DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME - "Chester Gould Meets Boris Karloff" (1947)

 On the 13th day of X-Mas, my true love gave to me, Boris Karloff and Dick Tracy!

 Welcome to Saturday night down in The Dungeon, and tonight's special feature, "Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome!" Anything and everything with Boris Karloff in it, is always going to be special to us!

The opening is rather ominous!

But as it turns out, it's just the local dive, "The Hangman's Knot!"

Everyone's shakin' down at the Knot to the swinging sounds of a wild cat named Melody tinkling on the keys! Hit it Melody!!

The mood changes when a fresh out of prison Gruesome comes on the scene!

Melody is happy Gruesome is out so they can pull off some big jobs together! Melody was played by Tony Barrett, who went on to be a very successful TV detective series writer in the 60's with shows like "77 Sunset Strip," "Peter Gunn," and "Mod Squad!"

 Time to see what's happening on the other side of this door at Wood Plastics Inc!

Gruesome gets a little too nosy and sticks his snoot into something he should have stayed out of!

 He staggers back to the Knot, keels over dead, and is stiff as a board in no time at all! The rigor mortis sets in almost instantly!

This case is just weird enough that it's time to call in Dick Tracy! Dick was played by Ralph Byrd who also had the role of Dick Tracy in 5 other serials and movies, and then also for a two year run of 48 episodes as Dick Tracy on TV from 1950 to 1952!

Gruesome wakes up in the morgue, and lights up a cigarette before he realizes where he is! He knocks out the guard and escapes right when Dick Tracy arrives!

 Gruesome develops a plan with Melody to use this new found gas to rob a bank while all the customers are left stiff and incapacitated! One guy stops cold right in the middle of a sneeze! Time basically freezes which allows the boys to clean out the place!

Unfortunately Dick Tracy's main Squeeze Tess Trueheart was also in the bank, and she blows the whistle on the robbers! She is only pretending to be stiff, but she was unaffected because she was in this phone booth when the gas was released! Tess is played by the lovely Anne (House Of Frankenstein, Teenage Monster) Gwynne!

Chester Gould's character Dick Tracy was so popular that the comic strip ran in the newspapers in 27 different countries! You would think a lot of the word gags would have got lost in translation!

The marvelously creepy Skelton (House Of Dracula) Knaggs had the role of X-Ray! I love this shot of Skelton and Boris together!

Whose jokes and play on words came first, Chester Gould or The Three Stooges?

"Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome" is not exactly a comedy, but it's pretty funny at times! Lyle Latell is detective Pat Patton. The colourful Mr. Latell also had the role of Pat in "Dick Tracy," "Dick Tracy vs Cueball," and "Dick Tracy's Dilemma!

Just in case you didn't notice, the date today is 12-13-14!!!

 

 You can't beat a gift like this, "Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome" is another awesome movie you can download or stream for free over at the truly amazing Internet Archive!  It's all free, but they sure wouldn't mind if you'd donate a couple of bucks to the cause!

 

Sometime in the near future, we'll get around to that other great Dick Tracy film, "Dick Tracy vs Cueball!"

Here's a look at just a very, very, small sampling of the colourful characters Chester Gould came up with for Dick Tracy to tangle with in the 30's and 40's! What a guy!

ZARDOZ / John Boorman Productions - 1974

It's Weirdsville Friday here at The Dungeon, we gots a movie written and directed by John Boorman and stars Sean 'Bond' Connery. Boorman also directed HAVING A WILD WEEKEND, POINT BLANK, DELIVERANCE, EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC, EXCALIBUR and THE EMERALD FOREST.

This goofy looking dude claims to be the almighty Zardoz, I'll let you judge for yourself...

Eegah!! sent over a sound clip from this flick for our approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button over by our atomic guns, NOW, Rufus The Gnat!.. Here's a little taste of... ZARDOZ!

The story's about two groups of people in the distant future, one barbaric, one highly civilized. These, obviously, are the uncivilized ones, here with their big old head master, Zardoz!

