ROCKY JONES, Space Ranger: Beyond the Curtain of Space / Roland Reed Productions - 1954

Welcome to 1954 Sci-Fi TV Theater with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. This was Rocky's very first adventure told in three chapters. The story goes like this... Professor Newton, a brilliant scientist from Earth, has broken communication with the Federation and taken up residence on the alien planet of Ophesia. Space Ranger Vena Ray convinces Commissioner Drake that the professor isn't a traitor and is being held there against his will. So, Drake orders Rocky, Winky and Vena to go to Ophesia in their rocket, fake a forced landing and find out whether the Professor is a friend or foe. The edited down feature is called BEYOND THE MOON. There were no actual space monsters in this series.

Eegah!! sent over a fun little soundclip to enjoy, sooooo, you can go ahead and push das big red 'GO' button that you can't miss there right in front of your lil' nose hairs, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's our Earclip for... ROCKY JONES, Space Ranger!

Rocky and Winkie are heading back to Earth headquarters after their mission in space. Richard (ALLIGATOR PEOPLE) Crane plays Rocky, Scotty (LITTLE RASCALS) Beckett plays Winky.

Sally Mansfield plays sexy Space Ranger Vena Ray. Here, she's having a meeting with Secretary of Space (what a title!) Drake about her concern for Professor Newton. Check out her cool T-Bird concept wheels!

Five... four... three... uhhhh...... oh yeah, two!.. one... Blast off!!

Once in space, Rocky and Winky give Vena the cold shoulder, she's ruining their 'woman hater's club' position. Rocky would rather have a pair of fists instead of a pair of boobs on a mission like this!

The spaceships in this series were top notch for 1954. Bottom pic shows Rocky's cannon shot about to disable a foe's engine! A lot of hood ornaments at the time had similar looking rocket or jet designs!

The air gets turned off in the storage room Vena got trapped in, so, Rocky has to cut a hole in the steel door to rescue her. Problem is, he's still miffed about having a woman onboard and gives her a freakin' back breaker!!.. What the Hell?!

The whole ship loses it's oxygen, so, they have to put on their space helmuts. Vena's still out cold from the back breaker.

The gang head to the Federation space station for repairs. They are assisted by William (Harry in ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN) Hudson, twin bro of John (THE SCREAMING SKULL) Hudson.

The leader of Ophesia is an evil lady named Cliolanta, she talks with her lieutenant about what to do after Rocky's ship makes an 'emergency landing' there. She brings in Bobby, Professor Newton's young ward for a little 'chat.'

Cliolanta pushes her big red 'GO' button to turn on the hypno-beam behind her, she then gives the boys some secret orders to carry out!

Rocky's order from Cliolanta is to crash his ship into a planet, killing everyone, but, he snaps out of his trance just in time to avoid the deadly disaster!

They had great locations for all the futuristic hardware shots, including the use of a small electric powered mover engine. Rocky catches a ride on giant crane hook number 2!

This bad guy dresses up like Rocky to fake out Winky, only to be himself faked out by the real Rocky!

PASSWORD: UCCIDETE AGENTE GORDON - Piero Umilani - "Don't Give In, Play To Win!" (1966)

The title of tonight's Wacko Wednesday flick contains a not so subliminal message, that I'm sure somebody out there is bound to figure out! Pass it on!

I was going to try and do "Password: Kill Agent Gordon" vs. "You Only Live Twice" but there was just no comparison, so after about three attempts, I gave up! Roger Browne is secret agent Doug Gordon! Besides being a secret agent, Dougie is quite the ladies man!

He's got himself a new assignment as an agent, not a secret agent, but undercover as a talent agent!! The music that backs Agent Gordon up through this whole adventure was written by Piero (SMOG, DEATH AT THE DEEP END OF THE SWIMMING POOL) Umilani!! The song "You Play To Win" was written, and I'm assuming sung by, Carol Danell, who was also an actress and in the Sci-Fi flick "Il Pianeta Degli Uomini Spenti," or "Battle Of The Worlds!"

Doug's first film was "13 Fighting Men" back in 1960, and from there it was sword and sandal city for at least five years in roles such as Mars, Glaucus Valerius, Marcus, Valerio, Fabio, Marcus Aulus, and Mars!

I never have been able to get it how these guys can fight in a suit and tie, I have enough problems just putting one on!!

Pretty tough assignment as you can well see!!

