THE THREE STOOGES in THE GHOST TALKS (1949)

"The Ghost Talks" is one of the rare Stooges romps that veers off into the supernatural, and once again, the music is basically insignificant, except for the "Three Blind Mice" theme, which we've stated here before, was a nursery rhyme written by English composer Thomas Ravenscroft in 1609!

Cinematographer M.A. Anderson gets a lot of credit for the terrific look of this short, in what I believe was his only Stooges outing! Producer and Director Jules White, on the other hand was responsible for over 300 Three Stooges episodes!

Shemp gets caught in the pouring rain not unlike what's been pounding California for the last week, and ends up with an inverted umbrella full of water!

Moe gets the situation all straightened out, and under control!

Growing up watching The Stooges, I always figured they were made for kids, I mean Dad never watched them and Mom sure as Hell didn't, but as an adult, you kind of get a different take on the whole scene, like this little film is about a ghost who was a peeping tom! A sex crime!

As a kid, I think a lot of guys identify with Curly, but as you grow older, Shemp's intellect shows off it's complexities!

Tell me this doesn't look like a set-up for a sight gag!!

Ow, right in Larry's gazitza!! It was "Just a coincidence!"

When in doubt, get out the manual and look up the chapter on how to move a suit of armor! The fact that they are the 'Express' company cracks me up!

Oh, Yeah, Sure, kid's program ALL the way, as the boys drop down and have a smoke!

But it was just a set-up for this and another gag!

Boy, what an enviable way to work. A small closed set, a cast of basically only three very experienced and talented actors, and good lighting, how could you go wrong?

I love this shot and the living skull routine! So, besides Moe, Larry, and Shemp, all you needed was a voice for the ghost, and a voice for the skeleton, and............

......Nancy Saunders as Lady Godiva! Nancy was also in two other Stooge's shorts, "The Brideless Groom," and "I'm A Monkey's Uncle," and another flick called "The Thirteenth Hour," and started off her career in film as a glamour girl in the movie "The Bamboo Blonde!"

Wolf whistles, catcalls, it may be The End, but it's almost more than these three hotblooded guys can handle!!

BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER / MCP - 1960

Hello everbloody, welcome to Mondo Monday, here at The Dungeon...

What a flick we gots tonight, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, stars Robert Clarke, filmed back to back with THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN using the Texas State Show Grounds for locations, and it even co-stars Ulmer's own daughter, Arianne!

This is the actual mint 3-sheet I sold on eBay for $400 in 1999 to help pay for a generator we needed for night shoots while making THE CREEP. Eegah!! and I spent many nights using noise reduction software, taking out that infernal generator noise in post production!!

The music's by Mr. Darrell Calker, here's the titles of some Walter Lantz cartoons he worked on!.. VOO-DOO BOO-BOO, WOODY'S KOOK-OUT, FOWLED-UP BIRTHDAY, PHONEY EXPRESS, CARELESS CARETAKER, CORNY CONCERTO, HYDE AND SNEAK and HI-SEAS HI-JACKER, and that's how he ended his career!!

Awrat then... Here's that lil' Dungeon helper and gnat-weight hot dog eating champ, Rufus The Gnat, to push the big red 'GO' button way over there, which starts our Eariffic Earclip for yer listenin' enjoyment! Git ready for... BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER!

Ground control is monitoring Major Allison as he becomes THE FIRST MAN INTO SPACE, even though the plot is WORLD WITHOUT END!..

Nice model work, modifying this Delta Dart into a spaceship!

You can hear in the soundclip where the Major hits that time twisting spot in space!

After the Major lands back on Earth, well, things, they just don't seem the same... A few years later, Robert Hutton pulls the same act when he lands at the Van Nuys airport in THE SLIME PEOPLE... "Hey, where did everbloody go, George?!"

Then, the Major looks around the corner of the building and sees this!

As he approaches the complex, the people watching prepare to zap him with their knock-out ray.

He wakes up in a big tube!.. Yeah, the poster art looks a bit more dramatic.

