STRANGE INVADERS / EMI Films - 1983

It's Alien Invasion Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. We gots a little weirdie from 1983 starring Paul (AMERICAN GRAFFITI) Le Mat, Nancy (CARRIE) Allen, Louise (ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST) Fletcher with June (LOST IN SPACE) Lockart and Kenneth (THE THING) Tobey.

Eegah!! sent us over a soundclip from the movie, the country pop theme, for our approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the dirty laundry chute, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... STRANGE INVADERS!

Paul plays Charlie, his ex-wife has disappeared so he plans to travel to where she grew up, a small rural town in the Midwest, to look for her.

Charlie arrives in Centerville (next to Edgeburg) and finds out that nobody knows anything about his ex-wife or even her family!.. And, it's frustrating.

Kenneth Tobey pops in occassionally, this lucky guy got to make out with Faith Domergue in IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA.

Meanwhile, the Strange Invaders are starting to make themselves known!

Karen Allen works for a tabloid newspaper. Here, she makes fun of Charlie for believing in monsters from outer space while she smokes in the elevator..

When an alien disguised as a human gets punctured, Nickelodeon slime comes out!

Then, Louise Fletcher shows up to complicate matters, who's the real star?

Any car buff would die to have this 1957 Ford Fairlane with fender skirts and a Continental Kit! This model was one of four small plastic Fords I got from Post Cereal way back in 1957!

Kids even have the fun of turning into creatures from Hell!.. Boo-Ya!!

When the mother ship finally arrives, all the Strange Invaders can rip off their crappy human masks and leave this miserable planet!

There are lots of special effects at the end... Ahh, those eighties sci-fi movies!

SABOTEUR - Alfred Hitchcock - "3000 Miles Of Terror" (1942)

Welcome to Saturday Sabotage down in the dark dank depths of The Dungeon! It's kind of like the old Saturday Matinee, but without the cartoons, the "Three Stooges" or "Unlock a Lock!"

Let's just get it straight from the get go, "Saboteur" is just one of the many excellent films that have been created by one of the most creative minds to ever roam the planet, Mr. Alfred Hitchcock! If you ever read anything bad about this movie, just remember it's a Helluva lot easier to be a critic than it is to make a good movie!!!!

It's 1942, right in the midst of WWII, and Alfie makes a flick about the sabotaging of an aircraft production facility, and the paranoia of being the guy who is wrongly accused of the deed!

It's break time, and during the hustle and bustle, one of the workers drops his wallet!

Bob Cummings as Barry Kane is one of the guys who finds and returns the wallet! The next thing you know the whole place is one gigantic fiery inferno, and Bob's best buddy is burnt to a crisp in the ensuring blaze! It turns out the fire extinguisher he was using was full of gasoline! Bob in turn gets blamed for the whole thing and has to take it on the lam!

The cops are after Barry, and the paranoia sets in immediately, but Barry has a flashback on the letter dropped back at the plant, and  he decides to head to the small little burg of Springville, California that he saw the name of in the address on that letter!  Now Springville is a real place, I should know, my ex-wife used to live there. It's about 20 miles east of Porterville up in the hills of central California on the Tule River, population a couple of hundred at best! It wasn't just used in name, part of "Saboteur" was actually filmed there!

Barry hitchhikes his way out of L.A., and once he arrives in Springville, he finds nothing but peace and tranquility at the Deep Springs Ranch!

The next thing you know, the local Sheriff shows up, with plans to escort Barry to jail, but not before he was able to get another clue as to what the freakin' Hell was going on!

Crossing over the Tule River ( and I've never seen a bridge like this up there) Barry scuffles with the Sheriff, and is able to escape by jumping into the river!

Barry makes his way handcuffed into the depths of the mountains and stumbles upon the home of a blind musician! To me, this whole scene was very reminiscent of when the Frankenstein monster is taken in by the blind guy! Just like Daredevil, they might be blind but their senses are keen!

