BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING - The Zombies - "A Conspiracy Of Madness" (1965)

"Bunny Lake Is Missing" is a great little film made in 1965 from a big man in film making, Otto Preminger! Otto will of course be known throughout cinema history as the man responsible for such real classics as "Anatomy Of A Murder," "Exodus," "The Man With The Golden Arm" and more!

So what's going on here? A woman and her brother have just moved to jolly olde England from America and the film begins with her dropping her daughter Bunny off at the pre-school, BUT, you never actually see the kid! After her first day at work, she returns to pick up her child, and nobody seems to know anything about her or much of anything else either!

The panic begins! Carol Lynley is Bunny's Mother, Ann Lake! Carol always exudes that cuteness in a woman that you just want to cuddle with, the kind of a girl you want to take to the Fair, or on a picnic! In 1959 Carol starred in "Blue Denim," a movie that always bothered me, followed by "Hound-Dog Man" starring Fabian! She's been in quite a few strange films like "Shock Treatment," "The Shuttered Room," and "Beware! The Blob!" It's been a few years now since she's done any more acting, but Carol is still around and doing well, we hope!

Keir Dullea has the role of Steven Lake, Ann's brother, and the Bunny's uncle! What do I need to say about Keir Dullea except "2001: A Space Odyssey?" Keir has remained very active over the years and continues to work, and was in at least two movies this year! I also just wanted to show this street sign that says "Frogmore End!!" That's right up there with a place we have around here called "Brown Material Road!"

Considered by many to be the first Brit pop star, the multi-talented Noël Coward is magnificent in the role of Ann Lake's landlord, the über creepy Wilson!

Just in case by some remote possibility you don't know who Noël Coward is, here's a cut from a various artists tribute album by Marianne Faithfull doing one of his most popular songs, "Mad About The Boy!"

I love these scenes of mass confusion! This is when the Mothers come to pick all their kids up at the school, but there's no Bunny in sight!

The school officials are no help at all. The teacher for the class that Bunny was in left immediately at the end of the day because she had a toothache, and nobody else seems to have even seen the little girl, and they can't even find a record of her being checked in!

Ann Lake pays a visit to the retired founder of the school Ada Ford as played by Martita (Brides Of Dracula) Hunt, but that doesn't help things out any at all either!

Asking the children if any of them have seen Bunny doesn't yield any results!

At least Ann has her loving brother Steven to comfort her in her real time of need!

Now has come the time to report this whole mess to the proper authorities! Sir Laurence Olivier is Superintendent Newhouse, the man who will be in charge of the whole investigation!

The movie keeps getting darker and darker, as everyone questions Ann Lake's mental state, which doesn't exactly make her feel any better! It doesn't help matters to know that as a little girl, Ann Lake had an imaginary friend named Bunny too!

And that brings us to this point in the film where Superintendent Newhouse offers to meet Ann Lake at a local pub to further discuss the problem and any possible solutions!  Predominately featured on the poster, I was wondering how the very popular band of the time The Zombies was going to fit into this whole equation! It didn't seem like Ann Lake was going to be heading to a club any time soon to celebrate the loss of her daughter, but as it turns out, at the pub where she is meeting the Superintendent, the TV is on, and guess who is on the screen?

The Zombies had just had two of their biggest hit songs released a year earlier in 1964, "She's Not There" which went to number two in the U.S. and "Tell Her No" which topped out at number six on the charts! Here's just a small taste of their performance from the pub scene!  The Zombies popularity waned a bit  for a few years after this, but in 1968 they roared back with the number three smash hit "Time Of The Season" that has persevered for decades!

Even more mass confusion!

For just sheer creepiness, there's hardly anything that can outdo disembodied doll heads!

Personally, I had one Helluva time tracking down a copy of this movie, and once again as it has happened so many times before, just as I'm writing one of these things, I find the super rare movie I'm writing about streaming somewhere on the internet, and that is indeed the case with "Bunny Lake Is Mssing," so if you want to find out what happened to or whether even if there was a Bunny Lake, this awesome film can be found streaming on Amazon!

THE BLACK COBRA / Wiener Stadthalle-Station Betriebs-und Produktionsgesellschaft - 1963

It's just another Friday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. We gots a wild one today, filmed in Austria with lots of great characters keeping the insane action moving rapidly along.

Eegah!! sent over a lil' soundclip of cool music from this flick for our earjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button next to the white weasel, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's a taste of... THE BLACK COBRA!

You know, when you run a Euro crime syndicate, well, it's always wise to hire a brute like this handsome guy here to take care of business.

This greasy gangster's getting ready to interrogate another one of his victims.

Here's Dungeon hero Klaus Kinski as drug addicted weirdo piano player, 'The Snow.'

These are our heroes, they're in a tricky situation, with that cobra ready to strike and all!

I just like this shot of the busy bar.

