YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT - Peter Yarrow - "Love Is The Answer...What Was The Question?" (1968)

Welcome to the 60's Sychedelic Saturday Night Special down in The Dungeon! Tonight's feature is titled "You Are What You Eat" and it is the perfect movie to show at your next acid dropping party, just don't take the brown stuff or you might not be able to handle this!

"You Are What You Eat" was made in 1968 by Peter Yarrow, the Peter in 'Peter, Paul, and Mary' one of the most popular folk music groups of all time behind what I would guess would be Bobby Dylan, and/or Simon and Garfunkel! Well, it seems like Peter must have had some extra money from royalties and a vision, and "You Are What You Eat" is the end result!

"You Are What You Eat" is basically a psychedelic montage or collage of inane diatribe and wild and crazy music! This bubble gum sequence is a good example! Peter liked this imagery so much, he used it again towards the end of the movie! He probably thought you'd be so stoned you wouldn't remember anyway!

This is Superspade! He's talking on the phone to somebody about something! It doesn't matter what he's saying, because it's pure concept!

Because of the montage nature of this film, there were probably literally thousands of images to choose from, so when it's a crapshoot, I'm always going to choose dancing!

If you're olde enuf, you might remember those days of yesteryear when dogs on motorcycles didn't have to wear a helmet!

Okay, this freaky character gets more than a few lines! Kinda like Cambria's Captain Nitt Witt, he's got all the answers to the questions you never asked!

This cat's (Is it Tiny Tim? I can't tell!) stunning attire is just too much! If this picture doesn't deserve a comment, I don't know what will!

There are some run of the mill concepts in this film like a nun smoking a joint! I'm starting to think that everything I've always heard about "Puff The Magic Dragon," is true!

There is without a smidgen of a doubt that there's some anti-war sentiment involved here, and why not? These days, it's not kids, but only bikers who wear Nazi helmets!

Wow! So Like What Was The Question Again??

Hair was an interesting element of the sixties that has finally been liberated some 50 years later! Here's a couple of good examples!

If you think the imagery is insane, wait til you get a load of the music! There's musical talent to burn with names like The Electric Flag, Paul Butterfield, Barry McGuire, John Simon, and members of The Band contributing, and it has, as Frank Zappa would say, No Commercial Potential!

Here's just a random sampling of all the imagery being flashed across the screen!

FREAK OUT IN THE DARKNESS!

I'd like to believe that anybody reading this would know who 60's icon Tiny Tim is, but the more I think about it, it's probably a good assumption that a lot of you don't know, so let's just fix that right now,  here is Tiny Tim in full regalia doing a duet of "I Got You Babe" with the cute singer from a 60's all girl group named CAKE, Eleanor Barooshian! You really have to see and hear it to believe it, so here's the link to a YouTube video of this performance! If the background music sounds like vintage "Blonde On Blonde" Bob Dylan, it's because the musicians were the members of The Band!

"You Are What You Eat" is filled with all kinds of music from beginning to end! Here's just a taste from the ending freakout that I would imagine was done by Electric Flag!

Frank Zappa didn't have any contributions to the music, but Peter liked flashing this archival footage of him toward the end because it was so trippy! The funny thing is, because of the nature of his music, most people back then thought Frank Zappa was a giant stoner, but in reality, he had no tolerance for drug use from anybody associated with him or his music! So there you go, You are what you eat, so have fun, but do be careful!

THE SUPER ROBOT RED BARON / Nippon Gendai, Senkousha - Series from 1973-74

It's Fightin' Giant Robot Friday the 13th with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. This series has a young man piloting the Red Baron robot, rather than a robot controlled by a small device. Here is episode 5 from the first season titled, "Smash The Mysterious Rocket Operation!" It's about the SSI (Secret Science Investigation) Team who find out the reason behind their enemy's artificial rain experiments. The 'poster' here is actually a Polydor 45 record sleeve of the theme.

Eegah!! sent over a cool lil' soundclip of the theme and more for our earjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button next to the giant robot boot (it's all we could afford), NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's a taste of... THE SUPER ROBOT RED BARON!

Warning!!.. Don't mess with our hero, Super Robot Red Baron... Red Baron!

Here's their formidible opponents, the Iron Mask Party with its array of giant metal monsters and is led by the evil President Deviler.

This is the headquarters of the SSI Team. I swear, the head dude in the background looks like he's smoking a freakin' joint! In a closeup, it even looks like one.

There's even a good looking female SSI member! In a action filled fight, this Deviler Dude rudely grabs her boob!!

And, the result of his action!..

President Deviler sends out one of his deadly robots to tear up part of the city!

Super Robot Red Baron is called into action and our hero jumps in to man the big guy!

