ATTACK OF THE 50 FT. WOMAN, 1958A CULT CLASSIC
Directed By... Nathan Hertz Starring... Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers
Nancy Archer (Allison Hayes) has a bank account that is worth 50 million smackers which is kinda nice, but she has a couple of problems too... One is that she's a boozehound, and the second is that her husband Harry (William Hudson) likes to fool around with Honey Parker (Yvette Vickers) the town trollop... As if that's not enough, she runs into a "satellite" that is occupied by a great big bald headed alien guy that tries to ripoff her diamond necklace... She runs back to town and tells the Sheriff who of course thinks she's drunk... Later she makes Harry drive around the countryside looking for the satellite and the alien and unfortunately for them they find it... The alien puts the grabs on Nancy and Harry skidaddles back to town like a jackrabbit... The Sherrif thinks Harry has done away with his wife and detains him and Honey... Nancy finally turns
up back home and giant footprints are found in the garden outside
her window... A couple of doctors are called in and they figure
she is showing signs of exposure to radiation... Honey and Harry
decide to overdose Nancy with the sedative that the doctors have
prescribed for her... Harry fills a hypo up with the drug and
enters Nancy's room and discovers that she has grown to a massive
size... She is then chained down... Later she breaks
free and goes looking for the two lovebirds... She finds them at
the local bar which she proceeds to rip apart and a falling beam
kills Honey... She grabs Harry and begins squeezing the life out
of him as the Sheriff starts shooting at her... She walks into a
high tension power line and falls to the ground dead with Harry
still in her hand... This is one of the
most popular cult movies around and it has some of the worst
effects ever to grace the screen... As a matter of fact it should
have been called "Attack of the 50ft. Transparent
Woman" because the background can clearly be seen through both the giant alien and the 50ft. woman... In one scene the
giant alien picks up a 57 or 58 Chrysler stationwagon and hurls
it to the ground, but what hits the ground is a car thats about
ten years older... The giant hand that appears in many of the
scenes looks like it's made out of paper mache and just may be...
Still, it's one of those "So bad it's good" movies...
It is indeed a howl to watch... |
