Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Starring Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, and Dave O'Brien. Maybe the Devil Bat is really a Chupacabra!
Diamond mine owner Mark Harper hires pilot Steve Blake (Leif Erickson) and his pal Hoppy Owens (Frank Jenks)to search for a hidden jungle village from which the natives have made trouble for his mine operations. They crash near the village and discover that Meelah (Gale Sherwood), a white girl brought up by the natives after her parents had been killed for their property by Harper, is the head of the village. Returning to the mine, Harper, already suspicious of what they may have learned and jealous of the attention his wife, Connie Harper (Veda Ann Borg), is paying to Steve, has them jailed, while he leads an expedition against the village and Meelah. A lost retro-jungle girl movie from the 30s!
Preston leads a party to India to investigate the disappearance of her fiance, Greg Jones, but someone manages to thwart their efforts through lies and murder. They pursue the trail to Africa where guide Gary Lambert and his comic cook Gabby guide them into unknown territory. Greg is found living with Zita, a jealous and beautiful Amazon queen. The mysterious deaths continue as Lambert tries to discover who has been dealing in contraband ivory. When he solves that mystery, he also uncovers the identity of the mysterious murderer. Starring Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison, and J. Edward Bromberg. A great retro-jungle movie!
Ro-Man, an alien that looks remarkably like a bigfoot in a diving helmet, has destroyed all but six people on the planet Earth. He spends the entire film trying to finish off these survivors, but complications arise when he falls for the young woman in the group. Love that bubble machine! Starring George Nader, Gregory Moffett, and Claudia Barretta. The ultimate in the Bigfoot is a Space Alien theory. Get out your ray-guns—here comes bigfoot in a space helmet!
On the Franco-Austrian Frontier during WW I, an oriental priest, chaplain of a French colonial regiment, is condemned to life imprisonment because he possesses the power of turning men into zombies. As the priest in his prison cell is preparing to burn the parchment containing the location of the secret formula, Colonel Mazovia kills the priest and takes the partially-burned parchment. Fade to after the war to an expedition of representatives from all the Allied countries being sent to Cambodia to find and destroy forever the Secret of the Zombies. Starring Dorothy Stone, Dean Jagger, and Roy D'Arcy. An early movie filmed at Angor Wat in Cambodia!
Forbidden Jungle-1950. Tom Burton, a great-white-hunter and safari leader, is hired to take an expedition deep into the African jungle to search for a white boy lost in a plane crash years before, and who has been rumored to be living among the wild animals. Starring Don C. Harvey, Forrest Taylor, and Alyce Louis. A great jungle girl gorilla-bigfoot movie from the early 50s!
A serial in 12 chapters based on the popular 1930s comic strip by Alex Raymond. Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman. The leaders of the other safari want to kill the girl so they can try to get hold of her inheritance. An exciting retro-serial full of pith helmets, gorillas, women in trouble and cliff-hanger action! Grant Withers stars as Jungle Jim, and Henry Brandon played the villainous Cobra. Betty Jane Rhodes is the gorgeous woman on safari.
Wild Kingdom Search For Yeti (1969) with Marlin Perkins for Mutual of Omaha. Join Carl Perkins and Sir Edmund Hillary on a search for the abominable snowman, the yeti, in the Rowaling Himalaya in Nepal.
A white gorilla is snubbed by black gorillas because he is the wrong color. Cut off from his tribe he becomes lonely and angry. After troubling hunters and natives, the white gorilla fights the king of the black gorillas while we are told by a narrator that the fate of Africa hangs in the balance. The movie was made by editing some 1947 acting into footage from a 1927 silent serial, Perils of the Jungle, starring Frank Merrill the fifth screen Tarzan. A great retro-gorilla movie! Look out Bigfoot!
