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ARGGH!!! •BUD ABBOTT & LOU COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948), •BATMAN: THE PENGUIN DECLINES (1967), •MAN MADE MONSTER(1941), •BUD ABBOTT & LOU COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)
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•BATMAN: THE PENGUIN DECLINES (1967)
Part of a series of episodes in the classic 'Sixties hit TV show, centred on crimes conducted in a collaboration between The Joker and Penguin under the theme of the signs of the Zodiac.
In the previous exciting episode, back at his GHQ after a daring heist of 2 rare fish (Pisces!!) that were on exhibit at The Gotham City Park Fountain, The Joker captures The Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder in a huge net. The Dynamic Duo, along with Venus, The Joker's moll (TERRY MOORE), whom he has also not long before taken prisoner when she turned from her evil ways to assist the good guys, are all quickly chained in a shallow pool, and are about to become the main course of a Giant Clam. The Joker departs to commit his next crime, while the clam
tries to swallow Robin!!!! Whereupon we rejoin the story…
[SPOILERS FOLLOW!!!]
Using every ounce of his superhuman Bat-strength, Batman bursts free of his chains, rushes over to the clam and pries it open long enough to rescue Robin from the maw of the menacing mollusk! Freeing Venus, the trio make their escape, while The Joker, needing more assistance with his remaining two Zodiac Crimes, has his flunkies Uranus and Mars smuggle The Penguin out of prison in a prison laundry truck (by way of Operation Laundry Bag!). Using a concoction of his own insidious creation, The Joker turns the entire Gotham City water supply (Aquarius The Water-Bearer!) into Joker-jelly (concentrated strawberry gelatin which resembles strawberry jelly, but tastes like strawberry axle grease!), and then demands $10 million to change it back!
Meanwhile, The Penguin, claiming he
has reformed, tries to woo Venus (who's staying at Bruce Wayne's swanky midtown apartment) into asking Batman to let her visit The Batcave, so she can remove Penguin's criminal record from The BatComputer for him. The Dynamic Duo fly out to the JokerJelly-infested Gotham City Reservoir by Batcopter and restore the water supply with the trusty aid of a Special Exploding Batarang and The Portable BatLab. Returning to the city, Batman and Robin pay a visit to Venus, who, having fallen for The Penguin's fib about going straight, convinces Batman into giving her a tour of The Batcave.
Hoping to make Batman the goat (Capricorn!!!), Penguin, Joker, and henchmen Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus secretly stow away in The Batmobile's trunk. The Dynamic Duo return to The Batcave with Venus in tow (having doused her with BatGas, naturally!), and there the crooks pop right out, ready to do-away with Batman and Robin, and convert The Batcave into the headquarters of Gotham City's criminals!
Hoping to make Batman the goat (Capricorn!!!), Penguin, Joker, and henchmen Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus secretly stow away in The Batmobile's trunk. The Dynamic Duo return to The Batcave with Venus in tow (having doused her with BatGas, naturally!), and there the crooks pop right out, ready to do-away with Batman and Robin, and convert The Batcave into the headquarters of Gotham City's criminals!
But The Caped Crusader stops them by activating his newly designed Batspectrograph Criminal Analyzer, which recorded Joker and Penguin's bone structure, metabolism rate, molecular blood structure, retina patterns, and other invaluable scientific data (he knew of their hiding in the trunk all along, and so he brought them both to The Batcave in order to utilize The Analyzer, which only works at close range and is too large to move). The Penguin tries to liquidate The Duo with his deadly Umbrella Gun, but The Batprobe Negative Ion Attractor, which Batman strategically installed in The Batmobile's trunk, depleted its power source during the time they were inside.
After a fierce fight, the whole gang is captured and ready to be delivered to prison. Later at Wayne Manor, Dick Grayson cringes as he learns from Aunt Harriet that the main course for dinner is clam
chowder, but his guardian Bruce assures him it's his chance to get even! Howard Hughes' former girlfriend Terry Moore plays Venus. Watch out for ROB REINER as a delivery boy! Episode 73 first aired on 18 January 1967. Prod. Co. Prod Co: Greenway/Twentieth Century Fox Television. Prod: Howie Horwitz ; Dir: Oscar Rudolph. Wr: Stephen Kandel (story), Stanford Sherman. Phot: Howard Schwartz. Mus: NELSON RIDDLE. Ed: Frank O'Neil ; Theme Mus: NEAL HEFTI. Cast: ADAM WEST (Bruce N. Wayne/Batman), Madge Blake (Aunt Harriet Cooper, BURT WARD (Richard "Dick" Grayson/Robin, The Boy Wonder), ALAN NAPIER (Alfred Pennyworth), STAFFORD REPP (Chief O'Hara), WILLIAM DOZIER (the narrator), David Lewis (Warden Crichton), Byron Keith (Mayor Linseed), NEIL HAMILTON (Commissioner James W. Gordon). All Guest Stars: BURGESS MEREDITH (The Penguin), CESAR ROMERO (The Joker), Charles Picerni (Uranus) , Terry Moore (Venus), Hal Baylor (Mercury), Joe Di Reda (Mars), Eddie Saenz (Saturn), Dick Crockett (Neptune),
Louis Cordova (Salesman), Vincent Barbi (Truck Driver), ROB REINER(Delivery Boy). 25 mins. NFVLS
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•MAN MADE MONSTER(1941)
You WILL believe a whole feature film can be crunched into 10 minutes when you see this digest version of a great rare classic. ( A crime to do this, we know, but, unless anyone
wants to buy us the whole film, this is all you deserve, and it's all you get! )
"INCREASE THE VOLTAGE, IGOR!"
