CAPTAIN CELLULOID VS.THE FILM PIRATES - Adventure Pictures (1966)

"Captain Celluloid Vs.The Film Pirates" was a fan based silent movie in the style of the good old fashion serials! It was made in 1966 and is a film that's all about questions, and more questions, like Why? Why did they do it?

The movie's intentions are honorable no doubt, but question number one, is that enough?

There is no doubt in my mind that the Firesign Theater's 1979 film titled "J-Men Forever" was totally inspired by this low budget film!

Pre-video, pre-internet, here's the inspired plot in a krazy nutshell!!

Basically nobody in this film ever acted again, including Robert Clayton here as Larry (The Man Of) Steele! He was also the writer and producer of this film!

Two classic names in one person, Doris and Dale, but Chip and Dale ended up with a lot more fame and fortune!

Born in Oakland, and died in New York, Alan played himself in a 1974 documentary called Busby Berkeley!

This was Barney's only acting gig, but his son, Vic Noto has had, and continues to have, a decent career as tough guy actor! If we ever remake this movie, we'll get Mark Del Rio for this role!

Was this John Cullen's sole acting credit? That would be correct! You get three points!

After her debut here as Satanya, Jean Barbour went on to do, well.............nothing!!

Al Kilgore also worked in the art department of the 1985 documentary, "Document Of The Dead!" His last name was subsequently arrested for making death threats on ex Vice President Al Gore!

Did Grant Willis ever work again? Yes, as an audience member in the movie "Love Story," and as production manager for a film called "Submission!"

William K. Everson actually ended up banging around for a few years as film advisor and consultant before biting the big one in 1996!

The identity of The Master Duper remains a mystery to this day! Is it possible that he was actually a big name talent incognito? Possible but doubtful!!!

Last but not least, Robert Steele did double duty as Robert Clayton and the mysterious masked man Captain Celluloid! One last question, do I have a near mint, only played almost once DVD of this movie for sale for $6.00 including postage in the United States? The answer is an overwhelming YES!!!!

THE GIANT BEHEMOTH / Artistes Alliance Ltd. - 1959

It's Friday Fright with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. We gots a redo post from 2008 of this very decent little British produced flick, the story's about underwater atomic tests that cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem, resulting in blobs of radiation and the rebirth of a huge dormant creature.

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip from this movie for our enjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the atomic fish tank, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's our audio offering for... THE GIANT BEHEMOTH!

No telling how many fifties and sixties horror and sci-fi flicks used atomic testing as the real culprit in the story, I won't attempt to even start a list of them. Hell, we were still doing atomic underground testing in US deserts during the Reagan years!

Here's Gene Evans as American research scientist, Steve Karnes. Gene can be seen in another film directed by Eugene Lourie, SHOCK CORRIDOR, playing a childish egghead in a mental hospital who likes to hide under chairs and do other weird stuff.

This old salt has a deadly run in with the radio active Behemoth, then, a radio active blob washes onto the shore and causes radiation burns on that idiot's hand when he 'accidently' touches it, was ein dummkoph!!

The USDA inspects this glowing flounder, I see no problem here.

Now, that's what I call a footprint!

The Behemoth makes its way into london and burns the fleeing citizens with radiation!

The creature toasts these Army dudes like crispy critters!

Some nice looking shots of the Behemoth, notice the rope lines on the model car as it's released from the monster's mouth!

When this submarine pilot pushes that lever down, an atomic device will completely destroy the Behemoth, once and for all!..

DIE RECHNUNG - EISKALT SERVIERT - Peter Thomas - "Tip Not Included" (1966)

If you like movies that are ridiculously absurd as much as I do, then the whole series of Jerry Cotton movies is made to order for you! "Die Rechnung - Eiskalt Serviert" or as it was released in English, "Tip Not Included," is the fourth in the series, and is just as good as the rest!

