VERTIGO - Alfred Hitchcock (1958)

Buying that Alfred Hitchcock set from China was the best thing I've done lately, and tonight's Saturday Night Special is one of the main reasons why!

"Vertigo" will literally make your head spin!

Since I got this A.H. set, my wife and I have been watching an Alfred Hitchcock movie almost every Saturday night, so last Saturday, we watched "Vertigo."  Sunday morning I get an email from my avid-rabid film buddy Lord Litter in Berlin, and what does he say? He just watched "Vertigo" the night before with his girlfriend! With obscure luck like that, why is it I can't win the lottery? I don't get it!  Actually, Lord Litter has turned me onto so many cool streaming films and TV shows, it has been kind of like winning the lottery for me and you!

 James Stewart is Scottie Ferguson, a cop who has to retire because his fear of heights makes him spin out!!

Barbara (Dallas) Bel Geddes is Scotties best friend, ex-girlfriend, gal-pal, spurned lover!
They have a kind of strange relationship!

Scottie drives a super cool 1956 De Soto! How can you possibly not know when you're being tailed by a car like this?

 This is a great graveyard shot!

 After watching "Vertigo," I am now officially in love with Kim Novak!

 "Vertigo" is just fun to watch! It's all over the place!

 I swear I have been here before, I'm absolutely sure of it!

 I'm not even going to try and explain this thing; I'm sure that's been done by more scholarly people than me, but I can sure show you cool shots like this!

 Judged by a jury of your peers can be tough! I wouldn't want this group deciding my fate!

 This is a big clue to all the madness!

 Here's a couple of shots where Scottie goes into vertigo overdrive!
Pretty psychedelic for 1958!

After Kim's blonde character dies, she reappears looking like this! It's really a pretty amazing transformation!

 Without all the hair colour and makeup, this silhouette tells the truth!

 The imagination of Alfred Hitchcock was so active, you could easily watch this movie four or five times, and still not get it all!

 This is THE poster I want, showing Kim in both her roles, something that definitely doesn't happen in the movie, but literally tells the whole story in just one picture!!

Ring the bell Sister, this show is over!!

CREEPOZOIDS / Titan Productions - 1987

Welcome back, everbloody!.. Here we go with another eighties flick that rips off a bunch of other movies to get its point across. But, it does have one very cool thing going for it, it stars Dungeon Goddess, Linnea Quigley!!!!!

In order to save a few more of my brain cells, the storyline is there to read for yourself.

The movie was filmed in a warehouse in downtown LA, and, it looks like it. It's always dark and dank looking most of the time. Real creative!!

Lookit, I know these eighties movies are mostly crap, but, we have basically reviewed every freakin' fifties and sixties movie there is under our 'wild n' weird' banner... So, I throw these monster flicks in to expand our realm. They ain't great, but, they actually exist in the real world. They rarely get any comments either. And, I put them up for sale immediately after I do the review.

Here's a hunk and our gal pal getting ready for some fun. I guarantee you that one second later in the bottom still is the best thing filmed here!! Go, Linnea!

The geeks find it funny to dig through the files on the computer and read people's messages.

Time for some food! And, like in ALIEN, the dude that gets attacked by the monster, starts throwing up after eating something. Then, like in THE THING with Kurt Russell, dude starts sprouting deformed body parts!

Then, a giant rat attacks the other girl, just like in Bert I. Gordon's FOOD OF THE GODS.

After a victim is bitten by the monster, they turn into a pile of crap, just like in THE EVIL DEAD!

Here's the Alienesque monster, what the Hell else would you expect in 1987?!

This is pretty cool, the girl that got bit by the rat turns into an EVIL DEAD monster. Hey, I like monsters with boobs, 'nuf said!!

Linnea gets attacked by the monster and will lose her life real soon... Damn!!

So, the monster gets bonked in the noggin a goodern and appears dead! Well, until a little part human thing crawls out of its stomach, obviously inspired by the baby monster in IT'S ALIVE! Rip offs abound! Tune in tomorrow when Eegah!! will have something special for us!

DANGER MAN - "Secret Agent Man" (1960-1962) (1964-1966)

I don't remember this show as"Danger Man" but when it aired as "Secret Agent," it was one of my favourites as a kid!

Here's the 30 second version of the theme sung by Johnny Rivers!

In 1966, the full version of the theme made it to #3 on the Billboard Charts, one of Johnny's biggest hits behind "Poor Side Of Town," and "Memphis!"

 

The star of "Secret Agent" was Patrick McGoohan" who also created and starred in another great show called "The Prisoner" a couple of years later!

I love the graphics used during the theme!

There were 39 episodes of "Danger Man," and 47 episodes of "Secret Agent! 

When "Danger Man" was retconned into "Secret Agent," it went from a 30 minute show to a one hour show with more time for more commercials!

Maybe one of these days when things get all sorted out around here, I'll get the opportunity to tell you about each and every one of the 86 episodes, because that would be fun!
Thanx again to Lord Litter in Berlin for tracking this down for me, I'm starting to entertain the theory that it's quite possible that we were Siamese twins separated at birth!

3 FIFTIES MONSTER MOVIES Starring DON SULLIVAN

Here we go again, another week of fun, here at The Dungeon!.. I like Don Sullivan, he made the perfect 'teenager' back in the fifties and was in three classic monster movies, although, classic does not necessarily mean good... First off we have Jerry Warren's TEENAGE ZOMBIES from 1957. This is my favorite of Jerry's pile of shit flicks.

Here's Don with his pal and Katherine Victor, trying to figure out what happened to their boat on her weird island. What cracks me up is their reuse of music from KRONOS!

Chuck Niles plays the main zombie, Ivan, and, there's Mitch Evans as the Gorilla, for Eegah!!

Then, Don starred in THE MONSTER OF PIEDRAS BLANCAS from 1959. The rubber monster suit was created by Jack Kevan, who also worked on the suit for CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.

Oh boy, Don got to make out with sexy Jeanne Carmen, here they are talking to the Constable of Piedras Blancas. Mysterious murders are happening, what's going on around here, anyway?!

The monster was played by Pete Dunn, who also had the role of Eddie when he wasn't wearing the suit!!

Then, he starred as local hot rod club leader, Chase Winstead, in THE GIANT GILA MONSTER, also from 1959. They even colorized this movie.

Chase has a little pow wow with Sheriff Jeff about the disappearance of two local teenagers, what got gulped down by the giant hungry lizard.

Don was a talented guy, he wrote and performed three songs in this movie. They are "The Mushroom Song," "My Baby, She Rocks" and "I Ain't Made That Way!" Let's give a hand to this great guy!.. So, we'll be back Wednesday with more, from... The Dungeon!