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!!..

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!