THE HUMAN DUPLICATORS - "Made To Kill Or Love On Demand" (1965)

Welcome to another Saturday Night Special down in The Dungeon! Unlike a lot of movies we've showcased here, "The Human Duplcators" is indeed special in many ways starting with this cool poster that has absolutely nothing to do with the movie at all, and contains one giant omission!

"The Human Duplicators" is a sonofabitch of a movie to try and find these days, but with a little luck, and a lot of perserverance, you just might find a copy, and believe me, it will be worth the effort!

Yeah, I know it looks like a Tiffany lampshade or a spinning top, but that's just because these aliens have class!

Okay, let's get this space story spinning! Here's Dungeon Super Hero Richard Kiel coming in for a landing on earth as Dr. Kolos! Opening scene, big space alien, back it up a little, do you see Richard Kiel's name on that poster anywhere? Yeah, me neither! Sinful! It's amazing because he's not the star, but he IS the real main character! Nary a mention, I still can't believe it! And besides that, he's the biggest character on the poster! Incredible!

Richard Kiel is indeed a true hero, scraping his way to somewhere close to the top, and then basically out of a job! At 7' 2" I guess they just couldn't find enough roles for him, but Richard's roles in weirdass cult movies is unsurpassed! Here's just a partial list: Richard was The Solarite in "The Phantom Planet," Richard was Kanamit in the "Twilight Zone" episode titled "To Serve Man," Richard was the one and only Eegah in frickin' "Eegah," for Christ's sake, Richard was the Giant in "House Of The Damned,"  and Richard was also in "The Nutty Professor," "The Nasty Rabbit," and "Two On A Guillotine" and that was all before "The Human Duplicators" was made! Of course his most famous role is that of Jaws in the 007 film "The Spy Who Loved Me!"

Pretty interesting that "The Human Duplicators" was made one year before the first "Star Trek" episode ever appeared on TV! Beam me down Boss!!

Basically, the aliens need the Professor that lives in this house because he's working on some sort of cloning device. The aliens need stuff, so they want duplicated doctors to steal it for them! It's a long way around, but that's one way to get there! It would have been simpler to just hire a bunch of thugs! As you can see, Kolos towers over manservant Thor as played by John Indrisano! John was one of those kinds of guys who managed to parlay a whole career out of largely uncredited bit parts as Bartenders, Referees, Chauffeurs, etc in almost 200 productions! John was also a professional welterweight boxer with a record of  47-8-1 who went on to be a referee for over a decade and an adviser in many a boxing film! No, his name's not on the poster either!

After rendering Thor the butler stupid, Kolos explores the house and discovers a young lady playing the piano! It's the lovely daughter of the Professor of the house, darling Dolores Faith as Lisa Dornheimer! Dolores was also in "The Phantom Planet" as Zetha, and then in her third movie, she got a starring role! I'm not sure it did much for her career because it was titled "V.D." and that doesn't exactly stand for Valentines's Day! Dolores had exactly 13 acting credits until she lost faith and decided to do something else!

It's pretty surprising that the Professor can keep his mind on the job, but then he is a professional! The Professor was played by another powerhouse of entertainment history, George Macready! Among a ton of other credits, George was in all four of the 60's classic TV Horror and Sci-Fi shows, "Thriller," Twilight Zone,"The Outer Limits," and "Night Gallery!" His last role was in "The Return Of Count Yorga!" I honestly don't know who the two knockout assistants are, but it's a good guess that one of them is Alean "Bambi" Hamilton!

Ok, this movie hasn't even got started yet! The cloned doctors are breaking and entering and killing too, so it's time for Secret Agent Glenn Martin to step in! Glenn Martin is played by yet another Dungeon Super Hero, George Nader! Try that little search window over there and you'll get at least nine references to George Nader, and I still haven't done all the Jerry Cotton films yet! The talent in this movie will make your head spin, standing across from George is his Boss Austin Welles as played by Hugh Beaumont! Hugh had a massive and varied career, but will be known for all eternity as Ward Cleaver, the Father of The Beaver! 234 episodes of "Leave It To Beaver," that's difficult to even comprehend!

One of the more lesser known blonde bombshells of the 50's and 60's was Barbara Nichols, here as Austin Welles' secretary, and Glenn Martin's girlfriend Gale Wilson! With her wiseguy Brooklyn accent, Barbara was in a different league than a lot of the other girls! Barbara was Liz Powell in the "Twilight Zone" episode titled "Twenty Two!" Unfortunately, she died way too young at the age of 47 of liver failure after being in a couple of auto accidents!

Is this just a great shot of George in a phone booth or not? I love how atmospheric the background is, and the foreground looks like a watercolour painting! This is a good spot to insert a little sound from the club where Glenn is getting ready to meet Gale! The music in "The Human Duplicators" was pretty much stock music of the time! They just had somebody really good picking it out!

Glenn sneaks into the Professor's pad, and finds masks of the suspect thiefs!

Then he opens a few coffins and finds more than a few surprises!

Here's a bit of a progression in the duplicating process! I think this is Kim Satana in her one film outing, no relation to Tura! Either that, or it's Kim Sattin, Tura Satana' sister!

 

One thing about these clones is that although they are tough to fight, they do break easily! It's like their heads are like one of those stupid and creepy porcelain dolls!