Europe has some of the most interesting places you could ever wish for!

Here's the baddest of the bad guys, Günter Meisner as 'Mr. Green.' He doesn't look like much but he ends up with all the marbles in the end, and, has a cane with a poison dart in the tip that he uses on a regular basis!

It's a battle of the titans as these two go at each other, no holds barred!

At the auto junkyard, Mr. Green sticks the greasy dude with his cane and runs away and hides in a junker to escape the police who are on their way there. Greasy dude gets the last laugh as he throws the switch that starts the crane.

The crane comes down on the car Mr. Green is hiding in and takes it to the crusher!!

That's right, Mr. Green winds up inside chunk of compressed metal! Check back tomorrow when Eegah!! presents his next post.

PELIGRO... MUJERES EN ACCIÓN! - Nadia Milton - Carlos Camacho-Ernesto Cortázar-Nacho Méndez - "Danger Girls" (1969)

You want some action? You want girls? You want to see stuff get blown up? Well, then welcome to Worldwild Wednesday in The Dungeon!

The poster says the title is "Peligro... Mujeres En Acción!" but the title card says "Peligro...!  Mujeres En Acción," and my Mom always taught me to never trust people who didn't know where to put the exclamation mark, so I was just a little leery of this movie right from the start! The English title as released in South Africa is "Danger Girls!"

I counted 12 women's names, and six men's names in the credits, and most all of the women are wearing bathing suits at some point, good and bad alike, not the suits, the demeanor!

Julio Alemán is a real dynamo as Alex Dinamo who reprises his role in a movie made two years earlier called "SOS Conspiracion Bikini!" Julio has 189 acting credits to his name, and astonishingly enough I didn't see one reference to Santo or Blue Demon among them!  Right here he's about to get shot in the back, but he flips the girl around just in time and she takes the shell instead! After he disposes of the guy who tried to shoot him, he doesn't even check on the girl at all!

"Mujeres En Acción!" literally translates to "Women In Action" and that's exactly what you get in this movie, lots of action!

"Danger Girls" is almost two hours long, and scenes like this underwater chase go on for way too long, although for underwater photography, it was done real well!

I'm not 100% sure but I think these two beauties are Barbara Angely and Alma Delia Fuentes!

One trick that Alex Dinamo has up his sleeve is that he carries this high-powered blaster around with him, and he needs it more than once as the odds get stacked up against him!

By the time "Peligro... Mujeres En Acción!" is over, almost every character has got wounded or killed at least once!

There was enough action up to this point that the movie could have ended right here, but instead, it takes off again in another direction! As Alex recuperates, he explains how he didn't like the fat nurses the hospital provided, so he hired his own!

Enter César del Campo as S.O.S. Agent Jack! I think his name should be Chopper! Jack's got this crazy metal hand with one edge that is sharpened to make it even more effective, and when he's not using it, he wears this big mitt on it that looks like a hot pad so it doesn't look so obvious!

So, here you go, here's the part you've been waiting for.....The new runner-up to Kipp Hamilton's "The Words Get Stuck In My Throat" in the 'best worst' song in a movie department ever,  Nadia Milton as S.O.S. Agent 380, aka Cristal, with "I'll Never Be In Love With You!"  Nadia was a singer in real life, so I have no doubt it's her vocals, and the writing credits go to Carlos Camacho, Ernesto Cortázar, and Nacho Méndez, and believe me, it takes at least three guys to write a song like this! So just who is this Nadia Milton anyway?  Nadia was born in Italy, then her family moved to Chile! She was involved in the so-called "new wave" of Chilean music during the 1960s, and she toured as Amalia, before ending up in Mexico! Nadia was also in a few more interesting Mexican películas like "Santo Contra Los Cazadores De Cabezas"(Santo Vs The Headhunters), and a movie I've yet to see, but sounds very tasty, "Tacos Al Carbón!" Hell Yeah!!

To find out more about Nadia Milton, go this Peruvian Record Store Web Site where you can buy this 45 for eight bucks!! I'm sure it's worth every centavo!!

Although there's a nice round of applause, Chopper doesn't appear to be much of a music fan, and doesn't seem very entertained by that number at all! In fact, it made him downright uptight!

Alex has a couple of nifty gadgets at his disposal, like this mini tape recorder he uses as a distraction to get himself out of a jam!

Jeez, is it that late already? I was just getting started!!

Oh Well, still got time for one more shot of this Chopper jerk-off before he gets what's coming to him!!

Alex is tough! One of the last tries to get rid of him is by Rosa Maria Rodriguez as S.O.S. Agent Monique! I'm not really sure why Monique doesn't have a number, but that's just how mysterious this movie is! "Danger Girls" and Cult Action go hand in hand, so if you're looking for action and adventure, that's about the most exciting place I know that you can go to, have a good time, and not get killed! Adios Amigos!!