Directed by: William Beaudine
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo
Language: English | Subtitles: English, Italian (embed)
Country: Usa | Imdb Info | Ar: 4:3 | Dvdrip
Description: Entertainers Mitchell and Petrillo (Martin & Lewis clones) parachute into the jungles of the Pacific island of Cola-Cola, where they meet primitive tribesmen, the chief’s sarong-clad daughter Nona, and mad scientist Dr. Zabor conducting experiments in evolution. Jealous of Mitchell’s relations with Nona, Zabor has just the thing to make a monkey of him.
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I love Bela Lugosi. Naturally, I am a fan of all the old-time horror movies, especially before the advent of slashers or horror movies where the directors and writers made a decision to remove their audience from the picture, that is, remove your imagination during the play out of the feature. For, from my perspective, that is what makes a horror movie a horror movie, “the audience’s imagination.” Otherwise, without my imagination being interactive with a given movie, there is nothing to be frightened about. Obviously.
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Unfortunately most modern-day directors, who make slashers, imagine their audiences are so mentally dull and stupid that any sort of attack or killing during a horror movie needs to be explained in detail, blow by blow. No human brain or human imagination is needed.
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From that perspective, many modern-day horror movies (not all), since the early eighties, are more offensive than they are scary. They are not offensive because of the gore, but they are offensive because they think I am so stupid that my imagination does not work. Actually slasher movies remove all the potential horror that could have been there, had the director left in the audience’s imagination to be a part of the movie play out.
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There is something to be said about the historical working knowledge of how theatrical drama works, that at least used to be known or understood for the past several thousands of years in all human cultures. Hitchcock would know what I am talking about. Removing the dramatic effect of the audience’s imagination does not improve the drama of any theatrical work, but only insults the viewer has being completely dull and stupid, and something less than human himself.
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Since Bela Lugosi was in a time before the complete crash of Hollywood, his movies always leave the drama and your imagination in, even when Hollywood begin disrespecting him and his legacy.
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But I think what makes Bela Lugosi different is the way he would dramatize himself as he played the characters he did. I really love the way he played Dracula, because in his mind’s eye, he felt that he was a native (or heir) of that region from Europe. So he reveled in the lore and myth of that part of Europe, and therefore took full advantage of it in his acting career.
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I feel that Lugosi was a man who truly knew his craft and what he could do with it. I mean, after watching a few Bela Lugosi films, it really leaves a person feeling like Eastern Europe must be a really dark and mysterious and ghostly place to live, regardless of what Eastern Europe is really like in real life, which probably has been worse in many cases, historically speaking.
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But as I see it, Lugosi always dramatized himself whether he was playing a vampire or not. But because the business end of the film industry is what it is, I feel he became a victim of the whole downward spiral of what Hollywood was heading into, although it would take another 50 years before Hollywood reached its full and complete collapse, into what it has been since the millennium or so.
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So unlike his counterpart, Boris Karloff, he was not really able to maintain some “relative disposition” towards the end of his career. I think Karloff was more flexible and adaptive to his career after his Frankenstein bit; but because Lugosi insisted on maintaining his persona, no matter what role he played, his clinging to that persona may have been his downfall, along with his personal addictions and depression.
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Nevertheless, I personally revel in his mystique, front to back, even towards the end of his career. Bela Lugosi was a man who loved his craft, as an actor and dramatist. He clearly loved playing his parts or roles.
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The most people insist to hate Plan 9 as the worst movie of all time, but at least it was proof that Bela Lugosi, in all his vampire glory was able to survive death and come back from the grave as the undead, in order to play his final role, postmortem. Haha. Maybe Lugosi was really a vampire after all.
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From that perspective, maybe Bela Lugosi got the last laugh, albeit not a particularly glorious film ending. Well, maybe Plan 9 is more spooky and horrific than I thought it was. Nevertheless again, it is actors like Bella Lugosi, who play out the dramatic end of their acting roles, no matter what other people might think of them, that I admire him for his courage and talent.
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Warning: spoiler alert ahead!
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One of the ongoing gags or funny highlights of this movie is the hyper-sexual “blimp woman” that is constantly chasing after this dumb-headed skinny guy, and even carrying him away at times. I love it. Imagine having sex with something like that (the blimp or the toothpick, either one). Scary? Really, it’s hard to imagine what kinds of things in the cosmos is capable of copulative interaction. Well, fat broads need love too, ya know!
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However I’m not certain what she saw in him, because clearly the guy had absolutely no virility whatsoever. So I’m not comprehending how she imagined she could ever enjoy any sort of satisfaction from any sort of intimate encounter with this mental and physical dullard and limp-ard. It reminds me of some of the Three Stooges shorts that featured Maxine Gates. The absurdity is what makes it really hilarious! Really great for a good laugh. Absolutely timeless.
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RL, thank you for posting this movie. Anything Lugosi, Karloff, Lon Chaney, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, or Peter Cushing, is always absolutely welcomed and absolutely adored by me! I have much gratitude for your website. Thank you. There is nothing on the web like RL. Except for discogs and sacred-texts, I think RareLust is the center of the internet. Long live the king of films.