T.J. HOOKER - "Vengeance Is Mine" (1983)

I'm not the biggest fan in the world of "Star Trek," but I am a big fan of the work of both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, so when Lord Litter me told there was an episode of "T.J. Hooker" that had Leonard Nimoy as guest star, I just had to check it out, and that's why this week's Saturday Night Special is Season Two, Episode sixteen of "T.J. Hooker" titled "Vengeance is Mine."

 

Leonard Nimoy is Lt. Paul McGuire, and one of the first lines out of his mouth is "After working with Hooker all these years...."

 

They are in pursuit of these idiot robbers who decide to take a shortcut through this store!

Cut to the credits and aerobics instructor Valerie McGuire as played by Michele (Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.) Tobin.

 

Valerie rebukes the advances of creepy sweaty attorney Larry Foster as played by Randy (Logan's Run) Powell.

As fate would have it, besides being an attorney, Larry Foster is also a part-time serial rapist!

The real problem rears it's ugly little head when it's discovered the victim is also Lt. Paul McGuire's daughter. Now it's personal!

After Foster is arrested, put in a lineup and identified by his voice, he still pulls some legal mumbo jumbo and wriggles his way out of it like the slimy worm that he is.

It doesn't take long before he's back up to his old tricks again!

 

Hooker finally gets his hands on the dirty rat after a long chase.

Only to find out that the whole case is botched when he realizes Lt. Paul McGuire has planted evidence on Foster!

His daughter was raped and he's mad, but the way he went about doing anything about it just wasn't right either!

 

Then it gets worse............
 

Oh, man, this isn't how this reunion was supposed to end up at all!

No more guest appearances for you!

13 GREAT SILENT HORROR AND SCI-FI MOVIE POSTERS

 Today we have a few posters from the beginning of film, and we see the care they took in the frightening graphics they created, almost as important as the movie itself.

There were many movies  about 'The Bat' character, which was based on a stage play. Let's face it, people have liked to be scared since the beginning of film.

The Cat And The Canary was another similar type sneaky murderous character, just putting claws on their gloves make them a feared fiend.

Then there's Nosferatu, don't remember seeing this poster before, pray this vampire thing doesn't come snooping around your place!

I used two different poster from this horror movie, just to get a look at how different the styles are, both are creepy in their own ways.

Boy, Universal had some of the most attractive posters there were. Lon's face in the background is truly a terrifying sight to behold! A real nightmare.

Some of Universal's posters featured elongated figures and wild backgrounds, qualifying them as surreal works of art.

 Universal had a few posters with artwork that would be considered some of the finest in movie history, this scene is stunning. Everyone will want to see it.

The audience must have been aghast when they saw this one at the theater when it came out. Love the crazy buildings, and 'Maria' is simply one of the greatest robot creations, ever, just beautiful. Other favorite robots I dig are Robby and Tobor.

Abstract expressionism affected Germany's style in a number of films, and totally in this crazy roller coaster ride called The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, man!

The Golem is another movie caught up in the expressionist movement, mainly in Europe. I mean, like, just look at that poster!

Here's an intriguing movie called GENUINE, it's about a vampire and has a number of scenes that are expressionist to the hilt, keine scheiss!

Probably the first space opera, astounding sets and a cool rocket set the stage for all the drama, for me, it's boring.

Here a great poster from The Man That Laughs to end the show. Of course he was the original Joker... So, check in tomorrow when Eegah brings on the hurt.

OPERACION 67 - "Agentes Secretos" (1967)

 

"Operacion 67" or in English, "Operation 67," was Santo's 16th movie! Up to this point Santo had already had to fend off Vampire Women, Zombies, a Strangler twice, Infernal Men, Evil and Diabolical Brains, and even Martians, but he was just getting started!

 

Santo is a secret agent now, and is joined in this 1967 classic by Jorge (Neutron Traps the Invisible Killers) Rivero as his partner Jorge Rubio. I don't see that Jorge was ever in another Santo movie after this.

Welcome to another Big Time Wrasslin' Wednesday down in The Dungeon!

Here we go, another bunch of jerks with big plans for world domination!

That's quite a sculpture in the Boss's office!

Plates to print new money are going to be transported in this van with these guys on motorcycles guarding the whole operation. There's only one problem, there's at least one or two bad eggs in this group, and the plates are stolen, reproduced and replaced.  Now the government will be the ones unknowingly printing counterfeit bills, and the whole bottom will drop out of the economy!

