7 UOMINI D'ORO - Armando Trovajoli - "Seven Golden Men" (1965)

Someone in our Research Department failed their job miserably and I was led to believe that tonight's feature was another secret agent flick with a '7' in the title, but in reality it is just a bank heist movie, but I'll say this, at least it's a good one! The employee who provided the false information won't be seeing any daylight for quite some time, but on a positive note, the Iron Maiden was just his size!

Nevertheless, "Sette Uomini D'Oro" is an interesting movie and it has a lot of those kind of special features in it that make these kind of movies so great!

Here's just a sample of some of cool high-tech gadgetry used in this caper! That's the man in charge of calling all the shots! He's known as the Professor because he's so damn smart! Right here, he's monitoring what the other six golden men are up to!

The Professor has an intricate plan that involves his men posing as city workers, going underground through some water where they come up under a Swiss Bank that is the gold depository for the whole country! Believe it or not, it was illegal in Switzerland to film a bank robbery, so the Director had to fudge on the script to be able to get this footage shot! Now that's Gonzo film making!

If I just picked out certain stills like this with no explanation, you might just think this was a Science Fiction film!

The seven golden men are named Albert, Adolph, Aldo, August, Anthony, Alfonso, and Alfred! None of their characters are too fully developed because these guys are on a mission, and they don't have a lot of time to stand around chattering mindlessly!

Actually, the Professor is the one named Albert, and he's played by Philippe Leroy, a bit of an overachiever himself! With 183 credits to his name, Philippe has been on the big screen and the tube constantly from 1960 until just a couple of years ago!

The Professor continues to monitor the whole operation on his sophisticated video equipment!

Four of the A's are guiding a giant drilling machine positioned directly beneath the gold depository!

 And the walls come tumbling down! The music for "Uomini D'Oro" was composed by Maestro Armando Trovajoli who also wrote the scores for "Hercules and the Captive Women," "Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules," Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory," and "Hercules in the Haunted World," among his total of 218 credits! Here's a just a taste of what the Maestro can serve up during a chase scene!

During a tense moment, there's an impromptu security inspection before the robbery is complete!

The golden men are forced to hold their facade in place from below!

Everything is obviously secure, so the big vault door closes back up!

The Professor's plan is meticulous, and the gold men clean up after themselves like nothing ever happened! "7 Golden Men" has a runtime of 95 minutes, and it takes them almost an hour to get  from the opening credits to here! Two thirds of the film is the execution of the robbery itself!

The female lead and the eye candy in "7 Golden Men" is the Libyan born, and ravishing Rossana Podestà as Giorgia, the Professor's main squeeze! Rossana also starred in the sequel made the following year, "Seven Golden Men Strike Again!" Rossana just passed away this past December at the age of 79!

Just like the dinosaurs, it's kind of sad to know that grandiose cars like this will never ever be produced again!

The flatbed truck carrying the stolen gold disguised as brass uncontrollable plows into a news stand!

There's a mad and greedy scramble to snag some free gold, and even the kids get involved!

Giorgia double crosses the Professor, but he takes her back, the Professor double crosses the other six guys, and they lose all the gold, but they forgive him, and before the movie is over, they're already working on a new heist together!

HOLD THAT GHOST / Universal Pictures - 1941

It's time for some Abbott and Costello with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. The story's about two service station attendants who become the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. When they go to claim their fortune, they become stranded in a haunted house along with three other travelling partners.

Eegah!! sent over a little soundclip with the theme and then Ted Lewis doing one of his songs, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there by the floating candle, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... HOLD THAT GHOST!

Blogger is still goofy and some of the photos are tinted sepia again, so solly Chollie...

Ted Lewis does one of his famous tunes with his dancing shadow, as heard in the soundclip.

It wouldn't be an Abbott (Chuck) and Costello (Ferdie) flick if there wasn't some of this stuff happening, Ferdie's driving of course. It always flips my lid a bit when I see these shots of cars without their dashboard!

Before he dies, gangster Sidney 'Moose' Matson hands his last will and testament to Ferdie.

Here are Ferdie and fellow traveller, Camille, played by comedian Joan Davis, meeting for the first time in front of the taxi!

Young Richard Carlson plays travelling companion Doctor Jackson and good old Shemp Howard plays, what else, the Soda Jerk!

Since the taxi driver drove away and left them stranded on a stormy night, Ferdie and Camille have a little fun in Chuck and Ferdie's new place. Evelyn Ankers plays the fifth member of the group, Norma, and, the doctor's love interest.

The room changes and Ferdie starts to lay down on a gambling table instead of the bed!

