boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (08/30/84)
From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Jerry Boyajian) From: Peter G. Trei <OC.TREI%CU20B@COLUMBIA> > VERY late the other night I saw the first 45 minutes or so of a > very strange, funny movie. I would like to recommend it as a con > film, but I do not know the year, studio, or much else . The > movies' title seemed to be 'The Mad Monster Party', and was done to > full length with stop- motion animation using puppets. The NYT > listing was totally inaccurate, but on internal evidence I would > place it somewhere in the mid-Sixties to early Seventies. The plot, > as far as I saw it, concerned Dr. Frankenstein inviting many of the > worlds leading monsters to his island (in the Bahamas?!) for a > convention and retirement party. > I greatly enjoyed the part I saw, and would like to known > more about this movie. Who made it? When? Did they make anything > else like it? I've never seen the film myself, so I can't do any more than give the information for it that appears in Walt Lee's REFERENCE GUIDE TO FANTASTIC FILMS, VOL. 2 (LA: Chelsea-Lee Books, 1973): 1967 Videocraft-Embassy color ani puppet feature. Probably filmed in Japan. Exec Producer: Joseph E. Levine Producer: Arthur Rankin, Jr. Director: Jules Bass Screenplay: Len Korobkin & Harvey Kurtzman Music & Lyrics: Maury Laws & Jules Bass Voices: Boris Karloff, Phyllis Diller, Alan Swift, Gale Garnett Fantasy-Horror-musical-comedy (mad scientist invites Dracula, Frankenstein & Monster & Mrs. Monster, Jekyll/Hyde, a sea monster, the Invisible Man, a werewolf, and others to his island for a party; King Kong crashes the party) --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA