Angriff der 20-Meter-Frau (1958) Online

"Haaaarrrryyy!"

The amplified, dispassionate female voice could have been Leona Helmseley in heat but, no, it belongs to Allison Hayes as Nancy Archer, the 50-Foot Woman of the title. In the most infamous role of her film career, Allison's performance literally rips off the roof. In fact, make that a couple of roofs.

Jaw-droppingly tacky, "Aot50FW" is the tale of Nancy, a neurotic, boozy heiress and her loveless Lothario husband, Harry (William Hudson, who also co-starred opposite The Amazing Colossal Man). Nancy has a close encounter of the third kind, in the desert, with a bald giant from outer space who wears a mini-skirt and gladiator sandals, and who has a thing for Nancy's jewelry. What he does to her once he's carried her off is probably best left a mystery, but soon Nancy starts to grow.

Treading into the center of town on tranquilizers, tightly wrapped in nothing but the bed sheets, the buxom giantess heads toward the low-rent saloon where Harry is having a few laughs with a floozy named Honey (Yvette Vickers). The confrontation turns ugly.

The Poverty Row f/x make the alien giant and Nancy appear to be transparent due to incompetently transposed images. You'll understand why director Nathan Juran changed his name to Nathan Hertz on the credits. Juran was no stranger to directing giant creatures, human and non, having also directed "The Deadly Mantis," "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad," "Jack, the Giant Killer" plus several episodes of TV's "World of Giants" and "Land of the Giants."

A lot of laughs for all the wrong reasons.

How can you NOT like this film? It's very absurdity makes it an instant classic. What absurdity you ask? Well how about the fact that when the sheriff (George Douglas) and Jess the butler (Ken Terrell) enter the giant's space ship everything is scaled to our size? How about the fact that when the giant (Mike Ross) picks up the sheriff's car it's a station wagon, when he throws it to the ground it's a sedan, and when the sheriff checks the wreckage it's a station wagon again? Or maybe the fact that Alison Hayes height seems to vary from scene to scene; sometimes she's a mere 18 feet tall and in others she is much larger. Did I, or should I?, mention that you can see right through both giants in almost every scene?

And when she reaches through the roof of the bar to pick up her philandering husband (William Hudson, who also went face-to-ankle with THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN a year earlier) why didn't they cut the scene before you saw the doll Alison was picking up had no legs? Should I even mention the fact that this movie is set in California and the deputy (Frank Chase) has a Boston accent ("Hi ya Mistah Ahhhhcha!")?

You can spot Ken Terrell doing stunts in most of the Republic serials during the 40's. Roy Gordon (Dr. Cushing) appeared in THE WASP WOMAN in 1959, Yvette Vickers (Honey Parker) had a run-in with giant bloodsuckers in ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES. And Alison Hayes . . .ah, she was my dream girl when I was growing up.

Let the sourpusses deride this film, I think it's great fun. Don't waste your time with the remake, THIS is the one to catch.

You have got to love this outlandish movie. Allison Hayes is really over the top (in more ways than one) as she goes after Harry who is out cavorting with Yvette Vickers in the local bar. The special effects are the usual 1950's superimposed see through images that you've come to love in cheesy movies (see the Amazing Colossal Man). The foam rubber hand that crushes the life out of Harry is really bad...it just kind of flops around, flaccid and dead looking but it does the trick....I hope Harry isn't latex intolerant! This is a lot of fun and is one of the gems of the genre. If you hear someone calling "Harry, Harry", run for your life...the foam rubber hand is after you!

What happens when a wealthy woman meets a giant opaque alien and his satellite in the desert. Why she ends up becoming a 50 foot woman bent on fixing her marriage with her adulterous husband! Great 50's hokum here! Lovely Allison Hayes plays a woman who has recently been checked out of a sanitorium and has major drinking/marriage problems. Her husband Harry is the scum of the earth as he flirts(and beyond) with beautiful Honey(Vickers). Both of them want Allison's money, all 50 million of it. The story is pretty ambiguous, and we really never do know just who or what that alien was all about. The best part is seeing just how low and sleazy Harry is, so we can wait to see him get his. The acting is pretty good, nothing great. The direction by Nathan Juran is adequate(nothing like what you would see in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad!). The special effects are fairly standard as we really never see Allison Hayes as a fully-materialized giant. She always seems to be a bit transparent for some reason except when we see her giant hand. Hayes looks great as a giant though in her skimpy shorts and bikini top, giving at least two great reasons to see the film...or is that three? Great 50's sci-fi fun!

