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Spridgets on Film

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Never saw a Spridget with the spare tire carried on the trunk. Was that a factory option?
 
What better way to start the workweek than a pleasant Vespa ride around sunny Puerto Rico, passing by a parked Spridget on the way? But be aware of the horrors that await in
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, a science fiction cult film, directed by Robert Gaffney and starring Marilyn Hanold, James Karen, and Lou Cutell.[SUP] [/SUP]It was filmed in Florida and Puerto Rico in 1964[SUP]. [/SUP] The horrors of which I speak are not the monsters, but the horrible plot, stilted acting, ridiculous costumes and makeup, and stock military footage interspersed with cheezy special effects.

The film was ranked #7 in the 2004 DVD documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made CLEAH's going to love it.

All of the women on the planet Mars have died in an atomic war, except for Martian Princess Marcuzan (Marilyn Hanold). Marcuzan and her right hand man, Dr. Nadir (Lou Cutell), decide they will travel to Earth and steal all of the women on the planet in order to continue the Martian race. The Martians shoot down a space capsule manned by the android Colonel Frank Saunders (Robert Reilly), causing it to crash in Puerto Rico. Frankenstein's electronic brain and the left half of his face are damaged after encountering a trigger-happy Martian and his ray gun. Frank, now "Frankenstein", described by his creator as an "astro-robot without a control system" proceeds to terrorize the island. A subplot involves the martians abducting bikini clad women.The title's space monster refers to the radiation-scarred mutation 'Mull' brought along as part of the alien invasion force. The Frankenstein android and Mull confront one another at the climax"

And now, on with the show:

 
You are really finding some, erm, winning movies Rick. Makes me wonder if Spridgets were ever in really good stuff...
 
In response to drooartz's request for some higher class presentations we have multi academy award winner Dustin Hoffman starring in "Straight Time" a critically acclaimed film about Max Dembro, a prison parolee. After many juvenile detentions and six years in prison, the small time thief and burglar is released on parole. Max has an initial friction with his nasty parole officer Earl Frank, but the officer agrees to let him live in a hotel room if he gets a job within a week. Max goes to an employment agency and the attendant Jenny Mercer helps him to get a job in a can industry. Max is decided to begin a new life straight and visits his old pal Willy Darin and his family. When Willy brings Max home, he injects heroin and leaves his spoon under Max's bed. Max dates Jenny and on the next day after hours, he finds Frank waiting for him snooping around his room. Frank finds the spoon and sends Max to prison for tests to prove whether he had a fix or not. Despite the negative result, Frank leaves Max for a week imprisoned. When Max is released again, Franks gives a ride and presses him to tell who had a fix in his room. Max hits Frank, steals his car and seeks out his former friends to restart his life of crime.

Unfortunately, there's not much Midget in the film. You can "barely" see a green one right near the "end" of the clip.

 
HealeyRick said:
The film was ranked #7 in the 2004 DVD documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made CLEAH's going to love it.

A subplot involves the martians abducting bikini clad women.
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Actually I DO love it! It is so bad it has entered the realm of good--it had be laughing out loud. (Thanks for that, Rick!) But how bad can any movie be if it has a subplot involving bikini clad women? And it looks as if Dr. Nadir was the model for Dr. Evil. Great stuff.
 
"I’m a polar bear and I’m with five hundred polar bears, just tramping over a city. The lyric is about people who feel sorry for themselves all the time and don’t get their **** together. You come to a point with people like that where you’ve done everything you can do for them, and the only thing that’s going to sort them out is themselves. It’s time to get things done. I identify with polar bears. They’re very cuddly and cute and quite calm, but if they meet you they can be very strong." - Bjork

If that doesn't sufficiently explain it, try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Me_(Björk_song)

 
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a 1986 crime psychological thriller film directed and co-written by John McNaughton about the random crime spree of a serial killer who seemingly operates with impunity. It stars Michael Rooker as the nomadic killer Henry, Tom Towles as Otis, a prison buddy with whom Henry is living, and Tracy Arnold as Becky, Otis's sister. The characters of Henry and Otis are loosely based on real life serial killers Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole.

The good news ... the guy driving the Midget is not the serial killer.