And, here's Zed with his pistol, ready to kill, because, guns are good, the penis is evil, ya'll!

Zed inspects the interior of Zardoz, it rises from the ground and flies a great distance away.

Zed is let out of Zardoz on an English countryside where he encounters strange buildings and a topless girl riding her white horsie!

In the room of memories, the leaders, all women, watch as Zed's past is revealed...

Zed becomes this guy's companion and it's quite a humiliating experience for him.

The Zardoz gang mounts an attack on the civilized ones and go on yet another killing spree! This part was sanctioned by the Red States NRA.

Zed learns to be sympathetic while living with all the dysfunctional people in his life now and submits to being just a mere mortal human animal...

Jeez, looking at this, I'm really glad I'm a guy! No offense to all the great gals out there.

We'll end with probably my favorite part of the movie, this time lapse segment of Zed, Consuella and their son as they age through the happy years of their loving union.

We're back tomorrow with more from the Dungeon Gang, be there or else!..

ÇILGIN KIZ VE ÜÇ SÜPER ADAM - "3 Supermen And Mad Girl" (1973)

Here's an early X-mas present for all you good little kiddies! One of the greatest action packed films ever made and a free download and or streaming link courtesy of the fine folks over at The Internet Archive!! Your part is easy, all you have to do is watch!!

 3 Supermen and Mad Girl!!!

Welcome to the WTF!? Wednesday X-mas Explosion down in The Dungeon! Tonight's feature has got everything and costs nothing, it's the perfect combination of both W and F! It's not in English, the print is as horrible as you could possibly imagine, but somehow, it just doesn't matter! A word of caution, it's mesmerizing!

Just to prove the far reaching strength of Larry, Moe, and Curly!

I am such a sucker for chicks with those modified harlequin masques!

Is that a mustache on this cardboard robot? He might look cheapo, but his ray gun will disintegrate your ass in 3 seconds flat!

These are the Three Supermen off duty! They don't really have any super powers, but their suits are bulletproof, and they have handy devices to make up for their lack of powers!

Like this super vision eyepiece is put to good use!

"Çilgin Kiz VeÜç Süper Adam" is almost non-stop action! In fact, it's really just a bunch of fight and chase scenes woven together by some storyline about your run of the mill power hungry freaks set on world domination!

I'm guessing this is Yesim Yükselen as Mad Girl! Her role is......you know, she like goes around acting all kinds of crazy most of the time!

Do not adjust the controls, just be forewarned, a good 7% of the movie looks like this! This is also a good spot to play you about two minutes of music from the movie to rock your soul! No holds barred, the makers of this film used everything they could get their hands on from "Thunderball" to "Pink Floyd," and a lot of good old fashioned Las Vegasy sleaze! Fasten your seat belt and your straight jacket, and hold on tight!

Usually, Photoshop can bring these old worn out things back to life, but not in the case of this movie! This is as good as it gets!!

Being as there was a bit of a translation problem, I kinda thought this gal was Mad Girl, but I guess not, I guess she's just kind of mildly insane for being in this movie! This just might be Mine Sun as the abducted girl! These Mad Girl Followers are no dummies, they wait until she strips down to her skivvies before snatching her!

I'm just guessing there are a lot of underground lairs in Turkey still today!

Again, no sub-titles, so I can only guess what Mad Girl has in mind! One thing you can say about the Turks, they ain't no prudes!

Mad Girl and her extremist cohorts are having a grand Bacchanalian fest over at the Grange Hall, and the Three Supermen infiltrate the private party with clever disguises like this!

Time to get down with some 'mano a mano' between one of the Supermen and the killer robot!

Your guess is as good as mine, but I'm pretty sure these three dudes are Levent Çakir, Altan Bozkurt, and Nubar Terziyan, but I could be wrong! I can tell you this much, the little guy is quite the acrobat!

Just to show you that chivalry was still alive in 1973 Turkey, The Supermen cover up the abducted girl to preserve her modesty!

All for one, and, All for one!!

They just forgot one little thing at the end of this film.......

..........Of A Bitch!!!