THE FOG / Revolution Studios - 2005

As weird as it's been around here at Tabonga's place lately, this is just perfect. Number 1... How in the Hell was I supposed to even know that they remade THE FOG?!!.. Who cares?!! So, I'm done with the sound clip and getting the stills when I realized, where in the heck are freakin' Adrienne Barbeau and Jamie Lee Curtis? Then it dawned on me, this isn't the DVD I ordered on Amazon 7 months ago and never watched until now and can't get my money back because the time limit for a refund has passed and the dummies sent me the wrong version!!

Good news is that there are some nice stills for you to enjoy, this is actually a decent flick about four ghost sailors drowned in 1871 that have arisen to take back their territory.

I've got a sound clip for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button over by our creepy fog bank, NOW, Rufus The Gnat!.. Here's a spooky little sample from... THE FOG!

Here's an opening shot of the lighthouse at Antonio Island, just off the coast of Oregon and where our foggy tale takes place...

Something's pulling this fishing boat's anchor and creating havoc for the crew... Oh crap, grab the beers before they go over the side!

Nothing more beautiful than a good old grease fire...

Madge!.. MADGE!!.. You in there?

The hour is neigh and this ghostly dude is looking for trouble!

In town, the ghost causes all the glass in the building to shatter and fly through the air.

The church pastor gets caught up in the terror as glass shards swirl around him!

Then, they start flying into and through him. This is one terrifying, gruesome scene!

This guy catches on fire after opening that there book!

It's actually a love story as the ghost lays one on the oldest woman in town, she's been waiting for him!! Gimme a break!!! So, we're back tomorrow with more cool junk!

YOU TRY SOMEBODY ELSE - Etherl Merman - Max Fleischer (1932)

Welcome to another installment of Weirdsville Wednesday down in The Dungeon!
I've got a good one for you tonight, and if you don't like it, then go try somebody else!!

"You Try Somebody Else" might just be one of the first ever music videos, and to think MTV thought they were doing something new and innovating some 50 years later!

"You Try Somebody Else" starts off as a cartoon!

Just unroll this jailbird's stripes and he's ready to join society again!

But it just so happens that this cat is incorrigible!  He's not out two seconds, and he's already looking for trouble!

The first house he goes into has an unprotected safe!

What's inside the safe?  A chicken, a fish, and some eggs!!!
Seems like there was a fine line between a refrigerator and a safe!

The fish pleads for his life! After all, he's got a family!

Here comes Betty Boop to save the day! What Betty Boop is doing in an Ethel Merman singalong or what Ethel Merman is doing in a Betty Boop cartoon is anybody's guess!

Betty's got that bad cat in her sights all right!

The jig is up, and she marches him off to the authorities!

SO just what the Hell is going on here anyway? Good luck with that one!

The bad cat sees a picture of Ethel (Everything's Coming Up Roses) Merman in the paper..................

.............and now it's time for the famous "bouncing ball sing along!"
a oneuh, a twouh, a three....Hit It!!

"You Try Somebody Else!!"
"You Try Somebody Else (We'll Be Back Together Again)" was written by the mighty force of Ray (I'm Sitting On Top Of The World, Bye Bye Blackbird) Henderson, Buddy G. (Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries) Desylva, and Lew (Beer Barrel Polka) Brown!

Now what this song, and this prison break scenario have in common is way beyond my conception!
I literally have no freakin' clue as to what the connection is, except for the fact that they have nothing in common at all! I guess when you're on the inside, you have no choice but to try somebody else!

There's nothing that's much merrier than an army of prison guards shooting a bunch of prisoners!

The final shot is of a bunch of prisoners getting electrocuted together!
I guess their chance to try somebody else is over!
All I can say is seriously...... WTF?!

THE STRANGE CASE OF DOCTOR RX / Universal Pictures - 1942

Time for a blast from the past on this Labor Day holiday, it's all about Jerry Church played by Patric Knowles, he's a private eye hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he's gotten acquitted are then murdered by a serial killer named Doctor RX. Patric Knowles also appeared in these movies... THE WOLF MAN, FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN, FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON and his next to last credit was for TERROR IN THE WAX MUSEUM in 1973.

I have a sound clip for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our tore up gorilla cage, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Here's a little sample from... THE STRANGE CASE OF DOCTOR RX!

Great start to the story, another acquitted mobster found hanged in his bedroom...

Then, time for a little comedy with our Dungeon pal, Mantan Moreland as Horatio B. Fitz Washington, you can hear him and the telegram delivery boy hash it out in the sound clip.

I threw in this pic because of the size differences between Patric and Mantan. Patric was 6' 2" tall, Mantan's height was not given in his bio but you can see he was just a little guy!

At the next trial, this gangster takes a poison pill instead of his heart medicine right after he's acquitted. Strangely, Lionel Atwill is there as Dr. Fish, sounds fishy to me! Anyway, he's there in court for some unknown reason and pronounces the guy dead!

Shemp Howard is in this one too, as Det. Sgt. Sweeney, it's always great to see his ugly puss!

Doctor RX kidnaps Jerry, you can hear in the sound clip the fate the doc has in store for him. Crash Corrigan plays Nbongo the ape, what else?!

Jerry is in a tough situation, and...

Horatio is forced to watch the gruesome goings on!

Check this out... I had one of these radios, it had the plug missing and I thought it was not in working condition. I sold it as is to a guy from Australia on eBay, he wrote me back, he added a plug cord and the damn thing worked perfectly! I could have gotten quite a bit more for it had I known that.

Okay, okay, here's pretty little Anne Gwynne as Jerry's estranged wifey, Kit.

It seems that Doctor RX released Jerry and Horatio before anything real bad happened, he just wanted to scare them real good. Jerry's in the hospital now after him and Horatio were found just wandering around town. Jerry has apparently been scared senseless and a group of people have came to watch Dr. Fish examine him.

The jig is up and the real Doctor RX is exposed, it was all an elaborate set up to trick the murderer, and it works, case closed!!

Fun ending as this little group of detectives give their farewells... Check back Wednesday as the Dungeon Express keeps on tooling down the track!