ATOMIC WAR! & MORE!! - A Fun And Freaky Look At Our Nuclear Past..

It's time for your Special Xmas Surprise, it's all about our atomic past and some of the things it spawned for our pleasure and displeasure! If atomic bombs weren't bad enough, they then came up with the super terror, the freaking hydrogen bomb!.. Enjoy!

Here's an issue of an ATOMIC WAR! comic from 1953, there were only four issues published.

If that wasn't enough, here's an ATOMIC ROMANCE comic, he needs a kiss before they die!

Atomic fever was in the air in the early fifties, here's a very cool ATOMIC ENERGY LAB for kids with an interest in super science!

The ATOMIC BOMBER was a game of skill that taught you to hit your mark using your authentic B-29 bomber!

Kids were even induced into sucking on an ATOMIC FIRE BALL, hey, for just a penny a pop!!

Here's a shot of the ATOMIC CANNON after lobbing a bomb onto the inviting Nevada desert!

It's easy to see where the term "mushroom cloud" came from, it looks like a mushroom!

This huge atomic cloud actually looks more like a head of cauliflower!

Exploding A-Bombs at night were especially spectacular and awesome sights for sure!

And, they did it hundreds of times, God only knows what it was doing to the atmosphere and weather! I'll tell you one thing, the skies aren't the same as they were when I was a kid. Now we have the petroleum polluters to fill in for the bomb guys, thanks a lot you goddamn fuckers!

Here's a shot of a hydrogen bomb, lots more powerful than those puny old atomic bombs!

This is a graph that shows the destructive difference between a hydrogen and an atomic bomb. The smaller circle represents an atomic explosion, the lager circle represents the hydrogen bomb explosion!

Some guy got the wild idea to use a super high speed camera to capture images of atomic explosions at the moment of detonation in the air, above ground.

These shots are truly amazing, here, you can see the ground and tower below the explosion!

I think these images would make terrific alien creatures, I can even imagine other weird parasite things inside them, ready to invade Earth!

We're back Wednesday with more Xmas treats, here at The Dungeon!

O.K. CONNERY - "Operation Kid Brother" (1967)

 

Tonight we've got the ultimate spy spoof for you as a Saturday Night Special!, "O.K. Connery," or as you can also see, "Operation Kid Brother!" This time around, both titles make as much sense as anything else!

"O.K. Connery" is a truly fantastic movie, but unfortunately that doesn't exactly translate into good, but utterly fascinating, no doubt!

I'm not quite sure where to start or what to try and explain, you just need to see it for yourself to understand! It's a spoof, but it's not funny at all, and they play it very straight, and the story is a convoluted mess never referring to James Bond by name, because the world's best secret agent is named Connery, not Bond, but it's him just the same!

But just like in all James Bond movies, there's lots of gadgets, women, and action! This TV set looks odd, because it's being projected onto the backside of a beautiful gal in the lair of the diabolical  Mr. Thai!

Well, here he is, Sean Connery's little brother, Neil as who else, Dr. Neil Connery! This was Neil's first role, and he's not really a bad actor at all! With all the bullshit he probably had to put up with, you can't hardly blame him for quitting the business after 2 movies, and 8 TV shows!

So how far over the top were the makers of this movie willing to go? All the way!!! Yep, your eyes don't deceive you, it's Bernard Lee also known as M, and Lois Maxwell, better known as Miss Moneypenny, only their names are now Commander Cunningham, and Max, and they are out to recruit the unwilling Doctor Connery to help them stop some nefarious evil! At one point, they suggest that Neil shave off his beard to look more like his brother, but he resolutely declines!

Dr. Connery is also an archer of the highest caliber! You'll understand why this is important by the time it gets to the end!

Shot from this angle, Neil does look remarkably like brother Sean!

 

Here's a tricky gadget that gets used more than once! It looks like a simple knife, but the blade shoots out like a bullet, and the victim is always taken off guard!!