Fast-talking Jasper B. Hawks drives through a forest with his sidekick, Elmer Briggs, while pilot Joi Landis flies a single engine small aircraft over the same area. Joi's engine conks out, so she parachutes to safety. On the ground, she encounters a Bigfoot that emerges from the woods and attacks her. Laconic biker Rick, rolls into the woods with his girlfriend, Chris, who stumbles onto a Bigfoot burial ground, and then is also attacked by a Bigfoot. Rick seeks help elsewhere, but only Jasper B. Hawks believes his story, offering aid only because he plans to capture a Bigfoot for later freak show exhibition. Meanwhile, Peggy is captured and tied up next to Joi. Jasper, Elmer, and Rick trek through the woods until they reach the Bigfoot lair. The creatures, it turns out, who have been guarding the women are just the children of a 12-foot tall male Bigfoot. He shows up and fights a big bear. Can Rick save the women before it is too late? With John Carradine, Chris Mitchum, Joi Lansing, Doodles Weaver, and Lindsay Crosby. The original Bigfoot movie!
White Pongo (1945). Hunters and scientists venture into the jungle to track down a savage albino gorilla, which they believe could be the missing link between man and ape. Before Bigfoot there was White Pongo! With Richard Fraser, Maris Wrixon and Lionel Royce. A great early jungle girl and gorilla gone ape-shit movie for your retro-enjoyment! Where is King Kong when you need him?
When a wealthy man (Lionel Atwill) is threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion just as the investigators arrive. Patsy Kelly portrays a newly hired maid who wants to quit because the butler, played by Bela Lugosi, scares her. Is it an escaped gorilla or is it bigfoot? A fun movie starring the Ritz Brothers, Anita Louise, Art Miles, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, and Patsy Kelly. It was based on a play of the same name by Ralph Spence.
Animal tracker Ivan Marx opens by mentioning the film is the culmination of 10 years of research. He says that the Eskimos called the creature "bushman," the Colville Indians "Sasquatch," and the Hoopa "Om-mah," but is most commonly known as Bigfoot. A notorious movie on Bigfoot from the 70s that has to be seen to be believed!
The Savage Girl is a 1932 movie starring Rochelle Hudson as The Girl. A white jungle goddess is protected by a fierce killer gorilla. A great early jungle girl and gorilla gone ape-shit movie for your retro-enjoyment! Look out jungle girl!
Deep in the South American jungle plantation manager Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife (Barbara Payton). However, an old native witch witnesses the crime and puts a curse on Barney, who soon after finds himself turning nightly into a rampaging gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head? Watch for the Chupacabra flying critter near the end. A great retro- gorilla-bigfoot thriller with a twist! This one is in South America!
A group of mad scientists travel to Kong Island where they implant receptors into the brains of gorillas planning to create a gorilla war for world domination. Out to break a few heads is a descendant of King Kong. A wacky Italian movie on Kong, bigfoot, gorillas and mad scientists. Yikes!
Former 1968 Winter Olympics gold medal ski champion Gar Seberg (Bo Svenson) and his wife Ellen, a television presenter (Yvette Mimieux), return to his home, a ski resort in the Colorado Rockies where the faded star seeks a job using his skiing skills. As the Sebergs arrive, the town's annual winter carnival is spoiled by the disappearances of a series of vacationers, later revealed to have been brutally killed by an unknown animal. There are eyewitness accounts that the culprit is a Yeti, Bigfoot or Sasquatch, which are met with ridicule. The owner of the ski resort (Sylvia Sidney) declares that there is no such being, because she doesn't want to lose her business, and she arranges for her grandson Tony (Robert Logan) to keep the disappearances a secret. The local sheriff (Clint Walker) spreads the story that there is a lone savage bear on the loose. Tony gives Gar a job with the ski resort and confides in him about the monster. Gar's first job is to stalk and kill it. Gar keeps an open mind due to his wife's former work on a documentary about Sasquatch sightings, but is reluctant to kill it, feeling that it would be murder. He changes his mind when he sees the remains of the first victim and the monster comes to town and not only panics the population but kills the mother of the Snow Carnival Queen. A great retro-bigfoot movie made for television from the 70s!
A military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a mad scientist (Bela Lugosi) whose inventions can destroy the world. First use of a crazed robot used in the movies. Yow!
Two early cargo airlines clash over a government mail contract. “Tailspin” Tommy (Maurice Murphy), a young mechanic, gets a job with Three Points Airlines, who win the contract. Their opponents resort to sabotage in order to have the contact for themselves. Wade “Tiger” Taggart (John Davidson) becomes their crazy enemy, a man who will do anything to stop the airline from doing business. Amazing airplane stunts are featured in this exciting serial. Based on a popular comic strip of the 30s. Aerial acrobatics galore!
