DIMENSION 5 - Paul Dunlap - "The Most Amazing Spy Thriller Of All Time" (1966)

Like me, it's a little slow, but Summer's a comin', so let's start this month of June off with something hot! Ever since we started this blog there have been some obscure titles we've had trouble getting our hands on, and tonight's wild card feature is one of those amazing titles, but thanx to the Trash Palace it is now possible! Was it worth the wait, kind of, but not exactly, but then it does have it's moments, and then those same moments again, because it's a movie about time traveling! I had read that "Dimension 5" had a swingin' soundtrack composed by the top shelf of Dungeon faves, Paul Dunlap, and it does to some degree, the problem is, it's just mostly buried in the background! Search this blog for Paul, and you can see what a talent he was!!

This is Jeffrey Hunter as special secret agent Justin Power! Jeffrey's career was all over the place, everywhere from playing Jesus in the 1961 film, "King Of Kings" to starring in 26 episodes of his own TV series from 1963 to 1964 as western lawyer "Temple Houston." Jeffrey Hunter also had the role of Christopher Pike, the second Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise in the 1966 pilot episode of "Star Trek," entitled "The Cage!" Jeffrey passed away in 1969!

This is his Boss, Donald Woods as Kane! The super spies of the 60's had better video conferencing than we do today thanks to all your generous tax dollars! Mr. Woods had his own TV show also for 26 episodes in 1952 as "Craig Kennedy, Criminologist!" Donald was also in "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms," "13 Ghosts," and "Five Minutes To Live" with Johnny Cash!

No, Jeffrey didn't just win the Peewee Championship Wrasslin' Federation belt, that my friends, is a very compact version of a time machine!

There is quite a bit of footage of Agent Power and Kane gabbing about a bunch of crap you don't really give a hoot about!

Working behind the scenes and keeping Agent Power abreast of the action are "The Sisters!" Carol Byron as Big Sister, Maggie Thrett as 2nd Sister, and Kay Michaels as 3rd Sister!

Carol Byron was in an "Addams Family," a "Twilight Zone," and a "Dobie Gillis" episode!

Maggie Thrett was in a "Star Trek" episode as the sexiest of Harry Mudd's women, Ruth,(and that's some tough competition considering the other two were hotties Karen Steele and Susan Denberg), and released this Bob Crewe produced single in 1965 entitled "Soupy"!!!

Kay Michaels was a robot in "Dr. Goldfoot And The Bikini Machine!"

Now you see him....

....Now you don't!! Pretty tricky, huh?

The really evil guy in charge in "Dimension 5" is Harold "Oddjob" Sakata as Big Buddah!! His over the top voice is dubbed in by cartoon voiceover great Paul Frees! Before acting, Harold wrestled professionally as bad guy "Tosh Togo," and of course he will be immortalized for all eternity for his role in the James Bond feature "Dr. No!"

Big Buddah has an interesting habit, if he doesn't like you or what you say, he spits his food all over you! It's pretty disgusting!

This Chinese spy guy doesn't attract any attention at all!

Worse than waterboarding, back in 1966 if you didn't talk when the authorities questioned you, they gave you a perm! That really got him to spill the mung beans!

The fascinatingly beautiful France Nuyen is Kitty, the Chinese-American spy who was sent to assist Justin Power!

Linda Ho as the conniving Nancy Ho was also Madam Wong in "Hillbillys In A Haunted House!"

French-Vietnamese France Nuyen was also in a "Star Trek" episode, as Elaan, and was also in a hit TV series for 26 episodes in the 80's, as Dr. Paulette Kiem on "St. Elsewhere!"

Agent Power explains to Kitty how the complicated buttons on the time travel belt work!

Cruisin' L.A. style, 1966!!

The best piece of WTF trivia about "Dimension 5" is that it was actually released in England as "Dimension 4!" I'd really like to hear the logic behind that!!

These three guys are set to take over the whole world, one seedy apartment at a time! I know it's hard to believe, but it's true, I tell you, it's true!!

Sometimes Kitty asks too many questions, and we all know about what happened to the curious cat!

Here's the basic problem with being omnipotently and supremely evil, you just can't trust anybody, not even the hired help!!

