Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
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| Directed by | Nathan H. Juran |
| Produced by | Bernard Woolner |
| Written by | Mark Hanna |
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Allison Hayes William Hudson Yvette Vickers |
| Music by | Ronald Stein |
| Cinematography | Jacques R. Marquette |
| Edited by | Edward Mann |
| Distributed by | Allied Artists Pictures Corporation |
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66 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $89,000 |
| Box office | $480,000 (USA) |
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is an independently made 1958 American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by Bernard Woolner, directed by Nathan H. Juran (credited as Nathan Hertz), that stars Allison Hayes, William Hudson, and Yvette Vickers. The screenplay was written by Mark Hanna, and the original music score was composed by Ronald Stein. The film was distributed in the US by Allied Artists on a double bill with War of the Satellites.
The Allied Artists TV version runs 75 minutes instead of 66, including a long printed crawl at the beginning and end, repeated sequences, and hold-frames designed to optically lengthen the film's running time.
The 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 already troubled by a philandering husband.
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a takeoff of other 1950s science fiction films that featured size-changing humans: The Amazing Colossal Man, its sequel War of the Colossal Beast, and The Incredible Shrinking Man. In this case a woman is substituted for a man as the film's protagonist.
A television announcer reports sightings of a red fireball around the world. Facetiously, he calculates its path will lead it to California. Nancy Archer (Allison Hayes), a wealthy but highly troubled woman with a history of emotional instability and immoderate drinking, is driving on a road in an American desert that night. A glowing sphere settles on the deserted highway in front of her, causing her to veer off the road. When she gets out to investigate, a huge creature exits the object and reaches for her (the viewer sees only an enormous hand falling upon the screaming woman). Nancy escapes and runs back to town, but nobody believes her story due to her known drinking problem and recent stay in a sanatorium. Her philandering husband, Harry Archer (William Hudson), is more interested in his latest girlfriend, town floozy Honey Parker (Yvette Vickers), but pretends to be the good husband in the hope that Nancy will "snap" and return to the "booby hatch", leaving him in control of her $50 million.
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