SCORPION THUNDERBOLT / IFD Films and Arts - 1988

Happy Friday the 13th! I have 2 black cats, so, I'm set... I recently picked up this title from Hong Kong, and, wow, what a wild 'n' weird flick. There is so much craziness going on that it will wear you out. It's about a human sized snake that terrorizes Hong Kong with all the bloody condiments.

I have a cool musical sound clip for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our crazy monkey, NOW, Rufus The Gnat!.. Here are some moments from... SCORPION THUNDERBOLT!

The snake woman takes her first victim... The many dark scenes make it hard to see what's going on a lot of the time.

Back at the college, the instructor discusses the recent murders with interesting illustrations to explain the wounds on the women victims.

Then, these two weirdos show the instructor what they found swimming in the bay! Must be some radio activity in the water there, you think?!

Here's the mean old snake woman witch dealing with her problem.

This flick has hundreds of extras to fill up the frame!

I'll leave it to your imagination to where this super drunk ass hole is aiming those billiard balls on this tied up, spread eagled little lady...

Oh yeah, the movie stars hunky American, Richard Harrison. Richard was part of the group of strongmen that made their mark with the sword and sandal movies in the sixties. And, his very first acting credit was a pilot in KRONOS in 1957!! He's SCORPION THUNDERBOLT.

Our other heroes get a car full of vipers to drive around in, what fun!

Anyway, Richard has to go into the bad guy's lair and deal with all the kung fools to get to...

The last of the scum of the Earth! Eegah!! is here tomorrow to kung fu up another movie 4 U.

DICK TRACY VS. CUEBALL - "Inside The Dripping Dagger" (1946)

"Dick Tracy Vs. Cueball" is the second of two Dick Tracy films with Morgan Conway in the driver's seat! The first one was called strictly "Dick Tracy" and you can read all about it right here in a post from 2013!

I would have liked to meet Chester Gould, he had an amazing imagination!
His cartoon character Dick Tracy first appeared 1931, and is still in newspapers all over the world some 30 years after his death!

Dick Wessel is Cueball! Did you notice he didn't even get credits on the poster?

Between 1935 and 1966, Dick racked up some 301 acting credits as mostly a tough guy!

In 1963, he played Charlie in the "Twilight Zone" episode titled "A Kind Of A Stop Watch!"

This was Morgan Conway's second shot at being Dick Tracy, and the second to the last of the movies he would ever work on! He hung it up at 46 and never looked back!

Big Headlines! You get the picture! Diamonds, dead bodies, Cueball, and Dick Tracy trying to put the whole thing together!

I love the names of these old bars! It would have been so cool if the "Bucket Of Blood" was right down the street from "The Dripping Dagger!"

Esther (The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend) Howard is Filthy Flora, the owner of "The Dripping Dagger!"

Ian (It Came From Beneath The Sea) Keith is Dick Tracy's eccentric pal Vitamin Flintheart! 

He's only been out of prison after a 10 year stay for a couple of days, but Cueball has been very busy!

What is this piece of leather they keep finding at the crime scenes?

Dick Tracy finds out from Junior, that genuine braided leather hatbands are all the rage with the kids! Tracy traces the hatband manufacturing operation back to a penitentiary, and the next thing you know, they have a suspect!

You have to love this headline! 

"Police Behind Eight Ball, 

Can't Find Cueball!"

Cueball has got a bad habit of spying on people and listening to their conversations!

The oh so lovely Anne Jeffreys is Tess Trueheart! Tess is part of a scheme to trick Cueball, but he turns the tables on them when he picks her up as a cabbie! Funny, all he has to do is put a hat on that chrome dome of his, and nobody recognizes him! Anne Jeffreys is still around today! We wish her well!

Skelton (House Of Dracula) Knaggs is pretty creepy as Rudolph!

Tess was acting like a rich socialite........but..........

.................It all goes wrong when Cueball rifles through her wallet looking for some cash, and finds this picture of her and Dick Tracy together instead! The jig is up!!

Tess almost becomes another victim of Cueball's hatband fetish, but luckily Dick Tracy gets there in time to break it all up!

After a fairly short chase, with Dick Tracy in hot pursuit, Cueball gets his foot stuck in a railroad track!

No delays here, the train is right on time!!

Want to see for yourself, well then you can find it for free at the Internet Archive right about
here!

A*P*E / Worldwide Entertainment Corp. - 1976

Now, here's a movie from South Korea with a $23,000 budget (WTF?!) trying to capitalize on KING KONG from the same year. It was seemingly commandeered by Jack H. Harris for American distribution. And, boy, does it suck!! Check the poster, it sez "Not to be confused with KING KONG!" although 'KING KONG' is in huge letters!

I have a sound clip for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our other King Kong rip-offs, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Here's a little sample from... A*P*E!

It kinda starts with the big APE wrasslin' with a giant shark! Poster fodder.

Joanna Kerns plays actress Marilyn Baker, there to star in a movie and ends up the big APE's main squeeze!

While loose in the countryside, he comes across these kids playing in a playground and gets fascinated with all the fun they're having. How cute!

See that little stuffed cow toy there?.. Well, it's supposed to be a real cow!

Col. Davis, US commander in South Korea, is the salty old crab you can hear in the sound clip giving orders.

Here's Marilyn getting ready for her big scene... Woo Woo!

Here's a shot of the big APE as he carries Marilyn in his smelly old hand! Looks real, right?!

Oh, and, here's a for real helicopter crashing and bursting into flames!

APE's big stinky hand invades an office space! Now, you have to agree the hand looks real in this shot, right?

The big dumb APE acts like this hang glider is a butterfly! So cute...

Welp, it's time to take down the big trouble maker, but, those damn crazy monkey boulders really make it hard on a guy!!

Goodbye, cruel world!.. Check out the arm and hand, clearly a crappy costume.