Uncle Scoopy's Fun House

FYI when I hypercam vids to make the file size smaller I use DivX MPEG-4 Fast-Motion for the video compressor, then I use virtualdub to compress the audio. The properties for the vids says the video codec: DivX Decoder Filter & audio codec: Morgan Stream Switcher which I'm not familiar with. When I compress the audio with virtualdub I use MPEG Layer-3. A friend of mine told me about compressing the audio about (6) mos. ago. Like I said previously, only been capping for a year & a half & I'm no expert. Hopefully this info will help members with the proper codecs for my vids.

When I cap big brother's I use hypercam mostly & sdp & asfrecorder if the set up allows me. I stopped using camtasia cause the file sizes were always too big, could never figure out the process, over my head lol, plus it cost too much to buy in my opinion.

Hi dear Scoopy !

I wrote these lines 4 years ago (October 20, 2000 back issue):

"First I have a scan of a stark naked Alessandra Mussolini from Novella 2000. I found the picture while going through my archives. It shows the Duce's granddaughter stark naked in a 1990 American-Israeli movie called "Back to freedom / Ha-derech L'Ein Harod". She's naked under a waterfall with Tony Peck. She tried to have this scene cut at a 1998 film festival but the producer left the scene in saying that he used a body-double. She claimed that it made her feel hurt as a wife, a mother and a member of parliament (for the extreme right-wing party Alleanza nazionale ). So we now have a producer stating that this is a body double on one side and on the other side we have a former actress saying it was her. Who should we believe and more important, does this look like a double to you? I don't think it's a double unless she has a twin sister no-one ever heard of. Does some-one have vidcaps of this film or has somebody seen it?"

Well, finally I was able to find this film on DVD. It's available in an all-regions PAL version from Amazon Germany and its title is Phantom Fighters. It's a full-screen version with German audio only unfortunately. There is also an English version with Portuguese subtitles available from www.vsom.com on DVD-R but the master is a videotape, and although the transfer isn't bad, it doesn't reach the image quality of the German DVD. Due to a mix-up in the IMDb, which I undertook to correct, I ended up buying both versions. You see, this flick has several titles. "Ha-derech L'Ein Harod" is the Hebrew title with "Freedom-The Voice of Ein Harod" as its English counterpart. "Phantom Fighters" was listed as an other entry but is in fact the German video title of the first movie. And I only noticed after I already bought both ...

The film itself is really nothing to write home about. At some time in Israel during a severe drought the army has taken over the country and keeps almost every one under its thumb by allowing people only very small rations of water. Tony Peck is a left-wing journalist who doesn't approve and undertakes to join The Voice of Ein Harod, a clandestine anti-army radio station in the north that urges people to join them. What follows is sort of a boring odyssey to Ein Harod through what must be the ugliest places in Israel, during which our "hero" meets Israeli soldier Liora, played by Alessandra Mussolini who is very friendly towards men. In the end they reach Ein Harod but this proves a major disappointment for them.

As I already mentioned this flick is boring from begin to end and not even Alessandra's nude scene can change that. The plot is very thin, the actions are illogical and soon all becomes misconstrued. The photography could have been much sharper and the locations are among the ugliest ever put on film. Tony Peck, the son of screen legend Gregory Peck, proves that acting skills aren't necessarily passed on with the genes, and the other actors aren't any better. They all seem to be wondering what they are doing in a stinker like this. In my book this definitely rates as an E.

Nudity report: Alessandra Mussolini shows all, Elky Jacobs shows breasts and partial buns and an unknown actress is topless lying on a table.

Since my October 2000 report Alessandra Mussolini has left the extreme right-wing party Alleanza Nazionale because she considers them not enough to the right anymore and founded her own party Libert� di Azione (www.libertadiazione.net) where she defends family values and opposes Turkey entering the EU among others. Besides a politician Mrs. Mussolini is also a doctor and I think my caps and clips display her anatomy perfectly. Caps 1 to 10 are brightened which make her pubes more visible, while caps 11 to 21 are unaltered. It also becomes very clear that no body double was used, certainly if you compare with pictures of her in the Encyclopedia and in Celebrity Sleuth Vol. 4, no. 7 and Vol. 8, no. 8 (look at the eyes). And when you look at pictures of her grandfather Benito you can also see the resemblance. In this case the genes were undoubtedly passed on.

Elky or Elki Jacobs plays a sex-starved housewife who gets her comeuppance when she forces herself upon Tony Peck.

An unknown actress plays a female Israeli soldier who serves as a mattress for her male colleagues.

That's all for now, hope to be back soon.