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Wow. One of your best videos yet!

Great video. I appreciate all your research to share the info with us.

Good stuff, OMK. Was Jack Nicholson’s Joker face based on Keefe?😂

@ 0:37 Yeah, my general rule of thumb when I get a Facebook friend request is "very young + very attractive = bot". 😄 Oh well, at least they're padding your follower count!

Have you ever reviewed Billy the Kid vs Dracula?

A toast to you for another great episode. 🍵 I look forward to each one.

Actually enjoyed the fake dinosaurs. Remember seeing this as a double bill the The Green Slime.

"This movie is nothing but ropes and asses!" A riff from The Mole People that would apply equally well here. Good catch on the proving ground footage from Rocketship XM in this movie too. 👍

He was my great-uncle (dad's dad's brother). I never got to meet him, but older members of the family said the same thing. "He was a pleasant and personable man, and had many talents." That whole generation is gone now.

I’ve always loved this film and couldn’t stand the mystery science theatre 2000 show. The film is light hearted, full of cool stuff and the scenes are a bit like in a comic book. I also love that music. Don Elis had a great reputation for his complex jazz compositions for large orchestra with exotic time base. The 60’s at it’s best, Come on, living on the moon is fun! 🎉

I'm watching Skydivers right now... and it got me thinking about your question about what happened to Coleman. I can't help but wonder if his writing in that film reflected what was going on in his life, mostly regarding the cheating. Something like this happened. Maybe the both cheated. The relationship fell apart. After Skydivers he makes one last film. It flops. He realizes his dreams are mostly over. His wife has left him. He'll never be able to make a living as a director or actor. Tony Cardoza, his film making partner is able to achieve his dream and continues making a living as a z-grade film actor. Coleman is left in the dust. It's sad, but I think that's most likely what happened.

Good stuff. It's a joy to watch your videos.

One interesting fact loosely tied to this movie is the main actress did a lot of voice work and dubbed the titular character in "Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot."

Was the guy who lost his cat related to Donald Pleasance? Nobody else pronounces the word "pyuma"! 😄

yes, we all know it now. RIP. who was the woman feigning laughter beside her at the telephone (i would imagine her story may be happier or sadder/ i'd love to know) and running into the room to announce her line, "you can use the phone now."

George Mather (star of Ring of Terror) is/was my cousin (our grandfathers were brothers). He also worked on Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) as a Production Supervisor; Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986). ❤

Glad you enjoyed yourself. It's great to have you back. Best part of the movie was the large couple. They seem like they would have been a fun couple.

For some reason my spouse always picked THIS movie whenever we were trying to choose an old MST3K episode to watch. I've never understood why.

This is one of the MST3K episodes that puts me straight to sleep, it took me several tries to watch all the way through. The riffing is brilliant, but the poor-quality washed out print, bad audio levels, and meandering "plot" all make it a tough watch. Screw George Moffet, Tiny and Rag Doll are the real protagonists of this flick!

I recently watched The Alien Dead , too! And all I have to say is: I apologize for every complaint I've ever made about any other movie. That film might be the nadir of western civilization.

