ISLAND OF LOST WOMEN / Jaguar Productions - 1959

Welcome to Friday Night Drive-In with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Tonite's offering is a nearly unknown 71 minute flick featuring the atomic-flamethrower wielding, Alan Napier!

The Turkish poster was soooo bad that I decided to show this 100% WEIRD logo instead! Back in the early nineties, I recorded about 200 movies during it's run, this feature is one of them! I loved that crazy program that aired on TNT.

The music is by Raoul Kraushaar and Dave Kahn. Raoul composed music for UNKNOWN ISLAND, PREHISTORIC WOMEN, BRIDE OF THE GORILLA, UNTAMED WOMEN, BOMBA AND THE JUNGLE GIRL, ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET CAPTAIN KIDD and the movie with my all time favorite sci-fi theme... INVADERS FROM MARS!! Dave Kahn worked in various music department capacities on these TV shows... JOHNNY RINGO, MISTER ED, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, PETTICOAT JUNCTION, GREEN ACRES and THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES!

Since it's Friday, that means our littlest Dungeon Helper and officially certified button pusher is none other than... The one and only, Rufus The Gnat!! Yay '4' Rufus!.. So, let's get things going with our soundclip, push the big red 'GO' button, now, Rufus!! Here's... ISLAND OF LOST WOMEN!

The story goes like this... While flying to an international news conference, radio commentator Mark Bradley and his pilot, Joe Walker, are forced to make an emergency landing in their Beechcraft 18 on an unchartered island in the Pacific. They find the island is inhabited by Dr. Paul Lujan and his three scantily clad daughters: Venus, Mercuria, and Urana. Dr. Lujan is a nuclear scientist who has dropped out of society because he thinks that man is on the path to total annihilation, and, is the reason why he and his daughters live on the deserted island.

I wonder what happens when you 'push' those buttons, or, even just one of them?

Alan Napier will always be known as the butler, Alfred, in the classic 1960s BATMAN TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward. He also played The High Priest in THE MOLE PEOPLE and the very clever, Dr. Druzik, in Dungeon favorite, MASTERMINDS.

Mark and Joe meet the inhabitants of the island... The girls, this time from left to right, there's Urana, Venus and Mercuria.

It doesn't take long for Mark to figure things out!..

Now, wait a second... Three girls!.. Two guys!..

Mark learns about pops' little atomic flamethrower, the hard way!

And, he destroys their airplane with the weapon! Actually, the doctor just doesn't want the boys to leave and then tell authorities of his whereabouts.

Looks like the girls are going to turn in their chess pieces for some... Wait, are they in the Batcave?!

In most sci-fi movies, there's a time when the 'mad' scientist tells the interested intruder all about what he's up to, which is only meant to clarify things for the viewer and set up the 'you know too much' scenerio.

That's right, Bunky, fooling around with atomic crap is both complicated and nutty, so, don't you ever forget it!

There's an exciting part where Mark has to protect Venus from a shark!.. The dude (stuntman) kills this big shark with a freakin' knife, for real!

You hear in the soundclip where Joe explains over the loud speaker that he's now the doctor's prisoner. Joe and Mark have built a raft and are planning another departure, so again, the doc simply ain't gonna let it happen.

They probably didn't plan this panty shot...

When the girls finally turn against dad, one thing quickly leads to another!

See the one big white circle back there with the smaller ones? Well, it's in the wrong place!

Sooo...

Run like Hell, the whole damn place is gonna blow!!..

KA-EF'FIN-BLOOIE!!!

The lighting looks good here, has an authentic 'blast' appearance!

"All I wanted to do is bust some little old atoms!" ~ Quote by Omar in THE FLESH EATERS.

FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE - David Gamely - "Creatures" (1974)

R.E.S.P.E.C.T., do the Wooley Bully or the Hokey Pokey, that's what it's all about!!! For a while there, Amicus had a love affair going with anthologies that combined four or five stories into one film, you know, like "Torture Garden," "The House That Dripped Blood," "Tales From The Crypt," "The Vault Of Horror," and/or tonight's feature, "From Beyond The Grave." The original music was composed by Douglas (What the Hell happened to this guy?) Gamely in his only credit ever! There seems to be no other information about the man! Do a Google search, and they'll ask you if you meant Game Fly, an American online video game rental subscription service, WTF?!

