WHERE DANGER LIVES - "Mitchum In Action" (1950)

Welcome to "Where Danger Lives!" If that's what you're looking for, you've come to the right place!

 

"Where Danger Lives" is a classic no doubt! It's 82 minutes of tight, taut, and twisted film making!

"Where Danger Lives" stars the great Robert (Thunder Road) Mitchum as the quite successful Dr. Jeff Cameron.............

..........and co-stars Faith (This Island Earth) Domergue as rich girl nutjob femme fatale Margo Lannington! Margo has just recently failed an attempt to kill herself, and Dr. Cameron was the guy who treated her! What a way to meet just for starters!

The two of them immediately find themselves physically attracted to each other even though both of them are already in a relationship!  They meet to have drinks down at Pogo Pete's!

Jeff asks Margo to run away with him, but she tells him she has an overbearing father who turns out to really be her husband! Mr. Lannington is played by the amazing Claude (The Invisible Man)  Rains!

Mr. Lannington and Dr. Cameron have a bit of a scuffle and the good doctor gets hit in the head with a fire poker and blacks out! When he comes to, he discovers that the results of their fight has left Mr. Lannington quite dead, and so Jeff and Margo decide to make a run for it down to Mexico!

The eyes indeed have it! It's not often you find two actors with such distinctive eyes in a film together!

Jeff and Margo end up in some small hick town where they think they are in big trouble, but it just turns out to be some kind of annual local cowboy celebration!

The couple on the lam need a place to hide while arrangements are made to sneak them across the border, so they duck into the International Follies Of Guadalupe show.

The main soundtrack was written by Roy Webb, but the music in the Follies was a song performed by Maxine Gates called "I'm Living In A Great Big Way" that was written by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields, the songwriting team responsible for such classics as "I'm In The Mood For Love,""On The Sunny Side Of The Street," and "I Can't GiveYou Anything But Love!" Maxine Gates was in a couple of "Three Stooges" episodes! The guy playing the piano wasn't really an actor, but actually a composer himself, Phil Boutelje!

Master of lighting Nicholas Musuraca was the man responsible for the cinematography!

Dr. Cameron's health has been slowly degenerating because of that blow to the head, and by the end of the movie he can barely even walk.

Turns out in the end that Faith wasn't such a nice person after all, and she gets what she has coming to her............

.......and Dr. Cameron is reunited with his plain Jane girlfriend Julie, as played by Maureen O'Sullivan! Speaking of Jane, Maureen O'Sullivan had the role of Jane Parker in six different Tarzan movies! "Where Danger Lives" is a great little Film Noir flick, and as a double feature with "Tension" can be found at Amazon or on Netflix, and that's a deal that's hard to beat!

LOS INVISIBLES / Filmadora Chapultepec - 1963

It's Friday Mexican Cinema Drive-In Theater with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. We gots another Viruta y Capulina comedy, this time they invent an invisible paint that gets stolen by a local criminal. Viruta y Capulina were actually accomplished musicians and singers, a must for any Mexican flick.

Eegah!! sent over a cool little soundclip of the theme, sooooo, you can push that there big red 'GO' button next to the smoke machine, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... LOS INVISIBLES!

And, here are our heroes working in a doll shop, they like to sing while they work.. Abbott and Costello were the perfect pair to parody, although, Viruta was pretty goofy for the straight guy.

They work with their girlfriends, played by Martha Elena (FRAKENSTEIN, THE VAMPIRE AND COMPANY) Cervantes and Rosa María (THE BRAINIAC) Gallardo. Here they are inventing invisible paint with their special machine.

The local thief catches wind of the invention and makes plans to steal the paint and replace it with a bogus batch.

So, they go to the boss to show him their uncanny invention. First, Capulina uses a brush... He should be turning invisible any second now...

Hmmm, well, maybe he needs a little more!..

In the meantime, the thief turns himself invisible with the good stuff and heads to the local bank to make a withdrawal and tickle the gals there.

Viruta and Capulina happen to be at the bank too, so, they mess with the crook, unseen under a desk... Poor Viruta.

Okay, here's a joke I've been saving for the right time ~ Remember the 7 years Cheney went missing?!.. That's him there on the right.

Dude likes to get invisible and read the paper in a rocking chair! One time in German class, Eegah!! had his chair tilted back against the wall and fell over. Our teacher from Austria, Mr. Pokorny, told him that if he wanted to rock in a chair, he could go to his grandmother's house!

Finally, the boss catches the thief and the case is solved.

The boys get their paint back, then, accidently toss the whole batch onto the girls...

And, sometimes you get lucky and get to see an added bonus! Other bonuses are Faith Domergue coming out of water in THE ISLAND EARTH and Gloria Talbott doing the same in THE CYCLOPS.

In another second, both girls totally disappear.

THE NAKED ROAD - "Unbelievably Fantastic" (1959)

Back in the 50's there was a great show on TV hosted by Art Baker called "You Asked For It!" This is not that show! Welcome to Weirdo Wednesday and a movie from the Something Weird "Weird-Noir" series of films titled "The Naked Road!"

Here's what I have to say about "The Naked Road!" Any aspiring filmmaker who wants to make a movie, and doesn't have a lot of dough, would be well advised to make a remake of "The Naked Road!"  It could be done with a handful of so-called actors, and a budget a homeless person couldn't live on!

First off, cheat a shot from outside any restaurant anywhere! For the music, go down to the Goodwill or to your local swap meet and find an old 45 nobody's ever heard of or cares about, and you've got it made!!

Second, you need a car, and a convertible would be the vehicle of choice just because it's easier to shoot around, but it's not mandatory if you can borrow something else for free!

Probably one of the biggest expenses is going to be police uniforms! Just fake it!!

This is supposed to pass as a judge's office! You can cover almost anything with curtains except a room full of mirrors as we found out in real life while trying to make a movie called "Voodoo Club!"

OK, this is a restaurant!  A table and five chairs, a coat rack, more curtains and food cut-outs pasted on the wall! I would be surprised if this shot cost fifty cents!

Make sure you get an actor who talks real slow, and is a master of the long pause in between words and sentences, you can probably add an extra 15 minutes to the run time!!

Get some ultra honey oak contact paper and glue in on a piece of plywood and presto, the perfect boarded up window look! You can get a piece of plywood for $12.97 and the contact paper is $11.99 plus tax!

One thing though, tell your actor not to stand around with his hands on his hips the whole time, it gets real annoying after a while!!

A nickel ninety-eight and you've got yourself a 'superintendent's' office!!

One costume change for the leading lady is all that is necessary!

Get a half a dozen of your friends to pose as cops, buy them a pizza, and you've got the big crescendo! All you need is some more fake cop costumes! I think the whole film could be made in about 6 hours!

$29.99 for a fog machine, and you're out of there!! Run the closing credits!!

The best thing about "The Naked Road" was that when I was searching for a picture of the movie poster, a photo of this Heavy Metal parody band Steel Panther showed up in the Google search!! I'm so happy to know that these guys aren't serious!!