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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob

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Speaker 1: Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. And today we're going

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Speaker 1: to be wrestling again. Because you may recall, if you've

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Speaker 1: been listening to the show a while, there was a time,

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Speaker 1: long ago, once in the world before that, I heard

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Speaker 1: a voice whispering in the darkness, and I listened and

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Speaker 1: it said to me, supernatural wrestling movies. And we of

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Speaker 1: course that that led to us covering Santo in the

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Speaker 1: Treasure of Dracula, one of my favorite movies we've watched,

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Speaker 1: pitting the ultimate good guy hero wrestler against the forces

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Speaker 1: of Satan and the undead in the form of a

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Speaker 1: actually a rather from what I recall square normal looking Dracula,

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Speaker 1: just kind of like Cape and you know, the classic

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Speaker 1: Belle to go see. Look right now it is time

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Speaker 1: once again the voice has called out to us, and

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Speaker 1: this time it said, not supernatural wrestling movies, but science

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Speaker 1: fiction Luca Libre. That's right, we're dipping back into the

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Speaker 1: wild world of Mexican Luca Libre cinema. And yeah, this

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Speaker 1: movie is a lot of fun. We're gonna be talking

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Speaker 1: about Doctor of Doom from nineteen sixty three. It's a

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Speaker 1: different beast and that yeah, it leans more ridiculous sci

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Speaker 1: fi as opposed to ridiculous supernatural elements. And also, while

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Speaker 1: Santo in the Treasure of Dracula was a lucadoor picture

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Speaker 1: starring El Santo himself, this is a luchadora picture focusing

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Speaker 1: instead mostly on female wrestlers. Oh and what a treat

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Speaker 1: it was to discover that there are science fiction luca

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Speaker 1: libre movies where the main lucadorra is played by none

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Speaker 1: other than Lorraine of Alasquez, who you may remember from

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Speaker 1: our episode on the movie Ship of Monsters. Another one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite films we've done on this show. Lorrainovelasquez

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Speaker 1: in that played one of the two aliens sent to

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Speaker 1: Earth to find Earth's greatest hunks, and she was an

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Speaker 1: absolute delight in that movie. I love her in this

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Speaker 1: movie as well. She is our heroine, our our butt

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Speaker 1: kicking luchadora hero. So today's movie, the version of it

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Speaker 1: I saw, was known with the English title Doctor of Doom.

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Speaker 1: But I wanted to raise an issue right here at

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Speaker 1: the beginning, because this movie is also known as Las

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Speaker 1: lucadoras contra el Medico Assassino, meaning I guess the lucadoras

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Speaker 1: versus the killer doctor or versus the medical assassin. And

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Speaker 1: there's a complication here with the fact that just before

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Speaker 1: and I discovered that El Medico Assassino was also the

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Speaker 1: name of an actual Luca Door. But I don't think

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Speaker 1: he is in any way related to this movie, or

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Speaker 1: if he is, I couldn't tell how he was related

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Speaker 1: to the movie except in the overlapping idea of a

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Speaker 1: killer doctor. Yeah, because this film does not have outside

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Speaker 1: of one dude who shows up, there's not a male wrestler.

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Speaker 1: There's not a luchador proper in this film, So this

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Speaker 1: guy who I wasn't familiar with is not part of

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Speaker 1: the picture. So maybe it's just coincidence. I do remember

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Speaker 1: there's a good scene where a male wrestler just gets

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Speaker 1: beat up by a room full of lady wrestlers. I

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Speaker 1: loved that. Yeah. Oh, and there is a caveat there

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Speaker 1: is a There is an actor in this film who

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Speaker 1: who was a wrestler and may have been a wrestler

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Speaker 1: at the time of the film. We'll get into that,

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Speaker 1: but for the most part, none of the characters are

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Speaker 1: male luchadors. No male luchadors are showing up and saving

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Speaker 1: course other men. We'll get into that in a second,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, I wasn't familiar with this particular luchador, though

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Speaker 1: there is. Interestingly enough, another guy was familiar with, whose

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Speaker 1: me about Santo and the Treasure of Dracula was that

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Speaker 1: that sort of like ludicrous collision of the different genres,

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Speaker 1: the fact that you are pitting a in one sense,

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Speaker 1: you know, Mexican wrestling, with these supernatural monster themes, and

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Speaker 1: I think the other interest in comparison to make is

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Speaker 1: Santo and The Treasure of Dracula. Yes, you had absolute

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Speaker 1: the Ultimate Technico El Santo, who is so good and

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Speaker 1: you know, get to show that they're capable, the lucadoras

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Speaker 1: And I would say that ultimately that's that's the weak

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Speaker 1: ends up they end up having like more of a

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Speaker 1: maybe even in sixty three, like it's a film about lucadoras,

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Speaker 1: I want to see the lucadoras doing more in the finale.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean Loraina and uh and Golden

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Speaker 1: the tar out of some some Hinchman. But I don't know.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what, We'll see where we get with this

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Speaker 1: when we start talking about the plot, all right, elevator pitch,

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Speaker 1: But basically it's a brain transplant mad science picture, but

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Speaker 1: with female wrestlers in it. There's a wonderful scene in

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Speaker 1: markings on the victim that their brain had been removed. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's it's pretty clear that they're not removing the brains

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Speaker 1: doctor Cerebro style. So um, yeah, it's I think the

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Speaker 1: What do those markings look like indicating the brain who've

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Speaker 1: you know, all right, Well, when it comes to the

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Speaker 1: from the English dub of the picture. Joe, this is

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Speaker 1: going to be the one failure after another monologue between

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Speaker 1: the two mad scientists, one failure after another, bars the

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Speaker 1: operation is tremendously difficult. Doctor. There isn't there any human

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Speaker 1: being that can stand shock. Perhaps a stronger type of woman,

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Speaker 1: she probably lived through the operation. You know, they really

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Speaker 1: top with our director, Renee Cardona, who lived nineteen oh

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Speaker 1: five through nineteen eighty eight. Cardona was a director, actor, producer, writer,

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Speaker 1: he mostly made his splash directing I think seven different

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Speaker 1: Santo movies, including Santo and the Treasure of Dracula from

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Speaker 1: sixty nine, as well as such titles as She Wolves

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Speaker 1: this film, Like basically he came back around and like,

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Speaker 1: what have I made Doctor of Doom except sleazier for

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Speaker 1: he also made an absolutely unforgettable Christmas classic, Oh Yes,

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Speaker 1: Santa Claus from nineteen fifty nine, in which Santa Claus

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Speaker 1: it's a sixties film centering around female characters doesn't mean

423
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Speaker 1: you get away without having some sort of a hunky

424
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 1: man hero in the picture. And that's what we have

425
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Speaker 1: in this character. Armando played by Armando Silvestri. Ladies and gentlemen,

426
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 1: meet your jawline. Yes, he was born in nineteen twenty six,

427
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 1: and I think it's still still around. He was apparently

428
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 1: a bullfighter turned actor who was active from nineteen forty

429
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 1: seven through twenty seventeen as an actor. Apparently he left

430
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,199
Speaker 1: bullfighting for acting after being badly gored. Oh, and I

431
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 1: have to say had had a quite an acting career,

432
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: played a lot of hunky leading men in Mexican cinema,

433
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 1: but also played various parts in American westerns. So his

434
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 1: credits include numerous Cardona pictures, including Night of the Bloody

435
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: Apes and The Wrestling Women Versus the Aztec Mummy. But

436
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: he also pops up in nineteen seventies, Two Meals for

437
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 1: Sister Sarah, nineteen sixty eights, The Scalp Hunters, and in

438
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: some other pictures as well, so multiple Luca films in there. Though.

439
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 1: To be clear, now, we've got another major character to mention,

440
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: which is that our heroine in this film does not

441
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 1: fight alone. She ends up developing a great friendship with

442
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 1: another Lucada and it becomes kind of a buddy picture

443
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 1: in a way. And that is with the the Luchadora

444
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Speaker 1: Golden Ruby. Is that ruby spelled with the why or

445
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 1: ruby spelled with an eye? Oh, I don't remember. But

446
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 1: Golden Ruby is played by Elizabeth Campbell or nineteen forty

447
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 1: two American actor who is with a number of films.

448
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 1: I think a lot of a lot of her filmography

449
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:47,199
Speaker 1: is Mexican cinema, so she was in all of the

450
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 1: Luchadora movies that we've mentioned so far in this episode,

451
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 1: as well as Las Lobo still Ring, and she pops

452
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: up in at least one US Western nineteen sixty six

453
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 1: is the professionals. She and Lorena make a great team.

454
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Speaker 1: There are multiple scenes of There's like one scene where

455
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 1: they're I think they're temporarily roommates for some reason, and

456
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 1: they're both just like sleeping in these twin beds and

457
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 1: what looks like an apartment and they're like, hey, wait,

458
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: somebody's about to break in and try to steal our brains.

459
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: So they like pretend to be asleep, and then when

460
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 1: the guys sneak in the window, they just pop up

461
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 1: and whip their butts. Yeah, and they're not even I

462
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,439
Speaker 1: don't think they're even doing They might have thrown some

463
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: arm drags or something, but for the most part, they're

464
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:33,880
Speaker 1: just like pummeling these guys in the face with their fists. Yeah, okay. Now,

465
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: another major actor in this picture is Roberto Knado who

466
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 1: lived nineteen eighteen through nineteen ninety eight. He plays the professor.

467
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: I loved this guy's performance as well as and and

468
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 1: also whoever did the English dub for him, big big

469
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: thumbs up on both agree this is a very fun dubbing.

470
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so he quite often it gets extremely close

471
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 1: to the James Mason voice comes in and says it's terrible.

472
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: How they've been stealing everyone's brains, isn't it. Oh yeah,

473
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: yeah that this this character is a lot of fun.

474
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 1: He gets he's invited to attend the Luca and and

475
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: he's like, oh no, I absolutely deployed. It's it's so violent.

476
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 1: I can't stand it. I don't have the constitution for it.

477
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: He walks backstage after watching a Glory of Venus match.

478
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: He's like, there to see her and um he comes

479
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: into her locker room or whatever. She's like, oh, did

480
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: you like my match, professor. He's like, it's terrible. I

481
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: can't just stand violence. Just disgusts me. I don't to

482
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: vomit right now. Oh yeah, it's yeah, it's it's a

483
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: really fun performance from a very talented Mexican performer, again

484
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: from the golden age of Mexican cinema. He acted in

485
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: over three hundred films, which included a lot of B

486
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: films but also some serious dramas. On the B cinema

487
00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 1: end of things. He pops up in several Santo pictures.

488
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: He's in sixty eight's The Batman, He's in the nineteen

489
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: sixty five Werewolf film La Looba, and Wait a Minute

490
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 1: was the sixty eight one The Batman or the Batwoman.

491
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's the Batwoman. I said the Batman, but

492
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: this is the Batwoman. There's another Cardona picture. Yeah, he's

493
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: in this werewolf picture. He also pops up in some

494
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 1: later day horror films, such as the nineteen eighty six

495
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: slasher movie Bestia Nocturna and the nineteen eighty nine Mexican

496
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:31,640
Speaker 1: slasher film Grave Robbers, the ladder of which is available

497
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: to stream on various sideside. I was tempted to check

498
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,120
Speaker 1: it out, but I didn't get a chance. But as

499
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: a serious actor in dramas, he appeared in I think

500
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: at least two very critically well received pictures, including Puba

501
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: Arena from nineteen forty nine and Crime and Punishment from

502
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one, an adaptation of Crime and Punishment. Great job,

503
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: Roberto he Yeah, I love him in this. I want

504
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: to see his other movies. Yeah. We'll talk more about

505
00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: his performance as we get into the picture. But hey,

506
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: you've also got to have some comic relief. You got

507
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: to get a comedian in there. Uh. You might remember

508
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: in Santo in the Treasure of Dracula, we had a

509
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: very funny Mexican comedian, and we have another Mexican median

510
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: in this film in Santo in the Treasure of Dracula.

511
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: Was it Perico, the the annoying, Yes, the the the

512
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: cowardly sidekick. It was a lot of fun in this

513
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: We have the character listed in the credits as Cama,

514
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: but I think he's he actually had. He gets a

515
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: different name in the dub, right, I'm not in the

516
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: English dub. That could be wrong about this, but I

517
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: think maybe they called him Tommy. Okay, but he's the

518
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: main detective sidekick. He's are Armando's uh buddy. Yeah, a

519
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: short little foula played by Tucco Salinas who died in

520
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: two thousand and one. I'm not sure birth date is

521
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: public record, but yeah. He seems to have been mainly

522
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: a comic actor, providing similar comic relief in such pictures

523
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: as The Wrestling Women Versus the Aztec Mummy and some

524
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: other lucha pictures. He was also in some just outright comedies,

525
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 1: such as Mexico two thousand from nineteen eighty three. I

526
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: believe we talked about that one in Ship of Monsters

527
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: because it's the same director. Oh Regalio Gonzalez. Yeah. Well,

528
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: in this movie, a lot of his comedy scenes I

529
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 1: think are coming from an apparent mismatch where he's uh

530
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: he and Ruby, Golden Ruby seem to be falling in

531
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: love with each other, which is funny because he's very

532
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: short and she's very tall, and that's all. That's all

533
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: there is. Yeah, it's a pretty one note joke, one

534
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: note romance. But they keep touching bass on it. Oh

535
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: it's sweet though, it is sweet. Yes, we also did

536
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: we mention that we have an eight man in this picture.

537
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's a there's a so not only brain transplants,

538
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,959
Speaker 1: this movie has Island of Doctor Moreau in it, you know,

539
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: the mad The mad doctor is like, why don't I

540
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 1: make a half man half gorilla. Wouldn't that be good? Yes,

541
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: it would be good. Let's do that. Yeah. Now the

542
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: poster makes it looks like it is a gorilla or

543
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: a gorilla suit. It is not. It is more of

544
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: a gorilla like you said at Doctor Islanded Doctor Moreau

545
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: sort of thing. Well, that's how it's described with the

546
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: it's just a it's just a guy. And they glued

547
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: some extra extra hair on him and some gave him

548
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: some like a prosthetic nose. I guess, yeah, yeah, limited

549
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: prosthetics were applied to him. Yeah, but the fella that

550
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: these prosthetics are applied to and then they glued some

551
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: hair on. Um. It is a pretty interesting character. This

552
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: is Pirardo Zepita, who lived nineteen thirty five through twenty eleven.

553
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: So this is just one of your your cloud. You

554
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: find this in any any cinematic culture. You have a

555
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: you have a great brute man character actor here. Uh

556
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: plays a lot of heavies, plays a lot of monsters.