So you have a hankering to see a gigantic 1950's bombshell actress rampaging through a city? How about a "flying satellite" with a 30ft alien inside? Do you need some truly terrible acting, directing, dialog and special effects to make your day complete? Then one of the most legendary bad movies of all times, Attack of the 50ft Woman (1958), directed by Nathan Hertz (Nathan Juran) is just the movie you are looking for.

Wealthy heiress Nancy Archer (Allison Hayes) has a lot of money but she also has a lot of problems. For one thing, despite being a very beautiful woman, the inheritor of a 50 million dollar financial empire and owner of one of the world's largest diamonds she just can't seem to keep a man. Her husband Harry (William Hudson) likes the money and all of the trappings that come with it, he just doesn't happen to like his wife. He prefers to keep the company of local hussy Honey Parker (Yvette Vickers) while Mrs. Archer stays at home pining for her philandering husband and hitting the bottle like there is no tomorrow. In addition to her drinking problem she also spent some time in the "booby hatch", so it comes as very little surprise when absolutely no one will believe her when she begins telling people that she was accosted out on a deserted highway by a giant alien with his own "flying satellite" (UFO). Yes, the whole town is talking about nutty Mrs. Archer, especially Mr. Archer; all that he and Honey can talk about is shoving her right back into the nuthouse so they can have all that money for themselves. But Nancy isn't ready for the asylum, not just yet anyway. First she makes her husband drive them all over the desert trying to find her alien admirer. After a full day of driving and nearly at the point of giving up Nancy finally does stumble across her strange visitor again. It seems that Nancy's boyfriend from outer space needs that extra large diamond of hers to power his ship (which coincidently happens to look like a light bulb with silver spray paint on it). Nancy is not worried about her diamond though, she is ecstatic because now there is proof that she's not crazy! Harry on the other hand has the more typical reaction when facing a giant monstrous alien from another world, he starts shooting at it and when that doesn't work he takes off running leaving his wife in the monster's clutches. Back in town Harry gets Honey packing and they get ready to get out of town, but fast. But not fast enough before the local sheriff (George Douglas) has them brought in for questioning about the now missing Mrs. Archer. Back at the Archer estate Nancy is found unconscious (with strange radioactive marks on her neck) on top of the pool house! Sedated and kept under the watchful eye of her personal physician Nancy begins growing, but when she occasionally does regain consciousness there is only one thought in her ever enlarging cranium, she wants her Harry! Meanwhile, good old Harry does what any dutiful husband would do when their wife is at home, unconscious and growing to the size of King Kong, he makes plans to kill her in her sleep! But before he can do the deed his plans are ruined and he slithers back to town (and Honey). It would seem that you need a lot of sedatives to keep a 50-foot woman down so it is not long before Mrs. Archer is back on her feet again and looking for that cheating husband of hers. She tears her way out of the house (now only wearing a bikini-like outfit made out of bed sheets) heading for town and looking for Harry and his hussy girlfriend who are at the local bar having a grand old time. She's tired of his cheating ways and wants him all to herself, and now that she is 10 times his size, maybe, just maybe he'll pay attention to what she wants.

There have been volumes written about this classically bad movie so there isn't much more that I can add. I'll just say that if you enjoy bad films, laughably bad films you are going to like this one for sure. Allison Hayes as Nancy Archer is the very best part of this film. Watching her chew up the scenery makes for a very enjoyable 66 minutes of your time. To be honest it's really hard to tell if she was a bad actress or just got stuck in a really awful film. Since even the greatest actress in the world would look rather talentless in this production you can't really hold it against her. From her other work that I have seen I believe that she did indeed have some acting talent and obviously she was a beautiful woman with definite screen presence. It's a shame that Hollywood didn't give her a real chance to show her talents, unfortunately most of her other films are of a similar quality to this production. All of the other actors seem to fit their parts well, especially William Hudson as her slimy, cheating hubby and Yvette Vickers who seems perfectly cast as Harry's conniving, bohemian mistress. Director Nathan Juran seemed to be a hit or miss kind of guy, directing several very good films as well as some really bad ones. It's hard to believe that he directed the wonderful fantasy adventure The 7th Voyage of Sinbad the very same year that he made this. Attack of the 50ft woman - one of the worst (and funniest) of all times!

