WORLD WITHOUT END / Allied Artists - 1956

Hello everbloody, welcome to Monster Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Our featured flick is a classic from 1956, brought to us by Allied Artists and the awesome director, Edward Bernds. This is an updated version of a previous post.

We love Ed Bernds. Besides all The Three Stooges shorts, he directed these fan favorites... THE BOWERY BOYS MEET THE MONSTERS, REFORM SCHOOL GIRL, SPACE MASTER X-7 (with Moe Howard), QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE, RETURN OF THE FLY, VALLEY OF THE DRAGONS, THE THREE STOOGES MEET HERCULES and THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT! He died in Van Nuys at the ripe old age of 94... in the year 2000.

Here's a photo of Ed directing Zsa Zsa Gabor and Eric Fleming on the set of QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE.

The music we hear in the soundclip is my second favorite sci-fi theme from the fifties, INVADERS FROM MARS is number one. What this theme says best though, is, 'being in outer space with all it's wonders.' You'll hear this music reused in the 1961 space opera, THE PHANTOM PLANET.

Monday means that Ralphie The Tarantula is waiting on the sideline, warmed up and ready to go! So, wif'out further adieu, lettuce get this salad started! Press the big red 'GO' button there to your left, NOW, Ralphie! Here's... WORLD WITHOUT END!

Look at the great spaceship created by the Allied Artists' prop department. This beauty was also used in QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE and IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE.

The ship and crew go into a time warp in space and luckily end up on a cushion of snow when they crash land on some unknown planet.

Eegah!!.. 'Planet Of The Freakin' Future!'

I'm pretty sure that people smell like fried chicken to giant, hungry, mutant spiders! Ralphie's distant relative was reused in QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE.

Check this out, they shoot the creepy thing in the head and it's brain (?) splatters all over the place!!

Things don't get any better for them that night, when, they're attacked by a gang of big, mean, ugly, mutant cavemen! They had to shoot this poor devil in the eyeball to stop him!

I remember seeing this still in FM, a frightful sight for a 12 year old in 1960! On one of the science channels a few years ago, I was watching a program on child development, when, they had this part about recognition of faces by babies at a very early age. For 'fun' they showed babies a drawing of a person with just one eye in the middle. The infants would instantly become upset and very uncomfortable!!

Then, the space jockeys discover the horrible truth, they're... on... Earth!

They explore a cave and find a door, and, it looks like it was made by intelligent beings! They knock... What the Hell?!

Yes, I designed this costume myself! Do you like it?..

Let's face it, Rod Taylor was a hunk. I think he was the perfect H. G. Wells for George Pal's THE TIME MACHINE.

Enjoy the still, that is all, over and out.

I'm soooo lucky to get off work early, now I can watch my favorite soap, As The World Without End Turns!.. Hmmm, I wonder what Mike and Tony are talking about?..

The Doof is caught blackmailing the time travelers, so, tries to escape outdoors and runs into some of his old friends!

Yeah, yeah, we all know, you call this a 'fipromodulator 6c'... Where I come from, we just call it a 'pipe.' Man, you're really getting on my nerves...

The boys go out looking for some stray mutants to test their super bazooka on. Here's some interesting info... Ed Bernds first sought Sterling Hayden for the lead of Commander Borden, then, Frank Lovejoy. Can you imagine that, Frank Lovejoy!! Anyway, producer Richard Heermance eventually hired Hugh Marlowe because he got him for a quarter of the other actors' salaries. According to Bernds, Marlowe was often lazy and unprepared.

You can have all the firepower in the world, but...

Watch out for them spears!

The cavegirl who was raised by the underground race calls out the leader of the mutants to come and fight Commander Borden, mano-a-mano, no guns...

Believe it, or, don't!.. This is the very first incarnation of The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders!!

Since our group of time travelers are stuck in the future, they make the best of it. Here, the cave kids are taught The Three Rs.

Here's a nice Euro poster to end the show with...

HANGOVER SQUARE - Hermann/Newman/Henderson - "Have You Seen Joe?" (1945)

Great title, great film! I don't think Laird Cregar could make a bad movie if he tried, so his films are real easy to watch, so just sit back and enjoy the madness that is "Hangover Square!"

Speaking of madness, somehow they kind of left out that part of this historical statement! George would probably have had better luck if he had lived in number 13!

