BEANY AND CECIL In "20,000 Little Leaguers Under The Sea" - 1962

Welp, it's Friday and time for another Beany and Cecil adventure, under the sea!

The Captain and Beany are watching the baseball game on their TV while Cecil goes under the sea to watch the game from there...

All the baseball stars are there for the televised event.

Cecil Meets Little Homer, an octopus with real talent.

DJ shows up, he's hunting octopus. Little Homer is tricky so that dirty guy poses as a baseball talent scout representing the San Francisco Giant Squids. All DJ wants is for Little Homer to play ball with him!

Our old villain finds out what it's like playing ball with Little Homer!

Homer tosses a bell bottom ball to DJ...

And he has to chase his head down after getting it knocked off with a bat.

Little Homer tries to put DJ's upside down head back on.

Everything DJ tries backfires!

And when that dirty guy tries to spear the little guy, Cecil steps in to save the day as usual, and put DJ in his place!

It's pitching practice for Little Homer, and old DJ's noggin is the target! It's another happy ending in Beany and Cecil Land...

LITTLE RED MONKEY - "Monkey Madness" (1955)

It's Worthwhile Watch Wednesday in The Dungeon, and the feature presentation tonight is the 1955 British film, "Little Red Monkey," which was later changed to "The Case Of The Red Monkey," which sounds a lot less like the title of a child's book, I guess.

"You can call me names, you can get real funky, just don't go messin', with my "Little Red Monkey!"

This "Little Red Monkey" is a squirrel monkey, and I know quite a lot about them, since we had one as a pet when I was in high school. They will bite the Hell out of you, but they're not normally the murderin' kind!

 

I  think this "Little Red Monkey" falls kind of flat compared to many other films of the era and genre, but it's short, and has enough interesting elements to make it worth watching!  

 

Great shot of a 1950's TV newsroom! 

A series of high profile murders are are being perpetuated by this group of perpetrators, and the only clues the authorities have point to a squirrel monkey!

Another victim is shot despite the constant police protection!

 

I'm pretty puzzled myself because they never really explain what the damn monkey has to do with any of it. You can see the monkey in the top photo, and he's not doing anything, he's just there, so why does this killer bring the monkey around with him. I guess it's his only friend.

 What a loser!

 

A press conference is called, or in this case, a 1950's!

 

Just like in the "Godzilla" movies, they bring in an American as the star, who in this case is Richard The Godfather) Conte, who is real good at tying ties! Richard Conte was also in the "Twilight Zone" episode titled "Perchance To Dream."

His name is Bill Locklin, and his job is to bring an escaped and distinguished Russian Professor safely back to America from London.

This whole killing people routine takes it's toll on a person!

Dammit! They said the last one one going to be the last one, not the next one!

Time to cut to the club, and the budding relationship between Bill Locklin and the Chief Inspector's niece Julia Jackson as played by Rona Anderson. Oddly enough, Rona was married to Phillip Jackson, the head cheese in the TV show "The Professionals."

My beef with "Little Red Monkey" is that they spend far too much time on the relationship between Bill and Julia, and not enough time explaining what this whole monkey thing is all about!

All the monkey seems to do is creep around and look through people's windows mostly. It's his master that is doing all the killing, and the monkey is just along for the ride!

They whisk the Professor off to a Sanitarium, a place where they think they can successfully hide him from the monkey!

Time for Richard to tie his necktie again! This is another film that also has a ton of smoking in it!

Here's a look at some weird backseat shenanigans!

Freaky little Tommy McCollom is the son of the Supervisor at the sanitarium, and he likes to go around shooting patients with his ray gun!

This is obviously the coolest part of the movie. Tommy shoots this guy with his ray gun who is just getting ready to call the newspaper and tell them that he knows where the Professor is hiding, after spotting him in the hall.

The people who hired the monkey also show up at the sanitarium!!

And in the process of everything that's happening, little Tommy gets shot by Bill Locklin!

 Imagine the supervisor's despair!!

But as it turns out, it wasn't Tommy at all! There's a midget in the costume, and he's the guy who is the monkey's master, and the one who has been doing all the killing!

Bill and Julia are in love, but he has to go back to America with the Professor, and we never find out anything more about the monkey or the midget. Not a bad movie, they just put the emphasis on the wrong couple!

LOONEY TUNES / "Porky In Egypt" - 1938

This is one of my very favorite Looney Tune gems! When you really tune into it, it is a very surreal trip and kinda creepy at times. Bob Clampett, Norm McCabe, Earnest Gee and Carl Stalling, what the heck in the world could be better than that?! Oh yeah, Mel Blanc does all the voices to boot!! So there you go!!! Go check it out if you know what's good for you...

We start with these cool dudes shooting dice in the alley, c'mon seven-eleven! Daddy needs a new pair of shoes!!

This one was always a good gag, watching a beautiful lady walking down the street...

And kapow!!.. Right in the kisser!

The camel ride tour to see the homes of  the mummy stars is open and the tourists pile onto the 70 foot long camel bus there, and they take off into the desert.

Porky just misses the bus and ends up renting his own camel.

Him and Humpty Bumpty do their best to follow, but...

It's freaking hot in the desert in the middle of the day!! The bottom pic shows what happens to an oasis with palm trees and a pool of cool water.

Humpty Bumpty cannot go on any further and that's when the sun's rays punch him square in the head!

Everything's spinning around when Humpty starts hearing those strange voices talking to him, calling him by his name!

Here, Humpty looks like a Basil Wolverton comic character!

Then, Humpty tells Porky that the camels are coming to save them!

Porky's had a bit too much sun too and sees Humpty in a swimming pool...

After diving head first into the sand, Porky's pulled out by his tail.

So, Humpty runs into a tree trying to get away from the voices and it clears his head, he tells Porky that he's okay now. But the infernal voices return. He picks up Porky and runs into the same tree again! That gag is sooo good!

Humpty high tails it back to the city, and...

He locks all four doors to his room before feeling safe.

Now Porky goes bananas after that kwazy adventure!!

See you again on Wednesday, hang in there!!..