THE TRYGON FACTOR - "Edgar Wallace Strikes Again" (1966)

Well, the fun never stops down here in The Dungeon, and tonight's Saturday Night Special is no exception!

"The Trygon Factor" was made in 1966, and is yet another tale based on an Edgar Wallace novel. I think it's pretty funny that Edgar's name is plastered all over the posters, but he is not even credited in the actual movie! Instead, the opening credits say "Based on an original story by Derry Quinn." I think that's kind of weird!

First rule: Don't go creeping around places where nuns are spying on your every move, even if you're a police officer!

Or you just might end up getting baptized to death!

What can I say? He's even creepier when he's not wearing the mask!

Next tip off that something ain't right: That nun has got on some pretty fancy undergarments!

Stewart (Target For Killing) Granger and Sophie (Der Hexer) Hardy are a strange pairing at best, being as there is 31 years difference in their real ages, it makes it kind of difficult.

Stewart is Superintendent Cooper-Smith, and he's the one in charge of investigating this sordid affair!

Sophie is a receptionist at his hotel.

Sophie was also in a spy movie with Eddie Constantine called "Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent," or it's original title, "Des Frissons Partout!"

The nuns also frown on it when one of their flock decides to do something else!

I think this is the first movie I've seen where funny guy Eddi Arent wasn't in a comic role. It was good to see him play it straight for a change!

It was also good to see the always great Robert (A Study in Terror) Morely in this film!

So just what the Heck are these nuns up to anyway?

They're robbing banks, that's what they're doing!

Spunky Cathleen Nesbitt is the one running the whole nasty business behind her front of being a nice old kindly rich woman! At this point in her career, Cathleen had been acting for 47 years! She lived to be 93.

This is the job that Eddi Arent signed on for! He's the best in his field!

Once the girls get in the bank and gas everybody, he puts on this suit of armor and sets up this Gatling type gun and blasts the crap out of the vault door!

To the victors go the spoils!

Before I forget, the music in "The Trygon Factor" is by the always amazing Peter Thomas time after time after time! And where's the best place to get Peter Thomas music for yourself?

BSC Music, of course!

 

Oh, don't worry, Sophie and Stewart have it all under control!

But then again, maybe not!

Aw, just kidding! Despite all odds, they got it all figured out after all!

"The Trygon Factor" is a fun movie to watch!

 It's an Edgar Wallace story, that's it! Not much else matters!

EL ROBO DE LAS MOMIAS DE GUANAJUATO / Robbery of the Mummies of Guanajuato - 1972

Here's a wild one from 1972, our muscular heroes, Mil Máscaras (Thousand Masks), Blue Angel and Rayo de Jalisco take on a mad scientist and his mystic pal, who, along with a pack of midgets, are reanimating a pile of mummies in Guatemala and trying to take over the area.

These are the bad guys, they are at a tomb filled with mummies. Fitting them with special control units, the scientist files them out the door and back to his lab...

Here are two of the mummies' ugly mugs! Notice that they have 5 teeth, funny stuff!

Oh yeah, across town, our masked heroes are cleaning up in the ring. Love those tag team battles, always plenty of action going on.

Here's the scientist's device that programs the mummies and turns them into zombies!

The bad guys send their monsters out to terrorize the female friends of our wrestling pals. Which they do, but, have to test their motor skills coming down those stairs!

The girls call the boys to come over. They all get comfortable on the carpet to peruse some photos and come up with a battle plan... Great shot!

Check out this awesome pile of rubble Blue Angel has to traverse to get to his destination!

Back at the lab, the mad scientist is experimenting away, there's always room for improvement! That mummy looks uncomfortable. The bottom pic looks Kitschy-Kool.

Now, this shot really cracks me up!!.. Mil, behind the desk... Blue Angel just sitting there... Boy, do they look out of place!!

Okay, back to the ranch!.. The scientist is watching an action packed adventure about some wrestlers fighting zombified mummies. It looks like the good guys are on their way to locate some mad lab hidden in the hills... Cut to commercial!

So, the boys find their location and close in. Unfortunately though, the midgies have hidden mines around the perimeter and there's explosions going off all around them!

Check this shit out! A pack of little guys attack Ravo and beat the holy crap out of him! Alright, one for the Little Guy!

Our guys battle a bevy of brutes as they chop and hack away. Finally, they figure out that they can just pull the wires out in the back of their control devices!

Believe it or not, that causes the mad lab to overload and explode the Hell up!!

The day is saved as our gang head back to the girls' place to play Scrabble!.. See U tomorrow with more Dungeon Cargo. Later!

THE BIG OPERATOR - "A Brass-Knuckled Drama" (1959)

This Wednesday's Wildcat feature is another Albert Zugsmith 1959 production with the same basic cast as "The Beat Generation."

Albert Zugsmith's "The Beat Generation" was about a serial rapist, and "The Big Operator" is about a slimeball labor union leader with no morals, or basically a serial rapist on a larger scale!

Mamie Van Doren and Steve Cochran are now a happily married couple with a son named Timmy.

Mickey Rooney has the role of a rotten little sumbitch up to his teeth in graft, corruption and lies!

When confronted with real questions, he just continually takes the fifth!

The Mick's character named Little Joe Braun has a severe Napoleonic complex!

Ray Danton is Little Joe's hit man! I guess if you've got a name like Oscar Wetzel, and you want to be a tough guy, it's a good idea to take on a moniker like "The Executioner!"

As previously stated, the only reason I watched this movie in the first place was to see Vampira.

Unfortunately, she's on screen less than two minutes!

Grabowski is in this one too, this time as a tough guy with nasal congestion!

Choosing to use another singer in one of the main roles, the great Mel Tormé, known as 'The Golden Fog," is a very dissatisfied and vocal union member!

Just like "The Beat Generation," "The Big Operator" has it's share of guest stars like the voice of Mr. Magoo, or Thurston Howell III, however you want to look at it, Jim Backus!

Everybody's favorite heavy, Leo Gordon is in there too as one of Little Joe's henchmen!

These guys weren't messing around, and if you crossed the picket line, they'd overturn your car!

Mickey Rooney was only 5' 2" tall, and his good friend Judy Garland was only 4' 11 1/2" tall.
At six foot, Steve Cochran looks like a giant by comparison!

You can only hope these guys get what's coming to them!

Here's a fantastic shot of six people in one car searching for the missing little Timmy!

Little Joe Braun gets caught red handed in a closet after kidnapping little Timmy. These goons will do anything it takes to have it their way. Little Timmy was played by Jay North of "Lassie" fame.

An alternative title for "The Big Operator" was "Anatomy Of The Syndicate."

It might have been 60 years ago, but this movie still has the ability to make you feel uncomfortable! That's good film making!