This campy 1950s sci-fi film has turned into a real cult classic. The film is so bad - horrible special effects and terrible dialog - that it is a hoot to watch. It's so terrible it's fun to watch. Instead of scary you, the corny dialog just makes you laugh out loud.

I forget whether this film was made to be serious but at this point, it's like an Ed Wood film: so terrible that you laugh through the entire thing, making it a good comedy. As a bonus for guys, you get to ogle Allison Hayes, who looks good at any height!

I am amazed this movie is not available on DVD. If it wasn't well-known, they certainly wouldn't have bothered with a re-make.

I love this movie, regardless of all of the campy errors and mistakes, i can watch this over and over again. Allison Hayes delivers some of the most incredible picture stills. When she is breaking out from the roof of her house, her beauty mark just says hey. Her face as she is looking through the window at the hotel, and even when she is walking behind the electricity tower before getting shot down are just gorgeous.

So it was campy, it's the 50's, technology was not as advanced as today but to re-make this movie with Darryl Hannah was a mistake.

This "Cult Classic" should be put on DVD (hint, hint) and digitally enhanced, try to fix the mistakes, if possible and re-issue this movie. Trust me it has a following, also the main score gives the movie the scary touch.I heard the score in another sci-fi movie, recognized it immediately but the effect was not the same.

Someone mentioned the poster, which i have and i had it matted; it looks incredible and its a conversation piece.

Someone put this on DVD! Allison Hayes and this Movie Rocks!

What can I say about Allison Hayes that hasn't been said before. The way she upsets a town, fills out a bed sheet, terrorizes a philandering husband... all these things make her bigger than life... whoops, too late. "Attack" is a great if under-appreciated movie that deserves more for the way that it strengthens women for what they are and not for what they should be, and for serving as a lesson for other idiots who don't respect their wives. Allison Hayes actually opens the way for more female horror antagonists of which there are so few: Angela from the "Night of the Demons" trilogy maybe the only one other off the top off my head I can think of right now. Allison Hayes being in this movie, which is most definitely the pinnacle of giantess movie next to "The Thirty Foot Bride of Candy Rock" and "Dude, Where's My Car," creates such a powerful presence in the movie that numerous guys like myself have become proverbially addicted to giant women pictures. Because of AOT50FW, there are now whole websites dedicated to posting pictures of beautiful actresses on giantess simulations; unfortunately, the majority of these sites are actually distasteful and extremely sexually explicit. Yet, regardless of the odd lunatic out there, fans still praise this movie even with all of its flaws. The special effects are crummy and the plot is ridiculous, but yet, it captures the spirit and the fear of the Atomic Age prevalent in movies of the Fifties. It truly deserves to be remade today. I just can't count the horrible Darryl Hannah version; Fifty-Foot Woman should be remade again as an apology to that horrible farce. In the Eighties, Victoria Principal, Markie Post or Emma Samms would have been more than capable of giving the title role justice, but now, either Kate Winslet or Reese Witherspoon could possibly give a remake the justice it deserves. Till then, if you can buy this original on video or DVD, keep it; it's a collector's item of one of the best movies to have come out of the Fifties.

Okay, this movie is not going to be amongst the Top Hundred listed on the American Film Institute's "greatest" list, but it's the perfect example of a so -called "bad" film that's still wildly entertaining and good fun. Of all the notorious 1950s cheese flicks, this one takes the cake and is not to be passed over, whether you love such offbeat craziness or even if you don't. A good time is guaranteed for all (whatever your cinematic tastes and values).

Nancy Archer (the curvy Allison Hayes) is a wealthy alcoholic housewife considered the town weirdo, and she cements that reputation one night when she cries that she's just seen a satellite in the sky that supposedly come down to Earth and then swears she's had an encounter with a king-sized bald-headed giant living inside. Her rotten-to-the-core and cheating husband Harry (the perfectly-cast William Hudson) spends all his nights at the local bar blatantly smooching with sexy floozy Honey Parker (Yvette Vickers), and the flirtatious pair would love to take all of Nancy's money and be rid of her. When he learns of his wife's nutty alien story, Harry figures it's the perfect chance to send her off to the booby hatch once and for all, but he gets more than he bargains for.

