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The Lemon Grove Kids meet the Monsters

USA 1966
produced by
Ray Dennis Steckler, Keith A. Wester
directed by Ray Dennis Steckler, Ted Roter (= Peter Balakoff)
starring Cash Flagg (= Ray Dennis Steckler), Mike Kannon, Carolyn Brandt, Ed McWatters, Keith A. Wester

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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First up it's a cross-country race of the Lemon Grove Kids led by Slug (Mike Kannon) against Killer Krump's gang, but since some mobsters have a hand in betting on that race, The Saboteur (Ed McWatters, dressed in pink with red hat & French accent - brr) is hired to make sure the Lemon Grove Kids come in second. The Saboteur messes up each & every of his own traps, though, & so the Lemon Grove Kids - respectively their clean shaven ace-runner Larry - cross the finish line first ... all but Lemon Grove-doofus Gopher (Ray Dennis Steckler acting again as Cash Flagg), who thought he knew a short cut & is suddenly hunted by a fierce gorilla, living mummies & meets up with Rat Pfink (from Rat Pfink a Boo Boo), before realizing he's on a movie set. Int he second story the Lemon Grove Kids are hired to clean up some porches & do the lawn for a grumpy old man, only for a great many of them to be abducted by some monsters & some vampire lady (Carolyn Brandt) appearing from an UFO, obviously wanting ot take over the Earth or at least Lemon Grove. Things look grim for our not so young youngsters, until the vampire lady bites Gopher - who bites her back, breaking her spell over all her earthly minions & having her escape beaten. In the third story, the Lemon Grove Kids (without Slug though) are hired to fix up the house of a has-been moviestar (Carolyn Brandt repeating her Ceebee Beaumont- role from Rat Pfink a Boo Boo), an actress 2 bumbling gangsters have chosen to kidnap for ransom. & if that wasn't enough for one day, Gopher also invites his fortune teller Swami Marvyn (Keith A.Wester) to come over. Anyway, somehow, the kidnappers manage to abduct  Ceebee against all odds anyways, but her producer is more than a little reluctant to pay the ransom money, actually rather pleased to have gotten rid of her the easy way. IT's up to the Kids to save the girl - & the whole affair proves to be one million worth of publicity.

 

Originally, this was filmed as 3 independent shorts, but was soon edited together to be released at the kiddie-matinee-circuit. The Lemon Grove Kids themselves are a rather obvious rip-off of the Bowery Boys (former East Side Kids, former Dead End Kids), with Ray Dennis Steckler & Mike Kannon doing rather fine impressions of Huntz Hall & Leo Gorcey, respectively, the movie is extremely colourful,  full of  warped & childish humour, & charmingly done on the cheap. It should be highly enjoyable under the influence of mild hallucinogenic drugs.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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