires 8 shells, some thug is going to unsuccessfully think that Dick's out of ammunition!

This is the bomb in question! It's really kind of cute, like maybe it could double as a pepper grinder or a fancy blender!

It's time for Dick to make the scene down at the night club called Screaming Desire or something like that!

The actress playing the stripper in the club was also a strip tease artist for real besides being an actress! The Eurasion goddess Mitsouko was also in a real James Bond movie, "Thunderball!"

As part of her act, Mitsouko needs a little help getting her top off! A Dymo labelmaker message proves this is no chance meeting!

I had a choice of two last pictures of Mitsouko to show you, one where she was alive, and one where she was dead, for obvious reasons, I chose alive! Unfortunately Mitsouko didn't, and sadly committed suicide in 1995!

Dick Malloy faces trouble at every turn.......

.......But he never seems to get distracted from getting the job done! The lovely Helga Liné has the role as Dick's romantic foil!

When you can get a location like this for almost nothing or free, use it!

As cool as it was, in 1965 the Chevrolet Corvair was outed by Ralph Nader as "the leading candidate for the un-safest-car title," which essentially killed production of the vehicle forever, and a reputation it's tried to shed for decades!

"Run, Dick, Run!!"

 

There's also lots more action and excitement like this fight scene! I liked "Mission Bloody Mary," and I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of trouble Dick can get into next time! Until then, go make yourself a Bloody Mary! A Tu Salud, Cheers, and Später!!

BEYOND ATLANTIS / Dimension Pictures - 1973

It's Fishy Friday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Here's a flick starring Patrick (son of The Duke) Wayne, John (BEAST OF THE YELLOW NIGHT) Ashley, George (ROBOT MONSTER) Nadar and Sid (SPIDER BABY) Haig and directed by Eddie (BLOOD ISLAND) Romero in an aquatic adventure with bug-eyed fish men from Beyond Atlantis! Filmed in the Philippines with a decent budget of $200,000.

Eegah!! sent over a lil' soundclip with a hit tune theme for your earjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there by the giant atomic clam, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's an earfull of... BEYOND ATLANTIS!

Here's George Nadar in 1973 as island leader, Nereus, still fit as a fiddle. George was great as sixties action hero, Jerry Cotton, and, after he was finished in films, he turned to writing. George broke major ground in 1978 with his novel, CHROME, it was the first sci-fi thriller to have a homosexual theme that included gay robots!

This is his beautiful daughter, Syrene, played by the athletic, Leigh Christian. She was also in THE LOVE MACHINE and THE DOLL SQUAD.

This shot looks like an ancient scene except for that electric street light there on the left!

Sid Haig plays pimp, East Eddie, he wants to put a crew together to dive for pearls off a nearby island. He calls on his friend, Logan, played by our pal, John Ashley.

Logan then goes to the bar to find another diver, Vic, played by Patrick Wayne, and, he's in...

Vic's girlfried, who's also going with the boys on the adventure, is attracted to this odd mask exhibited in a local museum.

Nice shot of Logan and Vic going on their first dive after they arrive at the island.

Eddie makes the mistake of falling into a trap filled with deadly crabs and gets sliced up pretty good!

Syrene quickly finds out the motive of the new guests visiting her island... POILS!

Here's a nice shot of Syrene as she keeps an eye on the boys' activities.

Eddie blows up the palace of Nereus in order to make an escape from the island, where him and the others are now prisoners.

A poor fish man gets knocked in this pond of piranhas by Vic!

Syrene dies during an underwater battle with Vic's girlfriend and is buried at sea.

Logan steals the pile of stringed pearls coverimg Syrene and looks like a fool for his greed. Tune in tomorrow for more from The Dungeon Gang!..

WENN ES NACHT WIRD AUF DER REEPERBAHN - Erwin Halletz - "Trip With The Devil" (1967)

Welcome to Weirdass  L.wedneS.D.ay! Apparently, in 1967, while hippies were tripping on acid and listening to groovy music in America, in Germany, they had a completely different concept going on, at least according to this no holds-barred grudge match!!

The original title of this film is "Wenn Es Nacht Wird Auf Der Reeperbahn," in English, it was released as both "Uneasy Summer," and/or "Trip With The Devil!" So let's just get down to it, I'm sure you're wondering what the Hell a 'Reeperbahn' is! Well, The 'Reeperbahn' is a street in Hamburg, Germany that is in the heart of the red-light district! It's all about nighttime high life; there's restaurants, strip clubs, night clubs, discotheques, sex shops, bars, and brothels! Basically, every man's dream come true, but alas, there is evil in the kingdom!

Sunbathing time on the yacht is over girls, put your tops back on!

Erik (Shock Treatment) Schumann as investigative reporter Danny Sonntag has just got his ass kicked by a bunch of local high society punks for sticking his nose into their business, so he hits the streets to ask some questions! One of his informants is inside that rather large woman!

Their terror tactics are spreading far and wide throughout the community!

These mini-gangsters idea of fun is to slip the acid to underage girls mixed with booze, and sell them out as sex slaves to rich businessmen and politicians, so they can in turn slip them the olde Vienna sausage! On the right is the ringleader Jürgen (My Swedish Meatball) Draeger as Feuer-Hotte! I don't think you need to know much German to figure that one out!

For being a movie about L.S.D., the music as composed by Erwin (Das Go-Go-Girl Vom Blow Up) Halletz is vaguely interesting, but something by Quicksilver Messenger Service would have been better suited! Here's just a little taste of what I'm talking about!!

Danny Sonntag continues his search for Feuer-Hotte, combing all the dives and strip clubs!

I'd believe in reincarnation if I could come back here!

The boobie count is pretty high in this film, but considering where it's located, that shouldn't be that shocking!

In the center is Marlies Dräger in her very first role as one of the bad girls Karin! Marlies was in "The Man With The Glass Eye," and "Death And Diamonds," but all total she only had nine credits, and the rest of them are on German TV shows, so this will be the last time we'll see her here!

This is kind of gross! This is how German girls tripping on acid perceive their sugar daddy lovers!

Meanwhile, there's a whole other story going! In the tidy whities is Fritz Wepper as Till Voss and by his side is Marianne Hoffman as Lotti Norkus!  Till is the son of a wealthy man and is part of the acid gang, and Lotti is pure as the driven snow! Till is so in love, he's ready to quit his wanton ways and live happily ever after with Lotti, but it's not meant to be! You see, this scene is not really them together, instead, it's a hallucination Lotti's having after being fed some acid, and in reality, the man is Till's Father who seems to have a closet thing for virgins!

It's not a pretty scene when Till catches his Father in the sack with his drugged girlfriend!!

Lotti doesn't take the situation very well at all! Now there's another body to dispose of!

Time to have a meeting at the super creepy place!

You don't cross the gang, or even think about crossing the gang without expecting to pay some kind of price! Actually, these two were basically only guilty by association, but it didn't matter!

Despite all the hookers and whores, this story is not going to have a happy ending!!

This movie is a trip all right, but the story is a real bummer!