What do you think happens when Ferdie tries to tell Chuck about the strange things going on?

Nice shot of Camille being followed by a 'ghost' as she descends the stairs...

Here's the famous moving candles routine they reused in ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN.

Ferdie finds Moose Matson's fortune in, you got it, a moose's head!!

Then, the place is crawling with all the other people trying to find the loot!!

I threw this lobby card in at the end because it's, like... WTF?!!

Check in on Wednesday when Eegah!! will offer up something wild 'n' weird for us!

REPULSION - Chico Hamilton - Gábor Szabó - Roman Polanski - Catherine Deneuve (1965)

Okay, you didn't ask for it, so you're damn sure gonna get it! Tonight's Saturday Night Special comes from the deep, dank, and dark torture room of The Dungeon, and is rightfully titled "REPULSION!"

"REPULSION!"  It just has a happy ring to it, don't you agree? It's also a masterful mess of rancid eye candy chock full of talent from controversial Director Roman Polanski to beautiful diminutive starlet Catherine Deneuve! And to think, this movie is just a small footnote in what could also be known as "The Strange Life Of Roman Polanski!"

IF you like movies about beautiful but insane women, then "REPULSION" is the movie for you! Catherine Deneuve puts in a nail biting and almost solo performance as crazy Carol! I'm guessing that about 71 1/2% of the film is just Catherine, and with Polanski at the helm, I would imagine there are stories to be told about the making of this film!

"REPULSION" offers the viewer lots of questions, and not a lot of answers!

I'm talkin' about questions like why this still is sepia toned and why shouldn't every beautiful girl in the world have a perfect life even if they're nuttier than a fruitcake!

This is Carol's Sister Helen as played by Yvonne (THE MUMMY) Furneaux, and Ian (TALES FROM THE CRYPT) Hendry, as her asshole boyfriend Michael! Helen and Michael are going on a little trip and they're leaving Carol behind to take care of the apartment!

Well, I don't know, everything seems okay, Carol's going to listen to some music created by two classic cats in the world of jazz, percussionist Chico Hamilton, and guitarist Gábor Szabó! It makes for a very fine blend!

Then, everything goes South for Carol as quickly as a flea's fart, and it gets darker, and darker! She loses her job at the beauty salon, and her whole life turns into one big brown material highway!

In two separate scenes this trio of street urchin spoon folk musicians take command of the shot! I'm sure I'm supposed to read deep meaning into this, but since I don't know what meaning deep is, it's lost on me except for the fact that it's pretty weird! Even weirder, I'm pretty sure that the spoon player with his back to you is Roman Polanski himself!

John (A Study In Terror) Fraser as Colin, is a real dumb ass, and his drinking buddies are even more annoying, even to him! For some unexplained reason, he thinks that he is Carol's boyfriend, but she doesn't see it that way because for whatever reason, she is genuinely lost in the ozone!

Every so often in Carol's life, something cracks, a street or a wall, and the cracks just keep getting bigger! Now I'm no Aristotle, so I'm not even going to suggest that I know what the Hell is going on, but I really think if you distill it down to it's purest form, it's as simple as the fact that Carol is completely and totally, screaming yellow zonkers!!! Like Gonzo!!

This just might be the best shot ever of somebody watching wrasslin' on the tube!!

Carol is not eating, damn sure not cleaning, and she's not sleeping much either! The rabbit her Sister was going to cook before she left is still sitting out and starting to stink, and Carol is sinking farther and further from reality!

Even though they never really had a relationship, Colin is so worried about Carol, he breaks down the door to her flat, and then acts like they are just having a lover's quarrel as one of Carol's neighbors peers in through the open door!

Colin is oblivious to the fact that Carol is completely gone; maybe the fact that she hasn't uttered a word to him lately should have tipped him off! He was either so lovestruck or so completely stupid that I guess he deserves to get his brains beat in with a candlestick! Dumbass never saw it coming!

Jeez, what next? The landlord shows up, and demands to be let it!

To any normal person, Carol is obviously mad as a hatter, but to the landlord, she is sexy as Hell, and he offers her free rent if she will just give him some special attention!

The bathtub is getting pretty full of bloody dead bodies!

Other than the fact that Carol was raped by her Sister's boyfriend Michael, there are no excuses given for Carol's state of mental distress! She's just a freakin' train wreck!

When Helen and Michael arrive back home, the whole apartment is in disarray, it doesn't smell very good either and Carol...................

The neighbors all show up to view that one last WTF happened here moment! Four years later Roman Polanski's life would change forever when his beautiful wife Sharon Tate was slaughtered by the Manson clan! The weirdest thing is, I'll bet they never even knew this movie existed!