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Lessee - firstoff, the shots of Tin-Tan climbing up the building exterior *are* from the original CASA DEL TERROR, which I've seen. Got my print from Something Weird Video before it went legit & got copyright conscious. Tin-Tan is the climber, going to the apartment of his girlfriend, CASA's heroine, who becomes just a walk-on in Warren's cutting. Currently, CASA is available legally now from Laguna Films (Spanish Language only), which I think can be found at www.lagunavideo.com or lagunafilm.com; but if those don't work, just try a search engine & you should get to them.

LA MOMIA AZTECA, I've e-mailed Laguna about getting that title & *anyone* interested in seeing it in its original form should do the same, stir up some commercial interest on their part. Mostly, they're marketing modern films & sex films & religious films, very little from the b/w era. They were doing a series of Tin-Tan films, however, & included CASA DEL TERROR.

But, I'm certain there's no complete version of MOMIA AZTECA in English. Jerry Warren got ahold of it before KGMurray could, and cut it into a TV film, ATTACK OF THE MAYAN MUMMY. He alters the film so as, for instance, to have the hero killed off in the middle of the action, and removes all references to Dr. Krupp/The Bat, whose villainy is a subplot in MOMIA AZTECA which continues thru the next two films of the series. Missing chunks of Mexican material are then supplemented by Warren-made sequences featuring his usual stock company of players including Bruno VeSota, George Mitchell, Bill White & Fred Hoffman. Warren then slightly recut MOMIA AZTECA (he lets the hero live) to make about 40% of SCREAMING WEREWOLF, with another 40% coming from CASA DEL TERROR & the rest from Warren's homemade stuff - including much of the material he'd also shot for MAYAN MUMMY.

Adios.

Unfortunately, my print of SCREAMING WEREWOLF is on a Beta tape, & my B-machine needs to go into the shop before I can watch it.

But my CASA DEL TERROR is on VHS & I got it out & here's what I found: The werewolf follows the girl to her home and tries to get in. She calls Tin-Tan for help but the werewolf succeeds in entry and carries her off just as TT arrives. TT follows for what appears to be just a few buildings to a
stylish apartment building on the corner, where the werewolf heaves the girl over his shoulder & begins scaling the building's exterior a la King Kong (the 30s-modern style allows for ample hand & footholds). TT follows & there is a chase up three floors, with stops along a couple of window ledges where TT is regularly diverted from his rescue attempt by high anxiety. The werewolf reaches a veranda, drops his unconscious cargo, and does a Martin Landau (from NORTH BY NORTHWEST) on the hands of the perilously arriving TT, who falls & grabs a big clock on the apartment's side, does a Harold Lloyd for a few shots, and falls safely into an awning. Meanwhile, people from the street are on their way up via elevator to help, and the werewolf, reloaded with the girl over his shoulder, goes thru an apartment and beats feet down the stairway (which circles the elevator), safely making it to the street whence he proceeds back to the mad lab.

So - there are shots in CASA of the werewolf scaling the building & fighting with TT on assorted ledges; if Warren added material of this nature - always a possibility with Jerry Warren - then it was to the already existing sequence but, until I get my carcass (and Beta VCR) over to the repairshop, I can't go any further on that point. But, yes, Viriginia, there is a Sandy-Claws scaling the building along with the - er - comedian, Tin-Tan.