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Monday, December 22, 2008

THE MIGHTY GORGA - Charles Walden - "Stock Music" (1969)

Yes, Mildred, of course there is a Santa Claus!! Whaddaya thinkin'? And his real name is "The Mighty Gorga"!!!!

Anthony Eisley does another one of his remarkable, 'let me smoke a cigarette, and I'll do any scene you want' performances! Anthony is a perennial favorite around these parts, and you don't have to delve very deep into his list of titles to understand why! Starting right about 1966, Anthony had an almost unparalleled run of stinkers starting with "The Navy Vs. The Night Monsters," followed by "Journey To The Center Of Time" and "The Mummy And The Curse Of The Jackals!" That's like having the bases loaded, and you walk up to the plate, and knock it out of the park and into the parking lot with "The Mighty Gorga!" My word, what a movie, and Anthony is in there all the way!!

Anthony Eisley passed away in 2003, but his work will live on forever!!!!! What a sport!!

Anthony, Megan Timothy and Lee Parrish ponder the many hidden and subtle intricacies of the plot after he arrives at the zoo, I mean, in Africa!!

Using the zoo in L.A. for random shots of animals, and placing brightly coloured giant plastic flowers in strategic locations doesn't exactly make the mountain areas of California look like an African jungle, but you can't blame Anthony for that!!

Now, come on, doesn't this shot look pretty cool??

Mighty Gorga crashes the party!!!

You'd think with that big monkey chasing them around all the time, these natives would be in a little better shape! It was at this point, I really started doubting the authenticity of this film's historical value!

Time for another smoke!!!!

Gorga's big problem is his eyes don't move!!! That's pretty much it!!

The big eggs looked pretty real!!!

Arguably the worst dinosaur ever filmed!

Mighty Gorga A Go-Go as far as I can tell is nothing more than a massvie collage of music tracks put together by music supervisor Charles Walden! The last airy vibes and keyboards part is from another movie we've written about I know, with added jungle noises, but I just can't remember it right now. I thought it was Forry's scene in "The Time Travelers" but that isn't it. I'll figure it out one of these days, but in the meantime, the big show must go on!!! "The Mighty Gorga" is out there, and you really need to experience it in person to get the full effect!!!

Friday, December 5, 2008

THE MUMMY AND THE CURSE OF THE JACKALS PT 01 - "F.J.A. R.I.P." (1916 - 2008)

Well, it was inevitable, but I really wasn't ready for the news that Forrest J. Ackerman just passed away today!! He was our hero as you all know, and an inspiration from the first issue of FM we ever owned right up to today. I have no doubt we'll meet again!! I had already scheduled a two part deal for the next two nights, and now, it is even more fitting as we say good-bye to everybody's friend even if you didn't know him, because I don't think Forrest J. Ackerman ever met a stranger in his life!!! I'm sure Forry would want us to continue writing about these movies, so, tonight's special feature is straight out of La-La Land, because I'm talking about, the 1969 feature "The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals!"

Good sport and all around great guy, Anthony Eisley plays the title role of David Barrie to the hilt, despite whatever circumstances prevail, financial or otherwise!!!

Marliza Pons as Princess Akana, or in the vernacular, Connie, is Anthony's love interest in this bizarre desert tale!!

Not a werewolf, No, that would be far too trite for a movie as intelligent as this, No, instead, Anthony is transformed into a jackal, one big mean varmit!!!

Okay, he looks pretty cuddly here, but he's just really getting started!!!

They didn't do a very good job of locking Anthony in like he had requested, so he scales the wall, escapes and ends up in this Las Vegas amusement park, which is pretty damn scary unto itself!!

C'Mon!! Have you seen a better makeup job lately?? I was doing some research, and I read where some idiot said this was a bad movie!! What planet did he come from?? More like one of the 'seven wonders of the world' unearthed once again from the sands of time like some ancient pyramid, would be a bit more correct!!

Now, you know why it's a two night deal. Hell, we haven't even got to The Mummy yet!! This poor Las Vegas cop just happened to be in the wrong place ad nauseam!!

