TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE / Tom Graeff Productions - 1959 / Music by William Loose + Fred Steiner

Tonight's little teenage JD monster flick from 1959 is a classic for all the wrong reasons... None the less, still, a classic!

The rocket surgeon there, sees something odd while looking through the telescope and tells professor Squarenuts the weird 'drill in space' theory that just popped into his head!

Wow, and, it looks like the professor uses black shoe polish to care for and maintain his beard!!!

Tonight's music is supplied by two uncredited composers, William Loose and Fred Steiner. Some other movies they worked on are: ESCAPE FROM HELL ISLAND, THE DEVIL'S BEDROOM, TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER, BUMMER, THE ALIEN ENCOUNTERS, THE BULLWINKLE TV SHOW, TV's FRACTURED FLICKERS, THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, MILTON THE MONSTER TV Series and lots more!!

Great sounds!.. TEENAGE JERKS FROM OUTER SPACE!

See, jerks! They just toasted poor lil' Sparky, now he's all bones and no bark!

King Moody has to talk into a microphone and the alien leader doesn't!

Derek is a perfect gentleman and has good posture, Thor is a perfect maniac and needs his ritalin, like yesterday!!

Thor, the hot head with a focusing disentegrator!!

I have never piloted a vehicle like this before!.. I will try again.

Thor is going to need counseling sometime soon!!

He's tough, though! He elects to have surgery without anestesia!!!

I have a copy of the paperback this guy's reading, called THE FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL!

The Gargon comes screaming over the hill, so, Derek climbs the telephone pole to tap into the lines, the focusing disentegrator needs more juice to stave off the monster. Betty goes over to a utility phone and calls the generating plant and tells the guy to blow the place up if he has to, but... "MORE JUICE!!" And, he actually does whatever she demands. We call guys like him, "lonely!"

Jeez! What is it with those freakin' beards?!! Make up dude had to be an amateur!!! Anyway, beleive it or not, that's Derek's father, the supreme leader. Derek tricks him and brings in the ships too fast and they all crash and blow up as they show stock footage of a volcano exploding! The other thing that makes my wig flip are the cages for the Gargons at the beginning!.. Pathetic!

Then, Derek gives his little 'pro Earth' speech at the very end!!

DOOR TO DOOR MANIAC - Johnny Cash - "Five Minutes To Live" (1961)

Now this is really a Saturday Night Special, and once more we gotta give big kudos to Tabonga for rounding up this dirty little unpolished jewel! Wow!

Where else would you expect a "Door To Door Maniac" to live than at The Camellia Gardens Motel and Trailer park? That's where all the low lifes in town end up!!

This film had a pretty small cast, but what a cast it was!
On the left bowling, is smalltime mastermind bank robber Fred Dorella, and on the right is local entrepreneur Max! You might recognize Fred as Vic Tayback with hair or Mel in 191 episodes of the TV series "Alice!" Max was played by amazing musician and songwriter, Merle Travis! Besides writing the hit song by Tex Williams and/or Commando Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke," Merle also wrote the all time classic song recorded by that ole pea picker himself, Tennessee Ernie Ford, "Sixteen Tons!"

Doris will soon find out that she doesn't know Johnny as well as she thinks she does!!

Here's the happy Wilson family! Donald Woods who'll you'll remember as the father in "13 Ghosts" and Cay Forrester as Nancy!

Yep, you're right, little Bobby here was played by Opie, or as some people know him Ronnie Howard! Ron's gone on to have a pretty good run I'd say!!

Lean and mean Johnny Cash as Johnny Cabot is almost not recognizable as the Johnny Cash we have all come to know and love!

Here's the basics, in the guise of a guitar lesson salesman, Johnny asks for a glass of water, sneaks in the house and takes Mrs. Wilson hostage while Fred is at the bank asking her vice-president husband to kick with 70 thousand dollars or Johnny's going to kill his wife!

Johnny's a real mean S.O.B. and this is one lowdown, greasy, sleazy and sometimes brutal film that will conjure up visions of Arch Hall's "The Sadist" and Orson Welles' "Touch Of Evil" in your brain all at the same time!

Whenever Johnny wasn't picking and singing, the music was provided by composer Gene Kauer, who went on to do of all things, "The Faces Of Death" films!

Meanwhile, back at the bank, Fred and Ken have their own completely separate "Fargoesque" scene going on.

There are some light moments like here, where Johnny is getting really frustrated, because he's waiting on the call, and Mrs. Wilson can't get her blabbermouth friend Priscella to shut up!!

Then Opie, I mean Bobby comes home and goofs up the whole thing, as it seems Johnny's got a soft spot in his heart for kids! Aaaaahhhhh! It's all quite touching, and you havn't lived til you've seen American icons, Johnny Cash and Ron Howard in a scene together!

I won't give away the ending! Try and find your own copy, and good luck with that!!

THE NANNY - Sir Richard Rodney Bennett - "Joey Joey Joey" (1965)

So here you go, as requested by our good friend, Mr. Greg Goodsell, the fabulous Bette Davis starring in "The Nanny"!

But this movie is also about a little 10 year old boy named Joey, who was blamed for the death of his sister and has been institutionalized for the last two years!

It seems Joey is quite the cut-up and also has quite a twisted sense of humour after all he's been through!!

Wendy Craig as Joey's helpless hopeless Mother must have really been taken with this film because in 1981, she created and starred in a TV series that went on for 30 episodes, called what else, "Nanny!"

William Dix does a killer job as Joey, and went on to be in "Dr. Doolittle," and that's pretty much what he did after that!

I can't imagine this film with anyone else in the role of "The Nanny" except Bette Davis, because it just wouldn't, or couldn't, be the same!!

As far as orchestrated music is concerned, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's soundtrack is about as good as any, but what really saves the day, are two short musical segments in the kid's scenes. Here Joey's listening to a really swell record as he plays with his hangman's noose!

Born in Malaysia on a X-Mas Eve; introducing Jill Bennett as Penelope or as she is better known, Aunt Pen! Aunt Pen has a heart condition, but drinks and smokes just to show her indifference to the whole situation!

Quite an interesting assortment of female characters, oddly, the strongest of the bunch was the 5' tall, 15 year old Pamela Franklin as Bobbie Medman, Joey's neighbor and confidant!! Pamela went on to have quite a career and is still very much alive today!!

I'm thinking Joey's sandals have something to do with his personality defects!

Yum, Yum, steak and kidney pie, one of Master Joey's favorites!!! Did I forget to tell you Joey thinks Nanny is trying to poison him!! That was one of the reasons they sent him off in the first place, he wouldn't eat!!

Bobbie kinda likes Joey as long as he keeps stealing cigarettes from his Dad and giving them to her!!

Then Joey explains to Bobbie that Nanny tried to drown him!!!

Let's see, Dad has to leave town on business, Mom mysteriously gets food poisoning, Pen comes to stay because Joey is afraid to be alone with Nanny, and when she wakes up in the middle of the night and Nanny is about to enter Joey's room with a pillow, she becomes very suspicious, her heart doesn't take real well to the whole situation, and her Nanny isn't any help at all!!

If absolutely all, and none of this makes sense to you, well, good! Luckily, you can rent this movie on Netflix, and I'd do it if I was you!!

Bette Davis serves up another of her many masterful performances in what can only be considered a classic!!