Archive for the Action & Adventure Category
Colossus vs. the Headhunters: MST3K 605
Poorly dubbed 1960 Italian sword and sandal flick about a Herculean muscleman’s quest to save a kidnapped queen from headhunters.
Final Justice – MST3K 1008
Joe Don Baker plays a Texas sheriff who winds up in Malta to capture the criminals that killed his partner.
Dick Tracy: Chapter 1 The Spider Strikes
Ralph Byrd stars as Chester Gould’s lantern-jawed detective, Dick Tracy, in this 15-chapter serial from 1937. In this episode, Dick’s brother Gordon (Richard Beach) is being controlled by a criminal genius known as “The Spider.”
Hercules vs the Moon Men
The Right Reverend Chumley and the Cult of UHF bring you this cult classic B-movie, Hercules vs the Moon Men, a cheesy rip-off of the slightly-less-cheesy Steve Reeves Hercules films.
Danger! Death Ray – MST3K
Danger! Death Ray is an Italian eurospy film, “Il Raggio Infernale” (1967) as it appeared on Mystery Science Theater 3000. What can one say about “Danger!! Death Ray”? It was the late 1960s and James Bond knock-offs were many in number. Filled to the brim (and bathtub) with ugly Europeans and plastic toys.
Lost Continent — MST3K
Sam Newfield’s Lost Continent (1951) as presented on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Starring Hugh Beaumont (Leave it To Beaver), Hillary Brooke (Abbott & Costello), Cesar Romero (the Joker on TV’s Batman), and John Hoyt
Samson vs The Vampire Women – MST3K
Masked wrestler El Santo (Samson) protects a young woman from a cult of female vampires who want her to be their queen.
The Magic Sword – MST3K
Sword-and-sorcery film about a prince rescuing a princess from an evil magician.
Master Ninja I – MST3K
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 gang take on Hollywood tough guy Lee Van Cleef in Master Ninja I, a movies spliced together from a second-rate 80s TV action show called The Masters. In this one, an American ninja (Van Cleef) searches for his long-lost daughter with the help of a sidekick (Tim Van Patten). During their adventures, they defend an airport owner from businessmen and a corrupt sheriff, then protect a nightclub owner from thugs.
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