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THE BUSY BODY - Vic Mizzy - "The Patsy" (1968)

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Not even close to being a monster, sci-fi or a spy flick, "The Busy Body" nonetheless has some major credits that just can't be ignored down here in The Dungeon! Number one, it's a William Castle film, and really, that's enough just by itself!! "The Busy Body" is a movie that without a doubt would win the award for "Blurring the lines between all the genres, but we had to fit it in somewhere" category, and better than that, it's the epitome of wacky!! And stacked on top of all of that like a big chunk of melting butter on a heaping stack of pancakes, "The Busy Body" also has a killer soundtrack by everybody's fave composer, Mr. "Addams Family" himself, Vic Mizzy, and it also has a cast of unforgettable comedians you're not going to ever see under one roof again in this or any other lifetime, kinda like Woodstock at a Comedy Club! The star of the show is the incredible Sid Caesar as George Norton, a nice guy just

FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON / RKO - 1958

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Hello everbloody, welcome to Mondo Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon! Tonite we have another flick that's not that well remembered, and, pretty much for good reasons... I actually saw this one when it came out, but, it didn't have any rubber monsters, so, it totally bored me. Based on the Jules Verne novel, this 101 minute story goes... After the Civil War ended, American businessman and inventor, Victor Barbicane, invents a new force called Power X. To prove its potential, he plans a trip to the moon in a special projectile he's designed. Joining him for the expedition are his assistant Ben Sharpe and Barbicane's arch-rival, Stuyvesant Nicholl. Nicholl believes that Power X goes against the will of God and he sabotages their voyage so that they cannot return to Earth. Three uncredited performances are Morris Ankrum as President Ulysses S. Grant, Robert Clarke as narrator and Les Tremayne as the countdown announcer! It was RKO Picture's very last production..