GHOST PATROL / Excelsior Pictures - 1936 / Music Supervisor Lee Zahler

Tonight we starting new Dungeon feature for middle of week... WEDNESDAY BLACK + WHITE OLDIES FLICK NIGHT! which also infer, mostly before 1950. And, terrific lineup coming toward you in upcoming weeks!!

They don't make 'em like that anymore! Which remind Tabonga, could use big hot bowl of oatsmeal about now!

Music supervisor heavyweight Lee Zahler (1893-1947) have 270 music department credit and 101 composing credit that include: THE KING OF THE KONGO, WOMAN TO WOMAN, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, MARRIAGE HUMOR, DANCE, GIRL, DANCE, THE LOST JUNGLE, GHOST TOWN, THE AMAZING EXPLOITS OF THE CLUTCHING HAND, THE SHADOW, TERRY AND THE PIRATES, THE GREEN ARCHER, CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT, THE MONSTER AND THE APE, SAMURAI and many more!! For GHOST PATROL, he just supervisin' the show.

Tonight' soundclip go something like... BZZZZZTTTTT!!!! Get that ray going!!

Cowboy ride up, looking in sky for mailplane... Why?

In some lab, new kind of ray making airplane' motor cut off. Dude have to bail out, and when he find plane wreck he see that somebloody steal valuable cargo being transport to LA.

Then, smart gurlie Claudia Dell as Natalie Brent put 1+1 together and get clue to where missing inventor professor dad might be!!

She have to hitch-hike??

Lucky for her, Tim McCoy come by in buckboard!

Tim' pal pop out from under blanket and take badguy' gun away!

CLASSIC!!!

Professor have to make deadly ray operate whenever bad guy tell him!

Next target are bigwig political dude!

But, Tim save the day and shoot up the ray machine and it explode and bigwig all save an' junk! Then, he chase down bad guy in cave! Black powder was real staple for cowboy flick back then!.. kaff, kaff

*You need to see how Tim fire his pistol to believe! Wild!!

Young man, I don't know who you are, but.. Hey, nice neckerchief!

SOUNDPROOF & GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION HITS LP's with "Forbidden Planet" style covers!

It's an off night, so here's a closer look at two items that I have on EeBay!! I have to plug these two LP's because they're images everybody's probably seen on the Internet, but it's not exactly often you get a chance to own one, and these are pretty decent copies!!! Here's a real short sample of the magic madness of Ferrante & Teicher on "Soundproof!" Spanish space electro-onisism! Right on!!Here's "Cumana"!!!

This LP actually featured one of the composers featured on this site many, many times, the phenomenal Les Baxter producing, arranging and playing keys 1979 style!! Here's a short sample entitled, "GODZILLA!! These folks are all deeply indebted forever to Louis and Bebe Barron for the music from "Forbidden Planet!" Not to mention the fact they both used United Planets Cruiser C-57D landing on Altair's 4th planet for their cover image!!

TEENAGE MILLIONAIRE - Jimmy Clanton (1961)

And now for something a little bit different! Not scary or Sci-Fi but a psychotronic musical fantasy for sure, "Teenage Millionaire" is like a 1961 Dodge Dart with a push-button transmission, you don't really want to own one, but it's fun to drive at least once!! So, right now, here's Jimmy Clanton singing the theme to "Teenage Millionaire" especially for you!!!

The movie is in black and white, but the music is in colour, go figure!!

Pretty swank digs with former boxing great Rocky Graziano and Jimmy chillin' by the pool!

"Teenage Millionaire" featured music from some of the top hitmakers of the day, like Jackie Wilson, Chubby Checker, Dion, the Bill Black Combo and Marv Johnson. In a desperate attempt to establish new talent out of nowhere 1961 style, they tried to promote two other artists by the names of Vicki Spencer, and Jack Larson. Needless to say, Jack and Vicki's career's went nowhere except right about here!!

SNOWBEAST / TV - 1977 / Music by Robert Prince

Well, wha' chew know, it already time for Saturday afternoon Dungeon flick, this time from lost monster TV world of 1977!! If you like to watch snow melt for 86 minute, then this one made for you, bud! Star Bo (DEEP SPACE) Svenson, Yvette (THE TIME MACHINE) Mimieux, Robert (LOGAN'S RUN) Logan.. (just kidding!) and Clint (KILLDOZER) Walker. Bo gots a very impressive list of credits, check it out on IMDb! Then, writer is Joseph (PSYCHO screenplay/OUTER LIMITS) Stefano! Still, no saving this dud!

