BERLINO - APPUNTAMENTO PER LE SPIE - Riz Ortolani - "Spy In Your Eye" (1965)

Who needs Sevens when you've got a "Spy In Your Eye," and Secret Agent Z.3?

The title is of this mindbender of a movie is "Berlino Appuntamento Per Le Spie!" It's been released as the literally translated "Berlin, Appointment For Spies," and also as "Bang You're Dead," Cult Of Violence," "Epitaph For A Spy," and the most well known title, "Spy In Your Eye!" They tried every possible angle!

Brett Halsey is Secret Agent Bert Morris this time! "Spy In Your Eye" is the movie Brett made right before playing 077 in "Espionage In Lisbon!"

Dana (Curse Of The Demon, Hot Rods To Hell) Andrews is Colonel Lancaster aka Secret Agent Z.3! The fact that he only has one eye is what keeps him from being Secret Agent A.1.

They just came out with a new video eyeball invention and the Colonel is going for it! Hold still, this won't hurt at all!!

But what the Colonel and the rest of the free world don't know is that this eyeball is also a video camera and transmitter, and nothing the Colonel ever sees again is going to be secret!

The guys monitoring the whole thing are comfortably inside the tank of this red truck!

This hunchback character is Bert's contact and his fake hump is also a secret radio transmitter!

Tania (Miss Shumway Goes West, Run Psycho Run) Béryl as Madeline, and Gasone (Mr. Superinvisible) Moschin as Boris are out to give the Americans a hard time in more ways than one!

They were celebrating something krazy during the the making of this film, and the guys in charge decided to take full advantage of the party atmosphere! Here's just a small sample of the music that was created by Maestro Riz Ortolani for "Spy In Your Eye!" Riz also won an Academy Award in 1964 for the beautiful theme song in a weird and oft bizarre documentary titled "Mondo Cane!" Riz just passed away this last January at the age of 87! With 226 composing credits to his name, I can guarantee you, they don't make 'em like Riz any more!

If that camera looks awfully suspicious, it's because it's actually a gun, and this guy is targeting a guy inside one of the floats! What he doesn't know is that they have played the olde switcheroo on him, and it's one of his buddies inside! That's one way to end a friendship!

The video is almost believable, but the amazing thing is that the peepers also get all the sound from the scene too! I would imagine that if there's a microphone inside your eyeball, and suddenly there's feedback, Whoa, Excedrin Headache # 13!!

"Spy In Your Eye" is full of cute tricks like this stabbing Napoleon wax figure! The right hand is down and behind a little, so if you reach into his left pocket, it triggers his arm to quickly swing around and stab you in the stomach!

More cuteness, the two kidnapped victims are stashed in the advertising toothpaste tubes on top of this van! That's the kind of movie this is!

And last but not least, where does the Professor hide the secret formula that's everyone's literally dieing to get their hands on? Right smack dab in the middle of the scalp of his lovely daughter! So that's it, if you wanna know more, then head on over to Cult Action cause that's the only place to find a copy, as far as I know!

FIVE / Arch Oboler Productions, Paramount Pictures - 1951

It's... Oh My God! Blogger seems to have fixed their shit and the black and white pictures finally look normal when uploaded Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. We gots one of the first atomic 'end of the world' flicks from the mind of Arch Oboler, who went on to produce THE TWONKY in 1953. Arch was 5' 1½" tall.

Eegah!! sent over a little soundclip of the theme and more, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there by the A-Bomb Crater, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for not just THREE or FOUR, but... FIVE!

When I worked at a special effects studio in Canoga Park in the early nineties, one of the artist's name was Carter, and, earned the nick-name, "Crater."

The story goes like this... The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust and only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a black man, a bank clerk and a neo-Nazi who goes on to create Fox News. They all wind up at a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house on a California mountaintop.

Roseanne is pregnant and was separated from her husband in the attack, she wanders aimlessly through the countryside and finally comes upon the house occupied by another survivor, Michael.

Two others show up, Charles and Mr. Barnstaple, so, they all take a trip to the beach. So far, Roseanne hasn't smiled once! The elder Mr. Barnstaple dies later that day.

Then, neo-Nazi Eric shows up, he creates problems immediately, he will do no work and wants Roseanne to leave with him and relocate in the city. Roseanne has her baby as the men fight it out and a thunderstorm blows in. Not a good omen!

Eric convinces Roseanne (she wants to try and find her husband) to leave with him, and, they take Michael's Jeep after Eric kills Charles in a scuffle.

It's a grim sight in the city, creeping out Roseanne big time!

Roseanne, carrying her baby, locates her husband in his office, now a skeleton, as Eric breaks into jewelry stores and grabs a big pile of diamonds!

Then, Eric discovers that he has radiation poisoning, freaks out, and, runs away in a panic!

Roseanne doesn't drive, so, she takes the baby and heads back towards Michael's place. On the way there, sadly, the baby dies, leaving Roseanne completely devastated. Miraculously, Michael finds her while wandering around.

It's now up to Michael and Roseanne to bring more children into the world...

Tune in Wednesday when Eegah!! will have something cool for us to check out!

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!