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Your Learning Zone - Attack Of the 50 Foot Woman
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Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers, Roy Gordon, George Douglas
Directed By: Nathan Juran
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301802383
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 6301802381
Label: Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Release Date: 1991-10-17
Running Time: 65
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1958-05-19
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Summary: I Kinda Dig Bigger Women, But This Is Just Crazy!!
Comment: While cruising down Route 66(where I've heard you can get your kicks), Nancy Archer nearly smashes into a UFO. And if that weren't enough to sour your mood, she barely escapes the 30 foot man inside who wants her diamond necklace! Of course no one believes Nancy's story considering she has a history of pounding the booze. Plus she spent some time in the booby hatch before. Her schmuck husband, Harry, sees this as a great opportunity to be rid of his wife and to get his hands on her loot. Harry's doing the business with a floozy named Honey, and together they try to form a plan on how to get rid of Nancy, whether it's having her committed again or just killing her.
After a second run in with the UFO and it's giant, Nancy becomes infected with "some kind of radiation", falls into a coma and becomes....a 50 Foot Woman! Now no man can satisfy her!! Not to mention that lousy giant managed to snatch her diamond and hightail it back to outer space!!
Meanwhile, Hubby Harry is still slippin' it to Honey. After Nancy awakens from her coma, she goes on a rampage trying to find that rotten husband of hers. Thus the "attack" of the 50 foot woman.
Fun 50s sci-fi nonsense that's gone on to become a classic of the genre. Nancy's rampage doesn't happen until the final minutes of the film, so don't go looking for a nonstop sci-fi extravaganza. As to be expected, the fx are a product of the time, although in some spots they seem to be a bit below par, even for something like this. The superimposed shots of Allison Hayes make her look transparent. But us fans of this kind of silliness embrace these things.
Good times!!
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Summary: giant alienman and humanwoman
Comment: the e.t. facts-giant alienman, giant humanwoman, the spaceship and ms 50''s pattern of some scattered action-short ending. just ok film, seen worse.
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Summary: The peak of her career
Comment: It's been said that for every Taylor, Welch,and Monroe their were a hundred other starlets with ravishing figures and aluring faces that never got past the B-movies. Gorgeous Allison Hayes was such an actress. She looked a little like Ava Gardner but with a lot more va-voom. Unfortunately. I've only seen her in this schlocky camp-film and an apearance or two she made on Gomer Pyle as a date of Sgt. Carter's. Due to failing health she didn't work much after that gig, and died rather young. Like a lot of cheap-jack 50's sci fi/horror films, this one is a bit of fun. And for us guys,it's worth watching for the voluptuous presence of Miss Hayes and also naughty Yvette Vickers.
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Summary: "POTUS does a cameo!"
Comment: Is it my imagination, or is the giant from outer space that our protagonist encounters a dead ringer for Dwight Eisenhower? After all, it was the 50's! Maybe that was Dwight's version of Nixon's famous "Sock it to me?" on Laugh-In.
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Summary: Attack of The Fifty Foot Woman/memories
Comment: This is a great DVD. The print of the movie is bright and clear. The commentary of Yvette (Honey) Vickers is charming, informative and funny. I have loved this movie since I was a child. I am a big 50s car freak and I loved the Imperial, Plymouth Plaza patrol car and the 1958 Plymouth wagon that turns into a 1949 Chevy when it is dropped. I also learned how to jitterbug from this movie, the couple dancing behind Harry and Honey at the bar. Great memories.
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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned... especially when you're fending off The Attack of the 50-Foot Woman! One of the most beloved camp classics of the 1950s begins with a three-way recipe for sci-fi disaster: Cheating husband Harry (William Hudson) is married to alcoholic heiress Nancy (Allison Hayes), but he's got a scheming mistress named Honey (Yvette Vickers) and a burning desire for Nancy's lavish inheritance. But before the greedy lovers can say "Super-Size Me," the insanely jealous Nancy gains a towering advantage: After exposure to radiation from a spherical alien satellite, Nancy grows to a height of (yep, you guessed it) and proceeds to wreak havoc as a giant dame with an attitude problem. As often happened with cheesy sci-fi and horror films of the Eisenhower era, the movie's deliriously exploitative poster promised more than the movie actually delivers, which perhaps explains why director Nathan Juran (whose next film was the comparatively lavish The 7th Voyage of Sinbad) opted to be credited as "Nathan Hertz." And while the special effects are cheesy and cheap (involving oversized miniatures, repeated process shots, see-through double-exposures, and a giant, rubbery arm used for King Kong-like clutching scenes), it's still possible to feel a hint of compassion for poor ol' Nancy, and that--along with the enjoyable performances of Hayes, Hudson, and Vickers--is probably why Attack has gained such a loyal cult following over the decades. Fueled by atomic-age paranoia and timeless human foibles, it's a feminist revenge thriller with lasting appeal, remade in 1993 with better special effects and Daryl Hannah in the title role. --Jeff Shannon
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