ALLISON HAYES - Her Horror & Sci-Fi Movies From 1957-63

Here's another special Friday post, just for you... First of all, Allison participated in the 1949 Miss America pageant as Miss Washington, D.C. In 1955, after she arrived in Hollywood, Allison's agent wanted to get her an interview with Cecil B. DeMille! Allison resembled a drawing of Sephorah, wife of Moses in The Ten Commandments. DeMille asked her to come to his office and under orders from her agent, Allison didn't mention that she was under contract to Universal. International! But, when DeMille was informed that Allison was a U-I employee, he threw her and her agent off the lot!! Roger Corman says he considered using Allison in LAST WOMAN ON EARTH, but, chose Betsy Jones-Moreland after seeing her in a play in Hollywood. Allison is best remembered for her role as Nancy Archer in the cult classic, ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN in 1958, which I actually saw when it came out in 1958. Lucky me!!

Allison's first role in a horror movie was in ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU in 1957 which also featured Gene Roth as limo driver, Sam, who purposely runs down zombies!!

Also in 1957, she starred in Corman's THE UNDEAD as the witch, Livia. Eegah!! has/had this beautiful classic poster in his collection! Too bad the movie sucks!

Allison stars in the very weird THE UNEARTHLY in 1957 along with John Carradine, Myron Healey, Sally Todd and the big guy, Tor Johnson.

Also in 1957 (a busy year for Allison), she stars in the jungle horror, THE DISEMBODIED.

Then, in 1958, Allison stars in the wild, ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN. Shes' out to get revenge on her husband and his lover, played by William Hudson and sexy, Yvette Vickers.

She was part of the cast in the short lived TV series, MEN INTO SPACE. This Dell comic is the closest thing to a poster I could find.

Allison is tormented by THE HYPNOTIC EYE in 1960. The movie uses HypnoMagic to hypnotize the many victims of Desmond. I had this one-sheet poster until I sold it on eBay.

Lastly, Allison had a small role in this extra weird flick, Joseph F. Robertson's production of THE CRAWLING HAND in 1963. That's one kitschy cool poster there!!

Now, here are a few shots of Allison to enjoy...

Her untimely death in 1977 was a sad moment in film, we will always love her performance as the 50 Foot Woman. Be back tomorrow for more stuff, from... The Dungeon!

THE FATAL GLASS OF BEER - W.C. Fields (1933)

It was 83 years ago when "The Fatal Glass Of Beer" was made!

Great title, and I say "Cheerz" and welcome to another Weird-Ass Wednesday from down in The Dungeon!

Search IMDB and you'll find a reference to a 1916 release called "The Fatal Glass Of Beer" made by Tod (Freaks) Browning, starring Elmo (Tarzan) Lincoln, but then they go on to tell you that there is no known copy of the film ever produced or released!  

So, I personally have some inside information from a qualified source who told me that some time in the 1960's, Ed Wood produced a film starring Boris Karloff, James Dean, Janis Joplin, and almost the whole cast of "West Side Story" about teenage virgin zombies called "Walker Stomp" that has an impossible to find Grateful Dead with Neil Young on kazoo soundtrack!

The world is SO freakin' weird! How does stuff like this work? The man on the left is a guy named Richard Cramer! Richard had 257 acting credits from 1927 to 1952, and a gentleman whose name should be a household word, but I'm willing to bet that 99.9% of anybody who reads this will have no idea who he is! These days, it only takes one shitty song, and you're on the top of the world! How does that work?

W.C. Fields does his best impersonation of Joni Mitchell playing the zither with gloves on incapable of actually anything called "The Fatal Glass Of Beer," and a sad story indeed it is!
"Don't go round breakin' people's tambourines!"

A guy drinks a glass of beer, and guess what?

What the Hell did you think?? Of course, he dies!

It's a "Fatal Glass Of Beer!"

This dogsled has one dog who is not doing his share! Reminds me of when I was in basic training, and we had to do the 150 yard man carry! You carried a guy piggyback approximately the same weight as you through beach sand for 150 yards. I had a buddy who was the Hawaiian Golden Gloves heavyweight champion, and I was 115 pounds, so he volunteered to carry me both ways, and I don't know how, but some how we got away with it!

The on-running gag in "The Fatal Glass Of Beer" is W.C. Fields opening the door to the cabin and saying "It ain't a fit night out for man nor beast," and each time getting blasted in the face with a fistful of fake snow!

I think my favourite comedic part in the film is the dinner table scene where W.C. keeps dipping this whole loaf of bread into whatever broth they're eating!

Then, there is the running with the elk!

I didn't count them, but there's enough time to reprise the snow in the face bit one last time, because it's just as funny as it was the first time! I found this copy of "The Fatal Glass Of Beer" on the Internet Archive, but you can also find it on YouTube!

