Saturday, October 26, 2013

THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE - 1962 / Adele Lamont with Foreign Insert Nude Scene

It's time for Tabonga to give his Special Saturday Treat to all our Halloween Countdown 2013 gang, here at The Dungeon!.. I discovered something so very interesting while reviewing the bonus features on a DVD I recently scored. I have my favorite fifties and sixties Scream Queens, Faith Domergue, Beverly Garland, Yvette Vickers, Sanita Pelkey, but, my very favorite is the Jersey brunette bombshell, Adele Lamont! So, hang on for something I don't think many people even know about...

Here's the double feature bill Eegah!! and I saw at the theater back in 1962, the year we graduated from the 8th grade!

Adele is freakin' hot, this viewer cannot get enough of her!

Dumb ass Bill wants to decapitate her, but, she's saved by Eddie, the monster in the closet!

Okay then, here we go... If anyone knows where to find a foreign print of this flick, please let us know immediately!

Of course, that's the recognizable face of Sammy Petrillo there as one of the photographers.

Adele was my favorite even before viewing this clip!

You can find the great bonus foreign scene on this recent four movie DVD release, only about $3 used on Amazon!

18 comments:

TABONGA! said...

JBH - I'm going to pass on your comment, please submit one less offensive to our visitors..

Douglas McEwan said...

"Of course, that's the recognizable face of Sammy Petrillo there as one of the photographers."

There were photographers in those photos? I didn't see any... Oh wait. I see. If I block out the lady who dressed hurridly, I can just barely make out that there are other people in the photo. Who knew?

Randall Landers said...

That's awesome. Simply awesome.

TABONGA! said...

Randall - Ditto..

Grant said...

I don't know how common this has ever been (except with nudity), but this is one of those movies that's had a scary scene blacked out when shown on TV. I first saw it very early, and the screen went black at the end, the moment the poor "closet creature" broke open the door. Of course, I though the scene was actually made that way, so he would be left to your imagination.
You can imagine how it was the second time I saw the movie (which was also late at night) and it got to that scene - I expected that blank screen, and instead I saw him!

Anonymous said...

Always loved this movie. When I first saw it on the Saturday night Chiller Movie time slot in Detroit in the 1970s, it was still considered quite shocking and scary. It's one of those movies that piles one ghastly thing on after another, perfect for late-night TV. My mother used to leave the room when the arm tearing off part came on. She couldn't stand watching that...it turned my stomach, too! It was filmed in Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow, NY in the fall of '59. Julian Detmer's mansion was used for the exterior. It burned down in 1971. I have a photo of the location now, a condo subdivision (sigh). Also have an awesome MP3 of the full, uncut record, "The Web" used in the movie. Rock on, BTWD! :)

Anonymous said...

I first saw this movie in the late 70s on a UHF channel. I have since seen the MST3k version many times. I seem to recall the UHF viewing had a few extra seconds of footage. The monster made it out of the house and set Adele down in the front yard. The movie ended with Jan summoning him to come back to die with her in the burning house. Has anyone else seen this version? Am I just remembering the end to another flick? Great site! Thanks...

TABONGA! said...

Anon - You must be thinking of another movie, Eegah!! and I saw this when it came out in 1962 and that never happened, also, I'm sure the ones on DVD are the full length versions, I've checked the times on them..

Anonymous said...

@Tabonga-thanks for the response...I appreciate it! This has been driving me crazy for years. Please keep up the great work!

Titan said...

That sounds real cool I would love to scene that. It sounds like you did see it it would made better ending. Its two bad mansion burnt down theres no way finding it today. I wonder if stairs to mansion is there

Anonymous said...

Whenever I think of Sammy Petrillo, I hear his crazy squeaky voice yelling, "WATCH OUT FOR BATS!" (From BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKYN GORILLA, my #1 all-time favorite comedy film!!!) :D

Prodigal said...

You echoed my feelings on Adele Lamont - she really is something special! I didn't find out about the foreign edit until recently but the thing that always stood out about this flick was Adele. She may not have been the most accomplished actress but she certainly did make a lasting impression.

Jean Scully said...

Thank you for clearing up the mystery of why I kept seeing these nudes of my Aunt Adele on the internet. Yes, she was really my aunt, my mom’s youngest sister. She’d been on Broadway, could dance and sing, but I guess this movie is her lasting legacy! I never knew there were nudes floating around until a few years ago. She’s long gone but I don’t think she’d mind people appreciating what a knockout she was.

EEGAH!! said...

I can guarantee you just made Tabonga's day Jean! Thanks!

TABONGA! said...

Holy cow Jean, I'm speechless, you know, I was in love with Adele way before I knew about the foreign insert version that came out on DVD recently. By the way, the 'uncut' version on Prime has the nude scenes in it. She was so beautiful, thanks for the comment, you made my year!

Eegah!! and I saw the movie together in 1962, it's one wild flick!

Jean Scully said...

Thank you for being such a fan! She was really a knockout. My grandma had a large studio portrait of her taken back when she was under contract to one of the studios (I think Universal) back in the early 50s. She was on a stairway, wearing a very fitted Satin evening gown with a train. It was amazing. I think one of my cousins has it now. It had pride of place for decades in my grandma’s beauty salon. Did you know Adele was Liz Taylor’s stand-in in “Butterfield 8”? She also sang and danced, studied with Stella Adler and started her career singing with Latin orchestras in NYC in the 1940s when she was just a teenager. She learned Spanish songs phonetically and they would bill her as Adele Montoya from sunny Havana. She pretended not to speak English so the audience wouldn’t know she was really Adele Cracchiola from Rutherford New Jersey! Lol I miss her!

Edward said...

I just found out that Eddie Carmel, the monster from TBTWD, recorded a single in 1962, "The Happy Giant" b/w "The Good Monster." He sounds amiable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLOv11SV3TM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ptrva-wro

The theme song, "The Web," was also a real single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lMEwtK5cTo

Thanks for all the great posts.

EEGAH!! said...

Wow! Now that's what I call a great comment Edward! Thanks!! And Thanks for reading!

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