557
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: Um does a lot of work in genre pictures, but

558
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: also ends up having some background work in a lot

559
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: of bigger pictures as well. Now I might guess was

560
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: this guy himself originally a rest slur? He was. He

561
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: was originally a luchador wrestling as Gerardo l Romano. I'm

562
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: not sure how long he was actually active, but it

563
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: does seem from what I was reading about him on

564
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: like Luca Wiki and some other sites, it sounds like

565
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: he transitioned full time into acting after a while. This

566
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: was apparently his first picture, however, he followed it up

567
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: with several Santo Aztec, Mummy and Blue Demon pictures, and

568
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: he sort of reprised this same role in nineteen sixty

569
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: nine Night of the Bloody Apes. He is the eight

570
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: Monster and that. But he also pops up as a

571
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: bandit in Alejandro Jodorowski's legendary nineteen seventies psychedelic western El Topo. Yeah.

572
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: He also plays a bandit in nineteen seventy three's The

573
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: Mansion of Madness, which is a surreal inmates take over

574
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: the asylum picture starring the legendary Claudio Brook. Claudio Brook

575
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Speaker 1: for any of you out there not as familiar with

576
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: Mexican cinema, he pops up in Guerremel de Toro's Chronos.

577
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: He plays the evil old Man who wants to get

578
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: a hold of the Chronos device. Evil old Man and

579
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Speaker 1: the main villain I'm remembering in that is um Is

580
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: Oh what's his name? Uh that we know? We know

581
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: so well? Oh yeah, another great brute man actor Ron Perelman,

582
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: Ron Perlman, I remembers, so Ron Perelman worked for him

583
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: in this movie. Yeah, yeah, his boss is Claudio Brook. Okay, Sonny,

584
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,959
Speaker 1: that that's a picture. We there's some elements to it

585
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: that kind of disqualify it from weird house cinema. But

586
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: it's a great Claudio Brook performance. Anyway, as far as

587
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: um as a peta goes here. His other credits include

588
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: roles in nineteen eighty three Is Beyond the Limit, starring

589
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: Michael Caine, Richard Gere, and Bob Hoskins, Oliver Stone's nineteen

590
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: eighty six films Salvador. Oh in the he's also in

591
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: the I did not know this existed, but there's a

592
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one Ringo star caveman movie titled Caveman. That

593
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Speaker 1: that's great. That yeah, it has the look of of

594
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: of of quality to it. Wait a minute, now, I

595
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: may have seen that there were a lot of caveman movies,

596
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,479
Speaker 1: but I may have seen part of this one because

597
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: I remember seeing a movie on TV when I was

598
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Speaker 1: younger where a Tyrannosaurus rex is hit in the groin

599
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: with a club and its eyes go cross side. Well

600
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: it might it sounds like nineteen eighty one's cave Man

601
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: might be the sort of picture where that happens. Dennis

602
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: Quaid is also in it. Oh wow, yeah, we may

603
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: we may have to come back and examine this one

604
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: in greater detail. This is a iwa was one of

605
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: the fun things about diving into pictures like this, as

606
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: you discover things you had had no idea that it

607
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: existed and or it had any right to exist. Caveman

608
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty one takes place in the year one

609
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: zillion BC. By the way, that's that's part of this.

610
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: Could have done just a little bit of research to

611
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: get that little more calibrated. Oh wait, I just looked

612
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,720
Speaker 1: it up. Caveman had Barbara Bach in it. Oh wow,

613
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: great cats, great cat as if nothing else of just

614
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,720
Speaker 1: a gut couple of more he has. Zepeta also shows

615
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: up in Tony Scott's nineteen ninety Kevin Costner film Revenge,

616
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: and he's also in John Frankenheimer's The Burning Season from

617
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, which starred Raul Julia So not not bad,

618
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: all told okay, And finally, as far as the music goes,

619
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: and Tonio Diez Conde did the music. He died in

620
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six. He was just he was a prolific

621
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: Mexican composer who worked on a ton of B pictures

622
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: during this time period. I get the impression he is

623
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: just churning it out. It's it's pretty standard stuff here.

624
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: It's good you know, it delivers the musical vibes you

625
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: expect from a lucha picture from this era. I recall

626
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: the music off and really turns on a dime. There's

627
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: like a sudden cut and it goes from you know,

628
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: just the like plowing ominous orchestral music, too straight and

629
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 1: too going whoop do you know, like whimsical fun stuff

630
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: but you know, keeping up with the picture. Really, So

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00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: we take a break and then come back to talk

632
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 1: about the plot. Let's do it. Hey, So I guess

633
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: it's time to talk about the plot. And if we

634
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: sound different at all right now, it's because we had

635
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,879
Speaker 1: to split this recording up into two different sessions. So

636
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: now we are returning from the from the interlude to

637
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: talk about the plot of Doctor of Doom. And I

638
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: think one thing I will say kicking off this movie

639
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: is that it probably assumes now my number one position

640
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,760
Speaker 1: for movies that just get on with it. This movie

641
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: makes haste. So at the very beginning, no studio logo,

642
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: no credits. The first thirteen seconds of this film depict

643
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 1: what appears to be a murder. I think later it

644
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,800
Speaker 1: is just a gorilla man kidnapping that will turn into

645
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: a murder. But it like it happened so fast, so

646
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: like orchestral ominous orchestral music is just grinding. From frame one,

647
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: we see this grimy looking backlot. It looks, I guess

648
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 1: like a like a film studio lot. But then there's

649
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: a woman in a fur coat walking around with a handbag.

650
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: She's walking briskly as though afraid. And then there are

651
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:23,359
Speaker 1: two menacing goons in suits and ties following her. Here

652
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: we're about eight seconds in. She looks over her shoulder,

653
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 1: she's afraid. The music swells. There is a different dude,

654
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: not one of the two suits, but a shirtless guy

655
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: with hairy arms. He reaches out from behind a brick

656
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:40,280
Speaker 1: wall strangles her from behind. Then we're at like thirteen

657
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 1: or fourteen seconds in, and then we cut to a

658
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: ladies wrestling match, and then the credits roll. Remember that

659
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: thing about the head explosion scene and scanners, how they

660
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: like put it was originally going to be the opening scene,

661
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: but then they put it later because they didn't want

662
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,760
Speaker 1: people coming in late to the movie. To the theater

663
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 1: is to miss it. Renee Cardona was obviously not consumed

664
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: with similar worries about this Gomar attack scene. Yeah, yeah,

665
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: Cronenberg was more like, oh, we want to. We want

666
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: to make sure they have time to get in and

667
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: have a seat, get their popcorn so they can see

668
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: that our signature special effect. Cardona is more like, we

669
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: don't want them to leave. We need to. They've just

670
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:23,320
Speaker 1: set down. Make sure that they're getting all the action possible.

671
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: They need to know that this film is just going

672
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: to be NonStop beastman murder. Within thirteen seconds, yes, but

673
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: then okay, so we cut to a wrestling match, and

674
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: that's what we're going to be watching, or at least

675
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: what we're gonna try to watch, because it has credits

676
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: playing over it. I was immediately complaining about this because

677
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: we can't see the wrestling. The screen is just full

678
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 1: of credits in the you know, the dripping blood font

679
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: and they're covering up the action. But upon watching this

680
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: scene a second time, I realized there may be a

681
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: reason that they are not letting us get a good

682
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 1: look at anything. That they're putting the credits over the wrestling,

683
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,280
Speaker 1: and it's because I think this scene is a footage

684
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: double dip. This is the wrestling match we see later

685
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: in the movie between between Gloria Venus and Golden Ruby

686
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: and like a Sella the Gazelle and I can't remember

687
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 1: the other wrestler's name, but it's the tag team match.

688
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: And it's clear that it's a double dip because this

689
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: scene contains characters who won't be introduced until later in

690
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: the film. Ah, good eye, good Eye. I didn't catch

691
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: this myself when I first started watching the picture. Yeah,

692
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,879
Speaker 1: I didn't either. So we see Golden Ruby in it,

693
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: she'll arrive later in the movie. We see the detectives

694
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: in it, kind of like hooting at the action. And

695
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: I think it's funny because didn't we just talk about

696
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: movies that do this, that show you later scenes from

697
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 1: the movie, specifically action scenes during the opening credits like

698
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: thrilling bloody Sword and all Monsters attack Yep, yep. We

699
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: this does pop up from time to time, and in

700
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,720
Speaker 1: cases like like that, they'll often show offs signature special

701
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 1: effects from later on in the picture. In the opening scene,

702
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: it's like if you were watching Scanners and the opening

703
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: credits to Scanners showed our hero's head exploding at the

704
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: end of Scanners, you know, like it's sometimes that bad,

705
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: like throwing bloody sword. Yeah, it gives away some of

706
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:21,240
Speaker 1: the coolest stuff. I guess, just saying hey, stick around

707
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: because you're going to get to see this without words

708
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: in front of it later on. And then of course

709
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,760
Speaker 1: there are some really there are some other ridiculous examples

710
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 1: of this, like one of the releases of pod People,

711
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: which we also talked about on the show, features a

712
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: footage from an entirely different film, Galaxy Invaders, one of

713
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:46,280
Speaker 1: those Don Dollar movies, the Maryland Special. Yeah, so all told,

714
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 1: I would say this is maybe weirdly effective, since the

715
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: footage they're using feel it's kind of as a generic

716
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: vibe to it. Anyway, you don't know who these characters

717
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,760
Speaker 1: are yet, so for the most part, they're just random

718
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 1: wrestlers or random dudes and suits. And it doesn't reveal

719
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: a monster or a major special effect or a major

720
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: plot point. That's right. So I didn't catch it until

721
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: I was looking closely the second time. But there is

722
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: one character who stands out in the footage you see

723
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: behind the credits, and I think this is intentional because

724
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: she is our heroine for the film. One of the

725
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: wrestlers in this match is the brave, beautiful, bone crushingly

726
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: mighty Gloria Venus, played by lorrain of Alasquez. And I

727
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: like how even in the opening credits, while she's so

728
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: this is a tag team match, we see her first

729
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,919
Speaker 1: where she's like at the ropes, she's watching the match

730
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: in front of her. She's not even fighting yet. She's

731
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: about to come in and open a can here, but

732
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 1: she's still got that signature facial expression of the kind

733
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:48,720
Speaker 1: of slightly inappropriate aloof amusement. Yeah, and she's not touching

734
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: the tag rope. But then again, now that I say that,

735
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: I'm not sure Lucha Libre has or had a tag rope.

736
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,879
Speaker 1: So what is a tag rope? They're like these little

737
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: I didn't know they existed for the longest, But if

738
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:07,240
Speaker 1: you watch the tag matches, especially like American tag matches,

739
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: there are these like little ropes on top of the

740
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: turnbuckle that the the the wrestler who's not tagged in

741
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: the other member the tag team has to be touching

742
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 1: so that they can't just run around on the ring

743
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: apron and sometimes the raffle, you know, get onto him

744
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 1: and help to touch the tag rops. But I don't know,

745
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 1: that might not be a thing in Lega, but they

746
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: violate this all the time, right, don't they just kind

747
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 1: of like run in when they're not supposed to. I mean,

748
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: that's why they have rules, so they could be broken

749
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 1: by the bags. Okay, but of course Gloria Gloria wins

750
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 1: this match, and as with most of the fight scenes

751
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: in this movie, there are shots where Lorraine Valesquez is

752
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: replaced by an incredibly obvious double doesn't look in anything

753
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 1: like her. Yeah. Yeah, they have some some real grapplers

754
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 1: on hand to do these stunts. Yeah. I think they

755
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: try to accomplish it, especially by giving her really big hair,

756
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 1: which Gloria Venus has. Yeah, and we should also describe

757
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: glory of Venus's wrestling attire because you might if if

758
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: you've not seen this film or seeing stills from it,

759
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: you might imagine, uh, you know, this this beautiful, stunning

760
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: Mexican actress in some sort of like colorful I don't know.

761
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's um, maybe it's flower theme, maybe it's

762
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: space themed. No, it's like a gray full body jumpsuit

763
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,839
Speaker 1: that she's wearing, I mean, particularly exciting. It's in black

764
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: and white, so I don't know what color it would

765
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,720
Speaker 1: have been, but it does appear to be one single

766
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: solid color. Yeah, maybe it's like in real life, it

767
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: would be a real floral color. I guess that would fit.

768
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's no designs on it or anything. It's

769
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: just a full body suit. And maybe that makes the

770
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody's costume is like that, like this in

771
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: these sequences, very drab, drab outfits going on here. I

772
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,919
Speaker 1: don't see any sequence or sparkles. Oh, but I wanted

773
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: to point out there is one shot of her that's

774
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: definitely larraina Velaska's. It's not the stunt double, and it's

775
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,800
Speaker 1: one where she's doing some kind of strange submission hold

776
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: where she like stretches her opponents are ms out in

777
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: opposite directions. And I was trying to think, what is this?

778
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 1: Is this a real move? What is this move called? Um?

779
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: I couldn't find exactly what this this is, but Lucha

780
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 1: Libre especially has a ton of crazy submission holds. They

781
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 1: always have all sorts of things, like some things that

782
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,760
Speaker 1: are rooted more or less than actual grappling and actual wrestling.

783
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 1: But then uh, it goes crazy from there. There's all

784
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: sorts of stuff where like people are you know, being

785
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: suspended upside down or they're made into a human pendulum.

786
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: Or something. So this one's not even that wacky, but

787
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: it and it has similar vibes with a number of

788
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,760
Speaker 1: other sort of twisty like step over, fold the legs

789
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: sort of holds. I found one looking around on Lucha

790
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 1: Wiki that looked similar called Lucks Constita, but it's not

791
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,399
Speaker 1: a one hundred percent match like it has a little

792
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 1: bit more step over. So maybe they had something picked

793
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:55,879
Speaker 1: out something and they kind of adapted it so that

794
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: Gloria here, again played by a non wrestler, could stand

795
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: stand in and do it. Also, it's worth noting that

796
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: this is a submission hold where you can see both

797
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: both individuals faces. Both wrestlers faces are present, which heightens

798
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: the drama, which is not always a concern in lucca,

799
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: but is often a concern in wrestling in general. And

800
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 1: for a film, obviously, you want you want those facial expressions,

801
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 1: especially the facial expression of your your hero here. That's

802
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 1: a good point. I'm glad we have your your wrestling

803
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: expertise to consult when doings like this. I'm no expert.

