OUTER LIMITS: The Zanti Misfits / Daystar Productions - 1963

It's Outer Limits Friday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. I saw this one when it aired in 1963, the story's about the rulers of the planet Zanti, they're incapable of executing their own species so they have exiled some Misfits to the planet Earth, where Earthlings have no problem with killing. At a secret Military base in the ghost town of Morgue, California, a group of Air Force officers and guards is awaiting the landing of the Zanti penal ship...

Eegah!! sent over an excellent soundclip from this classic TV series, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there across from your tuna salad, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's our audio offering for... THE ZANTI MISFITS!

Here's comes the Zanti ship, full of them there Misfits!.. A lot of times, the spaceships created for this series were just plain weak, this one's no exception.

Bruce Dern plays on-the-run jerk, Ben Garth. He just ran over an Air Force guard and drove into a restricted desert area. Bruce already had a bad guy reputation from the 1960 western, WILD RIVER, and appeared on many TV series. He was also in THE WILD ANGELS, THE TRIP, HANG 'EM HIGH, THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT, SILENT RUNNING, FAMILY PLOT, TATTOO and THE 'BURBS.

Ben notices something up on the hill and out of curiousity, goes up to check it out...

HUH, WHAT THE EFF??!..

The Misfits storm out of the ship and attack Ben, killing him! Then, they go after his girlfriend.

Michael Tolan plays Professor Graves, there as part of the military team. He goes out to rescue the girl before she gets bitten by a Misfit.

The ship flys over to the military headquarters and land on the roof of the building. Check it out, the prop department had to add that long strip of wood sticking out so that the ship wouldn't just fall off!.. Unbelievable!!

What else, the Misfits attack... Hey-Yo!!

One Misfit goes up this guy's pants leg and bites him a goodern!

Good old Morgue lives up to it's name!!

OLE OLSEN AND CHIC JOHNSON in ALL OVER TOWN - Republic Pictures (1937)

Welcome to the Wednesday Night Vaudeville Show with tonight's special guests..........

.........the hilarious Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson in "All Over Town" So I'll just come out and say it right off, "All Over Town" is nowhere as good as "Hellzapoppin'" but, let me also say, NOTHING is as good as "Hellzapoppin'!" One thing that makes "All Over Town" worth watching is that it's one more great film that anybody can download for FREE over at The Internet Archive, and that's a deal that's very hard to beat!!!

Ole attempts to prove to the landlady that he's the one responsible for the weird noises coming from there apartment, and that there's no way they would have a seal in their room! Why that would be absurd!!

While looking for a job, the boys gets misinterpreted, and even though they are flat broke, everybody thinks they have invested in the show, and have plans to revitalize it!

Ole and Chic do their venquilitrist schtick with Ole as the dummy!!

    

Indeed there is a bit of mystery interjected!!

There was a time in history when all you needed was a piece of string to enjoy hours and hours of cheap entertainment!

Daisy the seal goes on a rollie coaster ride with the boys!

Great shot of the results of that ride!

The always great Laurel and Hardy foil James Finlayson displays the exact effect Olsen and Johnson have on about 87% of people!

In the center of this shot is the magnificent sissy himself, Franklin Pangborn as The Costumer!

Olsen and Johnson try one last ditch effort to save the show!

Everything goes completely bonkers at that point, you'll just have to watch for yourself!!

So it's one big tangled up mess? Sure is, what else would you possibly expect from two of the greatest comedians to ever walk the earth? Just go download it already!

FROM HELL IT CAME / Allied Artists Pictures - 1957

It's time to redo this classic flick from the fifties, the hey-day of horror and sci-fi!.. Paul Blaisdell designed the Tabonga tree monster plus other famous rubber monsters from these movies... THE BEAST WITH 1,000,000 EYES, DAY THE WORLD ENDED, IT CONQUERED THE WORLD, NOT OF THIS EARTH, THE SHE-CREATURE, VOODOO WOMAN, played a corpse in THE UNDEAD, INVASION OF THE SAUCERMEN, the dead cop in EARTH vs THE SPIDER, GHOST OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW, INVISIBLE INVADERS and unknowingly allowed royal asshole producer Herman Cohen to torch his priceless monster head collection in HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER! Fuck you Herman Cohen, may you burn in HELL, you bitch!!

