CHANDU THE MAGICIAN / Radio Broadcast Thriller - 1932

Today's post is about the megalomaniac and would-be world dominator, Roxor, who has kidnaped a man and his death ray invention in hopes of using it to degenerate humanity into mindless brutes, leaving himself as Earth's supreme intelligence! Faced with revealing the machine's secrets or allowing his family to die a horrible death at the hands of Roxor, the inventor's only hope lies with the intervention of his brother-in-law, the turbaned yogi and magician, Chandu, who has the power to make men see what is not there!

The movie stars Edmund (AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS) Lowe as Chandu, aka Frank Chandler, Irene (THE RAVEN) Ware as Princess Nadji and Bela (THE BLACK SLEEP) Lugosi as the evil Roxor.

Here's Chandu entertaining the troops in India with the old magic rope trick, where a youngster climbs to the top of the hemp and rings the bell!

In another place, inventor Robert Regent is testing his new death ray, and guess what?.. Yeah, the freakin' thing works better than expected!

Here's a beautiful shot at dusk of the boat that has brought Chandu and Princess Nadji to their port of danger.

In the meantime, Roxor's goons have kidnapped Regent and his death ray and taken them to the madman's hidden mountain castle. Roxor gets the word from a gopher that there are people coming their way...

Here's one of Chandu's comedy relief pals climbing up the giant wall surrounding Roxor's castle. Besides being terrorized by vultures, our guy looks down to see all the people that didn't make it up the wall. Like, where in the Hell did they get all those damn skeletons?!

Here's the other comedy relief guy. His story is that he drinks a lot and then sees a mini version of himself that he can argue with!!!

Wow, check out this set... It's beyond amazing!

Anyway, Roxor has Chandu put in an Egyptian coffin and dumped into a deep pond!!.. Don't worry, he barely makes it back to the surface alive.

Roxor puts people in this room that the floor drops down and send them to their death down a huge hole!!.. NOT COOL!!

And now, Roxor is ready to start the demolition of the world!.. Let the destruction begin!!

Oops!! Guess who shows up unexpectedly?!.. Now, Roxor is one unhappy camper!

Well, Chandu hypnotizes Roxor into believing he cannot move. Roxor is unable to stop the energy flow of the machine and the place is ready to blow!!

And, it does, bringing this wild tale to an end... Tune in tomorrow for more precious Dungeon Cargo, just for you and those guys over there!!

THE WACKY WEED - "Andy Panda" (1946)`

 Welcome to Wacky Weed Wednesday, and no, I'm not talking about loco weed or marijuana, this "Wacky Weed" is an Andy Panda cartoon from 1946!

Boy, that really is a whacked out lookin' weed!!

 I don't think we ever thank Walter Lantz enough for all his contributions to cartoon land, so this is a good opportunity to do just that!! Thanx Walt! Life would have been a lot more boring without you!

Andy Panda goes to his local nursery to get a flower to plant in his yard, which gives Walt a good chance to do all kinds of jokes and sight gags before the story even gets started! This flower is happy!

These flowers are sad!

This flower is goofy!

You've got your hibiscus and your low biscus!!

For all you horse racing fans, here's a blast from the past, the mighty Sea Biscus! Just in case you don't know, the horse's name was Seabiscuit!

Also known as a Skunk Plant!

I wouldn't mind having a couple of these ice plants!!

Cute little Andy plants his sweet little flower!

This mean and nasty ol' weed has got different ideas about how things work!

You've heard of weeds choking out other plants, well, this is how it works!

Not knowing that the weed's roots are attached to his plumbing, Andy hooks his car up to the weed to pull it out, and ends up pulling out all the pipework in his house!

The weed is bringing out an evil side to Andy we're not used to seeing!

Now it's time to pay!!
Come back on Friday and see what Tabonga has dug up for you!!

BARON BLOOD / Positively The Most Horrifying Film Ever Made... - 1972

In today's story. a young man returns to Austria in search of his heritage, and there, he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom he had burned at the stake. The young man reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous ways!

This crazy thing stars Joseph (FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, LATITUDE ZERO, LADY FRANKENSTEIN) Cotten, Elke (THE WRECKING CREW, LISA AND THE DEVIL, THE HOUSE OF EXORCISM) Sommer and a big pile of Euro actors to scream their heads off most of the time!

It starts with Peter and Eva (Elke) finding a place in his ancestor's castle to repeat an incantation to bring back his dead cursed relative... Baron Blood!

Welp, the damn incantation works! And, the Baron is on the loose once again... The first thing he does is pull his trusty blade out and take care of a little unfinished personal business!!

In his human form (Joseph Cotten), he has bought back his old castle. Now, he roams the corridors there, just looking for any kind of trouble that might come his way.

Okay, this guy's next on the list. A nice gruesome hanging is the order of the day!

This poor dude gets a metal spiked coffin lid shut abruptly down on his meaty face!!

Here's a fun look at the Baron's torture dungeon. Makes me think how lucky those filmmakers in Europe are, just look at this goddamn gorgeous set, wow!!

In this scene, he's even out stalking an innocent little five year old girl.

So, Eva, Peter and their friend meet at the castle with the shape shifting creep. Things go okay for a while, until...

The gang find themselves in dire straits!

Eva accidentally drops the magic amulet on the guy who got the spikes in the face.

And, he assumes the power now and the Baron loses his!.. Little baby gonna cry?!

All Hell breaks out when all the people he killed and tortured come back to life and give the Baron a dose of his own medicine!! We're back Wednesday, so, don't miss it...