He looks out of one of the eyes as he focuses on the approaching enemy!

The bad guys always have something devilish up their sleeve!

When you see this on the screen, you know Red Baron is ready to throw a POWER PUNCH!!

The SSI Team finally figure out the reason behind the artificial rain experiments, it increases the Deviler robot's destructive power by drawing energy from the lightning!

Caption sez it all!

We'll end with a good look at our hero, Super Robot Red Baron! Tune in tomorrow when Eegah!! will bring us a psychedelic roller coaster ride!

SUPERSEVEN CHIAMA CAIRO - A.F. Lavagnino - "Super Seven Calling Cairo" (1965)

Tonight's feature is the last in my 'Number 7 Super Agent Spy Review!' There's still more of them out there, now it's just a matter of me trying to find them all!

In English, it's something like "Super Seven Calling Cairo, but the original Italian title was "Superseven Chiama Cairo!"

Superseven is Martin Stevens as played by Mr. Roger Browne! Roger's first film appearance was in the 1960 war movie, "13 Fighting Men!" He went on to have a nice 'Sword and Sandal' and then 'Secret Agent Spy' career! This movie starts off strong right out of the box with Superseven with a beautiful woman in his bed, just the way it's done in the rogue/suave handbook!

Superseven is hardcore, not even a couple of minutes into the movie, and he already puts a bullet into his lover for crossing him! Martin Stevens is not a man of mercy or sentiment!

Next stop Cairo to look for a mysterious movie camera, and put the brakes on another attempt at world domination! Next thing you know, he's getting bitched out for being in his own room by a woman he doesn't even know! The woman in question of course, is the always intriguing and alluring Rosalba (Lady Frankenstein, Castle of Fu Manchu, Lucky The Inscrutable) Neri!

Superseven is not a man that wastes time! Even if the woman resists, he just pushes harder and manages to bed complete strangers every time!

Time to cruise into downtown Cairo and find out what the loco commotion is all about!

Interesting marketplace! It looks like eggplant is a staple in Cairo, and just by coincidence I made "Eggplant Boats" myself tonight! Basically, you just cut an eggplant in half and gut it! Cook up some Italian ground turkey with some garlic, shallots, smashed tomatoes, salt and pepper, and the eggplant guts, stuff it all back together in the two halves with some mozzarella and Romano and bake for about 30 minutes! Not too bad, and as close as I'm ever going to get to Cairo!

Even in downtown Cairo, don't freakin' screw around with Superseven one on one, cause you're going to get your ass kicked! Now if there's 15 or 20 of you, you just might stand a chance!

Superseven makes contact with his contact, and I just dig this shot!

As James Brown would say in Cold Sweat Part 2, "Can we just give the drummer some, can we give the drummer some.................you got it drummer!"

Great band, kinky stripper, life is fantastic in 1965 Cairo! The music in "Superseven Chiama Cairo" was written by Maestro Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, another one of those Italian slackers with only 210 credits to his name like "Gorgo," "Mambo," "Rice Girl," Goliath And The Vampires," and "The War Of The Planets!" What a phenomenal career!! Here's just a taste of the man's talent!

Just a couple of cute kids out for a night on the town! There's no way possible that I could eat eggplant and tomatoes in a white jacket like that! Superseven's beautiful partner and lover Denise is played by Fabienne (Kill Baby Kill) Dali, no relation to Salvador I guess! It cracks me up that Superseven smokes a pipe, because it makes him look a lot like Bob Dobbs!!

Of course, the freakin' ex-Nazis are behind the whole thing!

This is an interesting scene where one of Superseven's ex's gets killed, and the authorities arrive, he and Denise act like the dead body is just a wax dummy, just like that soldier back there!

This shot just amazes me! Long shot down a long corridor that's busier than Hell culminating with what is probably some kind of religious tower! Seriously, this looks like Life on Mars! What is that, The Tower of Babel back there?

Superseven is pretty good, but he still manages to get himself into some deep shit! When this room is bathed in red, you can only maintain if you have the special welder's goggle knockoffs, so he gets captured and tortured!

Superseven's equipment includes the hyper-cool Norelco two-way radio shaver!

In every one of these movies, they are looking for something! In this one it was a camera, Super-8 would be my guess, but maybe it was 16MM, and when Superseven finally gets his hands on it, and finds a projector and a screen, and views the film, he realizes that his sweet little darling lover/partner Denise is up to no good, all the way up to her earlobes!

It always helps to have a mini-bomb in the hollow heel of your shoe! Game over! Good night everybody!  If you have an uncanny thirst for more of this kind of adventure, then I suggest you head on over to Cult Action Films! They'll take good care of you, I guarantee!!