25 GOOD REASONS TO WATCH OLDE MOVIES!!

Just Some Of My Favourite Actresses! (Out Of Hundred's)

So I saw what a thought was a recent post at The Cathode Ray Mission blog that said "The latest blog thing is to list your 25 favorite actresses so I thought I'd give it a try," so I thought I would also give it a try, even though, as usual, I'm about 7 1/2 years late!

This is basically an impossible task, but it's a good place to start when thinking about things like this! 

Lists are incredibly difficult, but here you go from my twisted perspective!
This list is in no particular order, and is by no means complete!

#01- MARLIES DRAEGER

#02 - KARIN DOR

 #03 - GRACE KELLY

#04 - LINDA DARNELL

 
#05 - BEVERLY GARLAND

 #06 - ANNETTE FUNNICELLO

#07 - ALLISON HAYES

 #08 - SENITA PELKEY

#09 - FAITH DOMERGUE

#10 - JAYNE MANSFIELD

#11 - FAY SPAIN
 #12 - LORENA VELZAQUEZ

#13 - YVONNE MONLAUR

#14 - STELLA STEVENS

#15 - CONNIE STEVENS

#16 - THE COLLINS TWINS (Two for the price of one!)

#17 - TUESDAY WELD

#18 - ANNE FRANCIS

#19 - SHARON TATE


#20 - CAROLINE MUNRO

#21 - HILLARY HEATH

#22 - HAYLEY MILLS

#23 - MARY WORONOV

#24 - EVA BARTOK

#25 - ELISA MONTÉS

4 FIFTIES MONSTER MOVIES TABONGA IS GLAD HE MISSED WHEN THEY CAME OUT!!

Here's my special 4th of July holiday post. That's right, I'm glad I missed these movies in the fifties at the theater, because, hindsight is 50/50. Here are the reasons for such a seemingly ridiculous statement from Tabonga!..

I saw 67 monster movies from 1953-59, that's amazing to me, but, I didn't see all of them. I had quite an imagination and after I would see a monster double feature, I was a basket case! My mom would say, because of that, I was banned from going to any more monster movies! That was fine until the next batch made it to the theater, then, I would throw a giant fit until my mom was forced to relent yet again! There was no way in Hell that I was going to miss them... Then, I would come home from the movies and the whole cycle would begin again!!

I saw INVADERS FROM MARS from 1953 in the late fifties on TV. It freaked me out then, so, I can't imagine what it would have been like for me to see it on the big screen! The very first monster movie my parents took me to was THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS in 1953 at age 5.

X THE UNKNOWN hit the screens in 1956. Even now, this movie gets under my skin. I'm glad I missed this one because there's just no way my little 8 year old imagination could withstand Jimmy Sangster's insidious writing skills. This one would have ground my brain into sausage!!

I'm glad I missed FIEND WITHOUT A FACE in 1958, the monsters were so damn terrifying. They were invisible until near the end, creepy crawling brains attached to spinal cords!!! I actually saw the trailer for it while I was at the theater to see CURSE OF THE DEMON!

I'm also grateful to have missed FIRST MAN INTO SPACE in 1959, it was a shock fest from beginning to end! The monster was unique in its eeriness and would have surely forced me into the rubber room again! The poster is also very misleading. The last still is for our London Correspondent, the Professor!!

"Meltdown!" - 7 FREAKIN' OBSCURE FILMS WE HAVE YET TO LOCATE!

 We've been doing this for quite a while, and you probably wouldn't believe what we have had to do to track down all the titles we've done. Just for example, one time we had to take a cruise to the Philippines to meet a one legged transvestite midget in the alley behind a dive bar called "El Chupacabra, just to buy a couple of Eddie Romero bootlegs! I got drunk, threw up, and then threw some dude in the pool, and Tabonga almost got skewered!

It was kind of wild!

 But despite all that bullshit, there continue to be elusive films out there! My list used to be a lot longer, but as the years have passed, more and more stuff becomes available, some times daily. Between the Internet Archive, YouTube, and even Amazon Prime, it's truly amazing what's available, and what still remains to be found! So here are seven titles I've been seeking for seven years or more. I have not checked any availability lately, but something tells me, there are not too many copies of these films out there. If you know different, please let us know, because we just might be ready for another trip one of these days!

