DEAR DEAD DELILAH - Bill Justis - "What A Raunchy Way To Die" (1972)

Oh, Dear, I do think this is one of the weirdest posters yet! I think they were talking about the toilet seat!

Welcome to Weirdo Wednesday! Tonight's feature titled "Dear Dead Delilah" is a different kind of 3D movie, really different!! (Spoiler Alert: Not Really in 3D!)

In the 'Random Thoughts' department, I was just thinking how there was a whole slew of movies made in the 60's and 70's with odd questions as titles, you know, like: "Who Slew Auntie Roo?" "What's The Matter With Helen?" "Who's Minding The Store?" "What's Up Tiger Lily?" "Who Killed Teddy Bear?" "Whatever Happened To Aunt Alice?"  and "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?"

To go forward, first we have to move backward in time! Bill Justis who had a killer hit with the instrumental "Raunchy" in 1957 is the guy who wrote the corn fed music for "Dear Dead Delilah!" Bill was also a record producer for "Sun Records" who worked with the likes of Elvis, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis!!!

You might think this is Delilah, but it's not. This is Luddy Dublin as played by Ann (Private Parts) Gibbs in this flashback scene! Luddy has just done a bad thing! She just couldn't take it any more!

Luddy Dublin has just murdered her Mother!

Years later, Luddy is released from prison! Patricia Carmichael is the older Luddy! Pat's only other credit is on an episode of "Petticoat Junction!" As she is walking away from the prison, she sees some guys in a park playing football. As she's watching, she gets beaned with the football, and is taken to the home of the Charles family to recuperate!

The always amazing Agnes Moorehead is Delilah Charles! Check this out! The first movie Agnes was ever in was Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane!" Now that's some way to start a career, being in what a lot of people think is the greatest movie of all time! She followed that with Orson's "The Magnificent Ambersons!" In 1959 she was in "The Bat" with Vincent Price, in 1961, she was in a "Twilight Zone" episode titled "The Invaders," she was Velma in "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte," and of course she will be long remembered for her over 200 episodes of "Bewitched" as Endora, Samantha's Mom!

The year 1972 was Agnes Moorhead's last year on "Bewitched," and it's the same year this movie was released! Delilah is rich and supposedly dying, and since Luddy was without a home, she is kept on as a nursemaid for Delilah!

Michael (Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy) Ansara is Delilah's worthless gambler brother Morgan! Delilah has called the family together and announced that their Father has hidden 500 G's on the property somewhere! Finders keepers!

Damn, no wonder I can't get anything done around here, now I'm thirsty!

"Dear Dead Delilah" is a weird amalgam of elements flowing effortlessly from melodrama to gore fest and back again!

Delilah's back and neck massage goes a bit awry!

I actually forgot what the Hell this was, but it looks pretty cool you have to admit!

"Wheeeeeeeeeee..........!

It's nothing by "Walking Dead" standards, but this movie is pretty grisly just the same!

There's an ax murderer posing as the ghost of the late Father Charles!

Is she the murderer?

Or is he the murderer?

Or is Luddy the murderer? 

It's a real shame, but you're just gonna have to figger that one out all by your little ole self!

OUR GANG In Color - Hide And Shriek / Hal Roach Studios - 1938

It's Haunted Funhouse Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. I grew up watching THE LITTLE RASCALS and OUR GANG on TV, this one was always one of my favorites, now in color. This is the last of 169 OUR GANG shorts produced by Hal Roach Studios before selling the rights to MGM studios. Get ready, Hal produced 1,200 features before he died in LA at age 100, what a guy!!

Eegah!! sent over a fun little soundclip from this short, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the goofy disguise kit, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... HIDE AND SHRIEK!

Billy Bletcher provides the scary, manical Haunted House voice!

Buckwheat and Porky show up at Detective Alfalfa's place and want to join up.

After swearing the boys in, Alfalfa reads about the finer points of being a junior detective.

Darla has a mystery for the boys to solve, someone has stolen her box of chocolates! Alfalfa asks Darla if they can share the chocolates with her if they sovle the crime, and, she agrees.

Alfalfa interrogates the suspects, but, they won't talk. He gets a bright idea and lets them go.

The boys put on disguises and follow the suspects, who climb into a truck parked on the street.