804
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: Well that your relative expertise compared to me, I wouldn't

805
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: have even thought about the faces. That totally makes sense,

806
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: but Anyway, after the match, Gloria Gloria Venus wins and

807
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: she returns to her locker room accompanied by her sister Alice,

808
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: and Gloria and Alice both have such big hair. Alice's

809
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 1: hair here is like a gorgeous, glossy motorcycle helmet. It

810
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 1: really is. Yeah, this is I guess this is the

811
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 1: style of the day, right. I mean you look at

812
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: like college yearbooks in high school yearbooks soon as era,

813
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 1: and this is the hairstyle for women. I don't know

814
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,879
Speaker 1: what you call this hairstyle. So it's like straight hair,

815
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: but it's like gigantic, it's like helmet sized. It's a

816
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: great look. The sixties were amazing. So we learn from

817
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: their conversation that Gloria Venus, she says, I would hate

818
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: to be thought of as a braggart, but no woman

819
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: has ever pinned me. Is she is the undisputed champ.

820
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: And we learned that Alice is not a fighter like Gloria.

821
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: She says if she were in Gloria's line of work,

822
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 1: she would be afraid of getting her arm broken. But

823
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:36,839
Speaker 1: they have a good relationship. It looks like they're going

824
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: to head out to dinner together after the match, so

825
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 1: they're close. Then let's cut straight from that to some

826
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: sci fi horror. We go to a different scene. Here,

827
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 1: there is a person lying on an operating table, strapped

828
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 1: with a ventilator mask and all these black hoses running

829
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:55,359
Speaker 1: to it, while two creepy doctors in surgical masks lean

830
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: over the patient with a nervous eagerness. And so these

831
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: two guys, one is an imposing, taller boss doctor with

832
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: a piercing glare and a sonorous voice, and then there

833
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: is a cringing, shorter hinch doctor to assist him and

834
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 1: to sort of flatter his ego. Yeah, it's clear the

835
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: taller doctor is the titular doctor of doom. I didn't

836
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 1: know you could get a doctorate in doom, but he didn't. Yeah,

837
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 1: he's specialized in doom studies. Yeah, at Moreau University. So

838
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 1: they say, you know, they're ready for the surgery now,

839
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 1: So they paint a circle on the person's shaved scalp

840
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: and then they bring in a second person. So they're

841
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: like lining up these two bodies on operating tables next

842
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 1: to each other. Here we get a lot of close

843
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 1: ups on rubber gloves and electrodes and stuff like that

844
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 1: to let us know that mad science is taking place.

845
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 1: But whatever it is they're trying to do here doesn't

846
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: work out. We get sad orchestral music, and the lead

847
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:03,439
Speaker 1: doctor says, oh, another failure. He's clearly dejected. And here

848
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 1: we get some exposition. What's going on here is your

849
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:10,280
Speaker 1: standard brain transplant. I think they were trying to take

850
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:14,800
Speaker 1: out a random woman's brain and then transplant it into

851
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 1: a man's body, But that doesn't make sense based on

852
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 1: some other things they say later, so they talk about

853
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 1: like putting it in his body, But then they're also

854
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: saying that this operation will only work with women's brains.

855
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: I guess because women's brains are better suited for it

856
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: for some reason, but because females are strong as hell.

857
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 1: They basically say this later on. It's like the female

858
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: brain is just more resilient, it's tougher. Yeah, okay, so

859
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: there's only women's brains will work. But they also I'm

860
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 1: not clear why are they doing this. Did the man

861
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: that they're trying to transplant into not have a brain

862
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:52,800
Speaker 1: of his own? Why did he need a new brain?

863
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: They explained that it is the fourth time they have

864
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: attempted this type of procedure, and it has failed every time. Yeah,

865
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: I don't get the impression. And they're trying to help anyone.

866
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:04,839
Speaker 1: They're just they's got to be first. They're trying to

867
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: to break new ground and become underground surgical legends. I guess.

868
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: But what's going to happen to the patient number one's

869
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: brain if he gets a new brain transplanted into his head?

870
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 1: Where does is it a brain swap? Does his brain

871
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:21,240
Speaker 1: go to her head? Maybe one brains is going in

872
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: the trash? I don't know. Okay, but the Hinch doctor

873
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:27,399
Speaker 1: here has an amazing theory for why the operation has

874
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:31,800
Speaker 1: not been a success. He starts hypothesizing that the women's

875
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: brains they've been trying to transplant have not been smart

876
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 1: enough to survive the operation, and they need to stop

877
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: kidnapping women with dumb brains and instead try to kidnap

878
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 1: smart women to get their smart brains. All right, all right,

879
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 1: very interesting, and the boss doctor seems convinced they should

880
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 1: try it, but their conversation is interrupted by by kind

881
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: of bestial growls. What's this? And the boss doctor says,

882
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 1: Gomar is acting up again? Gomar? What's Gomar? Well, here

883
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,800
Speaker 1: we introduced the second sci fi theme adjacent to the first.

884
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: So this is a wrestling movie. It has brain transplants,

885
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,720
Speaker 1: but as we've alluded to, it is also a Doctor

886
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 1: Moreau style beast man movie. So the monster we saw

887
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: attack the lady in the opening thirteen seconds is Gomar.

888
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: From what I gather, he is a gorilla human hybrid

889
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 1: created by the boss doctor here by transplanting a guerrilla's

890
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: brain into a man's body. Yep, that seems to be

891
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: the case. So this is like patient A, you know,

892
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 1: in this effort. This is the first success, and they

893
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: keep him around because he's useful. But by the way,

894
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:47,720
Speaker 1: there's just a set note here. To get to Gomar's cage,

895
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: they have to go down in a basement full of

896
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: cardboard boxes and upside down chairs. While the upside down

897
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 1: chairs got a picture for you to look at. Here,

898
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 1: there's like at least ten upside down chairs. What's going on?

899
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: I mean, at times I thought, well, maybe Gomar has

900
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 1: been down there throwing chairs around, but he's not actually

901
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 1: in this room, right, This is just like a storeroom. Yeah,

902
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: it's like the room that gives access to his cage.

903
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:17,240
Speaker 1: It kept making me think about the guilda Radner skit

904
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: from It Came from Hollywood, in which there's a radio

905
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 1: program talking about an escape gorilla and she starts frantically

906
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: piling everything in her living room up against the windows

907
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:32,320
Speaker 1: and doors. But that doesn't actually provide an explanation for

908
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: what we see here. No, So I just don't understand it.

909
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: Maybe that's just how they store their extra chairs at

910
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: the Mad Science Lab. Yeah, or even maybe it's just

911
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 1: a case where like set decoration, like we're so used

912
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 1: to seeing the wall of cardboard boxes in films, like

913
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: that's a that's a standard you need to create a

914
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:51,879
Speaker 1: storeroom environment. Just pack and get some empty boxes, pile

915
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 1: them up, start filming. And so they're doing a little

916
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: bit of this, but then they're getting there a little choosier.

917
00:51:56,520 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: They're like, let's get some other shapes in there. One

918
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: thing that I like about the Mad Science Chamber is

919
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 1: that they do a pretty good job of like, you know,

920
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:06,320
Speaker 1: you have a lot of stuff going on, but also

921
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 1: the shadows of the stuff in the background, and in

922
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: black and white, it tends to play really well. I agree. Yes,

923
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:15,320
Speaker 1: this movie actually does a lot of scenes with good shadows.

924
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:18,839
Speaker 1: So anyway, they go down to meet with Gomar. They

925
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: give him some raw meat. They say, he's I think.

926
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 1: They explain he's slowly transforming from half man, half gorilla

927
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:29,840
Speaker 1: into full gorilla. And the only reason the doctor retains

928
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 1: control over him for the moment is because he has

929
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,279
Speaker 1: Gomar in a hypnotic state and he fears that he

930
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: will soon lose all control over Gomar. Yeah, this is

931
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: all tremendous because on one hand, first of all, you

932
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: have this this movie is telling us that if you

933
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: transplant a gorilla's brain into a human body, not only

934
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: is this a success, but it will gradually transform the

935
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,879
Speaker 1: body into the body of a gorilla. Yes. And then

936
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,799
Speaker 1: on top of that, they're just feeding this gorilla just

937
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 1: big bloody chunks of eating bone. Gorillas don't eat big

938
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 1: chunks of meat, So this is they should be throwing

939
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:07,919
Speaker 1: in a whole bunch of like vegetables and stuff. Yeah,

940
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 1: give that gorilla some fruits and stuff. Yeah, I guess

941
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:13,799
Speaker 1: it just wouldn't be as scary if Gomar's setting their

942
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: chewing on a big head of cabbage. But so in

943
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:18,880
Speaker 1: this scene we get the doctor muttering. He says, I

944
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 1: must transplant a human brain into another human being. That's

945
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:26,880
Speaker 1: the goal I've set for myself. You know, he's self

946
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 1: directed in his ambitions. He picks a project and sticks

947
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 1: with it. That's one of my favorite lines are in

948
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 1: the film. That's the goal I've set for myself. Oh

949
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 1: there's a lot of good lines like that. We will

950
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 1: get to many more. But here's the part where they

951
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 1: explained that the experiments have to be done on women

952
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: because women's brains react better than men's brains to brain transplantation.

953
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 1: But then I wonder, well, wait a minute, how would

954
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: he know that because all of his patients have died

955
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 1: during the procedure. Well, I guess maybe they're they're dying

956
00:53:55,680 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 1: slower when they were working with men. I'm not sure. Okay,

957
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,919
Speaker 1: So here they agree on the theory of the Hinch

958
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 1: doctor that they need to find a smart brain to

959
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 1: use in the next experiment. So we get a scene transition,

960
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: you know, newspaper seller saying extra extra, another woman murdered

961
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: by the mad doctor. So this is the big headline

962
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: in town. Then we cut inside a building that is

963
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 1: it looks I mean, it looks just kind of like

964
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 1: a house. It's like a living room that has been

965
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 1: converted into a laboratory with a bunch of microscopes and

966
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:34,400
Speaker 1: chemistry equipment and people in lab coats, and oh, what

967
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 1: do you know? One of the people here in lab

968
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:42,399
Speaker 1: coats is Alice, the sister of Gloria Venus. But oh

969
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 1: wait a second, are you already putting two and two together.

970
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 1: She's a scientist, and I think the filmmakers may be

971
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: suggesting that she has a smart brain. I believe so. Also,

972
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 1: I want to note that this living room like laboratory set. This,

973
00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: this is your saying science lab as opposed to the

974
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 1: mad science lab we saw earlier. So I think they

975
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: put a lot of thought into this. It's like we

976
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:06,319
Speaker 1: got a transition to another science lab, but it needs

977
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: we need a different layout. It needs to be brighter,

978
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: it needs to be a little more inviting, multiple people.

979
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,920
Speaker 1: Nobody's being victimized, that's right. Yeah, this one's more cozy

980
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 1: than the other one. But even in the science lab,

981
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 1: it seems that the latest murder by the mad doctor

982
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,439
Speaker 1: has everyone kind of in a buzz, and Alice wants

983
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:25,920
Speaker 1: to know more about it. She sends out one of

984
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: her colleagues to buy her a newspaper so she can

985
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: learn more, and then into this scene comes the professor,

986
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 1: one of my favorite characters. This is the guy who

987
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: runs this non specific laboratory. He is a timid, soft spoken,

988
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:44,800
Speaker 1: bookish man in a vest and tie with thick eyeglasses.

989
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: And I loved this character, especially in the English stub, because,

990
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: as I mentioned earlier, they give him something pretty close

991
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: to James Mason voice, and his scenes for this reason

992
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: are almost uniformly hilarious. Yeah, and it's a great great

993
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:02,719
Speaker 1: look too. He's he's always looking down, rarely making eye

994
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: contact with the people he's talking to, very meek, and

995
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:07,360
Speaker 1: when he does look up, especially if he happens to

996
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: glance in the direction of the camera, he's got really

997
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:13,839
Speaker 1: thick glasses, so you get like the distortion of the eyes. Um,

998
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 1: it's great. Like he's not portrayed as a straight up

999
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:20,839
Speaker 1: comic character, but I guess they're sort of. You know,

1000
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:25,320
Speaker 1: he's a little bit bumbling and and and likable and

1001
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:28,319
Speaker 1: h and just overly sensitive and concerned. He's got a

1002
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 1: little touch of who's that guy in Trailer Park Boys

1003
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:35,359
Speaker 1: with the thick glass what's his name is it? Bubbles? Yeah? Right, okay, yeah, Yeah,

1004
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 1: definitely a similar visual effect going on. But he walks

1005
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 1: up to Alice, and he's like, most terrible other stealing

1006
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:47,360
Speaker 1: everyone's brains out there? Did you go out last night? Alice?

1007
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: And she says she went out to watch her sister's

1008
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:53,880
Speaker 1: wrestling match, And then she goes, have you ever been

1009
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 1: to a wrestling match, professor? And oh, no, I simply

1010
00:56:56,680 --> 00:57:00,120
Speaker 1: couldn't bear it. I who have violence? It disgusts me.

1011
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:06,360
Speaker 1: And she tries to real young yucker here. Yeah, she

1012
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 1: tries to defend wrestling. She's like, it's a fantastic sport, sir,

1013
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 1: I think you'd enjoy it once you saw it. And well,

1014
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: he's not interested in wrestling, but what he is way

1015
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: too interested in is Alice's personal life. He starts in

1016
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 1: on like, oh how could you how could you be

1017
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 1: walking out alone together without an escort? And he starts,

1018
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 1: you know, telling her she shouldn't have stayed out late

1019
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: last night, not without a man to help her get

1020
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 1: home safely. You know all this, And have you not

1021
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: read about the mad doctor? It's really reckless and um uh,

1022
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:40,000
Speaker 1: and she she just jokes about it. She's like, well,

1023
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 1: I wear my little rabbit's foot, you know. And he

1024
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 1: just won't shut up. He's like he starts explaining how

1025
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 1: it makes him so angry to hear a girl joke

1026
00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 1: about a matter as dreadful as this and not take

1027
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: safety seriously. And then he gets distracted by another lab

1028
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: tech who's like, you know, a professor, the you know,

1029
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: the blood you ordered last week has arrived, and so

1030
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:01,880
Speaker 1: he's going to go take care of that. But then

1031
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 1: he has an aside to say, like, wow, there's some

1032
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 1: same want you about this later? Oh no, yeah, real

1033
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 1: Michael Scott levels of wandering around the office here, not

1034
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 1: really doing anything but but just pestering the employees. But

1035
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 1: Alice doesn't seem all that annoyed. She just ignores him completely.

1036
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:26,440
Speaker 1: And then we get another scene with a news report

1037
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 1: to transition between things, and this is a scene where

1038
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 1: the English dub once again was great. The newscaster says,

1039
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:39,600
Speaker 1: reports showed that these nocturnal acts are continuing and police

1040
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 1: are still accusing that criminal who has caused so much

1041
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: public discussion due to his actions. He's been named the

1042
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 1: mad doctor. Oh but then this is the part where

1043
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 1: I think we mentioned this earlier. So he says, the

1044
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 1: woman he killed last night is in the morgue. She

1045
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: was found early this morning. And as always happened, police

1046
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:01,320
Speaker 1: found Marx showing that the brain had been removed from

1047
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 1: the unfortunate girl's body. Well, I mean, I guess we

1048
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 1: saw the mark being made on one of the bodies

1049
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: in the surgical proceedings earlier. Yeah, yeah, so I guess

1050
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 1: we know what it would look like. That's how they

1051
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 1: knew the brain had been removed. Okay, Yeah. Anyway, the

1052
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 1: mad doctor's identity remains a mystery. The case is still unsolved.

