Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

Directed by

Nathan Juran

Genre

fantasy film, horror film, B movie, independent film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 06m

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 168 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy heiress has a close encounter with an alien in a spacecraft. After that, she starts growing to an enormous size. Her already troubled marriage with a cheating husband becomes even more complicated.

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What happens

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958 independently made American science fiction horror film directed by Nathan H. Juran (credited as Nathan Hertz) and starring Allison Hayes, William Hudson and Yvette Vickers. It was produced by Bernard Woolner. The screenplay was written by Mark Hanna, and the original music score was composed by Ronald Stein. The film was distributed in the United States on May 18, 1958 by Allied Artists as a double feature alongside War of the Satellites. The edited Allied Artists television version runs 75 minutes instead of 66, adding a long printed crawl at the beginning and end, repeated sequences, and hold-frames designed to optically lengthen the film's running time. The film's storyline concerns the plight of a wealthy heiress whose close encounter with an enormous alien in his round spacecraft causes her to grow into a giantess, complicating her marriage which is already troubled by a philandering husband. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a variation on other 1950s science fiction films that featured size-changing humans: The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), its sequel War of the Colossal Beast (1958), and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957); in this case, a woman is the protagonist. The film's popularity and cult status has spawned numerous parodies and homages in popular media. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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