LOST IN SPACE / "War Of The Robots" - 1966

Here's an adventure that goes like this... After Will repairs a damaged robot he finds in some brush, it helps the family at first but then plots to capture them for some distant alien masters.

Will shows his dad a dead robot he discovered while fishing, he wants to repair it and get it working again... Low and behold, it's our favorite guy, Robbie The Robot! Man, back in the day I saw FORBIDDEN PLANET in 1956, then saw THE INVISIBLE BOY the following year!

The gang goes looking for their robot what has been saying that you can't trust the robot because it's a "robotoid." It's ready to take a big hammer to the new robot when it's stopped before it does any damage...

After everyone leaves to go back to the ship, the robotoid checks in with it's evil alien masters. The plan is to win the confidence of the family, then sabotage their ship. After that, the alien masters will come to the planet and pick up all the humans!!

The robotoid (I didn't know that robots could poop!) then zaps the family's robot to assure it won't cause any problems with the plan.

Their robot has gone missing, the robotoid has access to the ship now, but Will finds it holding a simple blaster. He orders the robot out of the ship and has some bad feelings about what's going on. And, what's up with their robot?

The robotoid then spills the beans after damaging some equipment in the ship. It tells the family that they need to obey him, or else!

Dr. Smith tries to make a deal with the robot, but it tells him the shut the Hell up!

It's time to check in with the masters and set up a time for them to arrive...

But first, der robotoid goes back to prepare the family for what is to come. In the meantime, Will has had a heart to heart with their robot and there's going to be a showdown...

First, their robot shoots out a cloud of fog...

Will crosses his fingers, come on plan, WORK!!

Hidden in the fog, the robot comes around behind the robotoid and zaps it a goodern! It says, you have destroyed me! And it dies again!!

It's a great day for everyone, because, the robotoid had not sent the alien masters the coordinates for the planet yet!

So, what's going to happen next week? By the way, Penny was not in this episode!

Well, next week the family encounters a cosmic storm!

Mom goes out and yells for Penny and Dr. Smith to come home.

But then, lightning strikes a bronze statue, and... You'll just have to wait a week to find out... Tune in again on Wednesday when Eegah!! will have another cool post for us, here at The Dungeon!!..

I had to send my kitty cat home today, a sad time for Tabonga ~ R. I. P. my Bubby ~

LA MUERTE SILBA UN BLUES - "Death Whistles The Blues" (1964)

This week's Saturday Night Special is a 1964 film by Jesus Franco entitled "La Muerte Silba Un Blues," and/or "Death Whistles The Blues!"
How such a cool movie could have one of the dullest posters I've ever seen, I have no idea!

 I originally thought the title was "Death Sings The Blues," which quite francoly, has a much better ring to it!

 "La Muerte Silba Un Blues," was fun to watch from start to finish, it's total eye candy, with a tricky story, and very cool music written by Jesus Franco himself, who is also the guy there playing the sax!

Great observation on how phony people can be!

 One minute the horn used to play "Roof Blues" looks like this.........

 
..............The next minute all the player can remember is 'the headlights' before he dies!

 I'm pretty sure it's illegal to have this much fun!

 Here's another great shot of Jess Franco playing sax!
The music was performed by the "Whisky Jazz Club" orchestra!

 No wonder the world's so screwed up today, this is the kind of guy that was running the show 50 years ago! Gee, you think there's maybe more than one reason his wife doesn't love him?

 During this era of Franco's life, he was making films as good as anyone. His later psyco-surreal sex romps are a different story!

 She says she looks ugly without the wig!

 At this place and time, this guy is truly King of the Jerks!

 When he doesn't get his way he drives too fast!

 Then this wild-eyed joker from ten years in the past shows up.and spoils the fun for everyone!

 In this bar, he's watching these two guys arm wrestle, and he's told to buzz off!

 But instead of leaving, he challenges the two of them!

 He's pretty strong and beats them both fairly easily!

 After that, they all become best friends, and it's a good thing, because he's going to desperately need their help!

 Just one cool shot after another!

Like I said, so simple but very effective!

Of course there had to be a costume party, and this shot almost looks like a scene from "Batman!"

The cape blowing in the breeze makes him look like a super villian!
"La Muerte Silba Un Blues" is a great film, period!
Seek it out would be my suggestion!

WOODY WOODPECKER / "Round Trip To Mars" - 1957

Time for a trip back to 1957, when things were fun, just the opposite of today. In this cartoon, Woody is on vacation and gets annoyed by a professor building a rocket ship near him...

Here's our little pal in Lost Wages, enjoying the sun. He's having a great time on his inner tube until it sounds like a jack hammer going to town near him!

What the heck! Someone's working on a big old rocket ship in the desert there!..

It's a nutty professor, ready to take off for a trip to Mars! Yeah, good luck pal.

Woody takes his inner tube, attaches it to the rocket, then puts the tube around a giant boulder, which pulls the rocket back down, causing it to crash into the ground! Woody puts on a space helmet and pretends to be a Martian!!

Woody does his best impression of a Martian, and the professor falls for it.

Our devious little pest offers the professor a drink, but it's freaking rocket fuel...

Like, which way did he go, George?!

Woody plays another prank on the professor, he gets his mechanical Martian out and walks it around. The professor thinks he's finally captured the little trouble maker...

But Woody has other plans! He throws the switch on the transformer, and, zap-a-roonie!!

C'mon, you gots to has a exploding cigar to round out the laffs!

The professor climbs a tree while chasing Woody, only to be shot into the air after our hero ropes the top of the tree, pulls it down to the ground and cuts the line!

Woody tells the professor that he can get him back to Earth, so, they get inside a rocket and are ready blast off!

But, they're on a ride at Dizzyland, bringing our story to a fun end! Tune in tomorrow as Eegah!! gets ready for another Saturday installment, here at The Dungeon!!..