DICK TRACY - Season 2, Episode 15 - "Dick Tracy Meets Heels Beals" (1951)

 Hell's Bells, it's that time of the week again already! Welcome to yet another Wacky Wednesday in The Dungeon! The "Dick Tracy" show was on for two seasons from 1950 to 1952, and those two seasons included 48 episodes! The bad guy character known as Heels Beals name was actually a takeoff on the expression Hell's Bells!

This is a list of the entire cast of this episode!! The creator of Dick Tracy, Chester Gould, loved to fart around with names as you can see!

  There have been many incarnations of Dicky Tracy over the years, and this guy is one of the main ones, Ralph Byrd, who also played Dick in six full-length movies prior to this!

 Billy Benedict plays Heels Beals! In an earlier incarnation, Billy was the one of the Bowery Boys named Whitey!

In the comics, Heels Beals was a midget!

Here's a nice shot of Heels with Miss Varnish, so named because she is in the business of refinishing furniture, and Hefty, so named because he's a big guy, especially compared to little Heels!

Miss Varnish is played by Isabel (The Missing Corpse) Randolph, and Hefty was played by professional wrassler turned actor Karl 'Killer' Davis. Karl had a great career and was in "Mighty Joe Young," "The Lost Planet," "Creature With The Atom Brain," and was one of the zombies in "Zombies Of Mora Tau!

Isabel was also in another Dick Tracy episode as Carrie Cash!

 The heels is where he stashes all the loot like strings of pearls!

Rounding out the cast, and in the background a lot is Tracy's sidekick Sam Catchem as played by Joe Devlin! Here's a flash from the "I Just Learned This Department," in 1942 Joe Devlin played Mussolini (a role he had more than once) in a film short called "The Devil With Hitler," which is a Three Stooges type story that included the Emperor of Japan, about the Board of Directors of Hell telling The Devil that they are going to replace him with Hitler unless he can get Adolph to do a good deed. I guess the Devil's job status seems dubious at best! Wow! Weirdsville!!

Miss Varnish tips off Tracy to her calamity by cutting this message into an end table he's picking up at her place! Gotta love a woman who knows how to use power tools!

It's a simple but fun story as are all Dick Tracy tales! Just for kicks, here's a couple of other colourful names from some of the other episodes to whet your appetite for more Dick: Blowtop, Shoulders, Pawn, Lifter, Hijack, Chopper, Twister, and Knuckles!

MICROWAVE MASSACRE / Reel Life Productions - 1983

Here's a flick that's billed as "The Worst Horror Movie Of All Time!" So, I got this title to see what the Hell they're talking about. When I hear 'worst movie ever,' there's just one that pops into my head, and, that is... THINGS! (We've reviewed it) I use that as my measure for just such claims. This movie is not TWHMOAT, it's simply a big piece of CRAP, or, ABPOC!!! If you think about it, if you make that claim, it will increase sales, jerks! I do like this VHS box art.

Anyway, the story's about Donald, he's fed up with his wife's bad cooking, so, he kills her, puts her is a huge microwave oven, cooks her and turns to cannibalism to satisfy his appetite.

This turkey stars Jackie Vernon (and boobs), Jackie was a stand up comedian discovered by Steve Allen, he only had 16 acting credits and was in THE MONITORS in 1969.

These two chick magnets are idiots you get to enjoys throughout the movie, dude on the left is trying to get a freakin' bugger off his finger, dude on the right is getting his jollies watching!

Here's Donald getting ready for yet another mangled meal, drama...

He sits down with his beautiful wife at the dinner table, what a great way to relax after a day of construction work.

Donald doesn't appreciate his wife's food wizardry, he tells her all about it, and, she dumps the pile of shit on his head!! Love the paper plate...

So then, Donald grabs the giant wooden salt shaker and clobbers the crap out of his beloved!

He pops her into their gigantic microwave oven and turns the damn thing on high!

The best part is the bone marrow, you just suck it right out!

Donald's addicted to microwaved human flesh and must keep his refrigerator stocked, so, he goes out looking for more rump roast, etc!

Donald has the fridge full of female flesh delicacies, his wife's head keeps guard.

He's always looking for new taste treats, like this gal dressed up as a chicken!

His wife's blabbermouth sister shows up, looking for her. Donald ties her up, crams food in her mouth and throws her in a closet to shut her up.

We are two wild and crazy, creeped out guys looking for Donald, where's that tasty grub?!

But, they find the cannibal, dead, just laying there on the floor... What the Hell happened?!!

Before we call the cops, let's grab a bite to eat first...

Believe it or not, his wife's head is responsible for Donald's death, go figure! And, figure on being here on Wednesday when Eegah!! is up to bat...

THE HORROR AT 37,000 Feet - An All-Star TV Movie (1973)

Lynyrd Skynyrd hit #27 on the Billboard charts in 1975 with "Saturday Night Special," but two years earlier there was a TV movie called "The Horror At 37,000 Feet!" Combine the two, and you end up here!

For a TV movie, I'm giving "The Horror At 37,000 Feet" 37 and a half stars because for starters, it was able to keep my attention, which is a major ordeal these daze, and number two, it has a killer cast that would be fun to watch no matter what they were doing!

Just to get started, you've got the amzing Chuck (The Rifleman) Connors as the Captain of this doomed flight!

Who else is on the Who's Who list of passengers on this journey to Hell? How about the incredible Paul (Catfish In Black Bean Sauce) Winfield?

Then there's Roy (The Invaders) Thinnes and Jane Merrow as this happy couple! Among a lot of other things, Jane was a chorus girl in the Herbert Lom version of "The Phantom Of The Opera!"

And Yes......The Shat is back! His significant guitar strummin' other is Lynn (Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun) Loring!

The lovable Buddy Ebsen is a lot grumpier on this flight than he ever was as Jed Clampett!

France (Battle For The Planet Of The Apes) Nuyen just really wants to get home!

H.M. Wynant was in "The Twilight Zone" episode titled "The Howling Man," and is the Co-pilot, and Russell (The Professor on Gilligan's Island) Johnson is the Co-Co-pilot!

The creepy little girl is Mia (Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains) Bendixsen!

Darling Darleen Carr as one of the stewardesses in the white plastic go-go boots and short skirts is the frosting on the cake! Darleen was also the voice of the girl in Disney's 1967 "The Jungle Book!"

As you can see the roster of talent here is first string and top shelf, like here in the background are Will (Sugarfoot) Hutchins and Tammy (Can't Stop The Music) Grimes! 
I just love this fustercluck of horror shot!

 There is some scary going on too!!

Okay, we've got a big scary mess on our hands, so what are we going to do about it Bill?

 

In The End, the pizza is burnt........

.......and The Shat just has to go!!

Anything else you want to know you can figure out for yourself, because you can watch it at your leisure for free on YouTube right here:

"The Horror At 37,000 Feet"
Have a Nice Day!!