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!

THE VAMPIRE'S GHOST - Republic Pictures (1945)

That was an awful little side trip Tabonga took us on, but now it's time to get back to the reel thing, but before we go any further, it's my sad duty to report that a lot of the cool olde classic films that Netflix was offering streaming are now kaput!! I guess it wasn't lucrative enough for them, so a lot of titles they had available a mere few months ago, have now expired!! I'm talking titles like COUNTESS DRACULA, GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN, BLOOD AND ROSES, HANDS OF THE RIPPER, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, FACE OF MARBLE, LADY AND THE MONSTER, THE CATMAN OF PARIS, CRACK IN THE WORLD, AT THE EARTH'S CORE, WITCHFINDER GENERAL, and TALES THAT WITNESS MADNESS, just to name a few!! Yes, indeed, interest in the past is waning, without a doubt!

"The Vampire's Ghost" is a cool little film from 1945 that clocks in at just under an hour! Like all those other movies I just mentioned it will be streaming on Netflix for just a day or two longer! Luckily, sites like Amazon seem to be picking up the slack!

There have been several suspicious murders of late, and the incessant sound of drums is making all the locals uptight! The ignorant might just think it's another Iron Butterfly drum solo, but for those who understand the drums, it spells trouble!!

Charles (Swamp Fire) Gordon and Peggy (The Ghost Goes Wild) Stewart are the happy lovers whose life is just about to go into turmoil! Charles was only in 9 films, but Peggy has like 123 titles to her credit, and was in the "Twilight Zone" episode titled "The Shelter," and not that long ago was in one of my favourite modern day shows, "Weeds," in the episode titled "Su-Su-Sucio!"

Man, back in 1945, people understood entertainment! What a four piece band we have here, jungle kettle drums, squeeze box, fiddle, and flute, and one hot gal doing the dancing, and Here's what it sounds like!!!

Dude, maybe you need to get some of those dollars changed into quarters, and get directions to the local laundromat!

The owner of the club is Webb Fallon, a rather strange and mysterious fellow played by John (The Gorilla Man) Abbott! It might just be hearsay, but it's rumored that the internet is named after him!

Webb's been around for 400 years, but he still looks pretty good as long as he keeps his casket dirt with him!

Martin (Voodoo Woman) Wilkins as Simon Peter is the first person to think there's something suspicious about Webb! Here he's looking at a mirror that doesn't show Webb's reflection!

There are so many different variations on what a vampire can and cannot do! Unlike Dracula, Webb can go out into the sun, but he has to wear shades!!

Weird racist concepts abound, all the white people get top billing in the movie, but the black guys are the only ones who understand what is going on! I'm pretty sure that's Floyd (King Kong) Shackleford as the other native. One of the greatest athletes of all time, Native American Jim Thorpe, also had a role as one of the other natives!

Dumbass white guy removes the silver arrow that Simon Peter used to try and kill the vampire with, and now he's totally under Webb Fallon's control! I guess he's gonna get what he's got coming to him!

Nice shot of what used to be a state of the art music player!

So Dirty and Dancing try and cheat Webb out of some cash using marked cards! It's going to be safe to assume that that's not a good idea!! Dude's 400 years old, he's seen every trick in the book and then some!

Roy (Radar Men From The Moon) Barcroft had some 376 acting credits to his name! He was born in Crab Orchard, Nebraska, (Great name for a town), and he's about to meet his maker! Moral of the story, never try and cheat a vampire!

Arlyn (The Phantom Speaks) Roberts as the dancer, is just about to meet the same fate!!

Who is going to win this battle? Vampire or Voodoo??

Got a little time to kill, so Peggy decides to go out on a nice zombiefied stroll!

Finally Webb entrances Peggy to go back to his roots spot, Charles snaps out of it, follows along and burns the whole place to Hell! Bam, just like that, 400 years worth of work gone in 55 minutes!