Nice soundclip for TV movie though. Composer Robert Prince have 52 credit, and mostly for TV. Some thing he work on: THE WILD WILD WEST, MANNIX, LAND OF THE GIANTS, NIGHT GALLERY, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, GARGOYLES, GHOST STORY (TV), WONDER WOMAN, SQUIRM, CLAWS, BUCK ROGERS and more!

Tabonga' pets Ralphie and Piff stay up too late last night to watch scary flick double feature, so they still crash out on floor! (Is funny to hear Piff snore!) So, anywho, here we 'GO' wif' today' Saturday afternoon festivity!.. SNOWBLIND!!

Snowbeast... Meet Gurl!

Gurl... Meet Snowbeast!

Okay, now that formality out of the way!..

Oopsie!! This must be gurlie with no face... An' no arm... An' no foot... An' no kneecap... An' no...

Hey, aren't you Bo Svenson?!!

Robert, please, you know who I am! This is really getting embarrassing!

Yvette, 17 years after playing Weena, now seventies snow bunny!

Main actors all big guys!

Oh, Betty Jo, come on and SMILE for the SNOWBEAST!!

Wowzers, that SNOWBEAST one very clever and tricky dude!!.. Watch out below!!!

Sorry Clint, it in the script!!

Oh, Bo know what to do, alright!.. Actually, Bo end up by plunging very sharp ski pole into SNOWBEAST' heart!!

SLIPSTREAM - "Im Not Takin' You In!" (1989)

Whoa! Thursday The 13th went by before I even noticed, I think it's from all this gazing into the future, of which tonight is no exception! From a completely different angle, and 53 years later after "Things To Come" the future is lookin' even weirder than ever in "Slipstream," A title that stirred many an author's fancy I sense, as there were at least 4 more movies made with the exact same title, but not content, in 1967 (Spielberg), 1973 (DJ movie featuring the music of Derek & The Dominoes, and Van Morrison), 2005 (Sci-Fi), and again in 2007 (Anthony Hopkins writes, directs, acts & get this, wrote the music)!! And we thought we could copyright the title "The Creep!" Right!!!

This film has it all in some form or another! There's homage to Alfred(Yesterday, August 13th would have been his birthday!)!

Are you sure this is the future? Looks more like "Biker Babylon Ride" to me! I just recently watched this movie, and it was a real love/hate relationship, but despite all the bad elements, it had enuf good stuff that it wasn't a total waste of time!! Yet somehow, it's slipped all right, almost into total obscurity. They had it all, the director was Steve Lisberger, the guy who directed "Tron!"

Cast members included names like Mark Hamill, Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley, F. Murray Abraham, Bob Peck, and Rico Ross, and yet it just wasn't a future that the public was willing to buy, literally, and I'm also not sure they were ready to accept Mark Hamill in this total A-hole role!!

Tasker and Byron fly through the Slipstream and even further into the future!

Here's just a small sample from "SLIPSTREAM" to whet your appetite, from the genius mind of composer Elmer Berstein, with just a taste of Then Jericho thrown in for good measure. The film also utilized some music by The Yardbirds, Nana Vasconcelos, and the ultra swank "Barefootin'" by Robert Parker, if you can scrape up a soundtrack somewhere, it'd probably be a bargain!!

This future location includes all the essentials like Lottsa Booze, Hot Tubs, Frisbees, and Rubber Duckies! Yeehah!!

As they go from one location to the next, there's some neat shots, and also a whole bunch of real 'dusty' shots, as the wind whips thru the slipstream!

But the real action lies beyond these doors, this is where all the rich, cool and/or overly educated people ended up, and it ain't Hell, imagine that!!

As a matter of fact, it looks a lot like an underground Hearst Castle!

This film is smart at times, like this scene where even an android can face his past!

The champagne flows like water, but sometimes the oxygen is a little scarce!!

In the future, every day is going to be like a Happy New Year's Eve party!

And a place, where even an android can fall in love!!! Aaahhh!!!!

"I said, I'm not takin' you in!"

Way too much going on, but we can't forget Kitty Aldridge as Mark Hamill's pardner, Belitski! She's so sweet and nice, it's worth watching the movie just to see her get one in the chops!!

Used DVDs of "Slipstream" are available on Amazon.com for a penny plus shipping!!! It's really quite a bit better than that, but that pretty much says it all!!!