1053
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 1: But here we meet a couple more main characters, the

1054
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 1: police detectives. And so this is Armando Um Armando, Wait

1055
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: is the actor or the character or Armando Silvestri? Um?

1056
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 1: I think, oh goodness, Silvestri is the the actor? Correct? Well,

1057
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 1: so I think in the Spanish version he's called Armando Campos,

1058
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:44,440
Speaker 1: but in the English dub he's called Mike and his

1059
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 1: associate is named Tommy. So it's Mike and Tommy the

1060
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 1: English dub. Tommy says, you know, they're really looking into it.

1061
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 1: He says, they investigated all the doctors in the medical

1062
00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 1: profession and that got nowhere. I'm like, wow, I love

1063
00:59:57,400 --> 01:00:00,120
Speaker 1: that because it's like, presumably we're in Mexico City and

1064
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 1: they have spoken to all the doctors in Mexico City.

1065
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 1: That's amazing. We interrogated all the doctors. Um. And then

1066
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: there's a there's a comic bit where they're like, okay,

1067
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 1: well we still haven't caught him. And then Tommy is like, oh,

1068
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:15,920
Speaker 1: I've got to go. I've got to go call my

1069
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 1: grandma make sure she doesn't go out tonight. But then

1070
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 1: he gets on the phone, he's like, she's she's quite deaf,

1071
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:24,440
Speaker 1: and he's like, Grandma, stay inside tonight. I can't help

1072
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 1: but feel this is somebody's stand up debt right here.

1073
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe Tommy's stand up day in real life. Um,

1074
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 1: kind of a new heart vibe to it. Then from here, whoa,

1075
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:46,720
Speaker 1: we get to a scene with the bad guys, sort

1076
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:48,959
Speaker 1: of a convention of all the bad guys, the mad

1077
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:53,680
Speaker 1: doctor and his assistant. They appear in masked costumes. Now

1078
01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 1: remember when we saw them before, they were in surgical garbs,

1079
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 1: so they had caps and surgical masks on. And now

1080
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 1: they are masks almost like inquisitors or like lucha masks,

1081
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 1: I guess, but much creepier, kind of like ghost versions.

1082
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:10,680
Speaker 1: They look hideously unsettling. Yeah, and in this we're getting

1083
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:14,000
Speaker 1: a better look at the full operation. Here, we've got

1084
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:20,120
Speaker 1: hooded doctors with secret identities. We've got Gomar, the mutant

1085
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:23,920
Speaker 1: ape man, and then we have like a whole table

1086
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:28,439
Speaker 1: like or like a whole barrage of of heavies here,

1087
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 1: presumably like criminal underworld characters that are working for the doctors.

1088
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: So this operation seems well funded because these guys are

1089
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:40,200
Speaker 1: not doing this for free. I guess I guess the

1090
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: Mad Doctors paying them. I can't imagine what else is

1091
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 1: in it for them. Oh yeah, I'm sure he's paying them.

1092
01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 1: In fact, he says later, he's like, you know, I

1093
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:51,760
Speaker 1: reward my employees, well, the ones who are loyal to me.

1094
01:01:52,640 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 1: After he's complaining that he had to execute a traitor

1095
01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: who was going to reveal his identity. Yeah, or maybe

1096
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:05,439
Speaker 1: this is like an underground pharmaceutical company and the other

1097
01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:08,480
Speaker 1: chair people on the board. So anyway, the mad doctor

1098
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 1: says his experiments cannot be delayed. They must bring him

1099
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 1: another woman with a brain immediately, And the Hinchman complained,

1100
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,160
Speaker 1: they're like, boss, the police are watching all the highways

1101
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 1: and searching all cars. We can't get you a person

1102
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:25,200
Speaker 1: with a brain. And he said, he just says, silence,

1103
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:27,919
Speaker 1: You're going to do exactly as I order you. And

1104
01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 1: he says they don't have to worry about the police

1105
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:32,400
Speaker 1: because Gomar is going to go with them, and the

1106
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 1: Mad Doctor has upgraded Gomar with special equipment so that

1107
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 1: even bullets will be unable to stop him. Oh, and

1108
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,800
Speaker 1: I got excited when I heard this because I had

1109
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:43,440
Speaker 1: no idea where this was going. How are they going

1110
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:49,640
Speaker 1: to upgrade Gomar? Oh they gotta. Gomar's upgrade is fantastic. Okay,

1111
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: we'll get to that in a second. But who are

1112
01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 1: they supposed to kidnap? The handoff a picture to the

1113
01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:57,360
Speaker 1: hnchman and oh no, it's a picture of Alice. My

1114
01:02:57,440 --> 01:03:00,920
Speaker 1: heart sank upon seeing this. But then there was something

1115
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 1: of some very funny timing with a music sting here,

1116
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 1: because you might expect a sting immediately upon revelation of

1117
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: the photo, but instead they like show the photo and

1118
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 1: then there's a two to three second delay and then

1119
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:18,840
Speaker 1: the dun, dun, dun. So I wonder if they were

1120
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 1: thinking maybe we might need a minute to recognize who

1121
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 1: was in the picture. I'm not sure. All right, so

1122
01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:26,360
Speaker 1: things are not looking good for Alice at this point.

1123
01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:29,400
Speaker 1: We know where this is headed, right, So Alice gets kidnapped.

1124
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:31,800
Speaker 1: We see her working late at the lab doing chemistry.

1125
01:03:32,120 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 1: The professor shows up to pester her some more about

1126
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:38,400
Speaker 1: how she shouldn't go home alone, and she ignores him

1127
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:41,240
Speaker 1: and leaves. But oh, what's this? We see that she

1128
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 1: forgot her lucky rabbit's foot. It's like the professor examines it.

1129
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 1: It's hanging there on a coat hook. And then some

1130
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 1: creeps in suits run up behind Alice on the sidewalk.

1131
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 1: They grab her. They throw her into a taxi. I

1132
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 1: guess the taxis at this place in time. I'll have

1133
01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: this pattern of triangles on them, which head on kind

1134
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:02,400
Speaker 1: of looks like the car has teeth. I like that. Yeah, yeah,

1135
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:05,440
Speaker 1: Like maybe this might be an accident of black and

1136
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:08,240
Speaker 1: white here, like maybe it's red and white. I think

1137
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:10,280
Speaker 1: that would probably make more sense. But maybe it's black

1138
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 1: and white in real life. I don't know. But then

1139
01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 1: we come upon an action scene, which is excellent. So

1140
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 1: what's going on with Gomar? What's the Gomar upgrade? Do

1141
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:22,520
Speaker 1: you want to describe it? Rob? Oh? Suret. Gomar has

1142
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:26,040
Speaker 1: been updated with body armor. And when I say body armor,

1143
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 1: I don't mean like some sort of like military modern tech.

1144
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:31,720
Speaker 1: I'm talking like he has like plate like it's kind

1145
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:35,000
Speaker 1: of like scale mail on his body, and then this

1146
01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:38,680
Speaker 1: big creepy metal mask over his head. The main thing

1147
01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 1: that I instantly compared it to is the robot in

1148
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:47,320
Speaker 1: the Phantom Creep starring Belle Lagosi that has a tremendous

1149
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 1: robot costume that doesn't quite look like a robot. It

1150
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:54,760
Speaker 1: looks like it's hideous and demonic. And this has similar

1151
01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 1: vibes like the robot from from Phantom Creeps and armored.

1152
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 1: Gomar could be a tag team. So the least try

1153
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 1: to stop the Henchman from kidnapping Alice. They like stop

1154
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 1: the car, but Gomar gets out in his suit of

1155
01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 1: armor and his mask which is so his like golden mask,

1156
01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:15,320
Speaker 1: super creepy looking. He gets out, he fights all the police.

1157
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 1: He beats him up, I think he kills several of them.

1158
01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 1: He body slams them and so forth, and then gets

1159
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 1: back in the taxi and they head off to the

1160
01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:26,439
Speaker 1: Mad Doctor's lab, as happens multiple times in the movie.

1161
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:28,600
Speaker 1: When they get back, Gomar's just standing there in his

1162
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 1: armor and the Mad Doctor says, you did a good job.

1163
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:35,560
Speaker 1: Gomar yes, say what you will about the mad doctor

1164
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 1: here and the way he conducts his business, but he

1165
01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 1: has a lot of positive reinforcement here for Gomark, He's

1166
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 1: constantly reminding him, you are doing a good job, and

1167
01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:48,200
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I just want you to know, Gomar,

1168
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 1: sometimes I don't take enough time to tell you this,

1169
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 1: but I appreciate what you're doing and I love you.

1170
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 1: It's true. Onto the procedure, they're going to try to

1171
01:05:56,560 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 1: do another brain transplant. Unfortunately, despite her very smart brain,

1172
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:06,000
Speaker 1: Alice does not survive the brain transplant surgery, and so

1173
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:08,520
Speaker 1: they try again. They fail and Alice dies in the

1174
01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:12,160
Speaker 1: process tragically. And then the sidekick doctor comes up with

1175
01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 1: a new idea. He says, actually, maybe what we needed

1176
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:19,080
Speaker 1: was not a smart brain, but a brain with some

1177
01:06:19,160 --> 01:06:25,320
Speaker 1: kind of toughness, athleticism, endurance, a brain from the kind

1178
01:06:25,360 --> 01:06:28,280
Speaker 1: of woman who could both dole out in withstand the

1179
01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:32,280
Speaker 1: most punishing of suplexes and pile drivers. But where could

1180
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:35,120
Speaker 1: we expect to find a brain of this kind. We

1181
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 1: know where this is going as well. Yeah, that's right.

1182
01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:39,439
Speaker 1: So the mad doctor hears this, he gets a look

1183
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:43,360
Speaker 1: of sadistic inspiration. He clearly has an idea for how

1184
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 1: to proceed now here were there's further investigation. We go

1185
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 1: back to the cops that you know, they're following up

1186
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:53,600
Speaker 1: on the death of Alice, and the police figure out

1187
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:56,560
Speaker 1: that she has a sister. Everything's coming together here. So

1188
01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 1: the two detectives, Mike and Tommy, they go to form

1189
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:03,520
Speaker 1: Glory Venus at the wrestling gym, and this will introduce

1190
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 1: the wrestling gym as a setting where many other scenes occur.

1191
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:10,000
Speaker 1: There's always like a lot of activity going on in

1192
01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:13,520
Speaker 1: the gym. Yeah, there's a lot of independent workouts going on.

1193
01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:16,680
Speaker 1: Some some women are doing like set up, some are

1194
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:20,120
Speaker 1: doing other types of like calisthenics, and then there's always

1195
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:22,160
Speaker 1: at least a couple of women that are doing some

1196
01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 1: some grapple sessions as well, some takedowns and some lock ups.

1197
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 1: So of course Glory of Venus is horrified to find

1198
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 1: out that her sister has been killed. She has to

1199
01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 1: go into identify the body, and the police are trying

1200
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:36,960
Speaker 1: to find out anything they can. They end up interrogating

1201
01:07:36,960 --> 01:07:41,320
Speaker 1: the professor from the chemistry lab about what happened, and

1202
01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:44,240
Speaker 1: he oh god, there was a line that made me laugh.

1203
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:47,400
Speaker 1: So he goes up to Glory of Venus, and the

1204
01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:50,160
Speaker 1: Professor is like, I can't tell you how sorry I

1205
01:07:50,200 --> 01:07:56,640
Speaker 1: feel Gloria about how this is death. I mean like

1206
01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:59,520
Speaker 1: maybe she thought he'd been talking about, you know, how

1207
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:01,560
Speaker 1: far our way she had to part from the building

1208
01:08:01,680 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, but he's yeah, he's like he's really

1209
01:08:05,760 --> 01:08:08,800
Speaker 1: taking this hard. Yeah. The Professor's really shook up after this,

1210
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:11,640
Speaker 1: so he tries to be helpful. He's like, please, do

1211
01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:13,920
Speaker 1: not hesitate to call upon me if you need anything

1212
01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 1: at all, Gloria, do not call the professor just I

1213
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:22,439
Speaker 1: don't think she's gonna Yeah, but she, Gloria Venus once

1214
01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 1: again kind of ignores him, and she vows to find

1215
01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:28,760
Speaker 1: the killer and get revenge. So here we i'd say,

1216
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:32,160
Speaker 1: our Act one is complete. This is our setup. Yeah, yeah,

1217
01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 1: we know what everyone wants here. Mad doctor wants wants

1218
01:08:37,320 --> 01:08:39,559
Speaker 1: a brain and it's probably gonna be vitness. It's gonna

1219
01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:41,640
Speaker 1: be Gloria of Venus's brain that he goes after. And

1220
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 1: Gloria of Venus wants vengeance. Right, So the mad Doctor

1221
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:49,280
Speaker 1: sets his hinchmen about to find women with incredible physical

1222
01:08:49,320 --> 01:08:52,760
Speaker 1: strength and stamina. And here we cut back to the

1223
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:56,880
Speaker 1: Luchadora gym where all the grapples are going on, and

1224
01:08:56,960 --> 01:08:59,559
Speaker 1: we let's see several things happen we in act too.

1225
01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 1: We met a new character. They introduce a character named

1226
01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:06,320
Speaker 1: Golden Ruby. She is I think she's coming from the

1227
01:09:06,360 --> 01:09:11,280
Speaker 1: States maybe, but she's like entering this circuit for some reason. Yeah,

1228
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:12,879
Speaker 1: you know, I guess it's kind of like a territory

1229
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 1: sort of thing. So she's come down here to you,

1230
01:09:16,080 --> 01:09:19,080
Speaker 1: away from the American wrestling territories to work in Mexico

1231
01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:22,479
Speaker 1: for a little bit. And the whole vibe that we've

1232
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 1: seen thus far of the Luchadora the scene here in

1233
01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:30,360
Speaker 1: this film is that it's just everyone's really pleasant. They're

1234
01:09:30,439 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 1: very supportive of each other. They're protective of each other.

1235
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:39,480
Speaker 1: There's not really a technico rudeo, baby faced heel scenario

1236
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:41,599
Speaker 1: going on here. Everybody's on the same team and they

1237
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:44,160
Speaker 1: just want to get in there and compete. It has

1238
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:48,040
Speaker 1: a real sports feel. I guess I agree like that. Yeah,

1239
01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:51,800
Speaker 1: the vibe between all of the Lucadoras is wonderful. They're

1240
01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:54,479
Speaker 1: all kind of supportive of each other and they work together.

