THE SNOW CREATURE / Planet Filmplays - 1954 / Music by Manuel Compinsky

Alright! What it is!.. Tabonga Tuesday splash down once again, tonight we go to Tibet in Himalayas to find elusive SNOW BALL! Errr, SNOW CREATURE!! Director W. Lee Wilder and son Myles make two classic sci-fi B-Flick in early fifties, PHANTOM FROM SPACE and KILLERS FROM SPACE! Of course, W. have very famous brother, Billy. Myles go on to write for TV and include BONANZA, WAGON TRAIN, McHALE'S NAVY, MR. TERIFFIC, GET SMART, DISNEYLAND, THE DORIS DAY SHOW, THE BRADY BUNCH, THE ADDAMS FAMILY and many more!!

Muzik dude Manuel Compinsky work only 1954-6, he also compose for KILLERS FROM SPACE and was in muzik department on AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS!

So, here is tonight offering, Tabonga gonna be pressin' big red button by self because pets on vacation in Cancun!! Tabonga have to stay here and make post, you know! Okay, big red button time!.. SNOWY, THE SNOW CREATURE!

Paul Langton and alcoholic buddy get crew together for scientific expedition.

Later, they think light snow might come, so they head pall mall to nearest cave for shelter and settle nerve wif' stiff drink!

Sorry to say, Snowy not a real bright star in the heavens! He get so mad when he see dude in cave, he pull down part of cave wall and knock self out cold!! Make real easy for guy to tie up and take back to LA on sleek Constellation!

Big 'frigerator seem like very smart way to drag Snowy around until he learn how to rock it back and forth!

OH, JUST EFFIN' GREAT!

This is great action, Snowy punch guard right in face! Notice how costume all bunched up there where tucked in?!

Lock Martin supposedly was Creature, he look half undressed most of time during big fight scene. Probably pretty hot in full fur costume!! Phew...

Say goo'night, old Snowy!!

Paul Langton and William Phipps have big laugh after it all over. Yeah, so very funny...

TWO LOST WORLDS - Alex Alexander - "Not Just One, But Two" (1951)

Rodan gave you "Lost World" last night, well, that wasn't nothing!! Tonight we double the stakes and the action with not just one, but SOUNDCLIP NO LONGER AVAILABLE First off, this movie was done 9 years before "Lost World," now how is that possible? Two came before one, only in the movies!!

"Two Lost Worlds" stars James Arness, and around these parts, it just don't get no better than that! A lot of people hear the name James Arness, and they immediately think "Gunsmoke" but if you think about the man's contributions to classic Sci-Fi, seems it's some kind of 'T' thing, "Two Lost Worlds", "The Thing", "Them", need I go on?

So James ends up in Australia and falls for Elaine Jeffries played by Kasey Rogers. Kasey had a long and varied career, as a stewardess in "When World's Collide," in a multitude of TV westerns before settling in on as Julie Anderson from 1964 to 1966 in 80 episodes of "Peyton Place!" That'd burn you out! She did a few more small things after than, and just passed away a couple of years ago!!

So James as Kirk Hamilton tells the locals how they do stuff back in America!!

This is why, whatever you do, you don't let pirates come on land! Where do you think the word cutthroat came from anyhow?? Pirates are some mean S.O.B.'s!!!

So the pirates got the girls, now it's up to James and Martin Shannon, the guy in the middle, who is just a little pissed off at James, because He was the only real man Kasey had ever known and was scheduled to get married to! Martin was played the great actor Bill Kennedy who had the esteemed job of being The Announcer for 104 "Adventures Of Superman" episodes from 1951-1958! Wow!! James also does a lot of awesome standing around looking studly in this movie!!

Besides being mean S.O.B.'s, these pirates swim like freakin' frogs, this is a truly amazing sight and leads right up to one of the best fight scenes ever!!!

This is a raucous scene with guys flying in from all over the place, but with the fog and all the action, it's hard to get a good still, you'll just have to rent it to see for yourself!!

Washed up on shore just in time to be lost again!!

No longer all prim and proper, you now get a chance to see Kasey with her hair down, and Bill, well, he's hurt now, and still pissed!! This is her reaction to seeing that famous dinosaur made popular in the 50's that looks like a baby alligator with a large dorsal fin attatched to it's back, before they became wiped out from making too many movies!!

They really could have used a Willis O'Brien or a Ray Harryhausen, but instead it's the special effects of Jack R. Glass, who was quite gifted, and has his own history, but whose work lent itself better to TV where he also did a ton of work!!

The music for this amazing film was done by none other than the man with the double name, Alex Alexander in one of his very few outings!!

I'm sorry, and forgive me, but is this not the most classic 'The End' shot ever! Just like the art teacher you never had a chance to have, said, My Word, look at that prefect composition!!!

THE LOST WORLD / Irwin Allen - 1960 / Music by Bert Shefter & Paul Sawtell (No Longer Available)

**TONIGHT IS POSTING #700!!!
Wow, what a cast!!.. Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Claude Rains and Fernando Lamas. Fernando even sings in this one... Oh, those Latin lovers! Jill's pooch didn't make the credits, though! In 1960, Irwin Allen relies on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for this spectacular story, and, that same year, George Pal releases his awesome THE TIME MACHINE by H. G. Wells. A very good year, if you were there... Like us!

Dungeon veterans Bert Shefter and Paul Sawtell got this assignment to create music from a Lost World, and, did a great job as usual!.. Between the two of them, they had 391 composing credits, mostly by Sawtell, and did both movies and TV!

So, let's get lost!.. Irwin Allen's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's THE LOST WORLD!

Our stills are not the highest quality tonight, but, there's plenty of nice eye candy, nonetheless!

We totally love Claude Rains, but, I have to say, I think one of the biggest casting blunders was Claude playing Larry's father in THE WOLFMAN. That one always bothered me for some reason! He's great playing a cantankerous old professor like Challenger, here, or Professor Benson in BATTLE OF THE WORLDS, same year!

Let the exploitation begin!

...WHOA!!

Holy crap, look at that freaking giant psychedelic colored tarantula!!

Of course, trigger-happy Michael Rennie kills it, in it's own home!

This shot is amazing, as the two 'dinosaurs' wrestle and fall off a cliff and disappear into the darkness!! Still, its disturbing to think about potential animal abuse, getting a shot.

A Lost World wouldn't be complete without tribal caveman cannibals, would it?!

Oh, and, a man-eating terror vine!

"Hey, it tickles!"

Nobody should be surprised when Fernando sacrifices his life to save the exploiting white people's asses at the end! I mean, nothing else makes sense, could it?!

That's not even the biggest explosion! Anyway, The Lost World is lost, again!

This part's a crack up! Get it!.. The porcelain egg is inadvertantely dropped to reveal a tiny baby dino! Challenger quips... "Its a Tyranosaurus Rex!"

Tune in tomorrow when Eegah!! will blow you away with... TWO LOST WORLDS!! Then, next Sunday I'll have another 'WORLD' to show you!!