The kindly blind man is played by Vaughan ( Mr. Bradley in the Henry Aldrich series of films) Glaser, and even though he knows Barry has handcuffs on, he senses that he is really a good guy, and tells his niece Priscilla (Brother Rat) Lane as Pat Martin to take him to the local blacksmith and have his chains removed!

Pat Martin is a model and is seen on these wild recurring billboards throughout the film! She doesn't listen to her uncle, and decides to turn Barry in to the authorities!

This is where she ends up when that all fails!

Just look at this shot, and try and tell me you don't want to see this movie! I don't believe you!! Pat and Barry are forced to maintain some semblance of a relationship!

A circus train comes passing by and Barry and Pat hitch a ride on the last car. There is a fantastic debate as to whether to let them stay or not. Pedro de Cordoba as Bones was in 124 movies including "Devil Doll." Billy Curtis as the little General midget was around in small roles for years and argues that the couple should be thrown off the train! Anita Sharp-Bolster, looking like a cross between John Kerry and Abe Lincoln is the malevolent bearded lady! The Siamese twins were played by real life twins (not Siamese) Jean and Lynn Romer, and they can't agree on anything! This whole scene is really my favorite part of the movie!

Barry and Pat end up in Soda City, an abandoned place that looks like Primm, Nevada before Whiskey Pete's was built! In reality, it's Owens Lake, California!

For many, like me, Robert Cummings will always be remembered for the great comedic "Bob Cummings Show" aka "Love That Bob!" that ran for 127 episodes from 1955 to 1959! Then another version of "The Bob Cummings Show" returned for 22 episodes in 1962-62, then from 1964-65 he starred with Julie Newmar in the Sci-Fi comedy "My Living Doll!" Bob was also in the "Twilight Zone" episode titled "King Nine Will Not Return!"

One more billboard just to reassure you that Barry's life is doomed!

Next stop, The Big Apple, and lots of clues as to where this is all heading!!

Barry and Pat end up at a party for some very high-rolling un-american sympathizers and as you'll hear in the short little sound clip, any chance of getting anybody's attention is a total waste of time! The music in "Saboteur" was created by the genius mind of Frank Skinner, one of the most prolific composers in Hollywood history!

From there, the final chase is on, and it leads from a movie theatre to...............

.........the big climax at the Statue of Liberty! Actually, "Saboteur" is one long chase movie, and the ending is just a bit too much, but everything in between is quite spectacular, and just in case you haven't ever seen it, it's a movie that is well worth the effort to seek out, and if you don't want to buy it, or wait for it to come back on TV, it is available on disc from Netflix!

SANTO FRENTE A LA MUERTE / Fonexsa - 1969

It's Masked-Man Friday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. This Santo movie was a Spanish/Mexican/Colombian co-production filmed in Spain, with all the action and adventure you'd want from our wrestling Mexican hero!

The story's about a group of international criminals who steal a large emerald from a heavily guarded Colombian mine and plan to sell it on the black market. But, Dr. Igor (great name) is using other criminals as well as the ones who stole the emerald against each other, for his own benefit.

Eegah!! sent over a scratchy little soundclip from the club scene, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there across from the UFO flight simulator, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's our audio offering for... SANTO FRENTE A LA MUERTE!

Santo lands in Spain and has to battle freakin' Dracula first thing!!.. Daaang!

Santo is also an Interpol agent there to help solve the crime, so, Dr. Igor's assassin tries to take him out in the ring! He misses and gets yelled at. The assassin's played by my favorite Mexican villain who was in everything, Fernando Osés. Looks like he's using a Daisy BB Rifle!

Then, it's off to the club for some hot entertainment, as heard in the soundclip...

Can't pass up the chance to show this beautiful black 1948 Packard limo!!

Whotta man!! You can get a lot of great Santo movies for a good price on Amazon.

Wait a minute!!..

Dude, you even get a classic black tights locker room cat fight!.... So, c'mon!!

Clue ~ This mystery girl has a ponytail..

Santo's forced into a deadly sword fight but gets the best of this jerk face anyway!!

Super agent Santo even parachutes out of a plane to keep the bad guys from getting away!

Our hero waves goodbye to all his fans, until nextime!