Once again, the music in "Tip Not Included" was composed by the master of maestros, Peter Thomas! I'd like to see every TV show and movie that Peter has written the music for! I'm sure all 158 are worth the time just to hear whatever amazing score he came up with! The man is a true genius! Here's just a tantalizing and tasty morsel of what he came up with for this film! It's some of the theme, and the song from the club scene, I'm not exactly sure who is really singing!

As always, here's George Nader as F.B.I. agent Jerry Cotton! He's a mean, lean, investigating machine!

THIS.................................................. You get the shaft, but the tip's not included!

Back stage at the wrasslin' matches, a bunch of thugs with colorful names like Caruso and Happy hang out making plans, while Mary the moll does her nails!

I don't know why, but I find these two shots fascinating! I really think I was born to be an architect!

Depending on which version you're watching, Yvonne Monlaur is club torch singer named either Violet or Phyllis! Lovers of Hammer horror will recognize Yvonne from her roles in "The Brides Of Dracula," "Circus Of Horrors," and "The Terror Of The Tongs!"

Here's the plan! Explode the armored truck carrying the goods, and while masked in a cloud of smoke, transfer the stuff to an ambulance hidden in a truck and flee the scene unencumbered!

Time for Jerry to catch up with the gang at the Catch as Catch Can show at the Catcher Center!

Pretty odd, some 47 years later, the Exide battery corporation just filed for bankruptcy last month!

Birke Bruck as the steamy Mary was Doris in "Shock Treatment" and worked steadily right up until 2007 in TV and the movies! Her little shower scene was pretty hot for 1966, and you have to love the fact that she took a shower with her glasses on!

This was Horst ("Whiskey And Sofa," "Gorilla Gang") Tappert as Charles Anderson! Gee, and I thought he was the boss! Guess I was wrong!!

Ride 'em cowboy! Jerry hitches a ride on a helicopter to show off more of the green screen technology that was fundamental in the making of  most of the Jerry Cotton films! You can get all the Jerry Cotton movies on Amazon or directly from Sinister Cinema for a pittance! I can't think of a better way to waste your hard earned cash!

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE / Paramount Pictures - 1931

It's another Monsterous Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. This story by Robert Louis Stevenson has created some thrilling moments in the cinema, with titles like DER JANUSKOPH (1920), DR. PYCKLE AND MR. PRYDE (1925), ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET DR. JEKYLL, SON OF DR. JEKYLL, DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL, THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL, DR. JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE, including Eegah!! and Tabonga's lost 8mm comedy horror masterpiece from 1959, DR. HEKYLL AND MR. JYDE! This great looking 1931 film had an incredible $1,140,000 budget!!

Eegah!! sent over this soundclip from the movie for our listening enjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the smoking lab beaker, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE!

Dr. Jekyll lives a charmed life, besides being a famous doctor, he gives lectures and is an accomplished pianist!

And, he's got the perfect girlfriend (soon to be fiance), so, what could possibly go wrong?..

Being a good doctor, he helps a damsel in distress who has hurt her leg by carrying her up to her room.

Ivy, the local barfly, flirts with the doc by tossing her garters in front of him before she gets naked under the covers! The fun ends there when the doctor's friend walks in on them.

If this isn't a great shot, then, I guess I don't know what a great shot is!

Welp, here's mud in yer eyeball!

I swear, when I was watching some of the transformation scenes, I kept having flashes of Jerry Lewis in THE NUTTY PROFESSOR!

The first thing Hyde does is go to the bar and have a drink. Lucky for him, Ivy shows up there, unlucky for Ivy, he blackmails her into being his lover!

Not knowing he's also Hyde, Ivy goes to the doctor and shows him the marks on her back from her sexual encounter with the wild man. Jekyll makes a promise to himself that he will never use the potion again.

Then it happens, he doesn't need the potion, now, he can change into Hyde through his own emotional stress. He shows up at Ivy's place and kills her!

He proves to his friend that it's really Henry Jekyll under all that makeup by transforming back into him!

But, the genie's out of the bottle and Hyde sets his sights on his next victim, Jekyll's beloved fiance!