In an effort to make Richard Kiel look like he's 8 feet tall, they have him standing on the top step so it makes George Nader at 6' 1" looks like a midget!

Everything is now officially out of control. The Duplications have taken over, and even the Professor and his assistants aren't real any more! They caught Glenn sneaking around, and now it's his turn to get doubled up!

Meanwhile, Kolos has fallen deeply in love with Lisa Dornheimer, and is not willing to go along with the demands of the Duplications to make a copy of her! He only wants the real thing!

They don't really care what Kolos thinks and proceed with the operation anyway!

It's not too complicated to figure out what happens in the end! "The Human Duplicators" was about the funnest movie I've seen lately on multiple levels! It's like the Woodstock of  'B' movies, it's got that much talent in it, so catch it if you can, and if you just happen to not like it as much as I did, then Go Duplicate Yourself!

THE SON OF DR. JEKYLL / Columbia Pictures Corp. - 1951

It's Rare Flick Friday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. We gots the Son of Dr. Jekyll back to try and vendicate his father's legacy in a city with citizens that don't trust him either!

Eegah!! sent over a lil' soundclip sans music for our earjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button next to the Big Book of Abnormalities, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's a taste of... THE SON OF DR. JEKYLL!

Louis Hayward plays Edward Jekyll, son of the infamous Henry Jekyll, he has just been discharged from medical school for unorthodox experimentation. He's met by family friend, Dr. Lanyon, at his father's old house. He finds a book of his dad's studies (of which he knows nothing about) and learns about his experiments on human abnormalities.

The public gets all whipped up by Edward's presence and attack him in the newspapers with a front page splash and very nice illustration of Mr. Hyde! Strange murders begin to happen and Edward is the suspect, naturally.

Undaunted, Edward starts replicating his father's experiments to prove that he was correct in his theories.

In a weird little scene, Edward believes he has changed into Mr. Hyde but it turns out to be an hallucination, and, is the only 'monster' part of the movie.

He tries to convince a small crowd of friends of the theories' validity by changing into Mr. Hyde right before their eyes. He fails miserably!

Then, the man behind the murders comes forward, it's Dr. Lanyon, who's trying to frame Edward and get the house which is still in a trust.

Of course, the place catches on fire, Edward is pulled from the burning building but Dr. Lanyon has to jump from the roof to avoid the flames!

Tune in tommorow for a super-special post from Eegah!!.. THE HUMAN DUPLICATORS!!!!!

BERLINO - APPUNTAMENTO PER LE SPIE - Riz Ortolani - "Spy In Your Eye" (1965)

Who needs Sevens when you've got a "Spy In Your Eye," and Secret Agent Z.3?

The title is of this mindbender of a movie is "Berlino Appuntamento Per Le Spie!" It's been released as the literally translated "Berlin, Appointment For Spies," and also as "Bang You're Dead," Cult Of Violence," "Epitaph For A Spy," and the most well known title, "Spy In Your Eye!" They tried every possible angle!

Brett Halsey is Secret Agent Bert Morris this time! "Spy In Your Eye" is the movie Brett made right before playing 077 in "Espionage In Lisbon!"

Dana (Curse Of The Demon, Hot Rods To Hell) Andrews is Colonel Lancaster aka Secret Agent Z.3! The fact that he only has one eye is what keeps him from being Secret Agent A.1.

They just came out with a new video eyeball invention and the Colonel is going for it! Hold still, this won't hurt at all!!

But what the Colonel and the rest of the free world don't know is that this eyeball is also a video camera and transmitter, and nothing the Colonel ever sees again is going to be secret!

The guys monitoring the whole thing are comfortably inside the tank of this red truck!

This hunchback character is Bert's contact and his fake hump is also a secret radio transmitter!

Tania (Miss Shumway Goes West, Run Psycho Run) Béryl as Madeline, and Gasone (Mr. Superinvisible) Moschin as Boris are out to give the Americans a hard time in more ways than one!

They were celebrating something krazy during the the making of this film, and the guys in charge decided to take full advantage of the party atmosphere! Here's just a small sample of the music that was created by Maestro Riz Ortolani for "Spy In Your Eye!" Riz also won an Academy Award in 1964 for the beautiful theme song in a weird and oft bizarre documentary titled "Mondo Cane!" Riz just passed away this last January at the age of 87! With 226 composing credits to his name, I can guarantee you, they don't make 'em like Riz any more!

If that camera looks awfully suspicious, it's because it's actually a gun, and this guy is targeting a guy inside one of the floats! What he doesn't know is that they have played the olde switcheroo on him, and it's one of his buddies inside! That's one way to end a friendship!

The video is almost believable, but the amazing thing is that the peepers also get all the sound from the scene too! I would imagine that if there's a microphone inside your eyeball, and suddenly there's feedback, Whoa, Excedrin Headache # 13!!

"Spy In Your Eye" is full of cute tricks like this stabbing Napoleon wax figure! The right hand is down and behind a little, so if you reach into his left pocket, it triggers his arm to quickly swing around and stab you in the stomach!

More cuteness, the two kidnapped victims are stashed in the advertising toothpaste tubes on top of this van! That's the kind of movie this is!

And last but not least, where does the Professor hide the secret formula that's everyone's literally dieing to get their hands on? Right smack dab in the middle of the scalp of his lovely daughter! So that's it, if you wanna know more, then head on over to Cult Action cause that's the only place to find a copy, as far as I know!