10 MOVIES TABONGA! LOVES TO WATCH AGAIN! Part 3

Here we go with the next pile of Movies Tabonga! Loves to Watch Again! These flicks are near and dear to my heart and hope you love them too...

Wow, I always enjoy CAPE CANAVERAL MONSTERS, it has a certain charm that newer movies can't match for me. We see Hauron and Nadja there, planning their next unearthly plot. Love this crazy little low-budget sci-fi thriller to pieces!

If Tabonga! didn't love to watch FROM HELL IT CAME again, well, there would definitely be something wrong with Tabonga!, if you get my drift!..

I saw FRANKENSTEIN 1970 in 1958 with my neighbors, we walked to the theater back then, it was like a 5 mile round trip, no prob. Anyway, I especially love that big old, mean monster!

A BUCKET OF BLOOD is one of Roger Corman's very best movies. My favorite thing about it is, and there's plenty to choose from, the fact that the club owner, Leonard, has discovered that Walter is using his murdered victims for his sculptures! But, rather than turn him in to the police, Leonard pretends he's clueless because he's making a lot of money from commissions by selling the pieces at the club! It is so freakin' funny watching the expression on Leonard's face when Walter shows him a new piece!! Too much fun...

ATOM AGE VAMPIRE is probably a movie that we don't think about that much, but, it's my favorite Euro 'needs radical disfigured facial surgery' flick there were so many of around that time. The scenes where Professor Levin gets into his domed atomic chamber and changes into the monster, alone, is worth the price of admission!

There is no way you can't love to watch THE HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND again, because, there's just nothing quite like it. I mean, the scantily clad gals, the dead guy, the spider, Gary, Gary as the monster, nude swimmers, the wild sexy party and music, etc, etc!

THE ANGRY RED PLANET was one of the first movies Eegah!! and I saw together at the theater. We loved it, lots of insane action and Martian creatures. Check out that photo on the lobby card... Man, something's very wrong there!!!

THE TIME MACHINE is another one that Eegah!! and I saw together. Damn, it was so freakin' interesting, Rod Taylor was just perfect for the part of our brave time traveler. And, don't forget those extra creepy Morlocks!!

THE SLIME PEOPLE is a horribly weird movie I love to watch again! I mean, like wow, it's totally insane, most of the time it makes no sense and the way the Professor destroys the fog machine at the end makes my gear slip a cog!! Here's another lobby card alert... Check it out, this shot of Bonnie and a Slime Person was taken specifically for a card, it does not appear in the movie! A couple of clues are, where's the fog?, and look at her blouse, it's undone and she's not wearing a bra!! An artist must pay attention to details!

Last on the list is ENEMY FROM SPACE, I was lucky to get to see this thing in 1957. Besides FORBIDDEN PLANET, this is second favorite flick from the fifties! Hope you enjoyed the trip, trip in again on Wednesday when Eegah!! brings on more Dungeon Cargo...

MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES - Lon Chaney/James Cagney (1957)

Tonight's Saturday Night Special is just that, a classic Universal movie starring a classic actor as another classic actor in other classic Universal films! Now that's something you can't say about most movies!

"Man Of A Thousand Faces" was made in 1957, and is a biography of one of the world's best actors, Lon Chaney!

Lon Chaney only lived to be 47 years old! His eternal resting place is at Forest Lawn in Glendale, Calif. if you'd like to pay a visit!

In real life, both of Lon Chaney's parents were deaf, and in this movie they were the sweetest people you could ever run into! His pregnant wife had a serious problem with it! If you want to see a movie about real prejudice and anti-tolerance that's not about race, religion, or sexual preference, then you need to see "Man Of A Thousand Faces!" It's a real eye-opener!

I always love a good record player shot!

The amazing actor James Cagney as Lon Chaney is refreshing in a role that has nothing to do with gangsters or mobsters! 

I don't really know how much of this story is real, and how much is fiction, but in this movie, Lon Chaney's wife as played by the glorious Dorothy (430 episodes of "Peyton Place") Malone is a total selfish bitch!

This was a casting call list that Lon thought he could take advantage of!

And here he is as a Lascar with a scar! He's joined by the marvelous Marjorie Rambeau in her last onscreen appearance!

This shot of the film making crew is just too classic!

Lon Chaney got the role of Quasimodo in "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame," and that was followed by the still unparalleled classic to this day.......

......."The Phantom Of The Opera!" If you're a fan of the modern musical "The Phantom Of The Opera," and you've never seen this 1925 film, well, then I can only say one thing, you need to!

For me, "The Man Of A Thousand Faces" is not as much about the man himself as it is about his ex-wife, and son Creighton Tull Chaney aka Lon Jr. over the course of a few decades! One of the later versions of Creighton was played by Roger (77 Sunset Strip) Smith. You really can't go wrong with a movie like this. These are times that will never be repeated! It's just that simple!!

R.O.T.O.R. / Manson International, WestWind Pictures - 1987

Hey, if you never knew the meaning of R.O.T.O.R., welp, it means Robotic Officer Tactical Operation Research! You'll notice this poster is VHS box art, the only way it was released here.

The story's about a prototype robotic human intended for crime combat that escapes from the development lab and goes on a killing rampage... Lots of no-name actors, filmed in Dallas, TX, home of the Gas Monkey and Fired Up Garages!

The whole mess starts here, at Division Headquarters, exactly at 10:00 pm, CST.

Red haired dude has some interesting info for the development division of the corporation...

He has brought his super 8 film to show the guys what he's been working on, a robotic framework for a super cop! The company is very interested in the thing or else we wouldn't have a movie! Oh yeah, the robot's nickname is... Willard!

Later, at the Tactical Operations Computer Center, this guy is working away with the help of his personal robot that's wearing a copper's hat, talk about goofy looking!!

Anyway, they make a R.O.T.O.R. cop, he breaks out of the lab and locates a cool motorcycle to get around on. He steals the bike and is gone before anyone figures it out.

The first thing the defective super cop does is locate a couple making out in their car.

The dude gets out to bribe him with a few bucks, but, gets shot in the head while holding up the money up for him to see!

The girl gets away after honking the horn, which disables the crazy cop from the sound and drives to a gas station to use the phone. That plum colored phone booth? looks pretty cool.

But, he follows her on his cycle and torments her again as she tries to ditch him. Hero shows up and shoots the crazy cop a number of times, but, it only stops him momentarily!

Then, our hero comes up with a plan to destroy the menace, He lassos his wrists and has him tied up between some trees...

He pushes a button, and... KA-BLAM!!! No more robot!! The day is saved.

But, get ready for R.O.T.O.R. II, this time though, we get a freakin' bad girlie-bot!! Tune in tomorrow when Eegah!! will have a very special post for us to enjoy, later!