THE THREE STOOGES In Color / Sing A Song Of Six Pants - 1947

The Stooges are tailors in this one, and they are heavily in debt to the Skin & Flint Finance Company! When the boys hear about a big reward for a fugitive robber, they think it could be the answer to all their problems. The bank robber ducks into their shop while running from the police and ends up leaving his jacket there with a safe combination in the pocket. After the crook's girl friend fails to retrieve the combination, he and two of his goons return to the shop where a wild and crazy fight ensues.

Besides the Stooges, this thing stars Vernon Dent, Virginia Hunter and Tiny Brauer. Did you know that the awesome Mr. Vernon Dent wound up with a whopping 437 acting credits?!

Larry, Moe & Shemp are the Pip Boys, Unaccustomed Tailors with Cheep Clothes (Larry is misspelled). So then, let's take a look inside and see what's goin' on...

What do you know! The boys are working away. Shemp, who looked like he was sitting on a work table, decides to get some music on the radio and walks away. Moe does a double take on the pants before he joins Shemp at the radio. A news report comes on about a reward for a robbery that just happened. And boy, would they like to capture the crook and use the reward money to pay off their debt!

Larry has been working hard removing a spot on this pair of pants!

And, Moe makes some tasty pancakes using the steam press!

As fate would have it, the crook, Mr. Terry Hargan, quickly ducks into the boys' place, discards his overcoat, uses shoe polish to make a mustache and poses as just another mannequin.

Vernon plays the cop, he goes inside looking for his man, but, the boys try and sell him Hargan's suit instead! Then, they find out that he's a detective chasing the crook so they back off a bit.

Hargan splits the joint when the boys' backs are turned. Moe finds a safe combination in a pocket of Hargan's jacket they managed to snatch up in the confusion.

Shemp gets his finger bit but good after he does a little too much pointing at Moe!!

This is Hargan's goil, Flossie. She goes to the shop and gets the jacket back but there's a sales receipt in the pocket instead of the combination. Damn, just look at that freakin' style! That feather cap is the cat's meow!!

So, Hargan takes two thugs with him to deal with the boys, and, get that combination back! The boss takes care of Shemp, Moe gets this guy searching his pockets for that little slip of paper. Moe can't stop laughing because the dude is tickling the Hell out of him!

Larry takes care of his guy post haste so goes over to help Moe. Whotta team!

Shemp ends up knocking out Hargan while spinning on that fixture behind them. The boys have done it, they captured the crooks!! Trouble is, Detective Sharp shows up and informs them that he'll be collecting the reward, not them!.. He even laughs at 'em!

While waiting for the cops to get their shit together, Shemp accidentally finds $550 in the lapel of Hargan's jacket, and takes it. A happy ending, they can pay off their bills!.. Hooray!!

I think Eegah!! has a good one for you tomorrow, so, I wouldn't miss it if I were you... Or, me!

SUSPENSE TV Show - Season 2, Episode 6 - "A Cask of Amontillado" (1949)

"Suspense" was a TV show that was on the air from 1949 to 1954 and starred such dignitaries as Boris Karloff, Leslie Nielsen, Ray Walston, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull, Jack Palance, and so many more, including tonight's shining star, Bela Lugosi!

Welcome to a Wobbly Wretched Wednesday in The Dungeon! Our sponsor tonight is Auto-Lite, the makers of fine spark plugs then and now!

  If you care to read the original short story, and you should, because it only takes a couple of minutes, and thanks to some very fine people, you can find it right here!

Speaking of Ray (My Favorite Martian) Walston, that's him right there as the soldier who has to listen to the sordid tale of "A Cask Of Amontillado" first hand. Sorry about the quality of these pictures, but that's what you get for free, so I can't complain!

Romney (Sheena: Queen Of The Jungle, Screaming Mimi) Brent aka Romulo Larralde, is Count Montressor, and he's here to tell the authorities that there has been a murder.