Okay then, back to business... Eegah!! sent over this cool little soundclip of the theme and a little speech from the dude who is about to become the Tabonga monster, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there by the atomic coo-coo clock, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... FROM HELL IT CAME!

Here's Maku laying with the chickens after being stabbed in the heart with a special ceremonial knife. He's been sacrificed for a crime that the voodoo doctor is actually guilty of...

Here are laid back scientists Tod (BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES) Andrews as Dr. Arnold and scarf wearing John (THE LOST MISSILE and WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST)) McNamara as Professor Clark. They are studying the effects of radiation on the islanders after the nuclear bomb tests of the early fifties.

Things liven up when female scientist Dr. Mason shows up. She even gets a personal assistant to help her take a shower, dry off and get dressed!.. Woo woo!!

Dr. Arnold tries to catch a little sneak peek!!

Tina Carver plays Dr. Mason, she wants to bring in the weird tree growing in the soil where Maku was buried! And, what's with the heart beat and that skull head knife stuck in it?!..

What in the Hell?!!.. Where's Tabonga?

Tabonga's loose and's in the mood for a little sweet revenge!

IT just stands there and watches while ITs ex-girlfriend goes under in the quicksand, then, IT turns around and heads out to create some more terror for the ones who done IT wrong!

Spears, fire and bullets won't even stop IT, so, what will???..

DIE SCREAMING, MARIANNE - (1971)

Tonight's Saturday Night Special is a film I was really looking forward to seeing, I said was! From what I had read, it had all the right elements, but once again, I was misled!

Here's the problem! How can you go wrong musically and spiritually with a movie about a Go-Go dancer? You would think it would be seemingly impossible!

But here's the trick, although Marianne is shaking and shimmying during the opening credits, after that, the Go-Go part just got up and went! There's no more dancing, and no clubs at all!

What "Die Screaming, Marianne is really, is a vehicle that allows Susan George to take her clothes off a number of times! There's no full on nudity, but she does like to strip down down to her skivvies when she feels like it!!

Christopher Sandford has the role of the dubious fashion conscious Sebastian Smith, but I don't care how he dresses, Christopher was a pirate station DJ in the 1960's and that's cool enough for me!!

Sebastian picked up Marianne hitchhiking, and after two weeks proposes to her. She turns the tables on him, and fixes the paperwork so that he's married to his best man and best friend,  Barry Evans as Eli  Frome! Barry died mysteriously in 1997 at the age of 53. High levels of alcohol and aspirin were found in his body, but he also had a blow to his head! A young man was arrested, but released, and the real story has never been figured out!!

Let's just hope it was all about bad makeup, but Judy (Scream and Scream Again) Huxtable looks really awful as Marianne's sister Hildegarde, or maybe it was just the fact that her name was Hildegarde!!!

Still got time for Susan George to strip down for the bath tub scene!

I'm sure he was really a nice guy in real life, but Leo Genn is very good at playing a despicable person! In this role he is Marianne's Father known as only The Judge, which was probably fairly easy for him since he actually had a law degree!

Here's a good idea, take your estranged screwed up sister's idea to join her in a steam bath, and don't expect anything bad to happen, like maybe she's gonna try and kill you!

The truth comes out in an unfinished letter left in a typewriter! Oh, yeah, that's right, you have no idea what a typewriter even is, so this has no meaning to you at all!!

Stupid Hildegarde trusts The Judge's loyal man servant Rodriquez to make her life end up happily ever after! NOT!!!!!!!!!

You know, back in the day, Tabonga was a big fan of The Four Seasons, while I always leaned more toward Alvin and the Chipmunks," but I do have to admit The Four Seasons' hit song "C'Mon Marianne" is a Helluva lot more refreshing than this film!!! C'mon Marianne, get off it already!!!!