Talk about your new world order minorities, Wow, have drunks been badly mistreated and stereotyped over the years or what?? Of course, no one cares when they get killed!!!

This is one of the wildest films you'll ever run across if you can possibly find a copy, and the music is.........an out of this world mix of spaghetti western, rollerskating, Inagaddadavida-carousel, jazz-funk, sitar, Zappaesque, bass-driven marimba, Las Vegas, space sleaze, Psych lounge, rockin' madness you'll ever hear in your life, and you can't even find out who is responsible for it!! On the credits it says John See... but the edges are cut off, so you can't even read John's whole last name. There is a John Seely who composed the original theme for the "Donna Reed Show" and some other things, but I don't really think that's him!! Oh, well, whoever he is, he's a freakin' genius of the wildest order with a taste in music as eclectic as my own, and that's pretty weird!! Stay tuned for tomorrow, "The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals!" Part 02!!

See you on the other side Forry!!! We love you, man!!!

Monday, May 3, 2010

DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN - Lava, Lobue, Carroll - "Blood Freaks" (1971)

Tonight's feature is the definitive Masterpiece of Shit!! How can one movie have all the coolest elements imaginable, and still not deliver the goods? It's pretty hard to pinpoint, but I'm going to give you my humble opinion!! It's not director Al Adamson's fault, but I do suppose we could fault him for using his wife, Regina Carroll in one of the lead roles, because she is one of the weak links, along with Zandor Vorkov as the Dracula character, who just looks out of place the whole movie! Zandor's not convincing and the Frankenstein monster is not convincing, and the title is, "Dracula Vs. Frankenstein" so I'm thinking you might start to see where the problem lies!!!

Here's Al's wife in Las Vegas as the big headliner over The Doodletown Pipers! Regina Carrol wrote & performs the tune "I Travel Light" as Judith Fontain, with the help of Dart Anthony and Damon Loy, "The Show-offs"

But let's forget the negative element of the fact that the movie sucks, and get on with some information about all the cool people involved who couldn't save this movie to save their souls, even if they wanted to!

First up, even though our mentor, Forrest J. Ackerman was the technical advisor for this movie, it still doesn't come off right, so I'm thinking Forry must have been sick for the days when they shot the really bad stuff! He also had a fairly substantial role as Doctor Beaumont! Okay, that alone, should have thrown it in to the Oscar nominated department!!

Next up is Dungeon super fave, Anthony Eisley, this time decked out in hippie beads, and with his hair a good 1/4" longer than normal, as the intellectual hipster Mike Howard! At first, I thought he had stopped smoking, but it's not long before he's back at it again!!

How about Lon Chaney Jr. in his last film role ever? Okay, it's for sure not his best role ever, but the good natured Lon hangs in there!!

How about J. Carrol Naish in his last role ever? We've never really had a reason to talk about the great J. Carrol here before because he was born in 1896, and all of his monster movie appearances were in the 1940's, but what a bunch of classics they were! Now we're talking titles like "Calling Dr. Death," "The Monster Makers" and "House Of Frankenstein!"

Do you want me to stop? No Way! Here's Russ (The Boy With The Green Hair)Tamblyn as Rico! A mere 10 years earlier, Russ was one of the stars, dancing and singing his way though the amazing 10 Oscar winning film, "West Side Story!"

Ultimate cowboy hero, Jim Davis is the cop Sergeant Martin. Jim Davis was so classic, with that face, and that voice, and guess what, his career still hadn't peaked after like 9000 cowboy TV shows and movies, he still went on to do 77 episodes of "Dallas" from 1978 to 1981 as none other than the man, John Ross 'Jock' Ewing, Sr.

Although he worked in over 70 films in 60 years, including a stint as Shirley Temple's stunt double, the 2 foot 11 inch Angelo Rossitto had to run a newspaper stand to make ends meet!!!

Assistant cameraman, and cool scarheaded dude R. Michael Stringer worked with Orson Welles, and went on to be a Key player behind the scenes and a staple of Hollywood to this day!!