 It's only 18 minutes, go for it!

LOGAN'S RUN / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - 1976

Here's one me and the ex saw way back in 1976 when it came out... For a fifties rubber monster freak, this thing was way too glitzy for my taste, a symphony in C-.

The complicated story goes... It's the year 2274 AD, there's little or no work for humans to perform, and, inhabitants are free to pursue all of the pleasures of life. However, your life is limited and when you reach the age 30, your life is terminated in a quasi-religious ceremony known as Carousel (sounds fun!). Some people, known as runners, try to escape their fate and it's the job of a Sandmen to track them down and kill them!

Here's a little more info to help you get up to speed in case you haven't seen this thing, saving my brain from trying to 'esplain it for you!

This is the domed futuristic city in all its glory, the citizens are all spoiled brats with nothing else to do but screw off for thirty years.

The Carousel ceremony starts with these over the hill weirdos ready to fly and die! "How!.. We in market for mucho wampum, you gots?..." Come on, man... WTF! This production is considered a great bad movie!

Fly!.. FLY, my little goofballs!.. Fly as though your worthless little lives depended on it!!

Wow, they even got M. C. Escher to designed this mall scene!

Logan meets Jessica and they hit it off after a few awkward moments. Love the bottom scene, what a Futuristic Kitsch Rococo look!

Then, Logan and Jessica go to the Laser Palace to get a little surgery. They're greeted by Farrah Fawcett as Holly, miss that girl. And, things don't go very well for Logan...

Logan and Jessica have left the city, they are looking for the place known as 'Sanctuary.' On the way, they meet up with this silly looking ice robot that wants to...

Freeze their asses and put them with these other fine examples of frozen humans!!

Further along the way, they come across the Lincoln Memorial after many years of neglect.

Finally, they meet the man with all the knowledge, Peter Ustinov as the Old Man! He has the answers to all their questions!

Marvel tried to capitalize on the whole thing, but, they gave Logan a super hero style outfit... Tune in Wednesday when we're back, here, at The Dungeon!!

AUF ACHSE - "Toller Tausch" (1987)

"Auf Achse" was a very popular German TV series that ran from 1980 to 1996, and I never heard about it until a couple or weeks ago!

And that's why this Dungeon Saturday Night Special is even a little bit more special than usual!

So once again, it was our super cool German correspondent Lord Litter who turned me on to this show! And what's so cool about a show about German Truckers? Well, that's what I'm about to let you know!

Google Translate says "Toller Tausch" means "Great Exchange," I thought it meant "Trailer Trash" and that might or might not describe what's going on here! The show streams for free on YouTube, but unfortunately there are no sub-titles! I have a basic understanding of the German language, but I would have been lost if Lord Litter had not provided me with the basics of the story line that I could pass on to you! One of the crazier things in this show is, the people all speak their own language (The Germans speak German, and the Mexicans speak Spanish), so unless you're quadrilingual,
you're probably going to miss out on something anyway

 German trucker in Mexico....(all in all the story is told in 3-4 episodes!)

The general idea is that this guy, Tilo (The NeverEnding Story, Iron Sky) Prückner as Edgar Bermbach, aka, the man in the white suit and hat, screws absolutely everyone all the time  .. so he steals 240 TV sets........

  ......... and then this big guy, Manfred (Whopper Punch 777) Krug as Franz Meersdonk, has to deliver the TVs to save the husband of the woman we see in the beginning of the episode, because the husband needs money to get out of jail!  

Wow! Manfred just passed away a couple of weeks ago at the age of 79 on October 21, 2016! I'm looking forward to partying with this guy in the afterlife!

 I like this shot of Franz with that Mexican man just chillin' in the background behind him to set the scene!

What a mothertrucking super hero Franz is, it literally took him two cases of beer to get to this stage!!

I'm trying to keep up, but I'm not going to make it!

 TRUCKS!

 MORE TRUCKS!!

 and...TRUCK CRASHES!!!

 Now Franz and Edgar Bermbach have to figure out how to work together!

Edgar Bermbach steals a passport and papers to get all the TV sets to sell to Mexican guys who want to watch soccer.......

Franz almost gets to him, but Edgar is too tricky this time!

 Don't know about you, but I don't think I could sleep in this room!

 Franz Meersdonk and his accomplice Rodrigues hire an actor (old friend of Rodrigues) who tells the man in the white suit that he needs 240 TV sets for a new hotel!

 In the end it turns our that its all a fake and the guy in the white suit now has 240 TV sets and doesn't know what to do with 'em........ 

.......And the husband of the woman has all the money he needs to get out of prison!

So, if you can't hardly believe it, and you want to see it with your own eyes, here's the link to the YouTube page where you can see for yourself, because, you know what they say, "Olde truckers never die, they just get a new Peterbilt!"