At only 65 minutes, this story moves comfortably quick and there's not an ounce of dead meat to be had. Considering the absurd storyline, director Nathan Hertz (Nathan Juran) manages to get some mileage out of it anyway. Some of the all-time very worst "special" effects are on display in this cult classic, and have to be seen to be believed (the over-sized gigantic feminine "hand" is an absolute laugh riot!). Even in this present day and age of "state of the art" CGI effects, there is something eternally entertaining and lovable about these low budgeted cardboard props and cheapo transparent blow-up renderings of the giants walking around the streets. This was a favorite on New York television in the early '70s, and no kid who grew up with it can ever forget it. Be a kid again, or be one for the first time, and give this a shot for a lark. *** out of ****

Rich socialite Nancy Archer encounters an alien UFO with a giant while driving on a desolate road. Her husband Harry Archer is cheating on her with Honey Parker. None of the cops believe her but they still have to investigate because of her wealth and power. Some suggests that she should go back to the sanitarium. She drags Harry out to search for the UFO. The giant takes her while Harry gets away. He tries to run away with Honey but the sheriff is suspicious of the missing Nancy Archer. They find her and put her away into the sanitarium. There she grows to be a giant 50 foot woman.

This is more notable for the poster art and the amazingly cheesy title. There isn't anything quite like it. Others come close like 'Snakes on a Plane' or 'Sharknado' or 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes', but this one has the best title of them all. As a movie, this is strictly B-movie horror material. The special effects are almost laughable from the terribly fake giant hands to the badly done optical effects of the giants. The acting is kind of interesting. These actors are trying so hard and taking it so seriously. Sometime they overact, but they never let the silliness of it all take over. It's safe to say that this is a classic bad movie.

This is a fair movie, good for one-off viewing. The plot itself is fairly well worked for a picture of this kind which is a pleasent surprise as is the acting, which although a little hammy, is better than normal for these types of flick.

The 'special effects' are hilarious - a translucent giant and a blatantly polystyrene/papier mache hand wobbling unconvincingly on a bit of wire.

Definitely to watch once for kitsch entertainment value.

5/10.

Surprisingly this late 50's Sci-Fi feature isn't all that bad. Decent acting and filming make it one of those Black and White science fiction numbers that's entertaining and fun to watch. The last line in this motion picture is an underrated classic among closing lines. Superior to the 90 something remake.

It's unfair! Unfair I say - Turner Classics starts off it's prime time line-up tonight with "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" and follows up with "Village of the Giants", "Queen of Outer Space" and "Mars Needs Women". When am I supposed to get some sleep? This just ain't right.

Well this is one flick I've been waiting to come around for a long while. Not having seen it before, I've always been intrigued by the theatrical poster and the enticement of seeing a giant woman in scant attire. The film however only partially satisfies, there's just not enough of it! The rampage barely gets going with Allison Hayes on the attack in the final minutes and then it's all over in an anti-climactic showdown with the authorities. Bummer.

The goofiest part of this whole thing was the dizzying sense of proportion throughout the picture relative to the size of the Fifty Foot Woman. I mean that hand, just hanging there in the Archer house took up the whole bedroom, how could the rest of her fit in there? Don't try to think about it too much, it will make your head hurt.

But boy, I just love this stuff. Alien space ships, diamond powered orbs, a giant beach ball in the middle of the desert, and an heiress to millions (fifty to be exact, hey that's a million per foot!). And Yvette Vickers looking sexier than in any other flick I've seen her in. Except maybe "Attack of the Giant Leeches" in 1959. Hey, that's two 'Attack' pictures within a year - now there's a twin bill at the drive-in I'd go to see any day.

This is a very enjoyable movie for those who are fans of the genre (B-movies with giant monsters) and probably would provide some laughs to those unfamiliar with these types of movies as well. There are many giant monster films and even some notable giant man films ("Amazing Collossol Man", "Dr. Cyclops") but this was the earliest I've seen with a Giantess. It has some of the deliberately campy appeal of "Village of the Giants" from a few years later. I truly doubt that this film was designed to ever really scare people except maybe small children. The point of films like "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" is to excite children and amuse adults, then as well as now.