There's been a murder, and the viewer is left without a doubt who the killer is! It's not whodunnit story, but more of a why he does it story. The ending is inevitable! Laird Cregar is George Harvey Bone, a classical musician whose fine tuned ear cannot stand the sound of any cacophonous disturbance. Noise just makes him go off the deep end! I have the same reaction to disco music!

I had to get drunk last night just to put me in the right frame of mind to write this. Oh, my head!!

Here he is again, a guy we've been seeing a lot of lately, the amazing Alan Napier as Sir Henry Chapman. Yet another excellent film that featured Alan Napier will be showing up here in the future, "The Strange Door!"

It's no mystery, and George Harvey Bone has these spells where he blacks out, and he's not even sure what he is capable of doing. Rightfully so, Mr. Bone questions his own sanity!

The story could have been much shorter, because right about here George Harvey Bone turns to Dungeon stalwart George Sanders as Scotland Yard's Dr. Allan Middleton for help, but Dr. Middleton assures George that he's all right and although he has problems, he is not a murderer! Wrong!

George decides to go to Bailey's Brewery for the Smoking Concert! The music for "Hangover Square" was composed by the more than amazing Bernard Herrmann! It's kind of difficult to fathom that Bernard Herrmann's first movie was arguably one of THE best movies ever made, Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane, and yet, that was probably not his greatest achievement! Mr. Herrmann worked together with Alfred Hitchcock on some of Alfred's best films that included "Psycho," North By Northwest," and "Vertigo." He also wrote the music for 17 episodes of Alfred's TV show, "Thriller." He also wrote the music for seven episodes of "The Twilight Zone," not to mention the classic films, "The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, "Journey To The Center Of The Earth," "Jason And The Argonauts," and the list goes on and on.

The Smoking Concert is smoking hot!!

And all the guys are digging it a lot!! Yeehah!!!!!

The local favourite is Netta Longdon as portrayed by Linda Darnell! She sings, she dances, she does everything but roll on her belly like a reptile!

The music is light and fun, and is a nice break for George Harvey Bone, who I could not find a real reference to in The British Catalogue of Music. You're more than welcome to download and read it yourself at the Internet Archive!!

The rousing singalong song that Netta performs is called "Have You Seen Joe" with music by Lionel Newman, and lyrics by Charles Henderson! These two cats were no slouches either, Lionel won an Oscar for his work in "Hello Dolly," and Charles has diverse musical credits that run the gambit from "The Ghoul" to "Bambi!"

Classic and classical make contact!

Laird tries to explain to the cat that you're not supposed to look at the camera, but it's all to no avail!! Give the cat some credit, at least it doesn't wave at the camera!!

Linda Darnell is amazingly drop dead gorgeous, and is as beautiful as any woman to ever grace the silver screen, and she also has the ability to play a horrendous two-faced bitch! Linda Darnell was born Monetta Eloyse Darnell in Dallas, Texas and sadly died at the age of 41 in a house fire. Between the two of them Laird Cregar and Linda Darnell only lived a combined 72 years! How's that for wrong?

George writes Netta a couple of songs that are helping out her career a lot, and she keeps playing him for the fool, and he keeps falling for it!

Some workers drop a load of metal pipes that makes so much noise it literally drives George insane again!

With the help of George's beautiful compositions, Netta has worked her way up the talent pole quite nicely! My how terminology has changed!

The truth finally rears it's ugly little head, and George loses it when he finds out that Glenn Langan as suave Eddie Carstairs, is really Netta's true love and lover!! Yes indeed, that is the same Glenn Langan who 12 years later would be "The Amazing Colossal Man!"

Fairly morbid in retrospect, but lucky for George, the locals are having their annual Fawkes Day Celebration and Bon Fire, and everybody is encouraged to bring a dummy to burn. George's donation just happens to be the broken body of Netta!

Most of the time I don't get around to opening the mail until the weekend, and this is pretty much what my desk looks like!

Just like Caesar fiddlin', George plays on while the joint burns down to the end!

As is normal, I guess my timing is a little off. From what I read, "Hangover Street" just played on TCM last Saturday, too bad I didn't know, or I would have given you a head's up. Hopefully, they'll be running it again real soon! It can also be found on Netflix!