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Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman | 
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Director: Nathan Juran
Actors: Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers, Roy Gordon, George Douglas
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 14319
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 66
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 114505
UPC: 085391145059
EAN: 0085391145059
ASIN: B000OHZJFK
Theatrical Release Date: May 19, 1958
Release Date: June 26, 2007
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Product Description
Nancy Archer has had an alien encounter and it's left her 50 ft. tall! Now she sees the men in her life from a new angle--looking down on them--and it's time to fight back! Director: Nathan Juran Starring: Allison Hayes Yvette Vickers William HudsonRunning Time: 66 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: NR UPC: 085391145059 Manufacturer No: 114505
Amazon.com
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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 The peak of her career August 14, 2008
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.
 "POTUS does a cameo!" July 29, 2008
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.
Attack of The Fifty Foot Woman/memories June 13, 2008
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.
HARRY! HARRY! May 24, 2008
This is one of my favourite sci-fi films of all time. Allison Hayes was a beauty in the 50's-60's on the big screen and TV as well. Too bad she died penniless and quite ill in a nursing home in the 80's. This film is so poorly made and cheap that you get to feel sorry for the producers -- it wasn't released, it ESCAPED! The special effects are hokey -- you can see through the monster and the 50ft woman, plaster of paris created Nancy Archer's enormous hands, and the UFO was a balloon on strings. How did a 50ft alien fit through that standard sized 7ft door? Anyway, this is a cult classic, great to watch to see the styles and the cars of the late 50's, (remember those huge tailfins?) and to see how black and white was the main medium for films like this. It also is one of the numerous films to exploit the UFO sighting phenomena that prevailed at that time. The DVD is fantastically brilliant and digitally remastered for clarity and has an enhanced soundtrack. It features a commentary by none other than Yvette Vickers who played the "other woman" in the film. She stated they filmed this in 8 days on a very limited budget and never dreamed of the success it has amassed as a cult classic. The best scene is when Nancy Archer, aka the 50ft woman, is tearing up the town yelling HARRY! HARRY! who happens to be her husband. Once he is found, she picks him up and squeezes him like a bug to death as she gets tangled in high voltage wires and plummets them both to death. THE END! I have this on VHS as well, but the DVD is enhanced and has a better picture quality. This is a must for any collector of 1950's sci-fi. It ranks up there with "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" and "Plan 9 From Outer Space."
 Pathetic Camp May 22, 2008
I remember loving this film as an 8 year old kid. I should have left my fading memory of this film in childhood. But No-o-o-o!!!, I had to buy it on DVD. I fully expected to laugh at the campiness of this cult classic, but instead I cringed at every moment. How bad can it get? Pretty darn bad, I'm afraid. The "special effects" were far worse than I ever remember them being. For starters, the alien man was nothing more than a super-imposed glowing figure in which the scenery from behind him bleeds through, the same holds true for Nancy when she becomes the 50 foot woman. Before that, the appearance of her paper mache & rubbery hand is so awful, and it's mere size makes you wonder how the rest of her body can still fit in her bedroom..LOL!!! When she grabs her cheating husband Harry from the nightclub he looks like a Raggety Ann doll. Need I say more? Only for true die hard "bad cinema" fans. Glad it wasn't an expensive buy. I'm still shaking my head....
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