Alfalfa decides they should hide in a box in the back of the truck, then, they could go directly to where the chocolates are being stashed. Of course, the suspects get out of the truck on the driver's side and leave the scene! The truck takes off and arrives at its destination, the new Haunted House exhibit at the Long Beach amusement park.

The boys get a big surprise when they finally exit the box... What the heck?!!

Alfalfa throws a 'light' switch and starts the show, including the record player, as heard in the soundclip. I can't help but notice how modern the arm of the stylus looks, hey, Pioneer 1985!

Buckwheat gets separated from Alfalfa and Porky, who are stuck running on a moving floor, chased by a smoking demon!

Buckwheat has a fun encounter with an organ playing skeleton! As a little kid in the early fifties, nothing was much more frightening to me than a freaking skeleton, they really creeped me out for some reason.

Buckwheat joins the boys again and get sucked down a slide into another dark room. Eugene 'Porky' Lee later recalled being genuinely frightened during the filming!

They're attacked by a skeleton wearing a devil mask and then they're nearly decapitated!

The ride is over and the boys beat a hasty retreat, surprising the crap out of the owner!

The boys run past Darla, who found her chocolates and is sharing them with the suspects!

Needless to say, this place is.. "Out of bizzness!" Tune in Wednesday for more Eegah!!

BLACK MOON - "And The Drums Play On" (1934)

Welcome to Jungle Jive Saturday Night down in The Dungeon!

Tonight's installment is called "Black Moon" and is a dark little film made in 1934! It looks to be shot in Haiti!

There's really an amazingly small cast, as long as you don't count all the natives!

Dorothy (Girls In Chains) Burgess is Juanita Perez Lane. Juanita is predisposed with playing the drums lately, and can't think of anything except going back to the jungle where she was raised!

Juanita truly has a unique style of babysitting! Her daughter Nancy was played by Cora Sue (Mad Love) Collins! Cora Sue was in 47 movies before abruptly calling it quits, and retiring from acting at the age of 18!

Juanita's husband seems a bit more caught up in his golf game than he is with his wife's apparent boogie fever. Meet Stephen Lane as played by Jack (Cat People) Holt! Jack only lived to be 62, but in that amount of time he managed to chalk up 191 acting credits! Dude must have lived on the set!!

Yes, indeedy, except for that drum thing, they seen to be the perfect Atomic Family!

Queen of The Dungeon, Fay Wray has the role of Gail Hamilton, Stephen Lane's personal secretary! Stephen doesn't get it at all, but Gail is quitting because she is SO in love with him, she can't stand to be around him any more if she can't have him! Stephen talks her into going off with his wife for a short trip back to the jungle before she quits! Little does he know that his wife has no intention on ever returning!

Dorothy and Fay make quite the lovely combination!

Everything goes to Hell on the island, so Gail radios Stephen and beckons him to come and see what's going on, then people start dying, including the radio operator who is found hanged!

Stephen is brought ashore by singer, songwriter, and actor Clarence Muse as "Lunch!" Clarence wrote the classic tune "When It's Sleepy Time South" that has been recorded by the likes of Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Billie Holiday, Wynton Marsalis, Dean Martin, Mel Tormé, and Louis Prima!

So calm and beautiful, you'd never know how much turmoil is happening in this tropical paradise!

Stephen gets the news from Juanita that she doesn't plan on returning back to that states, and it doesn't sit real well with him! That night Lunch tell him that they are planning to sacrifice his daughter, and takes him to the site where the grisly act is about to occur!

And it's at that moment that Stephen finally realizes that his wife is really the Queen of the Jungle!

Stephen ends up shooting the High Priest in the middle of the ceremony, and when they get back to the house, there's a big gun battle with the natives! Outnumbered, they flee to the basement when the natives set the place on fire!

They're captured when they try and escape out the back door, and now all they can do is wait! Since there is no more future, Gail finally confesses her undying love for Stephen!

Madame Sul-Te-Wan had the role of Ruva, the housekeeper who was responsible for introducing Juanita to the Voodoo as a child!  Madame Sul-Te-Wan was also in "King Of The Zombies," "Revenge Of The Zombies," "King Kong," and "Mighty Joe Young!"

To atone for all of Stephen's sins, the natives have decided that Juanita needs to sacrifice her daughter Nancy to the Gods, and even though she was torn internally, Juanita is still prepared to do it, until Stephen shoots her ass!

Stephen, Gail, Nancy, and Lunch can all go back home and live happily ever after, and that incessant drumming finally stops!