THE CANARY MURDER CASE / Who Killed The Canary Bird? - 1929

Well, here's one that's 91 years old and was produced in the first year of talking pitchers! In this murder mystery, a pretty little showgirl nicknamed 'The Canary' is a scheming little B. Blackmail is her game and she soon ends up dead, and all the suspects who were romantically involved with her had found out that she was just using them. Only one man, debonair detective Philo Vance, might be able to figure out who the real killer is...

It stars William (had 35 silent movie credits before starring in this one) Powell, Jean (MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON) Arthur, James (THE SHE-WOLF) Hall, Louise (PANDORA'S BOX) Brooks and Ned (played the Caterpillar in 1933's ALICE IN WONDERLAND) Sparks. Ned's image was also used in old Disney and WB cartoons!

Here's an ad for a show featuring the high flying 'Canary' girl.

Here she is, flying high over the audience on her swing, what a Hell of a gig to have!

Here's Philo talking to his friend, Charles Spottswoode, at her performance. He remarks that he believes the Canary is headed for trouble, word is, she's involved with a number of older men, which spells, you know, trouble!

Boy, Philo is one of those names that seems to have been totally forgotten about over time!

Anyway, she calls all of her beaus and shuts them down, threatening to expose them to the press or their wives, for a ding-danged price of course!!

Here's Ned as Tony Skeel, and get this, he's the Canary's freakin' husband!! She says that she divorced him 6 months ago but he don't care. He was listening in on her conversations and he wants a cut in the profits!

Here are the stuttering desk clerk and his helper who work where the Canary lives.

When the Canary doesn't answer the phone, the clerk lets a policeman into her apartment, only for him to report her as tot to his superiors!

All of her male friends are grilled by the police...

Philo wants to try something to help solve the case. He wants to include all the men in a poker game and use his reasoning to see if he can't figure out who really murdered the girl.

So, the men all get together and play poker for money. And after the game is over, Philo has the man he thinks is responsible!

Another clue involving a recording provides Philo with the complete picture of how he thinks the murder was carried out.

Although the man he thinks did the murder dies in a car crash, he surmises that his friend, Charles Spottswoode, was the guilty one because his son Jimmy was also being blackmailed by the Canary! And, that's how it sits, join us tomorrow for something special from Eegah!! Here, at The Dungeon!..

FEUD WITH A DUDE - "Merln The Magic Mouse and Second Banana" (1968)

Desperate times call for levity, so here's a krazy cartoon for you from 1968 called "Feud With A Dude." 

When you can't cry any more, it's time to try and laugh!

This cartoon featured the oh so popular Merlin The Magic Mouse, and his little pal Second Banana, with secondary roles filled by The Feudin' Mountain Boys, also known as The Hatfields and The McCoys!

So everybody probably knows about the lifelong feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys. It's kind of like Pakistan and India on a smaller scale.

Our heroes are just flying around on their magic carpet minding their own business when they accidentally enter the wrong air space, the Iran of the Ozarks!

Being caught in the middle of feuding idiots is never a good thing!

The boys hide in the chicken house, and when this hillbilly discovers them, Magic Mouse turns him into a chicken!

The war goes on!

Now this is the reason I liked this cartoon. The boys decide they need to get out of Dodge, so Magic Mouse conjures up a rocket ship!

The whole cartoon turns to real life footage of a blast off of a real rocket!

And off they go!!

Boy howdy, wouldn't it be nice to have your own personal rocket right now?

Be safe, stay cool, and try to have fun!

SKYJACKED / This Is Your Captain... We Have A Skyjacker On Board - 1972

Here's a cult camp classic about a crazed Vietnam vet that skyjacks an airliner and threatens to blow it up if his demands are not met...

This one has a ton of stars, check it out... We have Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Claude Akins, Jeanne Crain, Susan Dey, Rosey Grier, Mariette Hartley, Walter Pidgeon, Ken Swofford, Leslie Uggams, Ross Elliott and more!

Early into the flight, Captain O'Hara learns that there is a deranged person on board the plane, and they are threatening harm to the passengers and crew.

James Brolin plays the nervous vet Jerome Weber, he sweats a lot throughout the movie...

Besides having a bomb on the plane, mother nature brings on the lightning and rain storm. Ben Puzo talks with the crew on landing the plane in Anchorage, as demanded by the bomber. On the way, a small plane is on a collision course with the airliner, and the Captain has to make a quick decision, barely missing the other plane!

The cat's out of the bag now and Jerome uses a live grenade to hold off the passengers, especially Gary, who wants to gets his hands on the insulting maniac. There's Walter there on the left, who plays a Senator that gets punched in the stomach by the sadistic Jerome. Most of the passengers were permitted to leave the plane in Anchorage, except these guys.

The deranged vet shows the Captain something interesting, lookit, all he has to do is push this button here and the bomb goes off, so, you know, watch your step!

Jerome has forced the crew to fly into Russian air space!! He has illusions of grandeur that he will be a Russian hero, the demented fool...

So, Russian jets show up and designate the airliner to land at a remote area.

All the soldiers pull out their rifles and fix them on the plane...

The Captain assesses the damage to the plane, wow, what a mess!

Jerome cleans himself up for his big moment with the Russians...

But, when he climbs in the cabin and looks out the window, he doesn't see a parade, just men holding rifles, all pointed at the plane! All the hot air has just been let out of his balloon.

Then, here's the good stuff... Everything was a hoax, there is NO bomb, he didn't need one, just bluffs! All he had were some grenades and a gun. Charlton tries to choke Jerome with his rifle but the vet knows karate and is tough. He goes after the Captain's eyes as payback. Whoa, Charlton looks so weird there, like when you pinched your cheeks to make a creepy face for the girls, back when you were ten!

Jerome ends up shooting the Captain! And, now it's time to exit the plane...

Jerome's wearing a grenade belt, he ends up making a threatening movement and gets shot up but good. A bullet strikes a grenade and the evil ass is blown back to Hell! Don't worry, the Captain makes it. Join us again on Wednesday for more fun and probable destruction, here at The Dungeon!!..