MISS ROBIN CRUSOE / Eastern Productions (II) - 1954

It's Friday the 14th with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. We have a flick starring Amanda Blake (Miss Kitty from GUNSMOKE) playing the title character in a low-budget, female version of the Daniel Defoe classic. Robin is the survivor of a shipwreck whose lifeboat beaches on an island. Also starring are George Nader (who was in the awesome ROBOT MONSTER a year earlier) as Jonathan and Rosalind (SERPENT ISLAND) Hayes as Friday. One tagline reads... In the annals of strange adventure none more astounding...more amazing!!!

Eegah!! sent over a lil' soundclip with some narration and jungle drums from this movie for our earjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there by the atomic shrunken head, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's a taste of... MISS ROBIN CRUSOE!

The story begins with the narrator giving a rundown of the events leading to the capsize of the ship at sea.

A pirate dude finds Robin washed up on the shore. When he tries to take advantage of her, she runs to the top of a cliff and kicks him over the edge when he grabs her!!

Robin has to do everything it takes to survive on the island, including hunting for food and constructing her own treehouse!

She hears jungle drums in the distance and finds some natives ready to sacrifice a girl, who she saves and names, what else... Friday!

Friday shows Robin how to milk a goat (something Eegah!! knows a little about) and helps her make some more appropriate jungle attire.

Handsone hunk, Jonathan, washes up on shore, another victim of a shipwreck. Robin immediately lets him know who the boss of the island is by binding his hands!

On a moonlit night, Friday jealously watches as Robin and Jonathan sit together in a romantic setting.

The spell is broken when Jonathan kisses Robin, she gets furious, so, he has to pick up his marbles and goes back to his place.

Jonathan gets back to the island after he went out in the lifeboat and flagged down a passing ship, then, it's an all out attack from the hostile natives!

The ship saves the day with cannon balls fired at the natives, and, the three are safely rescued from the island! Tune in tomorrow, I think Eegah!! has something up his sleeve...

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NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES / Cinematográfica Calderón S.A. - 1969

It's Blood and Sex Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. You can tell from the poster that there's some sexy dames in this offbeat horror movie from Mexico! So, enjoy, amigo!! One poster caption reads.. "Warning: this film contains scenes of extreme and explicit violence."

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip of the theme and ending from this wild and wooly flick, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there by the bloody ape heart, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES!

The story starts with two sexy wrestling women going at it, when, one of them suddenly dies during the match!

We get to see an eyeful of female flesh in this banned flick, so, you might want to check it out if you haven't seen it already!

A doctor and his assistant steal an ape from the local zoo and transplant its heart into the doc's sick and dieing son!

The son lives, but, he's transformed into a Freakin' Bloody Ape Man! The very identifiable Gerardo Zepeda plays the monstruo, as he did many times in numerous Mexican horror movies from 1963-2004. His first credit was for one of my favorites, DOCTOR OF DOOM.

The monster escapes from the lab and quickly finds this nudie cutie just finished with her shower! You'll have to watch the movie to see what happens next...

There's even some good old pre-code horror comics eye gouging!

The doc and his helper then steal a woman from a hospital bed and transplant her beating heart into the monster in order to change it back to human!

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Even though the son is now human again, that reddish glow could only mean one thing!..

It's baaack!!

The boy just doesn't give up!

I really like this shot.

The son is killed at the end, and, the doctor has no one to blame but himself! Check in on Wednesday to see what Eegah!! has in store for us!

DEADLY IS THE FEMALE - "Gun Crazy" - King Brothers Productions (1950)

Welcome to a real Saturday Night Special down in The Dungeon, a .38 Special, that is!

My old pal, Arizona's amazing Al Perry told me this was his favourite film noir flick, and since it was already on my list, it seemed like the time was right!  The story was written by the brilliant blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo who also wrote such classics as "Rocketship X-M," and "Johnny Got His Gun!" Co-creator of Mr. Magoo Millard Kaufman allowed his name to be used in the credits as writer as a front for Dalton Trumbo! Figuring enough time had passed by 1992, Millard revealed the truth about the credits to the world!

