THE THREE STOOGES In "3 Dumb Clucks" - 1937

Here's a fun little episode from our favorite guys, this time their rich father is dumping the Stooges' mom for a young blonde, and they must do something about it, even though they are all in prison at the time...

The prison guard tells the boys they got mail.

It's from their mom, it looks like their old man has fallen for a younger woman, and she needs her boys to escape and go stop their dad from doing what he's about to do...

Curly starts using a hacksaw on some bars and the guard wants to know what the noise is. Curly tells him, termites!

That didn't work, so Curly drills holes in the wall while Moe pretends to be shaving with an electric razor to distract the guard.

When the guard leaves, the boys crawl through the hole in the wall, and hightail it out of there to their pops' place...

In the meantime, Pops' new gal, Daisy, is there talking about their wedding plans. The main thing she wants is for him to shave off his sideburns because they make her sneeze.

Daisy leaves and the boys show up, they want to know what's up with him dumping their mom for a younger woman.

Pops puts the hurt on the boys with one good slap across their faces. He then gives them a big wad of cash and tells them to go get nice clothes for the wedding.

As it turns out, Daisy is the sister of Chopper, and with the help of their henchman, well, they plan on stealing Pops' money after the wedding!

By chance, Daisy almost runs over the boys after they come out of the clothing store, dressed in  their fancy new duds. She sees Curly and thinks it's Pops, thinking he shaved off his sideburns. The boys pile into the car and it's off to Chopper's place for the wedding ceremony.

At Chopper's place, Larry and Moe mix some drinks for the occasion.

Then the boys hear chopper and his pal talk about how to get rid of Pops. Shooting him is too noisy, so they decide to throw him out a window, from the 14th floor!

Curly is trying to escape from Chopper and his pal, he runs into the room, sees the two, turns around and runs away.

Pops shows up in the elevator without his sideburns, confusing the two crooks because they just saw him run down the stairs in the opposite direction! This goes on for awhile. Curly was actually injured when the guys pushed back into the elevator, required some stitches in his scalp.

Anyway, the boys go to the patio trying to find a way out of the madhouse.

The boys decide to climb the flagpole but Chopper and his pal take the pin out of the housing that holds the pole in place, My legs get weak whenever I watch this stuff.

Chopper cuts the rope the boys are holding on to, and they plummet to the ground below!

Luckily, some awnings soften their fall and they land on their dad, and they drag him back to their mom! Odd how things can work out...

NINE DECADES OF ALICE IN WÜNDERBAR LAND (1903 - 1985)

 

Well, it's 2-2-22, and it's Groundhog Day to boot, so here's something worthy of a date like that! Ring the bell Deputy Dog cause it's time for another Weird Ass Wednesday in The Dungeon.

Every once in a while you can stump the internet. I've looked for a number of things or people over the years and still not gotten any answers, but I was really surprised that I could find no reference anywhere to a book I found in our public library back in the 1960's. The title was "Alice In Wünderbar Land" and was written in what I would call German Pigeon English. We just thought that "Alice In Wonderful Land" was hilarious. With Tabonga as my witness, I swear it's true.

 

 There have been so many versions of "Alice In Wonderland" made over the years, there was at least one every decade since the 1900's, and I guess it just proves that if a story is good enough, it never gets old.

So here you go, starting with this silent version from 1903 with May Clark as Alice.

This 1915 version had Viola Savoy as Alice. She was only fifteen at the time, made one more film, and retired.

Out of all the early versions, I think this one is more stunning than the rest.

This is the kind of scene I'm talking about.

Almost all the versions of Alice seen here can be seen for real on youTube, and this one is worth the effort!

This 1923 Disney version had Virginia Davis as Alice, a little girl who visits an animation studio, but it wasn't called "Alice In Wonderland," but instead was titled "Alice's Wonderland."

"Alice's Wonderland" was followed by fourteen more shorts featuring Alice in stories like "Alice's Spooky Adventure," and "Alice Cans The Cannibals."

In 1931, Ruth Gilbert got her turn at being Alice in one of the stranger versions. This was the first of five acting credits for Ruth up to 1954. She came back in 1992 to be in the movie "Me Myself and I."

A much more produced and well known version of "Alice In Wonderland" came out in 1933 with Charlotte Henry as Alice, and Cary Grant as Mock Turtle.

This rabbit creeps me out, and Alice is pretty creepy herself!

This 1949 production included odd stop-action animation, and had Carol Marsh as Alice.