Rico and Scarhead drug Regina when she starts asking too many questions, and she flips out to some super cool music, a song written by J.D. Lobue called "Say The Word" that sounds amazingly like the 60's band "Pacific Gas & Electric" with Charlie Allen doing to vocals, but I don't really know who it is! The rest of the music throughout the film can be credited to William Lava!!

J.D. Lobue didn't write more notable music, but instead, went on to be a TV director! Pretty safe to say he knows his funk, he directed 9 episodes of "Soul Train" and was working steady up til not that long ago when he directed 15 episodes of "Dharma & Greg" in the late 90's and early 2000's!!!

And I'm absolutely sure, there are more stories to tell, but enough is enough, I'm stopping right here, and letting Regina scream her way outta here! Thanx Al!!!

The Frankenstein dummy, I mean monster, looks like it was created by the same people that came up with the "Cabbage Patch Dolls!!

I guess Drac didn't like my sentiments about him that much, because he completely fries our hero Anthony during this very sad moment near the end!!

It's another film readily available on Netflix! What are you waiting for?? Just get it!!!

Saturday, December 5, 2020

SIX UNSUNG HEROS OF THE DUNGEON!

 
We don't have a "Dungeon Hall Of Fame," but once in a while we will call somebody a Dungeon Hero because we really like them for whatever reason. There is no list, and we've actually never even discussed it between the two of us because we don't need to. I did a search of our site for "Dungeon Hero" and I came up with 47 different names, so I'm going to start with a list in no particular order, of six guys I call some of the..........
"Unsung Heroes of The Dungeon."
 
First up is John Hoyt, and I never knew until I started writing this, that an alternate title for "Attack Of The Puppet People" was "Six Inches Tall." In the tube is another Dungeon Hero, John Agar!

I also never knew John was such a stud! 

"Attack Of The Puppet People" was just about as good as it got for 1958!
John as The Puppeteer was kind of like Joe Biden, seems nice, but creepy!

Next up is one of our favourite bad guys, Milton Reid! Before his acting career, Milton was a professional wrassler known as "Mighty Chang!" It really is cool how many wrasslers and boxers have gone on to be actors! That's gotta be the toughest way to break into the business, but it still works to this day!

No credits on the poster, but at least they used his image!

 
Wow! Milton gets a cutting torch to the face in this poster for "Mission Desperate."

Gil Perkins is our next Unsung Hero!

What could be better than a 51 year old dude playing a "Teenage Monster?"

Gil Perkins has played a "Teenage Monster" and a guy named "Cauliflower," you got something better than that?

This is from just one of the many amazing "Batman" TV shows!

This 30 minute episode titled "Ring Around The Riddler" included Yvonne Craig as Batgirl....

...........And  also featured the amazing Joan Collins as "The Siren," but I digress.

Anthony Eisley is one of the most unappreciated actors of all time, and his work in "The Mighty Gorga," or "The Mummy And The Curse Of The Jackals" should attest to that! That's Anthony with the mustache as Tracy Steele on "Hawaiian Eye!"

And if that's not enough proof, there's always the immaculate reception also known as "Dracula Vs. Frankenstein!"

Jeff Morrow should be a common household name like John Wayne or Clint Eastwood for his contributions to cinema, but unfortunately he's not!

I couldn't pick between these two international posters for "The Creature Walks Among Us," they're both so insane! Look at how big the creature is in this bottom poster, and how about those hawk feet?

"This Island Earth" came out in 1955. It was so far ahead of it's time and Jeff Morrow was a big part of it! What a krazy action packed poster!

The last guy on this list is Jake LaMotta who only has one movie we've ever written about here called "Confessions Of A Psycho Cat," but that's not the reason he's on this list! Jake actually has 18 acting credits, and has a movie that was made about his own life, the classic "Raging Bull." Jake's boxing record was 83 wins, 19 losses. and 4 draws, and they were all battles!

The reason Jake LaMotta is on this list is because he's Jake LaMotta, and that's just good enough!

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