 
"Den Harrow - Future Brain" - Another music video, but this one with a Milli Vanilli twist:

"Den Harrow" was an Italian new wave project fronted by Stefano Zandri (born June 4, 1962 in Nova Milanese, Italy) a fashion model from Milan, Italy. The name Den Harrow was conceived by the project's producers Turatti and Chieregato, who based it on the Italian word denaro (money).[SUP][/SUP][SUP][/SUP] Stefano Zandri, however, uses the name Den Harrow as his stage name.
After years of fame and popularity, it was revealed by front-man Stefano Zandri and his producers that Zandri did not actually sing the Den Harrow songs; he was essentially a character who lip-synched to vocals recorded by a number of other singers. Furthermore, since they did not consider Zandri's name and origin to be "trendy" enough, the producers R. Turatti and M. Chieregato concealed Zandri's Italian origin, marketing him as having been born Manuel Stefano Carry in Boston, Massachusetts. This was done so Polydor Records could market him more easily in the English-speaking world, where Italian-produced music was, at the time, viewed with skepticism.[SUP][/SUP]

American vocalist Tom Hooker, a.k.a. Thomas Barbey, who was residing in Italy during the Italo-Disco era, sang most of the songs for the Den Harrow project,[SUP][/SUP] including the 1985–1986 European hit singles "Don't Break My Heart", "Bad Boy", "Catch the Fox", and "Future Brain". Another vocalist, Anthony James from England, was contracted to sing the lead vocals on the Lies album (1988), and also provided the lead vocals on songs like "Holiday Night", "My Time", "You have a way". During an interview, Tom Hooker explains why it was decided to be done this way:

There was a small problem, however. He couldn't sing. So the solution was to never let him sing, or to put his voice so low in the mix that it was non existent. He started as an image. He would work on his costumes and clothes and someone else would sing on the records. The truth is, vision is a more developed sense in humans than hearing. People tend to buy and listen what they like to see.[SUP]"[/SUP]

 
"Bergerac is a British television show set in Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers ("The Foreigners' Office", a fictional department for dealing with non-Jersey residents), part of the States of Jersey Police. The series ran from 1981 to 1991. Jim Bergerac was a complex character and presented by the series as a somewhat unorthodox cop. He was recovering from alcoholism, partly resulting from an unpleasant divorce. A Jersey native, he returned to the island at the start of the series after recuperating in England from ill-health dipsomania and major surgery on his leg following an accident caused by his drinking heavily prior to an attempted arrest

In keeping with his maverick and adventurous style, Bergerac regularly drove a burgundy 1947 Triumph Roadster (a forerunner of the Triumph's TR series of sports cars) which, with its long bonnet, was a vehicle totally unsuited to the narrow and winding Jersey roads with their speed limits of no more than 40 miles per hour. Two different cars were used throughout the series. The first was notoriously unreliable and John Nettles generally had to endure how it would not always stop when it was supposed to. The car's engine was also horribly noisy and a separate soundtrack was utilised to enhance the supposed coolness of the vehicle. Fortunately the replacement was much more mechanically sound."



OK, is the blonde guy color blind? First he picks the worst color ever seen on a Midget (apologies to any brown lovers) then he runs around in those wild blue pants. I attribute it to his early morning drinking.
 
Here in the midwest we always managed to find more privacy than that to watch the sun-set!
 
"The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company.The series was broadcast in the US on NBC, starting in summer 1968.
The series features Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready and Richard Barrett as agents for a United Nations law enforcement organization called "Nemesis", based in Geneva. The three have different backgrounds: Barrett is a code breaker, Stirling a pilot, and Macready a recently widowed scientist and doctor.
During their first mission as a team, their plane crashes in the Himalayas. They are rescued by an advanced civilization living secretly in the mountains of Tibet, who save their lives, granting them perfected human abilities, including powers to communicate with one another over distances by ESP (telepathy), and to foresee events (precognition), enhanced five senses and intellect, and physical abilities to the fullest extent of human capabilities"

 

Passing by after the Midget is a Triumph Vitesse 6"

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The Triumph Vitesse was introduced on 25 May 1962, re-using a name previously used by the pre-Second World War Triumph Motor Company from 1936–38, and was an in-line 6-cylinder performance version of the Triumph Herald small saloon. The Herald had been introduced on 22 April 1959 and was an attractive 2-door car styled by the Italian designer Giovanni Michelotti. Within 2 years, Triumph began to give thought to a sports saloon based on the Herald and using their 6-cylinder engine. Michelotti was again approached for styling, and he came up with a car that used almost all body panels from the Herald, combined with a new front end with a slanted 4-headlamp design
 
Saw one of those 6 cylinder Heralds at a local car show last weekend. Never new of such a thing before.
 
"A journalist friend of the Saint is murdered whilst working undercover within the newly-revived British Nazi Party. The Saint links up with Lady Valerie who was employed by Kane Luker, the party leader, to lure the young writer to his death. Valerie is in possession of papers given her by the dead man with which she hopes to blackmail Luker but Luker and his followers seize her and the Saint, leaving them to perish in an 'accidental' fire."

 
I can't believe how young Roger Moore looks!

We're definitely seeing a lot of the square Sprites with the side curtains. Any Mark IVs out there in TV land?
 
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