L'UOMO DEL COLPO PERFETTO - "Hot Diamonds" (1967)

It's been a while, but the time has finally come for another Wednesday night action packed Italian thriller courtesy of the Cult Action Team!

Tonight's feature is titled "L'uomo Del Colpo Perfetto," or as it was released in Spain, "El Hombre Del Golpe Perfecto!" In English it was called "Hot Diamonds," but "The Perfect Hit Man" would have been a more literal translation!

 I haven't read anything real good about this movie, but is this not one of the coolest images you've seen lately? It's like The Hulk in a freakin' sea swamp, and this is just the imagery used for the opening credits!

 These just might be the sexiest spotlights I've ever seen!

 They probably should have just made a cartoon!

"Hot Diamonds!" No shit! Literally! A plane carrying a large cargo of diamonds suddenly explodes in the middle of nowhere! "Diamonds, Diamonds" was written by By Cassia and Pitevin and performed by the always exciting Raoul!

 Richard Harrison is back as Steve Norton this time, and he really doesn't want to be disturbed!

 Steve Norton is just a little too busy at the moment to be concerned about the fate of the entire world's economy, and who can blame him?

Business is business, and Steve is photographer with a lot of work to do!

 "Say Cheese!"

 The producers don't make any bones about it, so I'm going to just come out and say it, "Hot Diamonds" is about hot chicks! That's it, now you know the whole story! Although she has a pretty small part, Rosalba Neri was the main focus of the Spanish poster. As you can see, unlike on the poster, the dress she is wearing is black not red, and the black dress is open on the sides, not just the middle!

 Steaming hot diamonds!

Steve Norton is a dog!

As it turns out, Rosalba's character was working for the wrong side!

And once you pull a machine gun out on Steve Norton, he loses interest in romance for some reason!

I like the composition of this shot, with a dead guy in a Ford Fairlane juxtaposed with some high end European vehicles to create an extra spicy sauce!

 There's a whole lot of time spent loading the diamonds in and out of secret underwater spots both on land and at sea! That's the way they evade the authorities, and drag the movie out!

 I skipped over the great Luis Dávila here as the bad guy Gustav, and also another Italian doll Alida Chelli, but here's two photos of yet another Italian beauty, Diana Lorrys in bed, and in trouble!

Fine then, have it your way, The End!! Did you know there are only 21 letters in the Italian alphabet? They don't use J or K or X,Y, and Z! No wonder their movies are so strano!

OUTER LIMITS / It Crawled Out Of The Woodwork - 1963

Let's start off the month with this wild little tale from the mind of Joseph Stefano, head writer for the Outer Limits series. It's all about an energy-being that overruns an experimental power station after being accidentally created. Anyone killed by the thing can be restored to life with electronically-controlled pacemakers and are made to service the "being" by a fanatical scientist who pretends to be looking for a way to destroy it.

We have a sound clip from this episode for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our lint bunny monster, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Here's... IT CRAWLED OUT OF THE WOODWORK!

Here's where the problem starts, located near to where I first lived in LA. Hell, I even had to live through the Northridge Earthquake after that!.. Get me outta here!!

Here's Michael Forest as Professor Peters who's applying for a job at Norco, Kent Smith plays the head of the facility, Dr. Bloch. Michael was in these Roger Corman flicks... VIKING WOMEN AND THE SEA SERPENT, BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE, SKI TROOP ATTACK and ATLAS.

Peters is introduced to Professor Linden, played by Joan Camden, who wears a strange looking pacemaker...

She tells Peters to go into a long corridor, then closes the door behind him and sics the terrifying energy monster on him!.. I want my BANKIE!!

Peters shows up at his apartment and his brother, played by Scott Marlowe, wants to know where the Hell he's been. After a scuffle, big bro ends up falling into the bathtub and gets electrocuted big time because of his pacemaker!

Ed Asner is Detective Sgt. Siroleo, he has some questions about the disappearances of a number of people who worked at the facility. He gets more than he bargains for though...

The thing gets loose from its room and goes on a tear inside the building. After destroying a bunch of junk and killing another person, it goes back to its room and is contained again.

Do you have enough guts to take another look inside the thing's rubber room?!

It just keeps on regurgitating its victims for a real horror show!!.. We're back on Wednesday with more from the Dungeon Pit of Terror!

TO SPRING - A Harman - Ising Cartoon (1936)

Happy Harmonies to you all, and welcome to the Saturday Night Seasonal Special down in The Dungeon!

I probably should have done this about three months ago, but since it's just the beginning of Summer, well, there's no time like the present!

"To Spring" is a testimonial to the changing of the seasons, and is really quite an eye opener!

This little dude has been hibernating underground all Winter just like a bear!

Gotta be rested, because when it starts warming up again, it's time to sound the alarm, and for everybody to get their asses in gear! It's Time For Spring!

I have to admit that before I saw this, I had no idea what controlled the seasons! I never knew there were a bunch of little guys living underground, who at the appropriate time, make it all happen! These guys aren't anything like the guys I work with, there's no pissin' and moaning, and no bitching and complaining, they just get to work and get the job done!

I love this shot! "It's Time For Spring!"

I'm not real big on conspiracies, but it's pretty obvious why this is on a DVD titled "Top 10 Forgotten Cartoons," the authorities want to keep us all in the dark as to the real truth!

If people knew the truth, there would be all kinds of drilling and exploring in an attempt to exploit all this hidden energy, and then, everything would go to Hell, and there'd be no seasons! I don't think that's something any of us would like to happen, so it's just better that this information is only shared among a few select people! Shhhh.....Mum's the word!

One of the few times the word 'Technicolor' really makes sense!

I'm really hoping that's not cholesterol in those vessels, because if it is, that would explain a whole lot of things about what has happened to our environment over the last 76 years!

Olde Man Winter tries to put a damper on all the Spring festivities!

Despite several attempts to stop Spring from happening, the little guys persevere!

And all the colours they've worked so hard to mine, produce a beautiful lush landscape, and another changing of the seasons! No more myths, no more legends, just the truth!