These thirteen guys are supposed to fan out and spend money like drunken sailors.

Elizabeth Campbell was born in Santa Monica, California, but had a great career in Mexico as a luchadora named Golden Rubi. In this film, she's the beautiful but evil Ruth Taylor.

Why anybody would take this job is beyond me! Each of these thirteen stooges is gifted with a non-removable watch that monitors their every move, and if they screw up, Ruth Taylor can give the order to have their watches self-destruct, which in turn kills the guy wearing it.

Midori Nagashiro gets a lot of on screen time as an exotic dancer, and that's just as much as you're ever going to find out about her. This was Midori's only film appearance.

Jorge is also Santo's tag team partner! 

Jorge is a good lookin' guy, and at the beginning of the film, Santo is just getting ready to take his mask off to prove to his girlfriend that he was handsomer than Jorge, but they get called out on this mission before he can actually do it. He never did remove his mask in public until ten days before he died.

 

Que es esto? "De Norte a Noreste?"

 

The plane and it's pilot make a good attempt at putting Santo out of business, but they fail even with guns built into the wings.

Where's a referee when you need one?

Now that's a good idea! Something simple like rigging up this big deal to fall from the ceiling and crush them when they are in the ring! Subtle!

I mean really Ruth, what did you expect?

After that didn't work, they decide to shoot this fancy gun into Santo's house!

Santo can't catch a break!

In hot pursuit, Santo has to scale the side of this building!

Some of it is a bit unfathomable like when Jorge and Ruth Taylor are suddenly in love! She tells him she loves him right before she attempts to blow up a boat he's in! She was looking good on the beach though. 

Now this is pretty weird! According to all reports, Elizabeth Campbell left Mexico to head to New York to work in TV in 1968, and supposedly nobody really knows where she is, or what she's been doing ever since.

Finally is right! Wow! That took a while!

Oh, come on Ruth, it's a little too late for that now, but not for Santo who would go on to fight Dracula, Witches, Mummies, Monsters, Head Hunters and more before passing away in 1983 at the age of 66.

THE THREE STOOGES In "Dizzy Detectives" - 1943

Here we go with one wild episode with our favorite guys, the Stooges. In today's adventure, they quit their jobs as carpenters and become policemen, only to go up against some crooks who have a pet gorilla (played by Crash Corrigan) who commits burglaries for them, and keeps away anyone who comes snooping around their antique shop where it's hiding out.

The boys watch as Mr. Dill, the head of the citizens league, demands that the police chief (Bud Jamison) capture the rampaging gorilla, or there will be Hell to pay next election! Love to watch the Stooges as they digest what's going on.

The boys go to Gypsom Good Inc. Antiques after they get a lead. As they look for the pass key to get in (it's in Curly's pocket), a fearsome shape appears through the glass, it opens the door...

After locating the pass key, they turn around and get spooked by the door being open and gingerly enter the room.

The boys only have two guns so Moe and Larry set off the search the place as Curly keeps guard, he sits down in a rocking chair. After missing the cat's tail like 15 times with the rocker, he nails it!

The cat screams out, Curly jumps up and calls for Moe and Larry to come running, he just heard a woman scream.

In a back room, the gorilla takes a female mannequin figure and tosses it on the floor.

While Curly's telling Larry and Moe about the screaming woman, they look down and see the mannequin laying there and jump onto Curly!

This part is actually pretty funny, Curly's hiding under a fur and when he pulls it down to see what's going on, there's a derby stuck on his foot and he thinks it's another person.

After the ape bends the barrels of their guns, they realize that it's really a gorilla, not someone just wearing a gorilla suit.

Here's a rare shot of Curly doing his 'woob' break dance!

Then we find out what's going on, Dill is behind a scheme to make the police chief look bad, win the police chief election, then take over the city using the gorilla to commit robberies!

The boys overhear the men talking and confront them, which leads to a free for all!

Curly donkey kicks this crook into a moose trophy's antlers where he can safely rest.

Dill gets his hands around Curly's throat just before the giant pipe wrench Curly threw ricochets off the wall and conks the bad guy in the noggin, but good! 

Then Moe and Larry think Curly got his head chopped off by a guillotine in the shop, they scream bloody murder after focusing in on the mannequin head laying there, courtesy of the gorilla.

The big ape finds and chugs down a whole bottle of freaking nitroglycerin!

Curly has had enough of the gorilla and charges it with his head down.

And the place blows sky high, Curly picks up the ape's head and it growls at him, and the boys run off, bringing the story to an end...