And actually the grown-up men might find more to get "excited" about in this sci-fi film than in most thanks to spunky Yvette Vickers (nice lady, I've met her a few times at conventions) as a young vamp and Allison Hayes as the titular curvaceous Giantess. Hayes was never better as far as I know than she was in this one (although I do recommend her work in the solid femme-Western "Gunfighter"). She does OK with the earlier bits where she's a boozy neurotic who saw a "satellite" (this film amusingly uses that early name for the UFOs) with a giant bald man who tried to steal her diamond necklace, and she does really well once she becomes a Giantess and hits the road in search of her errant hubby. Hubby is played by William Hudson with some measure of panache – he really makes you loathe him for his cheating ways and his thoughtless, selfish attitude towards the wife. The other remarkable performance in this film is the comic relief offered by Frank Chase as Deputy Charlie. Yes this type of character is pretty ordinary but for some reason, a combination of the way he was written and the way the actor played him, he seemed distinctive and interesting. I like how much of a toady he was portrayed as being and that made it so much fun when he finally had to get tough with the husband towards the end. The actor played it with an air of desperation that enhanced the comic possibilities.

Not much else to say about this one. The director Nathan Hertz is apparently a pseudonym for Nathan Juran, experienced Columbia director of Randolph Scott and Ronald Reagan Westerns who is best known for directing several of the most notable Harryhausen/Schneer productions in the late 50s and early 60s including the beloved "Seventh Voyage of Sinbad." To compare "Sinbad" or "Jason and the Argonauts" to this film is fruitless because Juran is not an "auteur" in the modern sense of the word and had little input in the subject matter of his films. He's good at getting competent performances out of average actors, and that ability does come in handy for a project like this one.

This film has to be one of my all time favorite bad movies. I used to watch it often as kid on New York City's WPIX Channel 11's Chiller Theater. The special effects(ha!) are dreadful, the dialog laughable, the acting non-existent, but I still loved it! Sultry knockout Allison Hayes wasn't a terrific actress, but she sure looked good! As a kid I remember thinking that her husband HARRY! was a big dope. Why would he want that pinch-faced blonde, when he had gorgeous, sexy and stacked Nancy to come home to every night? What a moron. Finally available on DVD after many years (Warner Bros. has distributed it but I was hoping for a better restoration--oh well)....it's still a pleasure to watch.

Next to Citizen Kane, this is my favorite movie. It has all the elements a film could have. It has a man doing the most stereotypical drunk, a group of hick sheriffs, a couple bimbos, and a transparent woman who ranges from 8 feet in height to about 75 feet, depending on where the camera is. When she was transformed, she also became quite single minded in her pursuit of her errant hubby. She began to speak in three or four word phrases which were directed by her monomania. As large woman films go, this has to be a classic. I first saw this film when I was in high school. Some local TV guy hosted a show where we got to see these kinds of films. Bless his heart. This was a time of great fun and just plain awful stuff, but it was so much fun.

Attack of the fifty foot woman is one of those crazy low budget silly movies that truly is so bad its good.Allison Hayes(real sexy for her time)plays a rich but drunken woman who has a cheating husband(William Hudson)who has an affair with a red head floozy(Yvette Vickers)who was in attack of the giant leeches a year before.well Allison meets a giant alien baldy that makes her grow into a giant bathing beauty.not only does she grow to 50 feet tall but her bust size increases 30 feet as well.and her hair turns blonde.the other special effects consist of a big inflated rubber hand.and some tinker toy electric towers.its silly but fun stuff.i found it truly insane but i have to keep watching it,maybe the 50 foot woman could meet the amazing colossal man(57)and they could get it on.and have giant kids.i wish they would release this to DVD soon.they did however do a remake in the 1990's with Daryl(splash,kill bill 1&2)hannah,but its not the same even with better special effects.i personally like the original,its so bad its good.6 out of 10.