An intelligent student and a stellar athlete in football and track, Rondo Hatton was voted “the Handsomest Boy in the Class of 1913” in his senior year of high school. After graduation, he secured a job as a sports writer for The Tampa Tribune. Then, when WWI broke out, he enlisted in the Army and continued to employ his skills as a journalist. First, he covered General John Pershing’s expedition into Mexico and later served in the European theater, writing news-breaking stories from the Western Front - all as a soldier. And it was in war-torn France that Rondo’s fortunes began to change for the worse. A German mustard gas attack severely injured the young man and the Army medically evacuated him back to the States and eventually discharged him. Rondo returned to his old newspaper job and would continue with it for the next 18 years. But something bad began to happen to Rondo. His youthful, handsome features began to morph into something brutish. His head, face, hands and feet became increasing large and deformed. Doctors diagnosed him with Acromegaly - a disease of the pituitary gland. Compared to the pretty boy he once was, Rondo was becoming a beast. His wife divorced him from shame and he began to spiral into depression. Friends and coworkers feared he might hurt himself. Then, while covering the filming of the motion picture in Tampa - Hell Harbor in 1930 - director Henry King took note of the reporter’s thuggish looks and thought he’d make a great villain. King hired him for a small role in the movie. Hatton continued with his “day job” at the paper, but took other small roles and bit parts as they came. He married again, this time to a more faithful spouse. Naturally, as the disease progressed Rondo not only became uglier. His health began to fail and he had to give up his journalist job. Now Rondo had to depend exclusively on his disability pension and whatever small parts Universal Pictures could give him. But it was at the height of his deformity that Universal cast him in his first major role - as the “spine-breaking” Hoxton Creeper in the Sherlock Holmes thriller, The Pearl of Death in 1945. Horror movie fans across America went wild over this new “monster who required no makeup” and both Hatton and Universal wanted to make the most of the pensioner’s misfortune. Universal cast him as the star in two more movies, The House of Horrors and The Brute Man, both released in 1946. Unfortunately, Rondo Hatton never lived to see their release. Acromegaly not only did its evil to Rondo’s looks, but also attacked his vital organs. He died in January 1946, eight months before the release of the very movies in which he had the starring role. But death did not extinguish Rondo Hatton’s fame. He became a Hollywood legend. His image has been immortalized in countless horror picture magazines, novels, television shows and has even been reincarnated in later science fiction films (e.g. The Rocketeer, Judge Dredd in AD 2000 Comic Books, Stephen Kings’ The Dark Tower VII, etc.). In the end, it turned out well for Rondo Hatton that he was not just another pretty face. As painful as his deformity was, he was able to parlay his ugliness to achieve success as a motion picture icon and initiate a whole new genre of “creeper” horror films. No one would suggest that a disease as ravaging as Acromegaly could ever be a blessing in disguise. But the fact remains that God can take the tragedies of our lives and make them work together for our ultimate good (Romans 8:28; Genesis 50:20). If it could happen in the natural realm, then God can certainly do it in the spiritual realm. Through our pain, disappointment, and tragedy, God can purify our character, increase our faith, and make us more like Christ. “For though the outer man is perishing, yet the inner man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is only for a moment, produces for us an exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (2 Corinthians 4:16-17).

In 95 I knew of this film from the Steely Dan song FM. I couldn’t find it on video at the time. I tried watching this film on CZcams but like you mentioned everything is all over the place with no story. I do appreciate that it does capture the late 70’s. The film Airheads is a better and fun film that deals with the closing of radio station. Reminds me of what happened to KNAC in L.A. out of nowhere the station stop playing metal music and became my dad’s Norteño music station. I was born in 79. And felt that I should have grown up in the 70s. When I was a teen in the 90s I feel in love with classic rock. I got to see the reunion tours that sprung up in the 90s. From Pink Floyd, Traffic, ELP, The Moody Blues, Page & Plant etc. while my classmates were catching the 90s alternative rock bands that are now known as classic rock.😂

The first time when I saw his face (in "Charley Varrick"), I had no doubt that this guy is from Texas.

Love Elisha C and loved your video!

Great review of another awful movie! If you are indeed going to do a "weird comments" episode next week, please consider this one: One of my pet peeves is people slurping. You begin each episode drinking coffee, and sometimes you do it close enough to the mic that your slurps come across on the audio. I cringe when it happens (but then enjoy the rest of the clip). So my request would be that, if you must take a sip during your commentary, lean way back from the mic! (For the record - you did not slurp in this ep!) I say all this, fully aware that you might instead decide to *emphasize* the slurp going forward, just to screw with me. But it's a chance I had to take! 😄

My father was Hollywood B Movie Producer Anthony Cardoza...partnered with Director Coleman Francis...if you would like any 1st hand knowledge of my Dad, Anthony or Coleman, I would be happy to talk with you. Contact me through this thread.

Some of your comments make me laugh out loud. Saw this movie on MST long time ago and I don't know what it is but I really enjoyed the movie itself. Hope you enjoy your week off. Would love to see you. Do some more shows on actors and actresses like you did on some of the very obscure ones on the past like Wanda McKay. Can I tell you how much your show means. Thank you

I always think that "actors" who repeatedly work in films like these they are just doing it for a paycheck. I don't hold that against them. We all have to pay the bills. On the other had I don't fell bad for their reviews. Oh no! No show! Yikes. We will miss you.

