LOONEY TUNES / Porky Pig In "The Case Of The Stuttering Pig" - 1937

Oh boy, here's one of my favorite cartoons I used to watch after school starting in 1953. It's directed by Frank Tashlin aka Tish Tash, Frank was an interesting guy, he started in cartoons and switched over to movie director in 1951. He directed movies like THE LEMON DROP KID, SON OF PALEFACE, ARTISTS AND MODELS, THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT, WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER?, ROCK-A-BYE BABY, THE GEISHA BOY, CINDERFELLA, SNOW WHITE AND THE THREE STOOGES, WHO'S MINDING THE STORE?, THE DISORDERLY ORDERLY, THE ALPHABET MURDERS, THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT and more...

It's a dark and stormy night, Porky and his brothers are there with Petunia for the reading of their late Uncle Solomon's will. The kindly Lawyer Goodwill has brought all the official documents concerning the uncle's estate.

Of course Uncle Solomon is none other than, who else, Oliver Hardy!

So, Lawyer Goodwill reads the will, and, looks like he will get it all if anything should happen to the brothers and sister! Now wait a minute... Porky and Petunia are brother and sister, in later cartoons they were boyfriend and girlfriend! Like, what the Hell's going on here Frank?!!

Lawyer Goodwill leaves the house in the storm but goes directly to the basement, where, he has a complete mad lab with all kinds of dangerous poisons and concoctions! He grabs the Jekyll and Hyde Juice and fixes himself a glassful...

He slams it down, but........ NADA!

He goes over to his electric mixer and tries again.

It works like a charm! He transforms into Mr. Hyde and tells the audience that he's going to get rid of the pigs, and, there's nothing they can do about it! Hyde also calls out a guy in the third row, he calls him a softie and later a cream puff! Gawd, he's hideous!!

Now the fun begins!.. Hyde turns the lights off and one by one, all the brothers disappear.

Luckily, Porky and Petunia both duck behind the couch before they also disappear!

Here's what Hyde has in mind for the pigs, all he needs now are those last two...

Upstairs, Petunia has been captured, and Porky has a few run-ins with the creepy monster!

Porky finds the others in the basement and has the door locked to keep the thing out. But, Hyde easily breaks the door apart...

And just as Hyde's ready to grab Porky, a theater seat comes hurdling into the scene from nowhere and conks the monster on the head, and after he hits the wall from the slide...

He ends up in the stocks, defeated! He asks who threw the chair? He hears.. I did! Hyde asks .. Who are you? The voice says.. The guy in the thoid row, you cream puff! Join us again tomorrow for our Saturday evening post, here at The Dungeon!!..

ANT-MAN - "No Shield. No Armor. No Problem." (2015)

Tonight's Mid-Week Matinee is the 2015 Marvel film called

"ANT-MAN!"

I don't normally watch very many modern movies, but for various reasons, I did kind of want to watch "Ant-Man."

"Ant-Man" and I go back a long way, in fact this is the only Marvel comic I still have from my collection as a kid that used to include "Spiderman" #5, and "The Avengers" #1.

I never expected them to make "Ant-Man" into a movie, because like "Dr. Strange," back in the day, he wasn't really that popular, and that is why after only fourteen issues, they changed him into "Giant Man."

 "Ant-Man" never really had his own comic, but was just a featured character in "Tales To Astonish" which was a Sci-fi comic of different stories. The first reference to an Ant character was in issue number 27 of "Tales To Astonish" in 1962.

 After that, they went back to their normal format consisting of Gorilla Men, Space Beasts, Swamp Things, Mummies, Evil Quicksand, Invading Enemies, and Jack Kirby's silly monsters like this for seven more issues before re-introducing "Ant-Man."

In issue # 35 "Ant-Man" returned and was ready to take on the world, which brings us to the subject at hand.

After doing time for a sophisticated heist gone wrong, Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man, is released and ready to give it a new start!

But of course he can't find a good job, and can't even hold on to a bad one, because he lied about his criminal past!

Michael Douglas is the creator of the Ant-Man, Dr. Hank Pym!

Scott Lang goes by to see his daughter who is living with his ex-wife and her cop husband. For some reason, he brings this hideous stuffed animal to her!

It's Ant-Man!

Shrinking people in the movies is not a novel concept, the first time it happened was in a 1901 short that was made by Georges Méliès titled "The Dwarf And The Giant," although the shrinkage was minimal in that initial effort!

This shot brings "The Incredible Shrinking Man" from 1957 to mind, or maybe "Attack OF The Puppet People" from 1958.

It was kind of hard to get decent stills from this film because Ant-Man is so small!

There are plenty to choose from, but "Fantastic Voyage" from 1967 is another excellent film featuring microscopic people!

Learning how to get along with your new friends can be difficult at first!

 

You've gotta dig Ant-Man's best pal Anthony!

Evangeline Lilly will go on to be in the sequel as The Wasp.
If they ever make a film about Louise Brooks, I think Evangeline would be a fine candidate for the lead role!

Corey Stull is the ultimate scumbag villain Darren Cross!

Corey is also the one who dons the suit as The Yellowjacket!!

Well, this certainly looks familiar!

I'm pretty sure you knew that already!

So there you go! Downtrodden but intelligent ex-con gets a new suit, and a new chance, and goes on to save the world, or on a smaller scale, at least the relationship with his daughter!

THE THREE STOOGES In "All Gummed Up" - 1947

Here's some fun from The Stooges, Shemp is in full bloom in this misadventure where the boys must find a way to save their 'Cut Throat' Drug Store after the owner brings them the news that he's leasing it to another client that will pay him more money for the location...

It's a typical day for the Stooges at their drug store, Larry shows a man a pen and it's .no sale' when the sales pitch backfires, and our little dummy gets a face full o' ink!

Another guy comes in and needs a prescription for his wife. The doctor didn't have any paper to write out the prescription on so he wrote it on the guy's shirt. Before he leaves, Moe tears the shirt off the guy because they have to file all prescriptions!

The owner comes in and tells the boys that they need to pack everything up because a new shop owner is going to move in. The boys try and help him with a mustard patch on his back, but, Larry gets him one that burns like Hell...

The landlord's wife shows up and he calls her an ugly old bag, and worse!

So, Shemp gets an idea, they should invent an age reversing formula and get the poor lady her youth back, that'll show the old fart!

They mix their ingredients in a fisherman's rubber boot, which explodes a number of times before it settles down.

The landlord's wife is given a spoonful of the mixture, she makes an ugly face but then starts acting like Shemp and making those weird noises including barking!

And, Ba-Bam!! All of a sudden the old man's interested in his wife again!! Like an idiot, he signs the place over to the Stooges and wants a treatment for himself!..

This is just a preliminary procedure!

Moe shoots him up with the concoction, only, that looks like a bit more than a spoonful to me!.. Oh yeah, the Stooges are in charge!

And wouldn't you know it, the old man is now just a kid with a beard. He pulls out a gun and starts shooting, but, trips and falls on his face, then starts crying like a baby!

To celebrate, she bakes a cake for the guys. She asks them to put some marshmallows on the cake and she'll be right back. What else? Shemp grabs bubble gum instead, let the fun begin...

Larry could come up with the best faces, Shemp blows the bubble gum out his ears!! We're back Wednesday with more Dungeon Cargo, just for you!