Mildred's sense of fashion is otherworldly! Mildred was played by Agata (How To Kill 400 Duponts) Flori! This is also a good spot to tell you that the music in "O.K. Connery" was created by the two biggest names in Italian movie music, Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai!! The title song was sung by Christy, and was as 007 as they could make it! I chose to give you a sample of something a little different, from that pink wig scene where you see those guys walking around with guitars at the airport! Here's a little 1960's Italian Pop music!

There sure isn't anything the least bit suspicious looking about a group of beautiful can-can dancers out in the middle of absolutely nowhere!

Then the whole scene transposes into one big rolling cat-house that looks like some reject float from a country fair parade celebration in Las Vegas!

The guys who have plans to take over the world this time, have a cute little secret! They only employ blind people in their factory! Dr. Connery feigns blindness in an attempt to enter the premises and get to the bottom of things!

What he finds out is, the material they are using to weave rugs with is filled with radioactivity! The blind guys couldn't see it, they just couldn't figure out why they were all breaking out with these horrible lesions! Dr. Connery informs one of the workers, and a full-fledged riot breaks out!

Here's the guy pulling all the strings on the bad side! Once again, who did they use for a villain in this movie? One of the always memorable James Bond baddies, Adolfo Celi, as Largo in "Thunderball" from a year earlier, was the go to guy! They went to all the time to set up this shot, I just had to use it!

Adolfo's character is Mr Thai, or "Beta" which means he's number two to a guy named Alpha, so when Alpha assumes Beta has screwed up, they have a ritual get together where they poison somebody, and Beta's number is up, but of course he took some anti-poison stuff, and triggers a statue to shoot another bloody knife across the boardroom table and into Alpha's heart, at which point, Beta takes over the meeting!

So where else are they going to set up shop, except in an underground lair reached through this woodshed, on the outskirts of this castle, out in the middle of nowhere in Germany someplace? It was the first thing that came to my mind too!

I just had to show you this shot of Beta and his boys in all their fancy matching outfits down in the underground headquarters!

Okay, now you know why it was important to know that Dr. Connery was also a master bowman!  He has a lot of archer buddies he brought along on this journey because he knew he would need them! It's too much when you first see them ride up on horses, way too much!!

And of course there's the final hoedown showdown between Beta, who also happens to be a master bowman, and the good Doctor!

"O.K. Connery" is a weird movie in more than one way for sure! You can find it streaming on Amazon Prime for free if you have one of those accounts, and you can give yourself a concussion, or come to your own conclusion, whichever happens first!

THE OUTER LIMITS: Production And Decay Of Strange Particles - 1964

Here's your treat for the 5th Day Of XMAS, another fun little episode from the creative guys over at Daystar Productions, it's all about an accident at a nuclear research facility that creates a dimensional doorway that aliens need to widen in order to invade Earth!

Eegah!! sent over an excellent sound clip for our approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button over by our own decaying particles, NOW, Rufus The Gnat!.. Here's a taste of... PRODUCTION AND DECAY OF STRANGE PARTICLES!

While working on a new element, there's a reaction that causes it to become unstable, and...

Workers are being taken over by a strange alien force!

This guy barely made it out of the lab and gets burned by the out of control element.

The workers at the lab try to use lead shields to stave off the increasing radiation.

But, the alien force continues to take over the minds and bodies of the men that are now trying to create the dimensional doorway.

Here's a nice still showing the shock of the Marshall family, owners of the facility.

Dr. Marshall figures out a way to reverse the situation by creating a mix of elements that will trigger the event. The men under alien control cart the mixture into the central lab, thinking it's more of the element they desire, like in KRONOS and X: THE UNKNOWN.

Dr. Marshall and his wife quickly drive to a bunker miles away from the unstable facility to see if their plan to close the dimensional doorway will work. Otherwise, all is lost for Earth! The lab explodes into an atomic blast...

Here are 2 great stills from the A-Bomb tests that took place in Nevada in the early fifties!

Well anyway, as luck would have it the explosion reverses itself, closing the alien doorway to another dimension!!

So, tune in tomorrow for more early Xmas presents from The Dungeon!..