IMPULSE - Lewis Perles - "Want A Ride Little Girl?" (1974)

I'm feeling kind of impulsive on this fine Friday night, so here it is, a film I'm not really too sure anybody wants you to know about except maybe Professor Grewbeard and us! So, break out the "Cabrito" cause it's Huckleberry Cadillacs tonight!! And away we go.........

"IMPULSE"

Starring.....Like you've never seen him before, Captain Kirk, aka The Shatman himself as Matt Stone!! Bim, Bam, Boom, Shit, Shat, Shot!

Gigolo Matt Stone's money train is about ready to make it's last stop in Oldtown and get derailed once and forever! He got caught swapping spit with Paula Dimitrouleas the belly dancer!

"I'm not about to waste my time on some cheap, over the hill broad!"

And indeed he's not!!

Chillin' with Bill, and does it make a difference that he's a ruthless sadistic murderer this time out? Probably not, if you're a fan!! Besides, her name wasn't Ruth anyway!!

The prefect single parent family is about to be disrupted for the last time! Jennifer Bishop as the mother in curlers Ann Moy, and Kim Nicholas aka Kim as the blonde and creepy little girl Tina Moy! Jennifer Bishop has been in a fine array of good/bad flicks like "Blood Of Dracula's Castle" and "Horror Of The Blood Monsters" and Kim Nicholas played The Donkey Girl in "Santa And The Ice Cream Bunny" and rounded out her career in films like "Salty" and "Limbo!" Looks like that's exactly where her career ended up!

The title "Impulse" has been used at least 10 different times starting in 1913 and right on up to 2010!!!

William Shatner's wife of 21 years, Marcy Lafferty, turns in an awesome performance as the hotel clerk!! Bill is ringin' her buzzer, if you know what I mean!!

Amazingly, the quite rightly and brilliant music was composed by assistant producer Lewis Perles in his solo musical outing!

You might have noticed that in almost every scene, William Shatner has on a different extremely garish outfit, and I'd guess the blame for that goes out to costume designer Nancy Selby in her lone film credit! I'm surprised they didn't burn her at the stake! Ruth Roman as Julia Marstow really digs that swell tie!!

How in the Hell could I ever not use a picture like this?

Right on Pimp Daddy William! How bad do you have to be to look good in an outfit like that?

It never quits! It just gets more disturbing!!

"I don't know what's the matter with Tina. Maybe she's sick. She doesn't have a fever. She seems afraid of something. Oh, Yeah?"

One of the best sick movies I've ever seen, right up there with Arch Hall's "The Sadist!" Once again, Thank Professor Grewbeard that you ever got to know about it! I'm just the medium!!

THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI / Germany - 1920

"YOU MUST BECOME CALIGARI!"

That's right, and, back then, that tagline probably scared a lot of patrons, plus, this silent classic was made directly after WWI!

Hello everbloody, welcome to Tabonga's Wednesday Oldie Bijou Theatre wonst again, here at the Dungeon! Music is fairly new but as far as who do it?.. Tabonga not know for sure, but maybe Lothar Prox or Richard Marriott. No matter, Eegah!! giving us another 'eariffic' soundclip to make a few of your brain cell happy for a minute or three!..

Lil' Dungeon Gnat, Piffles, all ready to be pushing big red 'GO' button and start the show... He getting a flying start... there he go... faster... faster... 'GO' button looming closer... an'... splat!!.. Bullseye! So, hier ist... THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI!

Oh, an' Tabonga add some pizazz to photos!

Hmmm, something wicked this way come!

Before Caligari can show his somnambulist at the fair, he have to deal with county clerk who making it real tough to get permit. Clerk there become first victim in string of mysterious murders getting ready to take place in weird lil' burg of Holstenwall!!

Similiar to Dr. Seuss, Dr. Caligari live in world of no straight line or level angle! Meant to create subliminal angst and disorientation, and it work pretty damn well!

The doc get the show going with bringing out his predictor of the future... CESARE, the SOMNAMBULIST!

Cesare real good at predicting one thing!.. People' death!!

Like Tabonga wuz sayin'...

Young Francis go to the authorities with information on why he think Dr. Caligari behind the murders. Look like set from FLASH GORDON TV series episode, also made in Germany!

Time to change Cesare' diaper!

NIGHTMARE BEFORE XMAS funeral procession!

Of course, Cesare kidnap beautiful Jane and he take her on one wild ride... Over hill, over dell!

Cesare run out of painting!

Damn neighborhood kids!!

Caligari finally get well-deserved straight-jacket and room at local surrealistic nut house!

But, twist ending leaving everbloody all disorientated and uncomfortable again! Mission accomplished! Tune in Friday as Eegah!! bring you another special posting at 5:13 pm PST!

THE FAT SPY - The Wild Ones - "Do The Turtle" (1966)

Following on the heels of last night's Oscars, it's been 44 years, and "The Fat Spy" still hasn't got what it's got coming to it! I'm sure it was better than something that just got an award, and it is at least 10 times better than "Sins Of The Fleshapoids" and "The Nasty Rabbit" combined! "The Fat Spy" is basically a teen musical spy comedy wrapped around a seminal plot that nobody even pretends to care about, but a goodly portion of the music is a real treat and worth seeking out!

For instance, the beginning sequence has a rousing duet performance by Johnny Tillotson and Jordan Christopher of The Wild Ones called "People Sure Act Funny!"

Next Day Quick Update: Due to good fortune, I was doing some searching on Google, and stumbled on this free streaming full-length version of "The Fat Spy" on Google videos, go figure!! It's not the best quality, but you'll get the idea because the film starts with "People Sure Act Funny!" Dig in!!

The Wild Ones have the notoreity of having recorded the first version of "Wild Thing" a year before The Troggs, who ended up having one of the number one smash hits of all time with it! And while we're on the subject of "Wild Thing," did you know that the guy who wrote it, Chip Taylor aka James Wesley Voight, is that wild thing herself, Angelina Jolie's uncle!

This Go-Go shot is for Adam Gorightly!

Out of this mass of tuneage, there's one refrain that highlights that new dance craze that never did, or ever is, going to catch on, and was obviously inspired by Jack E. Leonard, C'mon, everybody "Do The Turtle"!!! On the Dungeon charts, "Do The Turtle" comes in a close second behind Neil Sedaka's "Do The Jellyfish" in pseudo-psycho dance craze history! Third would probably be "Black Belt" from "Teenage V Debs!" Knee-kick that!!

Other big names in this film included Brian Donlevy and Jayne Mansfield! In fact, it was Jayne's name they were trying to capitalize on the most, unforunately it was toward the end of Jayne's career and life. The fact she was pregnant didn't help much, even though she put on weight in the right places, she had also added weight everywhere. A year later, Jayne Mansfield would be gone forever!

"Feels like you're in slow motion! C'mon C'mon get out of your shell!" Yeah!!

Not too bad when Phylis Diller as Camille Salamander was amazingly not even that annoying!!! Worth checking out purely for the music, if nothing else!