AGENTE 077 DALLl'ORIENTE CON FURORE - "From The Orient With Fury" (1965)

Dick Malloy is back in tonight's Secret Agent Saturday Night Special called "Agente 077 Dall'oriente Con Furore." 

Just one of the English titles is "From The Orient With Fury," but it was also released as "Mission Istanbul," "Fury In Instanbul," and "Operation Istanbul."

If you think it's just a cheap Italian James Bond ripoff, then the Greek title, "James Bond 077" is probably not going to do much to change your mind, and yes, it is a smoking gun of a film!

Essentially, this film has agent Dick Malloy being pursued by not Three, but The Five Stooges."

Over and over in all kinds of interesting places, Dick Malloy has to fight these jerks! Dick is so good, he can put a headlock on a guy, and talk on the phone at the same time!

Kenneth Donovan Clark once again has the role of  Dick Malloy, in a followup to "Mission Bloody Mary" made the same year!

Before Ken Clark moved to Italy to make westerns and sword and sandal movies, he had a stellar career in the U.S. in movies like "Attack Of The Giant Leeches," and "12 To The Moon."

There are almost as many beautiful women in this film as there are Stooges, and forgive me if I get any of them mixed up! On the left is Evi (Planet Of The Vampires) Marandi as the daughter of the Professor who has created a super ray gun that everybody's after, and on the right is Fabienne (Kill, Baby...Kill!) Dali. Maybe being gorgeous is good for your health since both Evi and Fabienne are still alive!

I love this shot panning past the guitar players and Dick Malloy down to Mikaela as Dolores Lopez!

These guys get their asses kicked so many times, and the one on the left chewing gum deserves it the most!

Time to get out of those wet clothes after getting caught in a rain storm, and into a sexy bathrobe for Dick Malloy, and a towel for Dolores!

Once again, proving that these guys are a bunch of rocket surgeons, this one hides behind a rod iron fence for protection!

To further prove my point, four or five of these bozos ride around in this clown car when they're chasing Dick!

No it's not the 4-D Woman, it's just Dick handing his new partner a towel!

Margaret (Psycho-Circus, Venus In Furs) Lee is Evelyn Stone, Dick's newly assigned gal-pal partner.

Dick goes to this fool's pad for some information, but he's in league with the stooges, so when he tells Dick to leave via the backdoor, Dick realizes it's just another stupid trap!

Not laughing out loud funny, but a lot of this film has to be considered a comedy!

I lost count! I think there are only three stooges left at this point!

The Professor demonstrates his lethal weapon to Goldwyn, the boss of the stooges!

The big bad cheese is played by Franco (Mr. Superinvisible, Star Odyssey, War Between The Planets) Ressel.

Gum Boy gets what's coming to him, a big handful of electricity handed to him by the Professor and his daughter!

Goldwyn finally gets his grimy mitts on the weapon he always wanted, and then proceeds to totally lose his shit, and tries to shoot up everything in sight, before being turned into a shish kabob by big Dick Malloy!

I don't think this English alternative title flew very far, because I'm sure that most people in the U.S. like me, have no clue what a freakin' Bosphorus is, even though it's a very important part of the world's geography! Just for the record, the Bosphorus is a body of water also known as The Strait of Istanbul that is in Northwestern Turkey. It is part of of the continental boundary between Europe and Asia. Now you know!

PAGAN ISLAND / A Secret Island Ruled by Nature's Own Exotic Young Maidens! - 1961

Here's a wild tale about the survivor of a shipwreck who finds himself on an island populated only by scantily clad native girls. This was on a Something Weird double feature with THE FIEND OF DOPE ISLAND, which I reviewed recently.

It stars Eddie Dew as the shipwrecked William Stanton. Eddie ended up with 104 acting credits from 1936 to 1969. Some of the movies he appeared in are THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1939), MYSTERIOUS DOCTOR SATAN, CITIZEN kANE, THE FALCON TAKES OVER, CAT PEOPLE, SUNSET BLVD. and THEM!. The rest of the cast are basically nobodies with only one acting credit, just a bunch of cute girls with nice boobs that had nothing else to do!

The story starts with William and his native girl friend in a life raft on the ocean, a passing ship sees them and picks them up...

The Captain and the first mate tend to William and want to know what him and the girl were doing in the raft. After he has recovered a bit, William tells them what has happened...

He says that his ship went down and he escaped on a life raft only to end up on the shore of some island. As he explores the place, he comes across three native women he communicates with, and learns that there are no other men on the island, just him!..

The girls take him to their village where he's given a hut to stay in. The women are unsure of what to do with having a man on the island.

I guess the highlight of the movie, besides the obvious, is this giant wooden tiki god! Anyway, the girls love to dance around the monster, and, we love watching them trip the light fantastic!

Back at his hut after the festivities, William, drunk, simply cannot believe his freaking good luck, man oh man, is this what heaven feels like?..

Like I said, the girls can't figure out what they want to do with William. When a girl tells him that men in a canoe are coming their way, he tells her to cut him down so that he can get his gun! And she does.

These guys from a neighboring island show up, and you can figure out why they're there. Well, William guns them all down with his pistol, all of them!

Well, William has fallen for one of the girls, and, she looks great there dancing with that big old wooden monster...

William gets greedy when he finds some underwater caves that have a hidden treasure buried there. His girl helps him recover some of the gems in a chest.

But when they take the raft away from the island, they are lost and can only hope for a ship to come by. Thing is, his girl has died and the treasure is lost. So, a perfect tale for Friday the 13th, basically the ides of March! Tune in tomorrow when Eegah!! will try and satisfy our need for the wild and the weird!

SUPERMAN - "Terror On The Midway" (1942)

Tonight's Wednesday Wonder is brought to you by The Fleischer Brothers.

Not only did Max and Dave Fleischer make the best looking cartoons, I think they might have just made more than anybody else, and they had the best heroes, Popeye, and Superman!

Max Fleischer produced over 625 cartoons, and his brother Dave directed over 645, and "Terror On The Midway" was just one of them!

 "More Powerful Than a (Super Cool) Locomotive!!"

 "Able to Leap (Totally Awesome) Tall Buildings at a Single Bound!"

 You can bring on as many superheroes as you want, but Superman will always be the baddest of them all in my humble opinion!

And Clark Kent will always be one of the best alter egos too!

The circus is in town, but it's not going to be the show that all the kids are expecting!

Of course, circuses are nothing by controlled chaos and madness!

It's when they become out of control that all Hell breaks loose!

These two shots of Clark checking out Lois Lane are great!!

Lois had a real Betty Brosmer waistline!

The star of the show makes a grand unplanned entrance!

Even the clowns are scared!

This giant simian is like a mean spirited King Kong!

And he has desires for Lois Lane just like Kong did for Fay Wray!

Size really doesn't matter if you're going to have to go up against Superman!

Time for Clark Kent to take his eyes off of Lois Lane, and go into action as Superman!

Lois is completely terrorized on the midway!

And of course the authorities are no help at all!

The whole place goes up in flames!

But this is Superman we're talking about, and since none of those clowns have any Krptonite on them, he'll handle this big ape just fine!