Ashes, Ashes...Some of the pictures are out of sequence, but since "Dimension 5" is a film about time travel, it really doesn't matter! See you sometime yesterday in the future!!

HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND / Pacemaker Pictures - 1965

Welcome to our Monster Monday post with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Tonite we gots a real wild 'n' wooly Dungeon Reprise fer ya'll.

So, get ready, here's the history of this crazy little flick... It's a West German film titled EIN TOTER HING IM NETZ, or, BODY IN THE WEB, and was shot in Nicola, Yugoslavia. It was released in German in West Germany in 1960 and included nude swimming scenes with the girls, and, was 89 minutes in length. It was distributed in the US, dubbed in English (weird, it looks like they're all speaking English!) in 1962, and titled, IT'S HOT IN PARADISE, with nude scenes intact. In 1965 it was retitled and rereleased in the US as HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND with the nudity omitted and ran for 77 minutes. It's also known as A CORPSE HANGS IN THE WEB, THE SPIDER'S WEB and GIRLS OF SPIDER ISLAND. Then, it was lost for years! A print was luckily discovered in an eccentric's vault in Europe (in the eighties I believe), or, it might have been lost forever!!!.. DAMN!!

The music is by Karl Bette and Willy Mattes, Willie also worked on another wild German flick, THE HEAD. The music really swings at times, you know, stuff that goes along with a bunch of half naked chicks running all over the place!..

Lettuce bring in our littlest Dungeon helper and big red 'GO' button pusher, der ein und nur, Rufus The Gnat!!.. Hooray for Rufus! So, on with the show! Rufus, hit the button! Here's... HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND!

Let's see her dance!.. Whoa, I said dance!

They use horrible stock footage of a burning plane going down with cuts of screaming dames to tie it together. The plane slams into the ocean so hard that nobloody could have possibly survived... Next thing you know, they're all in a life raft, complaining!!

This part where the girls find fresh water to cure their thirst cracks me up! It looks like director Fritz Böttger told them to eat it!

Chickie-poos, I don't know why you're all cracking up, I jus' wanted to show you this new dance I came up with! Check it out, I call it... The Spider Web Twist! Pretty wild, yeah?!

Alex D'Arcy plays manager Gary Webster. Alex was also in WAY... WAY OUT and BLOOD OF DRACULA'S CASTLE. Here, he gets the message from an insinuating brush of the boobs!

Let's face it, this was a damn good looking monster for 1959, the year it was filmed!

And, this part has the feel of ALIEN, as the thing holds on and bites Gary's neck! It takes him awhile to get it off.

One of my favorite scenes is when they all go looking for their boss, yelling.. Ga-ry... Oh, Ga-ry! for like 5 minutes!

Hey, BooBoo!.. I found Gary!!

The sexual tension is so thick, you could cut it with a catfight!!

Leave it up to old Gary to ruin the fun!.. Love Bab's hair!

Here's one for all the slobber jockeys out there, enjoy!

Wimmen, go figure! First they act all mean and tough to the two guys that have just found them...

So, what do they do?.. That's right, strip down to their undies and bras and decorate them with flowers!!.. Oh, Hell yeah!!!

The music at the party always makes me think of a booze fueled New Years rendition of Jingle Bells!! I even see the drummer with his loose, floppy tongue hanging out!

Babs is played by Barbara Valentin and was known as the German Jayne Mansfield, with measurments of 41-24-36. She had 89 acting credits and was in THE HEAD. She died at age 61 in 2002 and was a friend of Freddie Mercury.

This one was on her way to the lagoon to have sex with one of the horndogs, and, this is what happens to her! Moral... What are ya, stupid?!

Hello!.. Is anybloody to home?!.. Hey, did you know that you gots a hole in yer wall?!.. Hello?!

Gary's beating the crap out of everbloody until one of the girls ignites a flare and realizes that he doesn't like them at all! So, it's off to the races as they chase him away, each holding their scary fire stick!

Gary gets chased into some quicksand and quickly goes under. Weird place for a pool of quicksand, on an ocean cliff in Yugoslavia... Sometimes, fiction is stranger than truth!

We'll end the fun with this nice page from the German presskit.

Eegah!! and Tabonga! are veterans. Ghoulnight Everbloody!!..