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The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters

  • 1968
  • G
  • 1h 18m
IMDb RATING
4.2/10
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Bob Burns, Ray Dennis Steckler, and Cindy Shea in The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters (1968)
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The adventures of the Lemon Grove Kids in this Bowery Boys inspired kiddie film.The adventures of the Lemon Grove Kids in this Bowery Boys inspired kiddie film.The adventures of the Lemon Grove Kids in this Bowery Boys inspired kiddie film.

  • Directors
    • Ted Roter
    • Ray Dennis Steckler
    • Ed McWatters
  • Writers
    • Jim Harmon
    • Ron Haydock
    • E.M. Kevke
  • Stars
    • Ray Dennis Steckler
    • Mike Kannon
    • Bart Carsell
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.2/10
    236
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Ted Roter
      • Ray Dennis Steckler
      • Ed McWatters
    • Writers
      • Jim Harmon
      • Ron Haydock
      • E.M. Kevke
    • Stars
      • Ray Dennis Steckler
      • Mike Kannon
      • Bart Carsell
    • 9User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
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    Bob Burns, Ray Dennis Steckler, and Cindy Shea in The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters (1968)
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    Ray Dennis Steckler
    Ray Dennis Steckler
    • Gopher
    • (as Cash Flagg)
    Mike Kannon
    • Slug (segments "The Lemon Grove Kids" and "The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Green Grasshopper and the Vampire Lady From Outer Space")
    Bart Carsell
    • Duke Mazaratti (segment "The Lemon Grove Kids")
    Coleman Francis
    • "Big Ed" Narzak (segment "The Lemon Grove Kids")…
    Larry Pearson
    • Larry (segment "The Lemon Grove Kids")
    Mary Morgan
    • Ma (segment "The Lemon Grove Kids")…
    Rox Anne
    • Roxy (segment "The Lemon Grove Kids")
    Herb Robins
    Herb Robins
    • Killer Krump (segment "The Lemon Grove Kids" and "The Lemon Grove Kids Go Hollywood!")…
    Kirk Kirksey
    • Kirk (segment "The Lemon Grove Kids")
    Jim Plunkett
    • Stretch (segment "The Lemon Grove Kids")
    Ed McWatters
    • The Saboteur (segment "The Lemon Grove Kids")
    Bob Burns
    Bob Burns
    • Kogar the Gorilla
    • (as Kogar)
    • …
    Keith A. Wester
    • Marvin-Marvin (segment "The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Green Grasshopper and the Vampire Lady From Outer Space" and "The Lemon Grove Kids Go Hollywood!")…
    John Williams
    • Skinny (segment "The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Green Grasshopper and the Vampire Lady From Outer Space")
    • (as J. Jay Hartford)
    Kedric Wolfe
    • Jocko (segment "The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Green Grasshopper and the Vampire Lady From Outer Space")
    Joseph Bardo
    Joseph Bardo
    • Brick (segment "The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Green Grasshopper and the Vampire Lady From Outer Space")
    Felicia Guy
    • Flower (segment "The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Green Grasshopper and the Vampire Lady From Outer Space")
    Beverly Carter
    • Dum-Dum (segment "The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Green Grasshopper and the Vampire Lady From Outer Space")…
    • Directors
      • Ted Roter(segments The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Green Grasshopper and the Vampie Lady From Outer Space, The Lemon Grove Kids Go Hollywood)
      • Ray Dennis Steckler(segment The Lemon Grove Kids)
      • Ed McWatters(segment The Lemon Grove Kids) (uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Jim Harmon(segment The Lemon Grove Kids)
      • Ron Haydock(segment The Lemon Grove Kids)
      • E.M. Kevke(segment The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Green Grasshopper and the Vampire Lady From Outer Space)
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    • Trivia
      Producer/cinematographer/editor Keith A. Wester's debut film. He went on to receive six Academy Award nominations for sound mixing.
    • Quotes

      Gopher: [in "The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Green Grasshopper and the Vampire Lady From Outer Space" segment] How would you like it if I bit YOU? You stupid vampire!

    • Connections
      Featured in The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Ray Dennis Steckler (1988)
    • Soundtracks
      The Lemon Grove Kids
      Lyrics and Music by Don Snyder and The Little Lemon Grove Kids

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    Steckler makes good, kiddie-style
    Ray Dennis Steckler put together a trilogy of comic shorts modeled on the Bowery Boys series, with impressive results if you're not expecting any sort of masterpiece. In the first story, the kids, a motley bunch of toddlers and adults dressed as teenagers, head to Coleman Francis's house to do some housework. Extraterrestrials start picking them off, a green grasshopper in a flying saucers claiming the main kid, so it's up to doofy Steckler (acting as Cash Flagg) to find a way to save the day.. In the second part, the kids get a job doing housework for falling star Carolyn Brandt. Some bumbling villains kidnap her, but her sleazy agent says she's not worth the ransom. Thus it falls to Steckler once again to intervene and rescue both Brandt and her career. This episode also features a very annoying adult who spends a little too much time with the kids and sings remarkably uninspired songs about them on an acoustic guitar. Not a person I would trust with my own offspring, but Steckler probably couldn't afford high-end babysitters. In the final part of the trilogy, Steckler heads into the wrong side of town to buy some sodas on a hot afternoon, instigating a rumble. They decide to settle their differences with a cross-country race. A funny French saboteur, hired by the rival team, does their best to put the Kids' star athlete out of the – ahem – running, and somehow we're led into a startling monster attack sequence. This conclusion seals tight the possibility that Steckler was having a grand time making these shorts, possibly never intended for theatrical release. In a way, Lemon Grove Kids exists as an interesting home-movie documenting the styles and culture of the early 1960's made by a barely experienced filmmaker, who had only been in the business for a few years. Although I enjoyed this film quite a bit, I'd only show it to children I really hated. Some of the women-children boast some surprisingly sexy outfits, plus a certain amount of the humor veers toward the sophisticated. Brandt appeared in a number of Steckler's films. Steckler fans with be happy to see hero Ray Pfink in a cameo.
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    • Release date
      • August 21, 1968 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Lemon Grove Kids Go Hollywood
    • Filming locations
      • Corner of N. Serrano Pl and Lemon Grove Ave, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Morgan-Steckler Productions
      • Steckler-Wester Film Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 18 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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