1241
01:09:54,840 --> 01:09:58,719
Speaker 1: There's one scene where this horrible like male wrestler comes

1242
01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:01,080
Speaker 1: into their gym and he's like those weights and like

1243
01:10:01,360 --> 01:10:03,960
Speaker 1: punches one of them. I guess yeah, he's like, I

1244
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:07,200
Speaker 1: want that equipment and then just attacks them and then

1245
01:10:07,240 --> 01:10:09,679
Speaker 1: they all gang up and they just beat him down.

1246
01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:13,679
Speaker 1: It is a righteous rudo beat down and I love it. Yeah,

1247
01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:17,759
Speaker 1: it's a great scene because our two main luchadora characters

1248
01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:20,720
Speaker 1: are standing in the background and we see all the

1249
01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:24,800
Speaker 1: the actual luchadoras are that are in the film. They're

1250
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 1: the ones that jump in and start grabbing and flipping

1251
01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:30,880
Speaker 1: this guy. I think somebody puts him in a full

1252
01:10:30,920 --> 01:10:33,840
Speaker 1: nelson and somebody drop kicks him, and then there's just

1253
01:10:33,920 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 1: a huge pile up on and like one does a

1254
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:39,080
Speaker 1: jumping pin and then everyone else piles on top of that,

1255
01:10:39,479 --> 01:10:42,439
Speaker 1: and Gloria, Venus and Ruby they just have a nice

1256
01:10:42,479 --> 01:10:45,320
Speaker 1: laugh at this so like but then they also get

1257
01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:48,280
Speaker 1: to bond, like they become fast friends, because there's a

1258
01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 1: scene right after this, Ruby clearly admires Glory of Venus.

1259
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:53,800
Speaker 1: She's like, you know, you're the greatest to You're just

1260
01:10:54,120 --> 01:10:56,000
Speaker 1: I wish I could be a wrestler like you, And

1261
01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:58,960
Speaker 1: Gloria of Venus is like, oh no, you're great too,

1262
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:00,960
Speaker 1: and then Golden Ruby. He asks her, what you why

1263
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 1: do you have such a sad look in your eye

1264
01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:05,880
Speaker 1: despite being you know, despite being a wrestling machine. And

1265
01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:09,160
Speaker 1: then Gloria Venus says, it's just something I can't forget

1266
01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:13,240
Speaker 1: my sister. She was murdered three nights ago. It's like,

1267
01:11:13,439 --> 01:11:18,080
Speaker 1: would you expect her to forget it by now? But anyway,

1268
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:20,519
Speaker 1: they decide to be friends, and they decide Golden Ruby

1269
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:24,160
Speaker 1: is going to move into Gloria's apartment. Maket sense, maket sense. Now,

1270
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:26,960
Speaker 1: after this, we get to watch a full on Luchadora match,

1271
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:30,080
Speaker 1: and if this is the tag team match that played

1272
01:11:30,200 --> 01:11:32,599
Speaker 1: under the opening credits, now we get to finally look

1273
01:11:32,600 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 1: at it. So it's Gloria Venus and Golden Ruby as

1274
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:40,080
Speaker 1: a team versus the Gazelle and Bertha Galindo. Yeah, and

1275
01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:42,759
Speaker 1: this was this was interesting to watch. Now for my taste,

1276
01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:46,559
Speaker 1: I would say that the actual Luca wrestling we see

1277
01:11:46,960 --> 01:11:50,120
Speaker 1: in Santo and the Treasure of Dracula is better and

1278
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:54,360
Speaker 1: more entertaining. This wrestling, I don't know. It's it's hard

1279
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: for me to make out exactly how to feel about.

1280
01:11:56,760 --> 01:11:59,160
Speaker 1: I think like, on one hand, what they show us

1281
01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:02,160
Speaker 1: here again has no rudo technico distinction. There's no good

1282
01:12:02,200 --> 01:12:03,920
Speaker 1: guys or bad guys. So it has a you know,

1283
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:07,479
Speaker 1: very has that real sports feel to it that certainly

1284
01:12:07,479 --> 01:12:09,960
Speaker 1: fits the vibe of the film, because again, this is

1285
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:15,080
Speaker 1: not a film about superhero lucadoras or luchadors saving the day.

1286
01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 1: This is about like normal people, Like they're just professionals

1287
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:22,080
Speaker 1: working in a real world scenario and they just happen

1288
01:12:22,160 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 1: to fall into this this sci fi speculative plot line.

1289
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:29,679
Speaker 1: And in terms of like trying to compare the wrestling

1290
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:32,880
Speaker 1: that we're seeing here to existing footage, that's where you

1291
01:12:32,880 --> 01:12:35,120
Speaker 1: really run into some problems that I haven't really looked

1292
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:38,479
Speaker 1: into this all that much before. But and I could

1293
01:12:38,479 --> 01:12:40,360
Speaker 1: be very wrong on this, because again I'm not an expert.

1294
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:44,920
Speaker 1: But when I go looking around for non movie Luca

1295
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:48,719
Speaker 1: footage from before, said the nineteen eighties or even Indian

1296
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:52,040
Speaker 1: any indications that some of the biggest annual LUCA shows

1297
01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:56,799
Speaker 1: of the year, like going back to like sixty two

1298
01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:59,959
Speaker 1: and I'm back into the fifties as well, the Indiana

1299
01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:04,439
Speaker 1: that those were recorded, I don't get get anything. And

1300
01:13:04,479 --> 01:13:06,400
Speaker 1: then I looked a little deeper and I found there's

1301
01:13:06,400 --> 01:13:12,000
Speaker 1: an individual that on social media Luca blog and Luca

1302
01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:14,679
Speaker 1: Blog is also the blog It's a great English language

1303
01:13:14,760 --> 01:13:19,360
Speaker 1: Lucas source. This individual points out that while there was

1304
01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:22,760
Speaker 1: Luca on TV in the nineteen fifties, I don't it

1305
01:13:22,800 --> 01:13:24,960
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like that footage has ever turned up, So

1306
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:27,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's lost, if it needs to

1307
01:13:27,120 --> 01:13:29,400
Speaker 1: be restored or what. I know that with some of

1308
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:33,120
Speaker 1: those older TV stations, like tapes were reused and stuff

1309
01:13:33,240 --> 01:13:37,240
Speaker 1: was just destroyed and without any really forethought in terms of,

1310
01:13:37,479 --> 01:13:39,479
Speaker 1: you know, setting it aside for the future. And I

1311
01:13:39,479 --> 01:13:41,599
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe some of these big shows weren't even recorded.

1312
01:13:41,640 --> 01:13:44,920
Speaker 1: Maybe they're just you know, big gate live events. So

1313
01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:47,120
Speaker 1: when I'm trying to get to is like it's hard

1314
01:13:47,160 --> 01:13:51,320
Speaker 1: to compare this to what actual pure Lucha libre was

1315
01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:54,000
Speaker 1: like and this time period, because I don't think that

1316
01:13:54,040 --> 01:13:58,439
Speaker 1: we have much footage outside of Luca films, like of

1317
01:13:58,920 --> 01:14:02,760
Speaker 1: male or female formers. Uh and uh. Yeah. So some

1318
01:14:02,840 --> 01:14:06,679
Speaker 1: of the earliest Luca footage we have maybe from these

1319
01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 1: films from going back into the nineteen fifties. I think

1320
01:14:09,320 --> 01:14:13,519
Speaker 1: the the oldest Luca film in existence was the nineteen

1321
01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:18,479
Speaker 1: fifty two's Hurricane Ramirez that's the name of of the

1322
01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:21,240
Speaker 1: the wrestler that is the star of it. So this

1323
01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:23,559
Speaker 1: was pre Santo, but I think Santo Pictures picked up

1324
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 1: not long after this, So I don't know, I find

1325
01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:27,639
Speaker 1: that kind of interested into to think of, like these

1326
01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:32,000
Speaker 1: are these are films about about lucadoras and lucadoras going

1327
01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:36,720
Speaker 1: up against monsters and scientists and uh and also like

1328
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:39,519
Speaker 1: you know, criminal masterbinds and that sort of thing very

1329
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:43,040
Speaker 1: much in the in the vein of the old serial adventures.

1330
01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:45,840
Speaker 1: But it also seems like that this, uh, that these

1331
01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:48,040
Speaker 1: films are also some of the only examples we have

1332
01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:51,800
Speaker 1: of what of what Luca Libre looked like at the time. Yeah,

1333
01:14:51,880 --> 01:14:55,040
Speaker 1: but at any rate, we see some grapples, there's some takedowns,

1334
01:14:55,080 --> 01:14:56,760
Speaker 1: there's you know, it's some fun action going on in

1335
01:14:56,800 --> 01:14:59,000
Speaker 1: the ring, and it gets it across for the audience

1336
01:14:59,040 --> 01:15:01,879
Speaker 1: what's going on here, And we get to see characters

1337
01:15:01,960 --> 01:15:04,679
Speaker 1: in the audience in the scene. So both the police

1338
01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:08,240
Speaker 1: detectives Mike and Tommy and the professor come to watch.

1339
01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:11,320
Speaker 1: Even though despite what the professor said, he's there at

1340
01:15:11,320 --> 01:15:14,400
Speaker 1: the match, and on the close ups of the professor

1341
01:15:14,439 --> 01:15:17,640
Speaker 1: he looks hilarious. Yeah, yeah, These are definitely some of

1342
01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:20,320
Speaker 1: those scenes where you get that the effect of the big,

1343
01:15:20,320 --> 01:15:23,680
Speaker 1: thick glasses making his eyes look enormous, and he does,

1344
01:15:23,720 --> 01:15:28,120
Speaker 1: he does look kind of queasy observing the brutal violence. Yeah,

1345
01:15:28,479 --> 01:15:31,360
Speaker 1: everyone around him is yelling and hooting and holler and

1346
01:15:31,439 --> 01:15:34,960
Speaker 1: getting into it, and he is not so much. He's

1347
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:38,599
Speaker 1: just quietly observing it, and you know, maybe it's making

1348
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:41,759
Speaker 1: him feel bad. Here's another thing that you might understand.

1349
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:44,280
Speaker 1: I didn't why are the detectives When they show up.

1350
01:15:44,320 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 1: Tommy encourages Mike to start booing, and they just boo

1351
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:51,080
Speaker 1: as if that's like understood as something you're just supposed

1352
01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:53,880
Speaker 1: to do during the match. But like, why are they

1353
01:15:53,920 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 1: booing and who are they booing at? Were you just

1354
01:15:56,520 --> 01:16:00,799
Speaker 1: supposed to boo in these matches? I mean, I'm guessing

1355
01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:02,920
Speaker 1: that you the booing would be for the bad guys,

1356
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:05,479
Speaker 1: for the rudo's, and you're cheering for the technicos. I mean,

1357
01:16:05,479 --> 01:16:07,960
Speaker 1: that's to the clear division, the moral division that would

1358
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:10,840
Speaker 1: take place and the passion play that you're observing in

1359
01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:13,640
Speaker 1: the ring. But again, we don't really have anything to

1360
01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:16,360
Speaker 1: indicate that either teen is good or bad. They're just

1361
01:16:16,400 --> 01:16:21,120
Speaker 1: all working ladies. Doing their jobs up there. Yeah, well,

1362
01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:24,519
Speaker 1: the professor visits the locker room after so Gloria and

1363
01:16:24,600 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 1: Ruby I think they win. They make a great tag team.

1364
01:16:27,439 --> 01:16:29,720
Speaker 1: And then the professor comes to visit them in the

1365
01:16:29,720 --> 01:16:31,639
Speaker 1: locker room. I guess to tell them something I don't

1366
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:34,840
Speaker 1: remember what. The first thing they're like, oh, hey, did

1367
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:38,040
Speaker 1: you like the fight? Professor, He's like, nah, I detest

1368
01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:44,120
Speaker 1: such spectacles, absolutely horrible. And then the detectives come in

1369
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:48,519
Speaker 1: and there's a funny moment when Ruby Golden Ruby shakes

1370
01:16:48,520 --> 01:16:52,000
Speaker 1: hands with Tommy, the short detective. She like crushes his

1371
01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:54,439
Speaker 1: hand and he buckles at the knees and he is

1372
01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:58,800
Speaker 1: immediately in love. Yeah. Yeah, And then we see the

1373
01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:01,800
Speaker 1: two wrestlers and the two detectives. They go out for

1374
01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 1: supper and dancing after this. So love is in the air,

1375
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:07,000
Speaker 1: and you really do think you're gonna go and see

1376
01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:09,080
Speaker 1: this date like it sounds like it could be fun.

1377
01:17:09,080 --> 01:17:12,040
Speaker 1: We've learn more about these characters, We'll get more of

1378
01:17:12,080 --> 01:17:16,400
Speaker 1: this Tommy and Ruby romance that is butting. No, we

1379
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:18,679
Speaker 1: don't see that at all. We cut straight to Gloria

1380
01:17:18,720 --> 01:17:21,880
Speaker 1: and Ruby asleep in bed, So I guess just skip

1381
01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:24,640
Speaker 1: over that. The mad Doctor's goons show up. This is

1382
01:17:25,120 --> 01:17:27,080
Speaker 1: I think we mentioned the scene earlier. They show up

1383
01:17:27,080 --> 01:17:29,360
Speaker 1: to like creep in through the window and kidnap them,

1384
01:17:29,360 --> 01:17:34,080
Speaker 1: I think. But the lucadoras they hear them coming, and

1385
01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:37,240
Speaker 1: then they pretend to be asleep, but then jump out

1386
01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:41,559
Speaker 1: and issue a brutal walloping on the bad guys. Oh yeah,

1387
01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:43,240
Speaker 1: they just beat the tar out of them. They just

1388
01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:46,479
Speaker 1: like take them down. It's like two hands that punch

1389
01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:49,000
Speaker 1: in at a time, right in the face. They just

1390
01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:51,679
Speaker 1: drive them out there out the windows. They're like kicking

1391
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:54,240
Speaker 1: them in the butt as they're going out in the windows.

1392
01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:57,960
Speaker 1: So it's very satisfying. But then we see the henchman

1393
01:17:58,040 --> 01:17:59,760
Speaker 1: go back to the Mad Doctor and they're like, well,

1394
01:18:00,120 --> 01:18:05,400
Speaker 1: you tell us those two girls were wrestlers. But after this,

1395
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:09,080
Speaker 1: the police come up with a plan. The detectives are like,

1396
01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:10,880
Speaker 1: I know those men are going to come and try

1397
01:18:10,880 --> 01:18:13,840
Speaker 1: to kidnap you again because they want your brains obviously,

1398
01:18:14,360 --> 01:18:19,240
Speaker 1: So let's use the you two luchadoras as bait to

1399
01:18:19,479 --> 01:18:22,000
Speaker 1: draw out the mad Doctor, you know. So we'll let

1400
01:18:22,040 --> 01:18:24,720
Speaker 1: you get kidnapped and then we'll follow close behind you

1401
01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:27,760
Speaker 1: and that way we'll catch him, all right, Pretty pretty standard.

1402
01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:30,040
Speaker 1: But it seems all right. I mean, this is the

1403
01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:32,439
Speaker 1: first point in the picture though, where I was like, really,

1404
01:18:32,479 --> 01:18:35,640
Speaker 1: our luchadoras are going to be bait, like they're the

1405
01:18:35,680 --> 01:18:38,439
Speaker 1: tough ones. But all right, we'll go with it. Well,

1406
01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:40,519
Speaker 1: I don't know, it makes sense because they're the tough ones.

1407
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:42,679
Speaker 1: I thought. I thought that was the whole point. That's true. Yeah,

1408
01:18:42,720 --> 01:18:44,880
Speaker 1: well that's true as well. I guess. The thing is like,

1409
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:48,320
Speaker 1: this is the sort of scheme that would be employed

1410
01:18:48,479 --> 01:18:52,479
Speaker 1: in in various other sort of serial action pictures of

1411
01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:56,599
Speaker 1: the day, you can imagine, So it feels like they're

1412
01:18:56,640 --> 01:18:59,519
Speaker 1: reusing a formula here. But yeah, like you say, it

1413
01:18:59,560 --> 01:19:01,639
Speaker 1: makes sense. They're tough, they can stand up for themselves

1414
01:19:01,880 --> 01:19:06,000
Speaker 1: when things inevitably go wrong, right, So they go out

1415
01:19:06,080 --> 01:19:10,759
Speaker 1: walking after midnight and then here comes here comes Gomar

1416
01:19:10,840 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 1: in his armor, and he like grabs them. They get

1417
01:19:14,000 --> 01:19:17,040
Speaker 1: in the car, you know, the Nija brains ladies. So

1418
01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:21,480
Speaker 1: they speed away to the Mad Doctor's secret hideout, pursued

1419
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:24,760
Speaker 1: by the detectives. Once again, when everybody's gathered here in

1420
01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:28,360
Speaker 1: the mad Doctor's lab, the mad Doctor in his in

1421
01:19:28,439 --> 01:19:31,920
Speaker 1: his super creepy inquisitor hood, he's like, you did an

1422
01:19:31,960 --> 01:19:38,160
Speaker 1: excellent job, Gomar, excellent work, and Mike and Tommy track

1423
01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:41,400
Speaker 1: them down. They show up, They follow the car and

1424
01:19:41,439 --> 01:19:43,559
Speaker 1: they show up. They fight the Mad Doctor's Hinchman, but

1425
01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:46,639
Speaker 1: they are outnumbered. Mike and Tommy not doing so hot.

1426
01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:49,040
Speaker 1: I mean, they put up a fight, but there's too

1427
01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:52,880
Speaker 1: many Hinchmen. Things look bad until Gloria and Ruby wake up.

1428
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:56,040
Speaker 1: They were like laying on these operating tables and then

1429
01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:58,960
Speaker 1: they come to. They run in, beat up the Hinchman

1430
01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:02,920
Speaker 1: and rescue the actives. Yeah. So you know, I end

1431
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:04,639
Speaker 1: up taking back some of what I said here because

1432
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:07,880
Speaker 1: they do a whit more butt here and we get

1433
01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:10,720
Speaker 1: a nice Scooby Doo moment here. That's right. So they

1434
01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:14,000
Speaker 1: catch not the Mad Doctor, but the hinch Doctor, the

1435
01:20:14,040 --> 01:20:17,759
Speaker 1: second Doctor, and they unmask him to reveal Wait a minute,

1436
01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:20,920
Speaker 1: we know this man. It's Boris, one of the guys

1437
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:25,519
Speaker 1: who worked at the chemistry lab with Alice. All right,

1438
01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:28,439
Speaker 1: so now we're beginning to see how things come together here. Yeah.

1439
01:20:28,479 --> 01:20:31,120
Speaker 1: So then there is a police interrogation scene where they

1440
01:20:31,320 --> 01:20:34,080
Speaker 1: I don't think this is how they do interrogations in

1441
01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:36,519
Speaker 1: real life, but like every character in the movie is

1442
01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:39,960
Speaker 1: in this room, they're all in the same room. All

1443
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:43,240
Speaker 1: of the captured Mad Doctor Hinchman are in the room,

1444
01:20:43,439 --> 01:20:48,080
Speaker 1: both detectives, the detective's boss, the professor, Gloria, and Ruby.

1445
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:51,639
Speaker 1: Everybody's here. Well, they just didn't have one weight glass

1446
01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:55,559
Speaker 1: technology yet, I guess. Yeah. So they initially think that

1447
01:20:55,640 --> 01:20:58,759
Speaker 1: this guy is the mad Doctor, but the professor suggests otherwise.

1448
01:20:58,800 --> 01:21:01,559
Speaker 1: They say, you know what, professors like, he's not the

1449
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:04,800
Speaker 1: real mad Doctor. He must be covering up for him.

1450
01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:07,640
Speaker 1: Who's the real mad Doctor. I don't know why he

1451
01:21:07,720 --> 01:21:09,960
Speaker 1: suspects this, but the cops just kind of go with it,

1452
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:14,720
Speaker 1: and they interrogate him on that, and Boris is about

1453
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:19,240
Speaker 1: to reveal the real Mad Doctor's identity when he suddenly

1454
01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:32,120
Speaker 1: is like oh, he gasps and collapses. So we get

1455
01:21:32,160 --> 01:21:35,679
Speaker 1: some autopsy results, and we learned that Boris was killed

1456
01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:38,160
Speaker 1: by some kind of tiny weapon, almost like a like

1457
01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:41,600
Speaker 1: a James Bond movie kind of weapon, a cylinder that

1458
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:45,759
Speaker 1: fires a poisoned needle into the heart when someone bites

1459
01:21:45,880 --> 01:21:49,080
Speaker 1: down on it. So the true mad Doctor, we find out,

1460
01:21:49,160 --> 01:21:51,640
Speaker 1: was in the room with them and had a cylinder

1461
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:54,400
Speaker 1: in his mouth and must have bit down on the

1462
01:21:54,439 --> 01:21:57,760
Speaker 1: cylinder to shoot the poison needle into Boris's heart and

1463
01:21:57,800 --> 01:22:01,120
Speaker 1: then spit the cylinder out somewhere. All right, I like it.

1464
01:22:01,120 --> 01:22:04,560
Speaker 1: It's complicated, but but yeah, we have some spy gadgetry

1465
01:22:04,760 --> 01:22:07,200
Speaker 1: going on here. And we also learned that the real

1466
01:22:07,240 --> 01:22:10,720
Speaker 1: Mad Doctor escaped through a secret passageway with Gomar when

1467
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:14,280
Speaker 1: the when the police came in, Yeah, footage not found, right,

1468
01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:18,400
Speaker 1: so uh, they say, oh, we come back. We see

1469
01:22:18,439 --> 01:22:21,040
Speaker 1: the Mad Doctor in his disguise and he's talking to

1470
01:22:21,120 --> 01:22:23,479
Speaker 1: his main hingemen, I guess, the one that the police

1471
01:22:23,479 --> 01:22:26,240
Speaker 1: didn't catch, and he says, you know, Boris tried to

1472
01:22:26,240 --> 01:22:29,040
Speaker 1: turn me in, but he paid dearly for his treachery.

1473
01:22:29,080 --> 01:22:33,080
Speaker 1: Once again, I have made the police look like fools. Rob.

1474
01:22:33,080 --> 01:22:36,120
Speaker 1: I just know they're standing really close in the scene. Why,

1475
01:22:36,360 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. They're in a big room and they're

1476
01:22:38,320 --> 01:22:41,160
Speaker 1: standing almost like right at each other. Well yeah, and

1477
01:22:41,160 --> 01:22:43,000
Speaker 1: it's a wide shot too, I guess is the thing

1478
01:22:43,040 --> 01:22:47,000
Speaker 1: because you get used to seeing people having conversations way

1479
01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:49,160
Speaker 1: too close to each other in films, but oftentimes it's

1480
01:22:49,160 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 1: sort of that tighter shot here. You know, we could

1481
01:22:52,240 --> 01:22:54,720
Speaker 1: have had folks stand a little further back from each

1482
01:22:54,720 --> 01:22:56,439
Speaker 1: other here and it would have been fine. Yeah, there's

1483
01:22:56,479 --> 01:23:01,599
Speaker 1: so much negative space, I wonder. Oh, but anyway, He's like, okay,

1484
01:23:01,640 --> 01:23:04,439
Speaker 1: so I punish people who betray me, and the Hinchman's like,

1485
01:23:04,479 --> 01:23:07,439
Speaker 1: I'm no stool pigeon chief, I'm loyal. So what's next

1486
01:23:07,439 --> 01:23:10,040
Speaker 1: for the Mad Doctor, Well, reorganize the gang. And then

1487
01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:13,240
Speaker 1: he thinks, I'm gonna eliminate those pesky detectives. Mike and

1488
01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:17,120
Speaker 1: his stupid sidekick will die, and then these were some

1489
01:23:17,200 --> 01:23:19,960
Speaker 1: good things from the English stub. He says, I'm going

1490
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:22,400
Speaker 1: to make a good trap, and then he says, I'm

1491
01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:25,760
Speaker 1: sure his death is not going to be pretty. But

1492
01:23:25,840 --> 01:23:27,680
Speaker 1: the way he says good trap makes me think, wait,

1493
01:23:27,720 --> 01:23:30,000
Speaker 1: did he make a trap before? Was that was like

1494
01:23:30,120 --> 01:23:32,479
Speaker 1: not a good trap? You know, he's maybe he's just

1495
01:23:32,600 --> 01:23:35,559
Speaker 1: kind of building himself up. I'm gonna make a good trap.

1496
01:23:35,600 --> 01:23:37,200
Speaker 1: I can do it. This is the goal I set

1497
01:23:37,240 --> 01:23:40,360
Speaker 1: for myself. So after this, Mike and Tommy visit the

1498
01:23:40,439 --> 01:23:43,960
Speaker 1: Luchadora Gym and they give special watches to Gloria and Ruby,

1499
01:23:44,080 --> 01:23:47,720
Speaker 1: which are we find out our transponder watches, so that

1500
01:23:47,800 --> 01:23:50,120
Speaker 1: they can always be found. And we learned that Mike

1501
01:23:50,160 --> 01:23:52,720
Speaker 1: and Tommy are wearing them too, So you can activate

1502
01:23:52,760 --> 01:23:56,240
Speaker 1: them and they'll produce like a homing signal. So everybody's

1503
01:23:56,320 --> 01:24:00,320
Speaker 1: kind of engaged to each other now via SI technology. Yeah,

1504
01:24:00,360 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 1: when they give them out, Gloria is like, hey, these

1505
01:24:02,360 --> 01:24:08,599
Speaker 1: are cute. Now there's more a tall short romance humor

1506
01:24:08,760 --> 01:24:13,080
Speaker 1: with Ruby and Tommy. She's like, Oh, I couldn't stand

1507
01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:15,920
Speaker 1: to be lost from you, my five foot lightning bolt.

1508
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:19,720
Speaker 1: But what is the Mad Doctor's trap going to be? Well,

1509
01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:23,400
Speaker 1: the Professor calls the police, he calls up Mike and

1510
01:24:23,560 --> 01:24:25,920
Speaker 1: says he's got to arrange a meeting with the detectives.

1511
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:28,160
Speaker 1: But then the camera pulls back to reveal that he's

1512
01:24:28,160 --> 01:24:30,800
Speaker 1: calling a gun point. There are some bad guys pointing

1513
01:24:30,840 --> 01:24:34,000
Speaker 1: guns at him, and it turns out the Mad Doctor's

1514
01:24:34,400 --> 01:24:37,360
Speaker 1: goons are using this as a setup to catch Mike

1515
01:24:37,400 --> 01:24:40,400
Speaker 1: and Tommy. So the Mad Doctor catches them. He's like,

1516
01:24:40,520 --> 01:24:42,880
Speaker 1: you have interfered with my work. Take them to the

1517
01:24:42,920 --> 01:24:46,200
Speaker 1: death chamber. So what's the death chamber? Well, first they

1518
01:24:46,240 --> 01:24:47,880
Speaker 1: have to walk through the basement that's got all the

1519
01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:50,720
Speaker 1: upside down chairs in it, but then they throw them

1520
01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:54,519
Speaker 1: in a chamber, which, oh, Rob, how would you describe

1521
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:58,120
Speaker 1: this contraption? I loved it all right, So basically we

1522
01:24:58,240 --> 01:25:00,680
Speaker 1: have the walls closing any here. This is one of

1523
01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:04,840
Speaker 1: the this is something we've seen in so many films, right, Uh,

1524
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:08,479
Speaker 1: this is it's the it's the trash compactor seen from

1525
01:25:08,479 --> 01:25:11,920
Speaker 1: Star Wars, you know, in Star Wars, and of course

1526
01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:15,840
Speaker 1: George Lucas was drawing on on older cinematic traditions here. Uh,

1527
01:25:16,040 --> 01:25:19,040
Speaker 1: we have two walls moving into to squash squash our

1528
01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:22,040
Speaker 1: heroes between them. Sometimes you get spikes thrown into the

1529
01:25:22,080 --> 01:25:26,040
Speaker 1: mix as well. And on the spike front, we do

1530
01:25:26,160 --> 01:25:30,320
Speaker 1: have a great example of that from Krawl. It was

1531
01:25:30,400 --> 01:25:33,400
Speaker 1: maybe not just two walls, but there was some spike

1532
01:25:33,439 --> 01:25:35,559
Speaker 1: action going on in that movie as well. Yes, yes,

1533
01:25:35,640 --> 01:25:40,000
Speaker 1: the bandits who end up allying with Krol's not the

1534
01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:42,120
Speaker 1: hero Crowls, the bad guy whatever his name is, the

1535
01:25:42,120 --> 01:25:45,559
Speaker 1: hero Crowls the planet, Crowls the planet, that's right. Yeah. No,

1536
01:25:45,760 --> 01:25:52,080
Speaker 1: the bandits who Alan Armstrong's buddies. Wait it is Alan Armstrong,

1537
01:25:52,080 --> 01:25:53,920
Speaker 1: isn't it. I remember? Yeah, Yeah, he's in there, he's

1538
01:25:53,920 --> 01:25:56,360
Speaker 1: in the Yeah, those guys they end up in the

1539
01:25:56,400 --> 01:25:58,679
Speaker 1: spike room that's got spikes coming out of the walls.

1540
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:00,880
Speaker 1: Now I had to look into this little bit because

1541
01:26:00,880 --> 01:26:03,600
Speaker 1: I'm like I wonder how far back this goes, And

1542
01:26:03,640 --> 01:26:07,519
Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure what's the first film to have

1543
01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 1: walls moving in on our heroes, but it does show

1544
01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:13,559
Speaker 1: up in nineteen thirty five The Raven. These are just

1545
01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:16,800
Speaker 1: blank walls that are going to squish our hero and

1546
01:26:16,840 --> 01:26:19,960
Speaker 1: the damsel in distress. But you also have red hot

1547
01:26:19,960 --> 01:26:23,040
Speaker 1: walls closing in in Edgar Allan Poe's story The Pit

1548
01:26:23,120 --> 01:26:25,840
Speaker 1: and the Pendulum from eighteen forty two. So at the

1549
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:27,760
Speaker 1: very least, I think we can safely say this is

1550
01:26:27,760 --> 01:26:31,400
Speaker 1: an idea that predates cinema, but this film has its

1551
01:26:31,400 --> 01:26:33,599
Speaker 1: own unique take on it because we have a wall

1552
01:26:33,600 --> 01:26:37,000
Speaker 1: with spikes on one side and that's moving. On the

1553
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:40,760
Speaker 1: other side, we have a stationary cage wall. But on

1554
01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:43,680
Speaker 1: the other side of that cage wall is Gomar, and

1555
01:26:43,800 --> 01:26:46,519
Speaker 1: Gomar is all riled up. He's reaching through the cage

1556
01:26:46,600 --> 01:26:50,040
Speaker 1: with his monster arms, trying to grab our heroes. So

1557
01:26:50,400 --> 01:26:52,280
Speaker 1: you know, what are they gonna do. Are they gonna

1558
01:26:52,880 --> 01:26:55,400
Speaker 1: they're gonna give in to Gomar and let him, you know,

1559
01:26:55,439 --> 01:26:58,000
Speaker 1: tear them to pieces, or are they gonna let the

1560
01:26:58,000 --> 01:27:00,720
Speaker 1: spikes skewer them? And if they they don't make up

1561
01:27:00,760 --> 01:27:03,559
Speaker 1: their mind they're going to get the worst of both worlds, right,

1562
01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:05,960
Speaker 1: So they are trapped between a spike wall and a

1563
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:10,639
Speaker 1: gomar place. Yeah, it's just like the saying goes. But

1564
01:27:10,920 --> 01:27:14,519
Speaker 1: then we remember that while the detectives originally presented these

1565
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:17,519
Speaker 1: watches to Gloria and Ruby as like something that could

1566
01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:20,639
Speaker 1: save them, tables are turned because they need help. So

1567
01:27:20,960 --> 01:27:25,240
Speaker 1: the detectives radio Gloria and Ruby with their watches. They

1568
01:27:25,280 --> 01:27:28,400
Speaker 1: activate a sound beacon so that the Lucadoras can track

1569
01:27:28,439 --> 01:27:31,560
Speaker 1: them down. And track them down they do. When the

1570
01:27:31,640 --> 01:27:36,720
Speaker 1: Lucadoras arrive at the lab, the lab is covered in cobwebs, Like,

1571
01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:38,719
Speaker 1: wait a minute, they were just they were just there.

1572
01:27:38,960 --> 01:27:41,040
Speaker 1: It seems like a day before and it didn't have

1573
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:44,839
Speaker 1: any cobwebs. Yeah. Yeah, these are some fast acting spiders,

1574
01:27:44,880 --> 01:27:48,599
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah. But Gloria and Ruby to the rescue.

1575
01:27:48,640 --> 01:27:51,280
Speaker 1: They beat up the mad Doctor's thugs and they free

1576
01:27:51,320 --> 01:27:56,040
Speaker 1: the helpless cop boyfriends and they get into a big

1577
01:27:56,080 --> 01:27:58,840
Speaker 1: fight there. They're they're they're sort of fighting their way

1578
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:01,519
Speaker 1: out of the hideout and in the end, Gloria Venus

1579
01:28:01,600 --> 01:28:05,320
Speaker 1: throws acid into the mad Doctor's face. He still masked,

1580
01:28:05,439 --> 01:28:07,479
Speaker 1: but he gets the acid on him, and the Mad

1581
01:28:07,520 --> 01:28:11,080
Speaker 1: Doctor screams and then there's like a there's suddenly a

1582
01:28:11,160 --> 01:28:14,400
Speaker 1: raging fire and they say, oh no, the mad Doctor,

1583
01:28:14,439 --> 01:28:16,680
Speaker 1: he's done for. He's trapped in this burning building. We

1584
01:28:16,760 --> 01:28:18,840
Speaker 1: have to escape, no time to find out the Mad

1585
01:28:18,880 --> 01:28:21,680
Speaker 1: Doctor's real identity before we leave. But this is a

1586
01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:24,439
Speaker 1: big moment for Gloria. This is their first opportunity to

1587
01:28:24,439 --> 01:28:30,559
Speaker 1: actually physically strike out against the man who murdered her sister. Right,

1588
01:28:30,640 --> 01:28:34,000
Speaker 1: she's she's got her revenge, or so she thinks. Um,

1589
01:28:34,320 --> 01:28:38,360
Speaker 1: and here your spoiler warning. The Mad Doctor's identity reveal

1590
01:28:38,439 --> 01:28:40,320
Speaker 1: is coming in just a moment, so if you don't

1591
01:28:40,360 --> 01:28:43,479
Speaker 1: want to know it, you can you can pause here. Um,

1592
01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:47,200
Speaker 1: But so we have Gomar comes to the rescue. Surprisingly

1593
01:28:47,240 --> 01:28:49,519
Speaker 1: he shows up. He drags the Mad Doctor out of

1594
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:51,439
Speaker 1: the building, so the Mad Doctor is not killed in

1595
01:28:51,479 --> 01:28:56,200
Speaker 1: the fire. And then we cut to another scene where

1596
01:28:56,520 --> 01:29:00,280
Speaker 1: the Professor and the Professor he's doing a phone call.

1597
01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:02,559
Speaker 1: He calls in to check on Gloria. He's like, hey,

1598
01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:06,400
Speaker 1: how are you feeling, And then he says strangely, he says, well,

1599
01:29:06,400 --> 01:29:08,679
Speaker 1: I called because I'd like to watch you wrestle again,

1600
01:29:09,439 --> 01:29:12,519
Speaker 1: and she's offers to send him tickets. He doesn't need tickets.

1601
01:29:13,160 --> 01:29:14,960
Speaker 1: I don't know why he called them. He's just like,

1602
01:29:15,000 --> 01:29:16,760
Speaker 1: I just want to see you wrestle. So he we

1603
01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:20,160
Speaker 1: learned he's going to do that. And then suddenly there's

1604
01:29:20,200 --> 01:29:24,559
Speaker 1: a reveal. He turns his head and one half of

1605
01:29:24,600 --> 01:29:27,679
Speaker 1: the Professor's face is scarred like two face in Batman,

1606
01:29:27,800 --> 01:29:31,479
Speaker 1: and he says, I want vengeance. Yeah, this whole scene

1607
01:29:31,520 --> 01:29:34,920
Speaker 1: here is in side profile, and until he turns and

1608
01:29:34,960 --> 01:29:38,200
Speaker 1: takes his glasses off and we see that he is

1609
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:41,280
Speaker 1: in fact scarred and put by the acid. That the

1610
01:29:41,520 --> 01:29:46,479
Speaker 1: Professor all along has been the mad doctor. And like

1611
01:29:46,479 --> 01:29:48,920
Speaker 1: we said earlier, you can kind of see this twist

1612
01:29:48,960 --> 01:29:53,640
Speaker 1: coming miles away. There's no other character really could have

1613
01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:55,600
Speaker 1: been that I can think. Yeah, yeah, there wasn't a

1614
01:29:55,600 --> 01:29:58,880
Speaker 1: really they did. They did some interesting things to try

1615
01:29:58,920 --> 01:30:01,479
Speaker 1: and throw you off the scent, but they never really

1616
01:30:02,080 --> 01:30:07,800
Speaker 1: developed or portrayed a proper additional suspect, Like who were

1617
01:30:07,800 --> 01:30:10,160
Speaker 1: we supposed to think? It was Tommy? Now? I mean,

1618
01:30:10,240 --> 01:30:13,439
Speaker 1: the only other character I think you could have because

1619
01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:15,799
Speaker 1: you see him with a mask on, the only character

1620
01:30:15,800 --> 01:30:20,360
Speaker 1: who like fits the physical profile might have been Armando. Maybe, um,

1621
01:30:20,600 --> 01:30:22,920
Speaker 1: you know my, But I don't know that makes sense.

1622
01:30:23,040 --> 01:30:25,280
Speaker 1: There's no real evidence for that, you know to be

1623
01:30:25,320 --> 01:30:28,600
Speaker 1: the case. So but still like seeing it coming not

1624
01:30:29,080 --> 01:30:31,160
Speaker 1: and knowing how it's going to roll out, it's still

1625
01:30:31,160 --> 01:30:35,439
Speaker 1: pretty great because Canado is terrific. He's been terrific the

1626
01:30:35,479 --> 01:30:39,960
Speaker 1: whole film as the Professor, but now he gets to

1627
01:30:40,320 --> 01:30:44,920
Speaker 1: go into just pure maniacal mode, unmasked, half scarred, he's

1628
01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:48,559
Speaker 1: just a full blown supervillain at this point, and he's delightful. Yeah,

1629
01:30:48,600 --> 01:30:51,040
Speaker 1: I love it. And now he's only using his non

1630
01:30:51,160 --> 01:30:53,840
Speaker 1: James Mason voice, he's only using the mad doctor voice,

1631
01:30:53,880 --> 01:30:58,840
Speaker 1: the deep sonorous version. So he announces his plan. He's

1632
01:30:58,840 --> 01:31:02,120
Speaker 1: gonna take Gomar's physical strength. He's going to transplant it

1633
01:31:02,200 --> 01:31:05,759
Speaker 1: into the body of a Luchadora so he can create

1634
01:31:05,920 --> 01:31:11,679
Speaker 1: a murderous, superhuman Luchadora to destroy Gloria Venus. So we're

1635
01:31:11,680 --> 01:31:14,640
Speaker 1: putting the medical goals on the back burner for the

1636
01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:17,960
Speaker 1: time being, and we're switching to vengeance mode here. Yeah,

1637
01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:21,559
Speaker 1: and he's like doing monologues into the camera. He says,

1638
01:31:21,760 --> 01:31:25,320
Speaker 1: she'll blow her body to pieces, Yes, a little killing

1639
01:31:25,360 --> 01:31:27,680
Speaker 1: in the ring for all the audience to see. And

1640
01:31:27,720 --> 01:31:31,240
Speaker 1: then he did you know cackling laughter. But it makes

1641
01:31:31,240 --> 01:31:33,720
Speaker 1: me think he's still maybe like he might have been

1642
01:31:33,800 --> 01:31:37,040
Speaker 1: kind of sincere about his hatred of wrestling from that line,

1643
01:31:37,120 --> 01:31:39,320
Speaker 1: like maybe he's part of his goal is to get

1644
01:31:39,320 --> 01:31:41,640
Speaker 1: revenge on Gloria Venus, but the other part is to

1645
01:31:41,760 --> 01:31:45,120
Speaker 1: make the audience feel bad for watching wrestling? Did you can?

1646
01:31:46,200 --> 01:31:49,040
Speaker 1: Kind of because to carry out this up, this plan

1647
01:31:49,160 --> 01:31:52,840
Speaker 1: of vengeance, and again it's kind of an unwarranted vengeance,

1648
01:31:52,840 --> 01:31:55,240
Speaker 1: because like, are you really allowed to have vengeance against

1649
01:31:55,280 --> 01:31:58,200
Speaker 1: the person who scarred you while you were trying to

1650
01:31:58,240 --> 01:32:01,400
Speaker 1: take their brain? I don't know, But at any rate,

1651
01:32:01,439 --> 01:32:04,360
Speaker 1: he's going to have to become a wrestling manager, Luca

1652
01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:08,320
Speaker 1: libre manager and wear a Lucha libre mask in order

1653
01:32:08,360 --> 01:32:10,559
Speaker 1: to carry this out. I don't know. I think vengeance

1654
01:32:10,640 --> 01:32:13,080
Speaker 1: often works that way. I mean, okay, so Captain, they

1655
01:32:13,120 --> 01:32:16,760
Speaker 1: have wants vengeance against Moby Dick, but he was trying

1656
01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:20,400
Speaker 1: to kill Mobe. He was the aggressor. He was he

1657
01:32:20,520 --> 01:32:22,800
Speaker 1: was the initial attacker. I think that's just often how

1658
01:32:22,800 --> 01:32:25,479
Speaker 1: it is people. It's it was your fault the whole time,

1659
01:32:25,880 --> 01:32:28,879
Speaker 1: but still you came out badly and now you want revenge.

1660
01:32:29,400 --> 01:32:31,519
Speaker 1: There's a good point it's a good point. And like

1661
01:32:31,600 --> 01:32:34,120
Speaker 1: what they have this is the mad quest for revenge.

1662
01:32:34,200 --> 01:32:38,120
Speaker 1: Now it's all encompassing. You know, Gloria Venus wanted vengeance,

1663
01:32:38,200 --> 01:32:41,360
Speaker 1: she swore vengeance, but she still was keeping up her

1664
01:32:41,400 --> 01:32:46,000
Speaker 1: daye yeah, in her social life. But so they do

1665
01:32:46,080 --> 01:32:50,480
Speaker 1: the procedure and they create the super Luca Dora named Vendetta,

1666
01:32:50,680 --> 01:32:53,760
Speaker 1: and so he tests her out. He says, like, a

1667
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Speaker 1: destroy that table there, and she flips over the table

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01:32:57,240 --> 01:33:00,800
Speaker 1: and she's she's wearing Oh, this is now a mask Luchadora.

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01:33:00,880 --> 01:33:03,400
Speaker 1: I don't think any of the Lucadoras we've met so

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01:33:03,439 --> 01:33:07,880
Speaker 1: far have been masked. No, they hadn't. And it's it's

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01:33:07,880 --> 01:33:09,920
Speaker 1: a pretty It's also the first costume we see that

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01:33:09,960 --> 01:33:12,679
Speaker 1: has any pizzazz to it because there then the mask

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01:33:12,760 --> 01:33:15,679
Speaker 1: has like a lightning bolt on it. Um lower face

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01:33:16,160 --> 01:33:18,880
Speaker 1: is revealed in the mask, and then we get kind

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01:33:18,880 --> 01:33:21,679
Speaker 1: of a sparkly looking cape which is very jaunty, even

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01:33:21,720 --> 01:33:24,599
Speaker 1: if the basic jumpsuit underneath is the same gray jumpsuit

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01:33:24,640 --> 01:33:27,920
Speaker 1: that everyone else has. All Right, so Vendetta is now

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01:33:28,000 --> 01:33:30,880
Speaker 1: on the scene and we learned there's like a TV

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01:33:31,080 --> 01:33:36,519
Speaker 1: announcer saying, okay, she's called Vendetta. She's from Paris. Was

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01:33:36,520 --> 01:33:38,679
Speaker 1: it was there a big wrestling scene in Paris? Maybe

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01:33:38,680 --> 01:33:41,960
Speaker 1: there was? I think there there was, there was wrestling.

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01:33:41,960 --> 01:33:43,720
Speaker 1: There was wrestling in France at some point. I'm not

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01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:46,080
Speaker 1: sure what was going on there in sixty two, but

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01:33:46,280 --> 01:33:50,439
Speaker 1: uh okamber Andre the Giant came from France, that's true. Yeah,

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01:33:50,479 --> 01:33:53,040
Speaker 1: I've just never heard of French wrestling before, but I

1686
01:33:53,040 --> 01:33:55,240
Speaker 1: guess it must have been a thing. But we learned

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01:33:55,280 --> 01:33:58,800
Speaker 1: that she challenges Gloria Venus for the championship, and there's

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01:33:58,800 --> 01:34:01,559
Speaker 1: going to be The numbers here are fuzzy. They say

1689
01:34:01,560 --> 01:34:04,639
Speaker 1: first that they're fighting for a purse of two thousand

1690
01:34:04,640 --> 01:34:07,759
Speaker 1: and four hundred currency unspecified. They just say the number,

1691
01:34:08,080 --> 01:34:09,920
Speaker 1: and then later they say that the fight is for

1692
01:34:10,000 --> 01:34:13,920
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand dollars. Do you do you understand what's

1693
01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:15,960
Speaker 1: going on there? I'm not sure. I mean, you don't.

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01:34:16,040 --> 01:34:18,439
Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't pick this apart too much because also,

1695
01:34:18,640 --> 01:34:22,000
Speaker 1: like this is the main event. Vendetta is complete unknown.

1696
01:34:22,560 --> 01:34:25,280
Speaker 1: They're just gonna reveal her, and now she has a

1697
01:34:25,320 --> 01:34:28,800
Speaker 1: main event slot over everybody else. She instantly gets to

1698
01:34:28,920 --> 01:34:32,360
Speaker 1: challenge for the championship. I guess I assume does they

1699
01:34:32,439 --> 01:34:35,080
Speaker 1: risually work like that, like you you're not a rookie

1700
01:34:35,120 --> 01:34:38,479
Speaker 1: and you get to go fight stone cold or whatever. Well,

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01:34:38,520 --> 01:34:39,960
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it does kind of work like

1702
01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:43,439
Speaker 1: that sometimes. But even for the like the real sports

1703
01:34:43,479 --> 01:34:46,160
Speaker 1: feel we're going for here, there has to be some

1704
01:34:46,200 --> 01:34:49,160
Speaker 1: sort of build up, right, some sort of a win

1705
01:34:49,280 --> 01:34:52,080
Speaker 1: loss record established, But now we're going straight for it.

1706
01:34:52,280 --> 01:34:54,200
Speaker 1: So there's a funny scene where they like signed the

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01:34:54,240 --> 01:34:57,719
Speaker 1: contract and oh the mad Doctor is. They're also wearing

1708
01:34:57,720 --> 01:35:00,880
Speaker 1: a lucha mask for the contracts signing scene, and he

1709
01:35:00,920 --> 01:35:04,280
Speaker 1: looks creepy and his his mask as teeth. Yeah, yeah,

1710
01:35:04,320 --> 01:35:07,680
Speaker 1: has kind of a skull vibe going on. But we

1711
01:35:07,760 --> 01:35:11,120
Speaker 1: go to the match and when Vendetta enters the ring,

1712
01:35:11,240 --> 01:35:15,599
Speaker 1: she's just like kicking spectators in the face. Yeah. So

1713
01:35:15,840 --> 01:35:19,400
Speaker 1: finally in this match we get that that proper rudo

1714
01:35:19,479 --> 01:35:24,000
Speaker 1: technico vibe going on. One wrestler is clearly the villain

1715
01:35:24,040 --> 01:35:26,919
Speaker 1: and the other is clearly the hero. One is honorable

1716
01:35:26,920 --> 01:35:30,240
Speaker 1: and the other one is just all fighting and nastiness.

1717
01:35:30,520 --> 01:35:33,200
Speaker 1: Wants to you know, not only wants to hurt her opponent,

1718
01:35:33,439 --> 01:35:35,599
Speaker 1: but we'll hurt anyone else that gets in her way.

1719
01:35:35,680 --> 01:35:40,880
Speaker 1: That's right, because we see Vendetta like suplexing the referee, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1720
01:35:40,920 --> 01:35:44,000
Speaker 1: just I think throws the referee. Yeah, she eventually throws

1721
01:35:44,040 --> 01:35:46,840
Speaker 1: the referee out of the ring, and so oh he's

1722
01:35:46,880 --> 01:35:50,479
Speaker 1: Gloria done for. Well, ultimately it's a movie where we're

1723
01:35:50,560 --> 01:35:54,080
Speaker 1: friendship comes to the rescue because Golden Ruby comes in

1724
01:35:54,120 --> 01:35:57,040
Speaker 1: to help her. She I don't know if she used

1725
01:35:57,040 --> 01:36:00,280
Speaker 1: the tag rope correctly, but Golden Ruby comes into the

1726
01:36:00,320 --> 01:36:03,120
Speaker 1: ring and together they beat up Vendetta. Oh you know

1727
01:36:03,200 --> 01:36:06,080
Speaker 1: where this is completely no rules at this point. This

1728
01:36:06,160 --> 01:36:10,760
Speaker 1: is a straight up run. I mean that basically any

1729
01:36:10,920 --> 01:36:12,880
Speaker 1: order in the match has fallen apart. I mean, and

1730
01:36:12,960 --> 01:36:16,240
Speaker 1: that was the that was the Professor's plan all along. Right,

1731
01:36:16,280 --> 01:36:18,760
Speaker 1: It's like he doesn't want her beat in the ring,

1732
01:36:18,840 --> 01:36:22,280
Speaker 1: he wants her killed in the ring. Right, But ultimately,

1733
01:36:22,640 --> 01:36:25,080
Speaker 1: this is not the final showdown. I kind of wish

1734
01:36:25,160 --> 01:36:27,479
Speaker 1: they they had somehow found a way to do the

1735
01:36:27,640 --> 01:36:30,839
Speaker 1: final like ultimate showdown in the ring. Instead, the action

1736
01:36:30,920 --> 01:36:35,599
Speaker 1: moves elsewhere because the mad Doctor has to run away,

1737
01:36:35,600 --> 01:36:37,559
Speaker 1: I think because the police arrives. So he's like oh no,

1738
01:36:37,760 --> 01:36:40,800
Speaker 1: and he runs away and then he summons Vendetta to

1739
01:36:40,880 --> 01:36:43,920
Speaker 1: help him, and they both end up climbing a water

1740
01:36:44,040 --> 01:36:47,400
Speaker 1: tower and the police put like, you know, high beams

1741
01:36:47,479 --> 01:36:50,320
Speaker 1: on them. They put like lights up on them, and

1742
01:36:50,520 --> 01:36:53,599
Speaker 1: Mike climbs up the water tower to I guess tell

1743
01:36:53,600 --> 01:36:56,080
Speaker 1: them to come down or something. But they start attacking

1744
01:36:56,120 --> 01:36:58,320
Speaker 1: Mike and they're like stomping on his fingers as he's

1745
01:36:58,360 --> 01:37:00,720
Speaker 1: hanging on for dear life. So what do they have

1746
01:37:00,760 --> 01:37:02,800
Speaker 1: to do. Well, they've got to They've got to shoot them.

1747
01:37:02,840 --> 01:37:07,240
Speaker 1: So Tommy shoots the mad Doctor and Vendetta with a

1748
01:37:07,320 --> 01:37:10,200
Speaker 1: rifle and that's the end. I feel like that's kind

1749
01:37:10,200 --> 01:37:13,439
Speaker 1: of an unsatisfying ending to this. I wish they'd had

1750
01:37:13,439 --> 01:37:17,559
Speaker 1: a different kind of final confrontation. Yeah, I absolutely agree.

1751
01:37:17,560 --> 01:37:19,960
Speaker 1: I feel like the ending here is the ultimate Week

1752
01:37:20,320 --> 01:37:23,320
Speaker 1: Week link because it ends up taking place outside the

1753
01:37:23,400 --> 01:37:27,360
Speaker 1: ring after we've built up to that in ring encounter,

1754
01:37:27,800 --> 01:37:30,840
Speaker 1: and then doesn't involve the main characters. Yeah, it doesn't

1755
01:37:30,880 --> 01:37:34,879
Speaker 1: involve our luchadoras at all. It's just as police shooting

1756
01:37:34,960 --> 01:37:38,519
Speaker 1: the villains off the water tower. Yeah, so like our

1757
01:37:38,600 --> 01:37:41,439
Speaker 1: villains end up looking a bit dumber for having gone

1758
01:37:41,520 --> 01:37:43,960
Speaker 1: up there, and then it's just kind of they're just

1759
01:37:44,040 --> 01:37:46,840
Speaker 1: kind of dispatched with ease. And then it's the end

1760
01:37:46,880 --> 01:37:48,479
Speaker 1: of the picture, So I wish they had done something

1761
01:37:48,960 --> 01:37:51,160
Speaker 1: something a little different here at the end. I agree.

1762
01:37:51,200 --> 01:37:53,960
Speaker 1: I think this movie overall is deserving of a much

1763
01:37:53,960 --> 01:37:56,479
Speaker 1: better ending confrontation. I feel like they could have found

1764
01:37:56,479 --> 01:37:58,240
Speaker 1: a way to make it all happen in the ring,

1765
01:37:58,400 --> 01:38:00,519
Speaker 1: But I don't know, Yeah, or if they had to

1766
01:38:00,520 --> 01:38:03,160
Speaker 1: go to one last location, I don't know, maybe a

1767
01:38:03,200 --> 01:38:06,600
Speaker 1: secondary layer. Maybe it's a they try to there's a

1768
01:38:06,640 --> 01:38:10,040
Speaker 1: getaway car, a submarine. I don't know. There's so many

1769
01:38:10,040 --> 01:38:12,840
Speaker 1: places you could go. Why the water tower? Yeah, you're

1770
01:38:12,880 --> 01:38:15,519
Speaker 1: totally right. And then it wraps up so quick after that,

1771
01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:17,800
Speaker 1: the mad doctor like falls to his death off the

1772
01:38:17,800 --> 01:38:21,880
Speaker 1: water tower, and I think the detective comes in and

1773
01:38:21,880 --> 01:38:24,599
Speaker 1: he says to Gloria Venus, it's all over. Now, your

1774
01:38:24,640 --> 01:38:30,760
Speaker 1: sister has been avenged the end. That's it. I do

1775
01:38:30,920 --> 01:38:32,720
Speaker 1: like that about a lot of these old pictures. So

1776
01:38:32,800 --> 01:38:35,320
Speaker 1: when it's time to close up to the shop, they

1777
01:38:35,400 --> 01:38:37,960
Speaker 1: just turned the sign around and you're out the door. Well,

1778
01:38:37,960 --> 01:38:41,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say I really had a great time with

1779
01:38:41,080 --> 01:38:44,559
Speaker 1: this movie. A Doctor of Doom tremendously fun. Yeah, yeah,

1780
01:38:44,680 --> 01:38:47,480
Speaker 1: ending the side is a lot of fun. Fun performers

1781
01:38:48,000 --> 01:38:50,519
Speaker 1: well shot, like we've been saying, you know, nice, nice,

1782
01:38:50,560 --> 01:38:53,599
Speaker 1: attractive black and white, because a lot of the film

1783
01:38:53,640 --> 01:38:57,120
Speaker 1: is about like creeping around in alleys and creeping around

1784
01:38:57,160 --> 01:39:00,960
Speaker 1: in mad science layers. So the the black and white

1785
01:39:00,960 --> 01:39:02,960
Speaker 1: fits it really well and they do a good job

1786
01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:06,040
Speaker 1: with it. I think we have gone on really long

1787
01:39:06,120 --> 01:39:08,720
Speaker 1: about this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we may have to

1788
01:39:08,720 --> 01:39:13,719
Speaker 1: cut some of my diatribes there about about Lucia libre

1789
01:39:14,120 --> 01:39:16,559
Speaker 1: history there, but at any right, it was fun to

1790
01:39:16,680 --> 01:39:20,040
Speaker 1: return to the world of Lucca in this picture. So

1791
01:39:20,200 --> 01:39:21,800
Speaker 1: if you enjoyed this one and you didn't listen to

1792
01:39:21,800 --> 01:39:24,400
Speaker 1: our episode about Santo and the Treasure of Dracula, go

1793
01:39:24,439 --> 01:39:26,280
Speaker 1: back and listen to that one because you'll probably enjoy

1794
01:39:26,280 --> 01:39:29,519
Speaker 1: it as well. Just a reminder that we're primarily a

1795
01:39:29,560 --> 01:39:33,160
Speaker 1: science podcast here. It's saying science for the most part,

1796
01:39:33,280 --> 01:39:36,080
Speaker 1: not mad science. And we have our core episodes of

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01:39:36,120 --> 01:39:37,600
Speaker 1: Stuff to Blow Your Mind publishing and the Stuff to

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01:39:37,600 --> 01:39:40,320
Speaker 1: Blow Your Mind podcast feed on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but

1799
01:39:40,479 --> 01:39:43,280
Speaker 1: on Fridays we set aside most serious concerns to just

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01:39:43,320 --> 01:39:45,280
Speaker 1: talk about a weird film. If you want to see

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01:39:45,320 --> 01:39:47,880
Speaker 1: a complete list of all the movies we've discussed on

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Speaker 1: weird House Cinema. Well, you can go to a couple

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Speaker 1: all the movies we've covered, the poster arts cascading across

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Speaker 1: the screen and you can sort through them. You can

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01:40:10,280 --> 01:40:13,000
Speaker 1: look at them by by decade, by genre, that sort

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Speaker 1: of thing. It's pretty fun to toy around the huge

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