Big Dan McCormick (Dynamo Dan, The Electric Man) survives a bus accident that is hit with electricity, only to end up being the guinea pig for two scientists - one, a good man who wants to investigate McCormick's immunity to electrical currents for the benefit of mankind, and the other, who wants to make McCormick the prototype of his super-human, electric-men army which only he is able to control.
LON CHANEY Jr, in his first horror film for Universal Pictures, puts in a fine job, doing another variation of Lenny from OF MICE AND MEN (1939), full of pathos, being the simple, unfortunate man who is tricked and
coerced by the evil scientist. The evil guy is played with relish and finesse than none other than Lionel Atwill. Atwill plays the man with a degree of enlightened insanity. Lionel Atwill played evil scientists better than anyone else for my money. He enunciates his words with delicacy while all the time looking through those snake-like eyes. The special effects and direction in this one are pretty good and the film is very enjoyable. Inexplicably, it is one of the least-known Universal Horror pics, but amongst those who have seen it, one of the most fondly remembered. Chaney and the director, George Waggner subsequently reunited for their breakthrough screamer, THE WOLF MAN, in 1941.
Directed by George Waggner; Produced by Jack Bernhard; Screenplay by Joseph West (George Waggner); Special Effects by John P. Fulton; Make Up by Jack P. Pierce; Music by Hans J. Salter & Charles Previn. From "The Electric Man" by Harry J. Essex, Sid Schwartz & Len Golas. Starring Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney Jnr., Anne Nagel, Frank Albertson. 10 mins. RM
Directed by George Waggner; Produced by Jack Bernhard; Screenplay by Joseph West (George Waggner); Special Effects by John P. Fulton; Make Up by Jack P. Pierce; Music by Hans J. Salter & Charles Previn. From "The Electric Man" by Harry J. Essex, Sid Schwartz & Len Golas. Starring Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney Jnr., Anne Nagel, Frank Albertson. 10 mins. RM
and featuring:
•BUD ABBOTT & LOU COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)
Chick
Young (Bud Abbott) and Wilbur Grey (Lou Costello) are two baggage clerks at a Florida train station, who receive a strange shipment for the local horror museum, of the remains of Count Dracula (BELA LUGOSI) and Frankenstein (Glenn Strange). Far from dead, these monsters, plus a few other co-horts, lead / pursue these hapless clerks on a wild chase, giving them a scary adventure, on this "comedy-horror ride."
This "fabulous farce"of a screenplay, by Robert Lees, Frederic Rinaldo, and John Grant, is considered not only the best Abbott and Costello classic comedy, but also one of the finest mixes of horror and humour ever created. The laughs and thrills come "a mile a minute," as Bud and Lou attempt to keep one step ahead of the movie's most memorable monsters, from the animated opening credits to the clever closing gag, featuring the voice of VINCENT PRICE, as "The
Invisible Man."
The monsters offer a scary contrast to the comic duo, Bud and Lou. BELA LUGOSI recreates his original scary role as Dracula, Glenn Strange does a good job as the ailing Frankenstein, and LON CHANEY, JR. breathes life into the character of the cursed Wolfman.
The best film starring the comic duo keeps their repetitive routines to a minimum and pits them against a bevy of monsters played relatively straight: Count Dracula (Lugosi's return to the role after 17 years), a tortured Wolfman, Frankenstein's monster, a mad woman doctor (intent on transplanting Costello's brain) and the voice of VINCENT PRICE as the Invisible Man. Prod Co:
Universal International. Prod: Robert Arthur. Dir: Charles T. Barton. WR: Robert Lees, Frederic I. Rinaldo, John Grant. Phot: Charles van Enger. Ed: Frank Gross. Cast: BUD ABBOTT, LOU COSTELLO, LON CHANEY JR., BELA LUGOSI, GLENN STRANGE, Lenore Aubert. 93 mins. NFVLS.
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