The star of the show is Dungeon perennial favourite Mr. Bela Lugosi!

Our motto is: "If it's gotta Bela in it, then you gotta watch it!" It's just that simple!

The credits read...."By Edgar Allen Poe," but the story is a very loose interpretation. The basic story line is there though, but if you want to get picky, the original story was called "The Cask Of Amontillado," not "A Cask........"

Bela is a Nazi soldier named General Fortunato, and he seems to be really enjoying that glass of wine! Whether he's a maniac or a vampire it doesn't matter, because watching Bela any time is just like hanging out with a good friend!

For a Nazi General, Bela looks like he's having a good time here, so how about some music to celebrate the end of a war, and a fantastic tune from a good friend of mine, the one, the only, Glen Armstrong! Let's hear it for

"The Edgar Allen Polka."

Bela says, I'm warning you, don't listen to that polka song or you will end up just like how Edgar Allen wrote: "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

When I was a senior in high school, I had to take a speech class, and compete in speech tournaments. You could debate, but I chose to do a dramatic interpretation for one tournament, a reading of "The Cask Of Amontillado!" I didn't get to use notes, and had to memorize the whole thing. Needless to say, I ended up in whatever's after last place, and on the bus ride back home, an idiot friend of mine tried smoking a cigarette in the back of the bus thinking he wouldn't get caught. If you guessed that they were my cigarettes, and I got in more trouble than him, you'd be correct! “Et tu, Cesare?” Now go back and read the original story with a little more appreciation!

THE BEES / They Prey On HUMAN FLESH! - 1978

Today we have some vitamin BEE, the story's about corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States, which results in huge swarms of the little pests terrorizing the northern hemisphere! So, a small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that now threatens the whole world!

It stars John (BLOOD BEAST FROM OUTER SPACE) Saxon, Angel (ALLIGATOR) Tompkins, John (RED ZONE CUBA)) Carradine and Claudio (SANTO IN THE WAX MUSEUM) Brook.

Angel plays Sandra Miller, she's taking some killer bees to her uncle for study but two jerks in the elevator want what's in her case. They take it and get a surprise, a face full of killer bees!

In the meantime, she meets John Norman, her uncle's helper in bee research. He shows her how limber he is, hey, maybe something will come of it... Zoom, zoom, and, away we go!

Rule number 1 in bee keeping is, make sure you have the latest in snappy beekeeping apparel.

Out of nowhere comes huge swarms of killer bees, what in the Hell's going on around here... Anyway?! Filmed in Pasadena.

Uncle Sigmund finally shows up, John tries his best German accent but it ends up being unintentionally funny because it just doesn't work. So, why does he need to be German?

Angel goes out with John to investigate what's going on with those ding-danged bees. They encounter this big old mutant hive that they end up smokin'... Ha ha.

All the fun at a Pasadena parade is shot to shit when more bee swarms show up and sting the crap out of everyone!!.. People are actually dying from the stings!.. GO BEES!!!

At this point in the story, it's time for a little breather... Ahhhhh...

Wake up! Back to the action! Welp, all the scientific brains trying to solve the riddle of the little killers decide to just spray pesticide in the affected areas.

Uncle Sigmund gets a visit by some corporate dildos that don't like what he's up to, so, they shoot his ass!! Uncle gets his revenge when some bees get loose and attack, attack, attack!

The freakin' bees ain't goin' nowhere neither, Nancy! Things are getting worse, in fact, they're blowin' things up and even crashing airplanes!!.. WTF?!!

John and Angel try to tell these idiots in charge (kinda like congress) that the bees have mutated and are able to destroy humanity unless they can live in harmony with humans... I'm lost, what?? Anyway, the dummies want the two thrown out of the meeting.

But, the good old mutant killer bees show up and prove John and Angel's point, surrender you puny humans, or, DIE!!.. Wow, there you go, like clockwork, we're back Wednesday with the start to yet another month full of surprises, here, at The Dungeon!