The smokin' hot Rosalba (LADY FRANKENSTEIN, THE DEVIL'S WEDDING NIGHT) Neri is Amalia! Kind of makes you wish smoking didn't kill you!

It's the old "room service brings you acid instead of alcohol" routine! To this day I don't trust room service!

Agent Gordon finds out the bad guys are smuggling guns, not water and minerals!

Luckily for Agent Gordon, there was also a big black market bowling ball smuggling operation going on!

Of all the things I never want to do in my life, getting smacked in the face with a bowling ball is right up there at the top of the list!!

Rosalba's part in the film is cut short!

Agent Gordon is master of many fighting skills including the ability to toss his opponent into a stack of tires, or smashing their face directly into the nearest wall!!

Helga (THE BLANCHEVILLE MONSTER, NIGHTMARE CASTLE, MR.X) Liné is Karin, and she's got herself in a bit of hot water!

Agent Gordon is also a master of disguise!!

Doug has had enough, this next guy is over and out!!! Bad guys just never seem to learn!

Franco (TRUSTING IS GOOD...SHOOTING IS BETTER) Ressel has the role of the cross dressing Kastiadis and/or Albert Kowalski!! Talk about chomping on the drapes!!

Unlike James Bond, Agent Gordon doesn't need any fancy special gadgets, he has the ability to destroy his opponents with whatever is at his disposal, like in this case, a fire extinguisher!!!

Go on ahead and get it over with, Torch it already!!!!!

DOCTOR X / First National Pictures - 1932

Welcome to Monster Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. For me, DOCTOR X is the ultimate thirties horror flick, this is the restored 2-color color version from the UCLA archives that plays on TCM a few times a year. It makes a perfect bookend with Warner Bros. other color feature from 1933, THE MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM. Both star Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray.

The story's about a series of nighttime murders in New York in which the victims are strangled and cannibalized with the use of surgical tools. Newspaperman Lee Taylor investigates one of the murders and the trail leads to the cliffside mansion of Dr. Xavier. There, he witnesses the doctor and his colleagues conducting very strange experiments...

Eegah!! sent over a creepy lil' soundclip for our inspection, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located directly under the atomic stairwell, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our synthetic audio offering for... DOCTOR X!

At the morgue, the police are baffled by the recent series of gruesome murders executed with the precision of a master surgeon!

That leads detectives to this place, where Dr. Xavier and four of his colleagues are working on the latest advances in medical super science. They are all under suspicion for the murders.

Fay Wray plays Dr. Xavier's daughter, Joanne. Fay and Lionel were together again a year later in THE VAMPIRE BAT. Lionel lived to the age of 61, Canadian born Fay lived to be 96!

I'd be a dummkoph swinehund if I didn't show this classic French Art magazine cover, the detectives found it in a doctor's lab!

Preston Foster plays colleague, Dr. Wells, since his left hand was amputated, the police assume he's incapable of carrying out any of the crimes.

John Wray plays weirdo, Dr. Haines.

Arthur Edmund Carewe plays the creepy scarface, Dr. Rowitz. He enjoys his work.

Harry Beresford is wheelchair bound, Dr. Duke

Lee Tracy plays hard-nosed wise-cracking reporter, Lee Taylor. He sneaks into Dr. Xavier's mansion and starts snooping around and finds a room full of skeletons!

Dr. Xavier tries to help the police out, using super science to solve the crime!

We finally learn the horrible truth, Dr. Wells replaces his prostetic hand with one from a nightmare!! What's going on around here?!

Using this electro magnetic generator, he grafts the hand onto his body! Seriously, this kind of perverted science had to blow a few minds back in 1932.

But wait, there's much more!!..

As you can hear in the soundclip, Dr. Wells is totally insane as he relishes using his synthetic flesh to make himself into a terrifying horror from Hell!!

This suspense filled scene where everyone is helpless to save Joanne from the hideous monster is a real nail biter, talk about good writing and directing, it just doesn't get any better!

But, just as great is how pugnacious reporter Lee Taylor attacks and has to fight off the super strong Dr. Wells, in order to save Joanne from being strangled. Lee gets pummeled from pillar to post before he charges the monster, knocking it back through a window! He watches as Dr. Wells plummets, burning in flames, to the distant beach below! Lee is one Hell of a man, and, he gets the girl! My last post ended with a similar shot.