And "what's it all about, Ralphie?" Pretty basic in my church, Don't F with people......Period!! And especially don't F with kindly old men that look like Peter Cushing! Okay, that is Peter Cushing, don't F with him either, and whatever you do, don't rip-off or steal from him!

The first of these R. Chetwynd-Hayes tales called "The Gate Crasher" concerns David Warner as supreme jackass Edward Charlton! David is still working today and is one of the few people you can use his name and any of the following in the same sentence and it makes sense! TRON, Scooby-Doo, Captain Planet, Babylon 5, Batman, Rasputin, Dr. Who, Titanic, Toonsylvania, and Freakazoid!

Nice antique mirror, too bad it comes with a previous owner still embedded!

You know, maybe your life isn't so bad, after all! Things can always be worse!!

After Edward and his new best friend thrash his apartment, it's time for a little cleanup and a new resident, and you can even rent it out for a higher price now because it's been completely redecorated!!

Next up is tale number two, titled "An Act Of Kindness," starring Donald Pleasence, and Ian Bannen, neither whom are strangers around these parts! Ian was the star of the recently profiled "Doomwatch," and Donald Pleasence is a household word in the depths of The Dungeon!

Ian steals a military medal from The Proprietor, because he has told Donald that he is a veteran!

Ian's home life with Diana Mary Fluck, The English Marilyn Monroe, The Siren of Swindon, Miss Diana Dors is anything but pleasant! I'll tell you one thing, somebody had a good time decking out this set ala 1970's floral pattern city!

So it's time for Ian to take shelter in the arms of another, and although she looks slightly like a character from Tod Browning's "Freaks," Donald's real life daughter Angela Pleasence is lookin' damn fine to Ian, and she likes him, and she pays attention to him!

Ian's home life isn't getting any better, and his son is just as obnoxious as his wife. Although Diana is looking kinda saggy and over the hill, you have to remember that Marilyn never made it anywhere near this age!

Angela Pleasence is a fascinating woman with issues, and pays Diana a visit in the middle of the night!

You didn't really expect this to work out, did you? Instead of a knobjob, Ian ends up with a nutjob!!

NEXT!!! Pompous jerk Ian Carmichael steps into the batting circle to square off with The Proprietor in "The Elemental!" In his second role ever, Ian played Bill the Postman in a 1949 film titled "The Gay Lady," after that, it was continuous roles on TV as Bertie Wooster, Peter Lamb, Lord Peter Wimsey, Sir James Menzies, Lord Cumnor, and T.J. Middleditch! Ian passed away at the age of 89 just last year!

Great shot of Peter Cushing peering out from behind some of the treasures in his shop!

Lucky dog that he is, Nyree "Madame Bovary" Dawn Porter is Ian's wife!

Ian needs some help delivering himself from evil by the hands of Margaret "The Upper Crusts" Leighton!!

Once you're in this deep, there's no help for you!

The last story is about a door that is actually a portal to another world! Guy's got some weird stuff in his shop, you got to admit!

So what's the deal? You had to be named Ian to try out for a lead part in this film? This fourth segment is titled "The Door" and stars Ian Oglivy! A couple of this Ian's credits include "She Beast," The Sorcerors," and "Witchfinder General!"

So you put a new door in your pad, and because you obtained it in a less than correct manner, suddenly the door leads to another world where an insane pirate lives! No thanks, I'll stay in my garage!

Bummer! At least it's over! Right?!

In between all the other stories, there was always a seedy character milling around outside the shop. Ben "The Land That Time Forgot" Howard, is The Burglar, and the last vignette depicts this poor bastard's fruitless attempt at robbery! You should have no doubt that one more rocket scientist is going to bite the dust!

"Temptations Limited, Offers You Cannot Resist," that pretty much sums up the whole thing! Catchy! Soul Catchy!