Close encounters of the stupid kind: wealthy, drunken woman--a previous resident of the local booby hatch--sees an alien spacecraft in the desert with a 30-foot man inside, but she can't get anyone to believe her. Drive-in rubbish with a radiation-scare tactic; not incompetently-made, but surely uninspired. Mark Hanna's hot-air script is mostly all set-up...once the pay-off comes, the picture runs out of screen-time! There's a really fine shot near the end featuring Allison Hayes lying in the roadway, the townspeople running up behind her. Otherwise, the trick photography and props are third-rate, and the marital melodrama which sucks up most of the narrative is completely without interest. *1/2 from ****

This is every philandering husband's worst nightmare—a 50-foot wife full of angry revenge. Could that subtext be what turned this clumsy Z-grade sci-fi into a cult favorite. Certainly, it's not the special effects. The two giants look more like flimsy apparitions than flesh and blood realities, and worse, move with all the dispatch of sleepwalking turtles. Really scary if you're a garden slug.

Neither can it be the lame comedy relief from the deputy (Chase), who makes Barney Fife of Mayberry look like a brain surgeon. Nor is it the boilerplate scenes from a hundred other sci- fi specials of the time.

No. I figure that what grips the popular imagination is the feminist subtext. After all, think of wife Nancy (Hayes) not as 50-feet tall, but as an ordinary sized woman, except she's got 50- feet of powerful rage against a no-good husband who she's been dependent on as in the movie.

Now, one thing the film does really well is make you sympathize with the vulnerable wife. Those scenes of hubby (Hudson) cuddling with the trampy Honey (Vickers) are little gems of tacky love. The slinky Vickers is perfectly cast, lending real satisfaction to that 50-feet of slow-motion revenge.

So maybe a lot of wives or will-be-wives seeing the movie feel—what's the word—oh yeah, "empowered". At the same time, guys may think it's the scariest movie ever made. Either way, the giant woman idea turns this Z-grade dreck into something memorable.

It's true, we're all wondering how a 50 foot woman can fit in a bedroom, even a big bedroom that is 20' by 20'. But we shouldn't quibble, for obviously the tall girl had her knees bent.

Let's get down to cases. I'm not worried about Nancy seeing satellites, or my favorite line in the film, beautifully delivered by the deputy when he's ordered by the sheriff to fire his gun at the towering, vengeful female, "I CAN'T SHOOT A LADY!"

What I really want to know is why nobody that has commented on this film, from the experts to the fans, has wondered aloud why philandering Harry Archer prefers a slim blond in Honey Parker, to his rich, sultry, curvy, gorgeous wife, Nancy. Allison Hayes is so sexy, so leggy, and so hot in her black dresses and black high heels that Yvette Vickers looks like a pale, washed out blond in comparison. Yes, Yvette Vickers is pretty, but she's not a former Miss America contestant with the raw sex appeal that Allison Hayes has.

In conclusion sci-fi fans, when I watch this movie its because I get to see Allison Hayes walk around a lot in tight dresses, and to see all that leg and cleavage she shows while walking through the countryside and when she's busy demolishing the roof of that seedy little bar and grill where Harry & Honey hang out.

For those who get the latest DVD for this film with the commentary by Tom Weaver and Yvette Vickers, be advised that the whole commentary is a showcase for Vickers career. They spend about two minutes total talking about Allison Hayes, which I found infuriating.

Meanwhile, let me get back to looking at this movie one more time, so I can see my favorite, dark-haired bombshell, Allison Hayes, swing those hips and strut her stuff while she knocks down another drink and twirls that 'Star of India' diamond around her graceful fingers.

Rich recovering alcoholic Nancy Archer (a marvelously fierce performance by the gorgeously statuesque Allison Hayes) transforms into an angry and lethal roaring behemoth after she has a run-in with a giant bald alien (leering chromedome Michael Ross). Nancy breaks free from her chains and goes looking for both her faithless no-count dirtbag husband Harry (a perfectly slimy William Hudson) and his sexy floozy mistress Honey Parker (a deliciously naughty portrayal by the yummy Yvette Vickers). Competently directed by Nathan Hertz (who amazingly enough also helmed the magnificent "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" around the same time!), with a blithely silly script by Mark Hanna (who also wrote Roger Corman's fantastic "Not of This Earth"), a nonstop brisk pace, stark black and white cinematography by Jacques R. Marquette, hilariously hokey (far from) special effects (the tacky back screen projection is absolutely sidesplitting; ditto the cheesy big rubbery hand), a tight 65 minute running time, a fabulously brassy overwrought orchestral score by prolific 50's B-flick composer Ronald Stein, a simply astounding last reel mondo destructo rampage (Hayes looks incredibly sexy clad in her bed sheet bikini!), and admirably sincere acting from a game cast that includes Roy Gordon as the kindly Dr. Isaac Cushing, Ken Terrell as loyal butler Jess Stout, George Douglas as the stalwart Sheriff Dubbitt, Otto Waldis as wise Dr. Heinrich Von Loeb, and Frank Chase as amiable goofball Deputy Charlie, this legendary cult item totally deserves its sterling status as a positively gut-busting kitsch gem.

