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Waiting Room to the Beyond (Wartezimmer zum Jenseits and also known as Mark of the Tortoise) is a 1964 German crime film. The nephew of a murdered millionaire decides to track down his uncle's killer. He faces many life-threatening dangers as he tries to break into the inner circle of the sinister criminal "The Tortoise." Not sure what's going on here , but the tortoise makes a guest appearance in the opening, there's more two-way radio action in a Midget and the Midget appears to be engaged in a chase with a riding lawn mower.

 
Bizarre clip - but, my mother owns the same clock as at 48 second - so maybe she's the murderer?
 
S.O.S. Invasion (1969) - "A bunch of robots from outer space come to earth, landing on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. They come from the galaxy Epsilon Eridani so, obviously, they use dead human corpses to go unnoticed on earth. Surprisingly all of these alien robots look like the typical Swedish ladies that came to Spain in the sixties to get a suntanned and show their bikinis.The main characters, a blonde guy and his girlfriend will try to stop the invasion."


 
"Set 10 years after the events of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (referred to as the Great Tomato War), the United States is once again safe, and tomatoes have been outlawed (although authorities still deal with "tomato smugglers" who sell to people who cannot live without ordinary tomatoes). Wilbur Finletter (Steve Peace) has been praised as a hero of the Great Tomato War and parlayed his fame into opening Finletter's Pizzeria, which serves tomato-less pizzas. Working for Wilbur is his nephew Chad Finletter (Anthony Starke) who is a delivery boy. Also with Chad is his roommate Matt Stevens, a suave ladies' man.

However, trouble returns with a misanthropic villain, Professor Mortimer Gangreen (played by John Astin) and his assistant Igor (Steve Lundquist) seek to unleash another wave of tomato terror. Professor Gangreen was perplexed at being defeated by "Puberty Love", the worst song ever created, and says that this time music will aid, rather than hinder him. Gangreen has created a tomato transformation chamber by which he can turn ordinary tomatoes into replicas of men and women. By dipping ordinary tomatoes into vats of toxic waste and then placing them into the chamber, Gangreen uses music to his advantage, as the juke box that is hooked up to the chamber syncs up with the tomato transformation chamber, allowing him to create virtually anything by the use of whatever song he has picked (Michael Jackson music seems to make tomatoes into a clone of Jackson, the Miami Vice theme seems to make replicas of Don Johnson and seductive music apparently turns tomatoes into beautiful women). Gangreen's preferred music is rock, which creates soldiers. With his tomato commandos, Professor Gangreen seeks to attack the nearby prison where he will break out his imprisoned ally Jim Richardson (Rick Rockwell), then take over the United States under the subjugation of his killer tomatoes and installing Richardson as President of the United States. Gangreen has also used his device to create an attractive female replica named Tara (Karen Mistal), who serves as Gangreen's assistant until she realizes his abusive attitude towards a wrongly mutated tomato whom she dubs FT, or Fuzzy Tomato. Tara defects to Finletter's Pizza where she starts dating Chad."

I'm beginning to detect some themes in the use of Spridgets in the movies. Yesterday we had space robots change into bikini-clad Swedish girls, today we have a tomato transforming into a bikini wearer. And like with Harry O, entering and leaving a Spridget is more difficult than it would appear.

We're going to have another BCF quiz today, too. Identify the pizza making actor in the fedora in one of his first roles, and no, it's not Jay Leno.



 
HealeyRick said:
We're going to have another BCF quiz today, too. Identify the pizza making actor in the fedora in one of his first roles, and no, it's not Jay Leno.
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George Clooney. Who's original family is from Kilkenny, Ireland. Like me.
When I was a little kid, I knew some of the Clooneys who were related to Rosemary Clooney (George's aunt).
 
Love those shorts on the villain although the opening clip quite good.
 
When the cat pulls the key out of the ignition, there is a switch to the right....what does that do?
 
This is one of the best threads ever!
 
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