25 GOOD REASONS TO WATCH OLDE MOVIES Part 05

Welcome to another Saturday Night Special in The Dungeon!

It's getting a little more difficult, but as you're about to see, there's still a lot of talent out there!

Part 05 gets me up to 125, it should be interesting to see if I can make it to 200!

It might take a while, but I think I can!

# 101 - Andree Melly - "The Brides Of Dracula" "The Horror Of It All"

#102 - Ann Margaret - "Murderer's Row" "Tommy"

#103 - Anna Karina - "Alphaville"

#104 - Annabella Incontrera - "Goliath And TheVampires" "The Ambushers" 

#105 - Anne Gwynne - "House Of Frankenstein" "Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome" "Teenage Monster"

 

#106 - Maura Monti - The third member of the Mexican trilogy of beauty with Lorena Velzaquez and Elizabeth Campbell!

#107 - Anouska Hempel - "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" "Scars Of Dracula"

#108 - Debra Paget - "From Earth To The Moon" "Tales Of Terror"

#109 - Diane Varsi - "Wild In The Streets" "Killers Three"

#110 - Gaia Germani - "Hercules In The Haunted World" "Castle Of The Living Dead"

#111 - Hazel Court - "Devil Girl From Mars" "The Curse Of Frankenstein"

#112 - Jane Fonda - "Barbarella"

#113 - Judy Geeson - "Berserk" "It Happened At Nightmare Inn"

 #114 - Juliet Prowse - "G.I. Blues" "Who Killed Teddy Bear"

#115 - June Cunningham - "Horrors Of The Black Museum"

#116 - June Kenney - "Teenage Doll" "Attack Of The Puppet People" "The Spider"

#117 - June Wilkinson - "Macumba Love" "Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie"

#118 - Kim Novak - "Vertigo"

#119 - Lois Collier -  "Weird Woman" "Cobra Woman" "Jungle Woman"

#120 - Mabel Karr - "The Diabolical Dr. Z"

#121 - Madeline Smith - "Taste The Blood Of Dracula" "Theatre Of Blood" "Live And Let Die"

#122 - Nancy Kovack - "Jason And The Argonauts" "The Silencers" "Star Trek"

#123 - Sydne Rome - "Some Girls Do" "Just A Gigolo"

#124 - Veruschka - "Blow-Up" "The Bride"

#125 - Ziva Rodann - "Pharoah's Curse" "Macumba Love"

So there you have it! What would four decades of movies have been without them? Pretty boring, I'd say!

ALTERED STATES / Warner Bros. - 1980

Here's we go again, this time we gots a pretty wild flick all about a Harvard scientist who conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically! Stars William Hurt and Blair Brown.

The movie starts off with our scientist, Eddie Jessup, conducting experiments on himself in a water filled isolation chamber...

He's having a good time in one of his hallucinations, everything's fine with the world.

Well, until this multi-eyed ram shows up and ends up slaughtering it for a sacrifice.

Eddie and friends decides to go to Mexico to score some hallucinatory drugs in order to expand his mind even further, the isolation chamber just isn't enough juice.

Speaking of juice, Eddie gets his hand cut and his blood drips into the special mixture of secret psychedelic brew. So, grab a spoon and have a dose!

Oh, great, the artwork on the wall just came to life!

Then, Eddie and his girlfriend turn to dust and the wind blows them all away!... Whoa!!

Even worse, he gets to check in on all the sinners in Hell... This segment is amazing, a top notch depiction of that hot spot we all want to avoid like... HELL!

Eddie eventually transforms into a freakin' spear chucking throwback and either kills or scares everbloody he comes in contact with!

Then, the climax has him and his girlfriend changing into primal beings fighting each other!

Eddie looks like shit here, but, let me assure you, everything turns out fine and the curse is finally lifted! Tune in tomorrow when we'll be back with another cool post, jus' fer ya'll...

POLICE SQUAD - Season One, Episode 01 - "A Substantial GIft" (1982)

Besides boxing and "Night Flight," I didn't watch a lot of TV back in 1982, I had way cooler things to do, like putting the pieces of my life back together, so I'm not really sure if I ever saw "Police Squad" the first time around!  Too bad, it's so dumb, I'm sure I would have loved each and every episode!

The very first episode of "Police Squad" was titled "A Substantial Gift" and substantial it is, in the wacky department!
Here's less than a minute of the theme song by the brilliant composer Ira Newborn. The narrator says that the title of the episode is "A Broken Promise!"

Then immediately after Lorne Greene is announced as the special guest star, he's thrown out of a car as a stabbing victim, and it just keeps on going from there!

 Can't get much better than that! Two of my favourite words, Bijou, and Acme in one show; all it would take to make it a perfect game would be Moxie, and Bitsko!

Kathryn Leigh Scott is Sally, a gal with some orthodontist bills to pay, so she's kind of desperate!

Kathryn was Maggie Evans on 310 episodes of "Dark Shadows" from 1966 to 1970, and is still working today!!

I thought this was Pete Rose, but it's actually Russell Shannon as the innocent, but twisted victim Ralph Twice! His name sets off a series of gags, like "Did you shoot Twice? No, I only shot him once!" etc.

Time for our hero Leslie Nielsen as Detective Frank Drebin to get to work!

Of course Leslie will go on after this to make the "Naked Gun" movies, but I'll always remember him the most for his role as Commander Adams in "Forbidden Planet," the best Sci-Fi movie ever made!

You can tell by the chalk lines how serious this is going to be!

The investigation brings Frank and his partner Ed as played by Alan North to a part of town known as 'Little Italy!'

Tiny Ron is Al, the seven foot man that they never fit in the shot!

A handful of guys get killed as they try to piece together the crime scene using real bullets!
It's not all about wordplay, although there is a lot of that, it's more of a "natural surrealism!"
A mind flip-flop!

There's the all-night wicker store!

And the Orthodontist's office with it's array of tortured rich teens!

Cheaper than Jerry Warren, but yet more effective!!

The elevator scene is very odd!

Sally's true hair colour and identity is revealed, almost, kind of, not really!

The big ending is a shootout between Frank and Sally! They do big closeups, and then the camera backs out, and you see how ridiculously close they are to each other! Frank breaks out the bullhorn to make it even sillier!

"Police Squad" owes a lot to The Firesign Theater in my opinion (As do a whole lot of other people!) If you can't see Nick Danger written all over this thing, you just might need a third eye!

It's short, in color, and a kick in the head from start to finish! There's only six 30 minute episodes, so you could easily binge out the whole show in the morning, and then spend the rest of the afternoon trying to figure out what the Hell happened to your life!! You can find each and every one of them right here for free! As crappy as a lot of the world is today, that is a substantial gift!