 Just because a young man has an over-fascination with guns doesn't make him a criminal, that is, until he steals one!!  Meet young Barton Tare!

So it's off to reform school for the kind young man with a love for guns but a hatred for the killing of anything! He just likes to shoot the damn things! And despite all the pleas for leniency by his  sister, Bart is sent off for quite a few years! The young Bart Tare was played by none other than Russ Tamblyn (credited as Rusty Tamblyn) in his sixth film appearance!

One of the first things Bart does when he gets out of reform school is go to the carnival with his two best buddies from childhood that he's kept in touch with, and the most interesting thing is an act by sharpshooter Annie Laurie Starr as played by the super cute Peggy (Curse Of The Demon) Cummins!

Well, you might say it was love at first sight...................

...................But not until they were both in the sight of each other's guns! I'd like to see this act today where you invite a complete stranger up on stage from out of the audience to shoot out candles on your head! The grown up Bart Tare was actor John Dall, a man with a short but fruitful career! In his first film role ever, the movie "The Corn Is Green," John was nominated for 'Best Actor In A Supporting Role'! He was also in Alfred Hitchcock's classic "Rope!"

So there you go, Bart joins the act, but not for long after he has a dispute with the Boss about whose girl Annie is, and they off and get married!

These two crazy kids are so in love and life is beautiful! The song "Laughing On The Outside (Crying On The Inside) says it all, and was written by Bernie Wayne and Ben Raleigh, and was sung by Frances Irvin!

Unfortunately, the money that they have saved doesn't go very far after a couple of bad nights at the casino! It doesn't take them long to figure out that their one common talent might also be a way to generate economic success! At first they were only going to rob one place, but you know how that goes!

When they need a getaway car,  Annie pretend hitchhikes, and you know the first dirty old man who comes along is going to pick her up!

They do this a couple of times, where there's an interesting scene shot from the backseat of the car into the back of Bart and Annie's heads as they chit chat!

After a few heists, they start having to change up their identities to be able to get through the road blocks!

Then after a few close calls, they finally have a run-in with the police, and after a hot pursuit Bart shoots the tires of the police car, and even though he didn't shoot the officers, he still feels bad that they got hurt in the crash! Annie, on the other hand, feels no remorse at all!

On the run, broke, and now having to ride in a boxcar for transportation, Bart and Annie decide to try and pull off one last big robbery, and then call it quits forever, and try and lead a safe and sane life!

I love this movie, but right here they lost me! They devise a plan to rob the payroll of the Armour Meat packing plant, and somehow, Bart manages to land a job as a delivery guy to the plant, and Annie gets a job as a secretary in the office! If it was that easy to get a job, I'm thinking they should have stopped right there, and settled down, but I guess that would have made for a happy but dull ending!

It's now revealed that Annie can be a cold and ruthless killer! Bart on the other hand is still as kind hearted as ever, but because he loves her so much, he's willing to follow her to the bowels of Hell!

Thinking they've got it made now, the kids go out and have a good time! Here they are on the roller coaster! Unfortunately life is a like a roller coaster too, and they're about to hit the big dip! The serial numbers on the money they stole have been traced down, and it doesn't take long before their money is no good, and they're tracked down!

The final escape attempt includes this beautiful shot that all you car afficinados should be able to appreciate!

Whether you want to quote Jim Morrison or Bugs Bunny, it makes no difference because "This is the End," and "That's all, Folks!!"

Al was 100% right, "Gun Crazy" is a really fine film right up there with "Kiss Me Deadly!" Makes sense since the original title of this film was "Deadly Is The Female!" The original poster is so not this movie, and it doesn't take much thought to understand why they changed the look and the title to the much more dynamic "Gun Crazy!"