"I saw a satellite!" I take it this film was made -before- the universally known term "UFO" was around.

Wow, what a lame load of garbage. Is this EVER a movie from the 50's - lots of cigarettes, lot's booze, lot's of convertibles and lot's of painfully shrill hysterics, but more Boredom then anything. I bet there are at least a handful of nostalgic souls out there, who consider this to be a classic. However, with complete confidence, I can tell you that it wasn't good then and it sure as hell isn't good now. Just another lame and tedious, vintage, low-budget Sci-Fi flick - which now, nearly 60 years later, is even less impressive. This movie actually started out well, but VERY briefly, I like it's title screen - but after that it's all downhill from there. Here's yet another example where a movie might have been good, had a completely different group of people worked on it.

Included here is an incomplete list of things you can expect to see when watching Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Right out of the gates you have the shrill and over-wrought acting from Allison Hayes, a gold digger husband and a cast of dull, paper-thin characters, painfully dated photographic effects (that you can literally see through that which is intended to be solid), hokey attempts at slapstick - that usually miss there mark and capping things off is a short-lived, very tepidly paced and entirely unspectacular finale. When she goes on her so-called rampage through town, the movements of our 50 foot maiden wield very little weight and even less speed, she emotes practically no emotion (a pleasant countenance if anything) and an overall VERY tame approach was taken. In short, this movie sucks.

This stinking scrap of celluloid by-product currently maintains a (laughably inaccurate) 5.0 rating. After having seen the movie I can quickly and easily arrive at this conclusion, which is: Anyone who rates this weak and dated schlock above one or two stars, is obviously basing their rating from a purely and -completely- NOSTALGIC point-of-view (you can bet money on it) and that often has a way of over-riding people's logic and any critical assessment they might of had. Sorry to sound like a snob, but Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is exquisitely lame and those effects! Wwhheewww och!

There are many good old black and whites out there, that are plenty worthy of nostalgic attachment, but with Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.................well, not so much.

Another thing that I've noticed over the years, is that no Sci-Fi from the 50's is all that exciting (if they are, it's usually because of how terrible they are) and most Sci-Fi from the 50's (and beyond) are throw-away's. Sci-Fi is the hardest genre to excel in, evidently not everyone has the mind of George Lucas.

Interesting Contrast's: The Incredible Shrinking Man vs. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.

When you compare these two films, you'll find that they are absolutely the -exact opposite- of each other and here's why. Made only a year apart, in one the lead is played by man, the other by a WOman, one involves micro-nized size (1 inch tall or so), the other involves gigantism (50 feet tall) but most importantly, one of these vintage films is great - while the other is terrible. One is fun, the other a total bore.

Did anyone notice that funny continuity? When the hubby was going to over-dose her with a syringe, then the nurse walks in, she turns on the lights, screams (of course) and he's suddenly holding a vastly smaller syringe.

An alcoholic rich woman(Allison Hayes) is abducted by a giant alien and exposed to radiation. Soon after her return, she grows into a giantess. Now fifty feet tall, she wreaks destruction all over town looking for her unfaithful husband and his floozy (Yvette Vickers).

So much fun. Busty beauty Allison Hayes' theatrics are a hoot to watch ("Why did I take you back? Why? WHY?!?"). I love a lot of her work and this is the highlight of her B career. Everybody rags on this movie but it's one of my favorite B movies. Normally I don't rate up for movies like this but some movies are just so enjoyable, even if it's for what some consider the wrong reasons, that I feel I have to. With everything else I take into account when rating a movie, entertainment value is at the top of my list. This one is undeniably entertaining. Full of unintentionally hilarious lines, cheesy effects, and campy performances. One of the all-time 'so bad it's good' classics. Oh, and one of the best movie posters from the '50s. And remember: "When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism..."