KOMMISSAR X - DREI GRÜNE HUNDE - "Death Trip" (1967)

I thought we had done all the Kommissar X movies, but I've come to learn, it's hard to get to the end of some things. We've done "Kommissar X - Drei Gelbe Katzen,""Kommissar X - Drei Goldene Schlangen," "Kommissar X - In Den Klauen Des Goldenen Drachen," and "Kommissar X - Jagd auf Unbekannt," but we never did "Kommissar X - Drei Grüne Hunde," so that's why it's this week's Saturday Night Special!

 

Lord Litter discovered that this film was streaming on YouTube, so he naturally passed it on to me, and so I'm doing the same for you, because it's not too bad of a copy, and the commercials are limited. "Kommissar X - Death Trip" (Drei Grüne Hunde)

 

 

So here they are again, Tony Kendall as Joe Louis Walker or Kommissar X, and Bad Brad Harris as Captain Tom Rowland, in what is considered the fourth of the "Kommissar X" series.

The original title is "Kommissar X - Drei Grüne Hunde," but it was also released in English as "Death Trip," and/or "Kill Me Gently."

There's enough L.S.D. in this container to destroy the security of a whole nation, and now it's been stolen!

Herbert Fux as Eddie Shapiro is one of the main thugs who want to get their hands on the L.S.D. The disheveled Shapiro reminds me of some character out of a Bowery Boys movie because he's got that classic gangster look to him!

Herbert (House Of 1000 Dolls, Gorilla Gang) Fux had an amazing 281 credits to his name before passing away at the age of 79 in 2007. The last thing he worked on wouldn't be released until two years after his death and was titled "Zapping-Alien@Mozart-Balls." Now that was a title I had to look further into, and I found out the whole almost two hours of non-stop madness was put up on YouTube in it's entirety by the Filmmaker himself, Vitus Zeplichal. I take no responsibility for any mind erosion incurred by watching this, you're on your own on this one!

"Zappin-Alien@Mozart-Balls"

 

So you guys think it's funny, eh? Well, we'll see who is laughing at the end of the movie!

"Cigars, cigarettes, little weird dolls!"

This particular shot says a lot about this movie! What it's saying is another story!

Joe Walker pulls a fast one on Shapiro by telling him the goods he wants are at the bottom of this aquarium, and then when he reaches in, Joe drops his electric razor into the tank. Shapiro's reaction was kind of shocking!

What a terrible place for Jo Louis Walker to have to hide! 

Not!

It's hard to get much cuter than puppies recording bad guys!

This is a trick car. A girl goes in........

............And a guy comes out!

"So, what'd we gonna do?" "I dunno, what'd you wanna do?" "I don't know, what'd you want to do?" "I don't know, what'd you wanna do?"

And so it goes!

In the movie, they call this area the Valley of a Thousand Mountains, but in reality this is Cappadocia, a region in central Turkey that is so olde, Troglodytes used to live here!

 

 

I think that leaves us with one more Kommissar X film!

You'll be the first to know when I figure it out!

LOONEY TUNES / Bugs Bunny In "Haredevil Hare" - 1948

This classic cartoon came out when I was just a measly 4 months old, it's directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese, my favorite cartoon team...

It seems that Bugs has 'volunteered' to be the first one to go to the Moon!

Bugs is dragging his feet as the scientists are trying to get him to the ship for the flight. But when they drop a big pile of carrots into the ship...

Bugs makes a b-line to the rocket and gets inside, ready for the wild ride.

This daring soul lights the fuse, and it's... BLAST OFF TIME!

Bugs has to peel himself off the floor as the rocket streaks toward the Moon, and barely misses two comets that come shooting by!

Bugs is totally traumatized by the experience...

Bugs is just starting to enjoy the idea of being alone on the Moon when he gets buzzed by another spaceship out of nowhere!

The ship is an expeditionary force from Mars and a V-16 rocket is deployed out of the bay.

It's Commander X-2 (later known as good old Marvin Martian) and he's simply going to blow up the Earth!

Once Bugs realizes that all the people he knows live on Earth, he swipes the weapon, a Uranium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

K-9 is sent out to retrieve the weapon. The mutt grabs the modulator from Bugs, he then gets into a 'give it back, no I won't, yes you will' shouting match with the wascally wabbit. K-9 ends up giving the modulator back to Bugs after he gets confused, and in a mean way. As Bugs walks away with the weapon in hand, he tells K-9 that he's going to go tell his big brother and then he'll be sorry, yeah!

K-9 gets a swift kick to the rear from the commander!

There's a special delivery from Mars, a brand new modulator, whoopie, what joy!!

Of course it's a setup by Bugs, all he has to do is push that handle down, and!

Ground control checks in with Bugs... Yes, he made it to the Moon. Bugs is asked if he has prepared a statement for everyone back on Earth.

Yeah, get me outta here!!! Ditto!!!

NIGHT AFTER NIGHT - "Archival Sunday" (1990)

 

I remember when "The Comedy Channel" came on in 1990 because in the beginning, some of it like "Night After Night" with Allan Havey was hilarious. It really seemed like it happened all too fast, and they said, "Okay Allan, be funny for two or three hours." It was fascinating, and that's why it's this week's Weird Wednesday presentation!

 

Allan Havey has gone on to be in many TV shows like "Madmen," and his latest was a show called "Billions" that was on from 2017 to 2020. Allan is a very funny and sarcastic guy, and I'd really like to see how his stand up routine holds over to today's standards of what's funny and what's not!
 

This bit on "Night After Night" was called "Archival Sunday" which was nothing more than showing weird shorts made over the years that I'm sure were public domain, with Allan as the host.

It was all silly stuff like "Dating Do's & Don'ts" from 1949. 

It was not much different than a lot of public access TV shows I've seen.

Then they'd cut back to Allan and whatever the heck he'd come up, like this bit about "Ploughman's" Piccalilli, which was a pickle relish, or this other fine product known as "Bovri" which was a meat extract like bouillon but the texture of "Vegemite."

The topic was spotlight on archival snacks, and the show is now called "Cholesterol Carousal." Allan goes on to tell you that these products meet all our "traditonal requirements, like high fat, high sodium, and low nutritional value!"

 "Let's pour some out, and explore "Ploughman's Piccilli." It's vicious, it's pungent, and it leaves an ooze trail like a tree slug." He even describes it as being a goose turd colour.

Yummy!

Then out comes the "Bovril." 

Allan thinks that both of these classic condiments would probably taste great on a chunk of "Spam."

The disgusting stench eventually gets to him, and his has to push the plate away while he's speaking.

 

Time for more fun shorts like "Round-Trip Tickets from 1961.

And, video of this "Lottery Winner" from 1936.

And if all that wasn't enough, there were monkeys in pajamas..................

..........and footage of 80's heartthrob, the beautiful and hilarious Judy Tenuka!

The only thing I have to compare this to is when a local FM rock radio station went out of business here about 25 years ago, and when you turned it on, and they played Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World" over and over with no interruption for I think was about 72 hours straight. It was all just very Surreal.

 

 

The Comedy Channel turned into Comedy Central, and although it will never be as funky as it was when they first started, at least they brought "Drunk History" to the world, and for that, I am forever indebted!