SERGEANT BERRY - 1938 - 1974

Tonight's Whack Job Wednesday is the story of "Sergeant Berry," and you can thank Lord Litter in Berlin for putting me up to it since I never heard of "Sergeant Berry" in my whole life until last week!
There are two parts, this German movie from 1938, and a German TV series from 1974, both with the same title.

I think this DVD might be available in Germany, but good luck even finding it there! Here's what the good Lord had to say about this TV series from 1975......

"Sergeant Berry is really almost Jess Franco doing a TV series (some of the episodes are shot in Spain .. and I guess I see some Franco actors there) .. the director is Harald Pillipp  (Jerry Cotton) who also appears as an actor .."
So you see, this series sounds like a lot of fun!

Robert Arden wrote the original novel, but doesn't seem to be credited in the movie or the TV series for some strange reason!

The 1938 German "Sergeant Berry" is a strange story of an American police officer sent to stop drug smugglers at the Mexican border.

It stars classic German actor Hans Albers as "Sergeant Berry!"

Hans Albers God given name is Hans Philipp August Albers, and the Director of the 1974 TV series is named Harald Philipp. Something seems strange about all that!

 

The swingin' music for the TV series is written by Dungeon all-star fave Peter Thomas, and you can buy this album on Amazon for $82.00 to check it out,..........

.....Or you can watch this short clip on Youtube to get the feel!

Looks like L.A. to me!

If you do an internet search for "Sergeant Berry," you'll get a lot more leads to Sergeant Barry Sadler, and "The Battle of the Green Berets," and "F-Troop" than you will to this "Sergeant Berry."

Sergeant Berry was on the air in Germany for 26 episodes. The first thirteen episodes starred Klausjürgen Wussow as Sergeant Berry, and the last thirteen episodes had Harald Juhnke in the lead role!

 

This lady is on her way to a get together of "Sergeant Berry's Bridge Club."
Don't feel bad, I don't get it either!

And then there's Sergeant's Cracker Band and their version of the theme song for "Sergeant Berry!"

And while I couldn't find that, here's a pretty nifty song called "Machucho" by Sergeant Cracker's Band, which I can only hope is the same as Sergeant's Cracker Band!

Really, your guess is as good as mine!

MONDO KEYHOLE / You Will See It All Through... Mondo Keyhole! - 1966

Here's a wild one, Jack (SPIDER BABY) Hill co-directs, and is photographer and editor on this 1966 sexy horror production... Howard Thorne is a rapist in Los Angeles, he meets women at work and at parties, or, he sees them walking down the street and follows them, he terrifies them, he assaults them! He also dreams about these assaults and is unclear how much of what he's done is real and how much is fantasy. He ignores his heroin-using wife, Vicki, who tries everything she can think of to get his sexual attention. The couple go to a costume party separately where Vicki learns the full truth about his nature and that he's being stalked by one of his recent victims.

This one stars Nick (only acting credit) Moriarty, Adele (MY TALE IS HOT) Rein, Carol (INTERNATIONAL SMORGAS-BROAD) Baughman, Pluto (only acting credit) Felix, Christopher (only acting credit) Winters, Penelope (only acting credit) Faith and Cathy (DOWN AND DIRTY) Crowfoot... Wow, not much star power here!

So, Howard arrives home after work and gets this freaky surprise from his horror mask wearing wife Vicki, she'll do anything to get her hubby's attention!..

All Howard wants to do is have a stiff drink and relax after a hard day of being a pervert.

Unfortunately, Vicki has a a problem... Heroin!

She likes to shoot up and get sexy in front of the bathroom mirror, among other things...

In the meantime, Howard enjoys listening to 'punishment' records at work to feed his sickness.

Also at work, Howard and associates review their adult films they produce. Howard is totally surrounded by all the vices of his eventual downfall.

Back at home, Vicki gets all sexy with another mirror in her bedroom, cool pic!

So, it's time to go to the Hollywood Model's Ball, what the Hell could go wrong, right?..

What I really like about this flick are the many very cool horror shock masks they throw in the mix! They gots that wild old school look!

After the party, Howard hits the streets in a fog, looking for a cute girl to follow around and possibly rape, just for the thrill of it all...

He stalks and follows a girl into an elevator... He tries to attack her but what he doesn't know is that she knows karate! She knocks him out and drags him out of elevator...

He ends up in the room of the two dominatrix chicks in the movies his company produces, where he gets his just desserts!! Like, tune in on Wednesday when we'll be back with more insanity, just for you and yours!!

THE PRISONER - "Arrival" (1967)

Out of all the things we've done, it's hard to believe that we've never gotten around to this classic 1967 Brit TV show before, but that's just the way it works around here!

Welcome to the 4-20 Easter edition of The Dwrayger Dungeon Saturday Night Special!

"The Prisoner" is one of the trippiest TV shows ever made, and I'm actually surprised it made it across The Pond because it's just so weird!

As you walk through the valleys of shadows in life....Just remember!

There is no easy way out!

First Patrick McGoohan was John Drake Danger Man, then he was John Drake Secret Agent, and when he decides to give it all up, he gets gassed!

When he wakes up, he doesn't know where he is!

This remote bucolic village is where it all begins!

He doesn't know it yet, but now he is just a number!

Want information? Sure! Just push and find out! 

There's only one problem! They've left the word 'inform' out of the word 'information!'

Want a detailed map? This is as good as it gets!

And then there's the bouncing ball you don't want to follow.......

.....Or piss off!

Very comforting! The Welcome Wagon must have come around!

His new identity is Number 6.

Number 6 is not overly thrilled with having his own private maid! 

He'd really rather just go home!

Whoever is running the show doesn't want the residents to have any contact at all with the outside world so they even package their own food with their own custom labels!

And somebody's watching you 24/7. That you can count on!

6 finds out the hard way that it's more difficult than it seems to escape!

Many of the best have tried to translate dream sequences into visual media, but I don't think anybody has done it better than the makers of "The Prisoner."

It's just one long nightmare!

There's only seventeen episodes, so I don't know about you, but I know what I'm doing for the next week or two! Might as well lock me up, and throw away the key!