Wild Kingdom Search For Yeti (1969)
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.
The White Gorilla (1945)
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!
Bigfoot The Movie (1970)
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)
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?
The Gorilla (1939)
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.
The Savage Girl (1932)
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!
Kong Island (1968)
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!
Snowbeast (1977)
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!
Mad Scientist Presents – The Phantom Creeps (1939)
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!
Sky Raiders (1941)
Former World War One ace Captain Bob Dayton (Donald Woods), with his buddy, Lieutenant Ed Carey (Robert Armstrong), operates Sky Raiders Inc., an airplane manufacturer. Dayton has perfected a fast pursuit plane intended for the U.S. Army. But Felix Lynx (Eduardo Ciannelli), an agent for a foreign government, has a spy in the Sky Raiders office that keeps him informed about the new airplane. The inspiration for Indiana Jones? An exciting 40s serial with lots of amazing aerial stunts including an auto-gyro!
She Gods of Shark Reef (1958)
Two men escaping the police by ship are blown off course by a typhoon and shipwrecked on an uncharted island populated by women who make a living diving for pearls. What the men don’t know is that the women are also part of a shark cult that sacrifices young virgins to the sharks in the surrounding ocean in order to appease the shark gods. Tikis, shark gods and young virgins collide in this South Seas quirky tale. With Bill Cord and Lisa Montell.
The Lost World (1925)
Based on the famous Arthur Conan Doyle book, starring Wallace Beery with Bessie Love and Lloyd Hughes starts with Professor Challenger facing a skeptical press corps when he asserts that giant dinosaurs are alive and flourishing in the farthest depths of the Amazon. Newspaper reporter Edward Malone learns that this claim originates from a diary given to the professor by fellow explorer Maple White’s daughter, Paula. Malone’s paper funds an expedition to rescue Maple White, who has been marooned at the top of a high plateau. Joined by renowned hunter John Roxton, the group goes to South America, where they do indeed find a plateau inhabited by prehistoric creatures.
The Lost City (1935)
At the dawn of the Tesla age was this incredible serial from 1935 which featured Tesla’s wireless transmission of power and other inventions. Scientist Bruce Gordon comes to a secluded area in Africa after realizing that a series of electrically induced natural disasters had been detected in the area. There he finds Zolock, last of the Lemurians, in a secret complex under a mountain. Zolock had created the natural disasters as a prelude to his attempt to take over the world, holding a brilliant scientist their hostage with his daughter. He had also forced the scientist to create mindless “giant” slaves out of the natives as a private army. As the serial progresses we learn that the scientist had also turned another tribe, the Wangas, into white burley haired midgets. Lots of Tesla technology and futuristic hallways and rooms with numerous gadgets on the walls. plus a remote viewing television screen, a death ray that eats through metal and threatens the strapped-down Gordon in a scene identical to Goldfinger’s laser burning toward James Bond’s crotch, plus tons more 1930s superscience. This is the world of Tesla Technology that we were supposed to have, shown to us from 1936. This may be partly the source of the “myth” of Marconi’s secret city in the jungles of South America.
The Lost Jungle (1934)
The Lost Jungle (1934). Animal trainer Clyde Beatty heads a rescue party in search of his girl, Ruth, and her father who have gotten lost looking for an uncharted island. His dirigible crashes into the jungles of the island. When he locates Ruth, he learns that her father has disappeared. The ensuing search is hindered by greedy gold hunters and wild animals. The classic retro-serial and eventual movie that all the later adventure animal shows were based on. Go lost jungle!