8:03 Go to 48:51 of « The Yesterday Machine » to meet a today pseudo-activist ‘s & real brat’s ancestor. The one who taught her the intonation for ‘HOW DARE YOU !’

6:05 this monster has inspired the human-indwelling giant scorpion-like alien 👽 in « The Hidden »

He's just a delight to watch.

Flash colorized. czcams.com/play/PL2gsu7VGzgdZgxGHfD3SXqQIiRbeHubYe.html&si=geENCEhXanJilXo9

That drummer really did look 60. Shoulda worn a hat!

Awesome! Great job again!

Congratulations on getting your drone up. Want to thank you again so much for your Sunday show. This is a high point of my week. You are much more entertaining. 99% of the shows that are on. Again, thank you

Fun stuff OMK. Ty. Just one thing: Is it hilarious to make fun of people for attributes they can’t help ie the White kids in the movie. Especially, the rich ones; can they really control the financial situation of their parents ? How about in the future no racist jokes about any group is that too much to ask?

Nice work with the drone and nice that the drone works. 😁 Your added information about these movies and the actors in them always makes them so much more interesting than the films ever were. Thanks for all your efforts.

Rocket Attack USA? I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers. 🙏 The opening drone shot was very cool! One of my favorite host segments is Joel's screed on the 1960s featured in this film. When my kids were young I'd occasionally hit them with "Toys had sharp metal edges, and dammit we liked them that way!" Paraphrasing but you get the idea. Thanks Jeff.

Great video. I think many viewers will recognize Bob Donner aka Fingers O'Toole from his role on Mork & Mindy as the zany Exidor. But I was even more intrigued by Mike Blodgett, who plays Lance Rock in Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. At the time of Catalina Caper, he was a choreographer on an LA. dance party show, and he was brought on to this film to coach the dancers (as well as play a role himself). And then there's that animation by Murikami-Wolf Productions. They also produced Frank Zappa's movie 200 Motels, which features some similar animation. The company went on to work on specials like The Point, Puff the Magic Dragon, and Free to Be You and Me before moving on to shows like Toxic Crusaders and James Bond Jr. And we can't forget Jim Begg, nicknamed "Crayola Head" by the MST3K gang. This guy is in so many movies and TV shows, including a bunch of Don Knotts films. He's also Fatso in Village of the Giants! Like Robert Donner and Mike Blodgett, once you start noticing him, you'll see him in a lot of stuff.

Thanks for the review, and love the drone shot! I remember seeing this film on MST3K, and thinking, "Wow, they really just turned any idea into a movie and got known names attached." From this film, it did got me thinking of what happened to Tommy Kirk. Than I learned about his his reasons of Disney cutting ties, and eventually his life after Hollywood. Glad he managed to get his life on track and knows fans out there still remember him.

There were a lot of knockout looking ladies in show buisness in the early days of TV, but to me. no one could come close to Joi Lansing. She was one of the most stunning looking ladies there ever was. This vid has a lot of scnees I have never seen before. Thanks for uploading this.

Imagine how many fake scouts were out there. Seems like a situation perfect for sleaze stories. I do like the Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon..

I love the line about binoculars. lol I do like Ralph Byrd as Dick Tracy and Reeves as Superman.

Excellent this was hilarious 😂

Really well researched and w/wonderful clips (but not from his MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE episode. I wish more people who posted to YT dug out facts instead of relying on rumors and their own opinions.

I am distracted by that giant hosta!

Great review Jeff, I laughed a lot. All these "white woman in the jungle" movies owe their existence to Jane (or Tarzan and Jane). They all seem to be minor variations on that theme. And I wish Bob would've been killed much earlier in the film. 😆

As always, looking forward to your next review. :)

Born in 65 grew up in front of the TV. Love your work thanks a million. Crow is my favorite by the way.

Bill Thurman did a number of movies for Larry Buchanan and has over 50 credits on IMDb.