Here's beautiful Darlene Tompkins as Princess Trirene and Vladimir Sokoloff as the Supreme. Darlene was also in BLUE HAWAII and FUN IN ACAPULCO, Vladimir was in I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF, SABU AND THE MAGIC RING, MONSTER FROM GREEN HELL and MR. SARDONICUS.

Don Flournoy and Tom Ravick get the only 'mutant' credits. Here, Major Allison tries to reason with them. It doesn't work.

The Princess is a deaf-mute, but can read minds. She likes the Major.

The Major asks her is she can read his mind, and, she'll slap the crap out of him a moment later!!

Then, the lucky dog gets to watch her skinny dip!

Here's director Ulmer's daughter, Arianne, as Capt. Markova, she lets the mutants go against the leaders! She was also in the movie THE NAKED VENUS aka DIARY OF A NUDIST!

The mutants get a little distracted!

The architecture is interesting and all, but, seems so damn impractical... I mean, c'mon, it's like a funhouse in there!

The Princess accidently gets shot and dies!

In order to get back to his time, the Major has to exit out the back door!

After going through the time barrier again, he lands back in 1960 and is taken directly to the hospital...

Because, he is now an old man!!

Thanks to TedMo for retrieving this flick for us!

Ghoulnight Everbloody!!

NACHTS, WENN DRACULA ERWACHT - Bruno Nicolai - "Count Dracula" (1970)

Tonight's shocking tale is a big bloody batch of holiday cheer, and greetings from "Count Dracula", Jesus Franco and Bram Stoker!!

One word rises to the top of the burning cauldron that is this movie, and that word would be Atmosphere!! Jesus Franco style!

"Break on through to the other side!" Does it not look like the mortar between the bricks of that wall are merely painted on? Is that degree of cheapness even possible in a film of this quality?

This film is a Christopher Lee vehicle all the way, and he drives it from this point where he is an old vampire, and into a tunnel of time painted with the lives and blood of young women, and the lure of eternal youth!

Did you see the size of that bed? What? Is this Hugh Hefner's Euro digs?

The very impressive cast includes Herbert Lom as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, also known in some circles as the vampire killer! A real class guy, Herbert Lom played the Phantom in the 1962 version of "Phantom Of The Opera" and "Captain Nemo" in "Mysterious Island!"

The amazing Maria "Venus In Furs" Rohm has the role of Mina Murray, and ...

....the always stunning Soledad Miranda steps out as Lucy Westenra to flesh out the cast!

Now that's a top notch cast, but, I don't know, something's missing, maybe it's my brain, or maybe it's something even more mysterious than that, but something is missing!

This is what the inside of Soledad Miranda's nose looked like, and what her face looked like while Dracula was chomping down on her jugular vein!

When Val Helsing has people over for barbecue, he likes to serve the stakes bloody rare!!

Since this is kind of a Giallo version of Dracula, it's no wonder that one of the busiest men on the circuit, the Masestro Bruno Nicolai, is once again at the musical helm!

Everybody neat and pretty??

Dungeon All-Star Klaus Kinski gets big billing as the mad Renfield, but for my money, he doesn't add much to the story! Actually, not many of the characters add much to the story!

Count Dracula telepathically told Renfield to escape, so he tries flying away. Talk about credibility, he actually survives this fall!

Christopher Lee looks like he just came off the set of some western movie, or maybe an episode of "Wild, Wild West!" He looks cool with his hair a little longer, and a moustache!

Not quite your average Night at the Opera, where's Harpo when you need him?

It was asking a lot for me to believe that those two guys could actually move that very large stone, but it seemed to convince the guy that it landed on!

Uh, Oh, Oh, No, they woke Dracula up, now they are in for big trouble!!

But what's this? They set his ass on fire? How clever is that?

"Count Dracula" is one movie I don't mind giving away the ending, because you know Dracula's going to die, but you also know he'll be back some day. I'm not sure if anyone really knows how many Dracula and/or vampire movies have been made over the years, but it's interesting that like Dracula himself, the genre will seemingly live forever!