Nine years later, Carol would be one of Hammer's first female vampires as Lucy Holmwood in "Horror Of Dracula."

1951 brought us probably the most famous version of "Alice In Wonderland," the animated Disney classic with a ten year old Kathryn Beaumont doing the voice of Alice. 

 

 

Kathryn was also the model for the animated Alice, and she was the voice of Wendy in "Peter Pan" too.

This TV movie musical version from 1966 was actually titled "Alice Through The Looking Glass," and not "Alice In Wonderland," but we'll count it anyway. There was also another "Alice In Wonderland" that was a British production made in 1966 that had Anne-Marie Mallik as Alice.

Judi Rolin was Alice in this feature and some of the rest of the cast included Jimmy Durante, Agnes Moorehead, Jack Palance, and the Smothers Brothers.

 

In 1976, it started getting really weird for Alice, and somebody decided it was a good idea to do a movie called "Alice In Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy."

This version starred Kristine (Meatballs) DeBell as Alice.

After that, there's just more and more and more, but I'm going to end it with this 1985 TV movie that had Natalie Gregory in the lead role. Natalie has 26 credits to her name, but hasn't appeared on TV or in films since 2013. Last update on IMDB was 1995, and it said that she was studying to get a degree in physics. That might have something to do with it.

 

Or maybe it had something to do with being in a movie with Telly Savalas as The Cheshire Cat, that would do it to me! Any Questions??

Go Ask Alice!!

LOST IN SPACE / "The Oasis" - 1965

So, for our last post of the month, I thought it would be nice to end it with an episode from LOST IN SPACE. In this story, the gang is trying to get through a drought with sky high temperatures and have to go searching for a water source, or, DIE!!

It starts with a bang, an earthquake brings some boulders down on Don, who gets his foot caught between the rocks. But, John saves the day using a a long pole to separate the the boulders and Don is able to pull his foot free. Looks painful!

As Don rests after the incident, the Robinsons play a board game. The heat is sweltering and Will gets upset and says that everyone is cheating, so, game over man!

Holy cow, check out that contraption Don and John are working on, looks like something Eegah!! would have to create in the back a few years ago!

As they work in the heat, the boys hear some gawd-awful noise coming from across the way. I really like this shot.

Dr. Smith was 'singing' the worst operatic song, ever!! And I mean, it's freaking LOUD! Yeah, and I'm pretty sure the Robot was playing some music...Horrible! Anyway, the Little B is taking a shower while he was singing!

Here's the problem, the boys thought there was like 42 gallons of drinking water left, but find out there are 2 gallons now, and that equals only 4 days! You figure out the rest..

So, they have to go searching for water, and head off into the desert heat. At one point, Smith wants a drink and stays behind, and takes a nap. What a Royal B he is!!

Wandering through some hills they come upon a contaminated pool of water, but something is growing in the water.

John finds some fruit growing there, he pulls some off and brings the up from the pool. Don cuts one open to see what's inside but they have to runs tests on them at the lab before eating them, because they could be poisonous.

Thinking that Dr. Smith would have come back to the ship by now, he wanders in, and starts eating the fruit!! Maureen is sooo nice to Dr. Smith, no matter what, well, I wouldn't be, the Little B!! Anyway, she finally gets to tell him that he should NOT have eaten the fruit because they were going to test it to see if it's.. Poisonous!!

Smith claims that they were purposely leaving it out to poison him, he freaks out, leaves and heads out into the darkness. He ends up here somehow, in one of my dreams, what the Hell, Man!

Oh yeah, Debbie The Bloop has eaten some of the fruit and has grown in size!

So, you get the idea..

Smith is talking a big load of crap, but finally, Will gets through to him..

They build a huge bed covered by some netting to house the depressed giant who can only think about his woes, as Will speaks with him. He gots big ol' feets!!

In the meantime, John and Don have finished their rain machine and the lightning is starting to strike as everyone takes cover, except Dr. Smith and Debbie of course.

Predictably,  the rain brings Smith and Debbie back to their regular sizes. I wonder if the others got wet, would they turn into midgets? Food for thought.

And everyone gets to laugh at the disheveled, wet, sorry ass Dr. Smith! 

Hey, what's this?! Looks like something I might come up with.. Anyway, looks like this thing will show up next week to give us a chill. That spiked thing definitely seems like it would smart if it hit you! You can't see it but the thing in the middle has big teeth!

Well, hope you enjoyed this post, now get ready for February.