THE HI-JACKERS - "In Colour" (1963)

 

Welcome to Saturday Night Special in The Dungeon. Our special feature tonight is the 1963 British film "The Hi-Jackers," but what's special about it is that this version is colourized!

Danke to Lord Litter in Berlin for finding it, and thanks to all those fine folks at the Internet Archive, because they are the reason you can watch this crazy film in all it's glory for free, RIGHT HERE!

 

"The Hi-Jackers" is only one hour and nine minutes long, so they don't waste a lot of time! 

Believe it or not, it's a movie about a gang of guys who hi-jack trucks!

I think if I saw this sign and I was driving a fairly large truck, it would scare the crap out of me!

SO here you go, first off, they fake an accident, and when the innocent truck driver stops to investigate.....

 

.............They wrap him up long enough to drive away with the goods!

It's a very benevolent gang, and they don't kill people, because the leader is this guy, and he's a gentleman, and that's the way he runs the show! This guy's name is Jack Carter, and he's played by Derek (Night Creatures) Francis.

Jack Carter is a very calculating man, and all of that was just a test run. Now it's time for the real thing!

This colourized shot of the Lupin Cafe looks like a cool 1960's postcard!

Your Mama always told you not to pick up hitchhikers, your Mama always told you not to trust truck drivers! As odd as it may seem, these are the normal people in this film. Anthony (Mix Me A Person) Booth is an independent truck driver named Terry McKinley, and his passenger is Jacqueline (Gutter Girls) Ellis as Shirley. Shirley is mysterious, so like Prince or Sting, she only needs a singular name!

The hi-jack gang enjoys a nice dinner out courtesy of their boss!

The word is in, the truck they were waiting for is on the way!

And of course it's the truck that Terry and Shirley are in.

 It all goes well, and nobody gets hurt, but then Shirley sees something she shouldn't have seen!

Yep, while she was hiding, Shirley saw the Boss! Now this is going to complicate things! She should have just looked away!

So what are these guys hijacking anyway? Booze, of course!!

Good ole Johnny Walker Red!

Wow! This is really a way out shot!

Shirley has no place to go, so Terry lets her stay at his pad for a couple of days. Pretty exciting, this is one of the sex scenes!

Jack Carter gets the word on where Shirley is and sends his goons to pay her a visit!

Is this a wild looking jail or what??

SO it turns out that Terry's best buddy and business partner is also the rat who told the gang what back road he would traveling on.

More Sex!

If you saw this gang of cops headed to your front door, you'd probably give up too if you had any sense!

SCREAM QUEENS I'VE HAD CRUSHES ON

 It's time to share some of  my favorite scream queens that I have had crushes on, ones that are so lovely that it pulls on my heart strings...

Faith Domergue was my number one heart throb for years, a mix of intelligence and loveliness, and was perfect for THIS ISLAND EARTH and IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA, she was exotic.

Beverly Garland was one beautiful lady, appearing in THE NEANDERTHAL MAN, CURUCU, BEAST OF THE AMAZON, IT CONQUERED THE WORLD and NOT OF THIS EARTH. She always set my heart on fire, so attractive.

OMG, then there's Yvette Vickers, she exuded sexiness to the tenth degree and was basically type cast as a hussy. She starred in ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN and ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES, two movies I saw back when they came out, and she even did a number of photo shoots when she wore little or no clothing! Ooh la la!!

After watching TERROR IN THE MIDNIGHT SUN I fell in love with Barbara Wilson, a real heart throb, there's even a scene in the cabin where you get to see her nude, in a shadow. She's a talented ice skater too! She's also the girl at the beginning of THE FLESH EATERS that loses her top and then gets her flesh eaten off.

Jeanne Carmen is another hot chick, and she flaunted it in revealing photo shoots posing partially nude. That lobby card  for THE MONSTER OF PIEDRAS BLANCAS even shows her dressing (or undressing) while Don holds a blanket over her!

Then there's Adele Lamont, how could I not fall for her in THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE! She was so lovely I couldn't believe it, and when I saw the Euro insert of the photo shoot where she's nude, I melted, what a good sport! A real goddess.

Lastly is Sally Todd, that's her backside shown in this lobby card for THE UNEARTHLY, and nice photo insert! She was one sexy gal and did a lot of revealing photo shoots. Then she was in one of my faves, FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER, where she is actually the ugly monster dude! These have been some of my personal heart throbs, love 'em!

TEASERAMA - "Films I Doubt I'll Ever Watch" (1938 - 1982)

Here's a whole Weird Wednesday's worth of movies I will probably never see, unless one of you readers steers me in a different direction. Actually this first title from 1955 I wouldn't mind seeing, but the title was just so tasty, I had to include it. "Teaserama" is a bunch of short films of vintage strippers like Tempest Storm doing their thing, with Betty Page as the Hostess with The Mostess!

 

 

From 1938, I think I'll gladly skip the Throbbing Drama Of Shackled Youth, known as "Child Bride."

"Escort Girl" from 1941 was a flick about high dollar call girls.

Like "Escort Girl," "Teen Age" was a film by Continental Pictures, the great recycler. "Teen Age" was made in 1943 and used a lot of footage from two earlier 1930's films!

Strippers and comedians in 1954.

The 1956 title "Cannibal Island" sounds promising but is just actually a bunch of footage from a 1931 documentary.

The 1956 film "The Flaming Teen-Age" might be worth giving a look. A small town kid goes to the big city and learns about hard liquor, fast women, and drugs. It was originally a 1946 film called "Twice Convicted," and they added some footage before changing the name to the stupid title "The Flaming Teen-Age.

 

The only reference I can find to a film called "Hoodlum Girls" was a film from 1944 that had an original title of "Youth Aflame." Lots of kids on fire in the 40's and 50's, but I don't think this is the same film, because the title card clearly says 1955.

"Scum Of The Earth" is a dirty little Herschell Gordon Lewis film from 1963.

"Mondo Bizarro" from 1966 was one of many 'Mondo' movies made in the 60's like "Mondo Freudo," "Mondo Hollywood," or "Mondo Cane." Lots and lots of sex and weirdness!!

"Blast-Off Girls" from 1967 is another Herschell Gordon Lewis film. This one's about a sleazy record promoter that might be worth watching.

Out of all these films, this one from 1967 titled "Mondo Mod" might be the best of the bunch and worth seeking out, if nothing else than just to hear how really good the band called Sam the Soul and the Inspirations, and another band called simply The Group really were.

If I ever finish watching the other 137 Gaillo films I have, I might watch "La Novia Ensangrentada," aka "The Blood Spattered Bride" from 1972, but then again, maybe not. Now if it was Splattered instead of Spattered, I might consider it.

Why they changed the name of this 1974 film from "Fugitive Killer" to "Fugitive Women" is anybody's guess, especially since there are no fugitive women in it. What do I care, I'll never watch it anyway!

"Ruby" was a Curtis Harrington directed thing from 1977 that I seriously doubt I'll ever see.

Maybe if I run out of Christmas movies, I'll watch "The Dorm That Dripped Blood" from 1982, because it looks so cheery!

 

These last two films I know for a fact I'll never watch, because as far as I can tell, they don't even exist, at least not under anything close to these titles!

 

It's okay, from the title, this film looks like it's probably a bummer anyway!