# 1 on this list is a film made in 1964 by Andy Warhol titled "Batman Dracula!" 

These two awesome photos of Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico as Batman, and Andy as Robin, were from an unrelated 1967 Esquire magazine shoot!

 # 2 is "Batwoman and Robin Meet The Queen Of The Vampires," a 1972 film from the Philippines!

In the meantime, Pancit and Lumpia will just have to do!

# 3 is "Bongo Wolf's Revenge," a 1970 film about this eccentric L.A. artiste named Bongo Wolf, as seen in the above photo in his later days! The music is by The Electric Flag's guitar player extraordinaire Mike Bloomfield, and there is also an appearance by the great P.J. Proby!

What's not to like, and I can't find a copy!!

# 4 is "Carolina Cannonball" made in 1955! In the 50's, Judy Canova was one of my favourite comedians, right up there with Lucille Ball, and Gale Storm! But Judy was different, she was like a hillbilly female Jerry Lewis!

A ghost town train, spies, a missing atomic missile, and country bumpkins! What more could you ask for, except to see it?

# 5 is "The Ugly Duckling," a 1959 Hammer comedy! I'm sure it's probably pretty terrible, but it's a Jekyll and Hyde comedy, so it's still intriguing as Hell!

# 6 is "Qué Lindo Cha Cha Cha," aka "What a Lovely Cha Cha," an obscure Mexican horror musical from 1955 that's really difficult to locate!

And just to reiterate how important the Cha Cha was to American pop culture, here's an awesome pic of drag racer Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney's funny car dragster model box!

And here's a pic of Dungeon sweetheart Annette Funicello's 45 release that included "Luau Cha Cha Cha" on the flip side of her hit "Pineapple Princess!"

# 7 is probably the most obscure of them all, and I have serious doubts it even exists! It was supposedly made in 1972, and was called "The Curse Of The Moon Child!" It's supposed to star Adam (Batman, need I say more?) West, and Sherry Jackson, who as far as this site is concerned, had one of the coolest variety of careers of all time. She was Susie Kettle of Ma and Pa Kettle fame, she was Terry Williams on 133 episodes of the hit TV series "Make Room For Daddy" with Danny Thomas, she was Comfort Gatewood in the"Twilight Zone" episode called "The Last Rites Of  Jeff Myrtlewood," she was Andrea in the classic "StarTrek" episode titled "What Are Little Girls Made Of," and she was also in wild flicks like "The Monitors and "The Mini-Skirt Mob!" 

That's it kids! Any leads to any of these films will be greatly appreciated I guarantee!

Happy Independence Day!!! It's hot,and the world is a mess, but this is no time to "Meltdown!" 
Turn It Up Instead!!

CRUCIBLE OF TERROR / Glendale - 1971

Here's a little British tale to start the month about an obsessed sculptor who kills a young woman in order to make a perfect bronze sculpture of her. A few years later at his secluded home, a number of people become trapped in a web of revenge, murder and horror.

I threw this photo of the British Board Of Censors rating in because it looks so cool.

This teaser scene at the beginning is one horrifying moment, watch it to cringe big time!

Nice title card with bronze bust, British stuff was generally top shelf. Picked this DVD up on Amazon for a measly 50 cents...

It's fun to watch these art gallery owners walking around, showing off the pieces and using them for interesting back drops.

This plastic bubble in the gallery is used to suffocate a guy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. See, art can be utilitarian!

Here's a look inside the artists' studio. Well, everything looks fairly normal...

Then, they throw this wild man in for some bizarro intrigue!.. OOGA BOOGA. Mofo!!

So, at the artist's estate, this hot chick gets the horror treatment in the many creepy caverns beneath the house.

C'mon Dude, don't be Rude!.. It's a freakin' NUDE!!

Wait!!.. What the Hell! Why is Doctor Who in this flick?!

Then, our gal stumbles upon the artist's pool of floating dead bodies!

Anyway, our madman is eagerly planning his next bronze nude figure.

But, something goes horribly wrong and he's created a monster that likes to chase him around with a torch! I really wanted to see her take him out with the torch but that didn't happen.

Instead...

She lays him back into his furnace... Hurray!! Check in tomorrow when Eegah!! gives us something Special for a Saturday!