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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958 science fiction film produced by Bernard Woolner for Allied Artists Pictures. It was directed by Nathan Juran (credited as Nathan Hertz) from a screenplay by Mark Hanna, & starred Allison Hayes, William Hudson & Yvette Vickers. The film was a take on other movies that had also featured size changing humans, namely The Amazing Colossal Man & The Incredible Shrinking Man, but substituting a woman as the protagonist. The story concerns the plight of Nancy Archer, a wealthy heiress whose close encounter with an enormous alien being causes her to grow into a giantess. She uses her new size & power to seek revenge against her philandering husband Harry & his mistress, Honey Parker.
Plot Spoiler warning: Plot & /or ending details follow.
Allison
Hayes stars as Nancy Archer, whose husband Harry (William Hudson) wants the US
$50 million she recently inherited from her father so he can abandon her &
live it up with his young mistress Honey Parker (Yvette Vickers). After catching
Harry flirting with Honey during a Friday night dance at a local bar, Nancy encounters
a spaceship carrying an extraterrestrial thirty feet tall who, we later learn,
needs diamonds to power his "satellite," as the craft is called throughout
the movie. (The film was produced about two months after the launch of Sputnik,
& was co-featured with the Roger Corman film War of the Satellites.) Nancy
wears one of the largest "rocks" of all, the priceless Star of India
diamond. The local sheriff initially scoffs at Nancy's tale, but humors her because
the taxes she pays afford him & his deputy a comfortable salary. Harry sees
what he regards as his wife's relapse into alcoholism as an opportunity to have
Nancy committed to an asylum. The next afternoon, having summoned a psychiatrist
to examine his wife, Harry agrees to drive Nancy, now seductively dressed in tight-fitting
toreador pants, through the desert in search of the alien.
At sunset they find his satellite. Nancy pounds on the hull of the ship & , finally vindicated, shouts, "It's real! I'm not crazy!" thus rousing the interplanetary traveler inside. Finding the creature impervious to bullets, Harry flees, leaving Nancy at the giant's mercy. The alien intends his victim no personal harm; he only wants the Star of India. In seizing the diamond he scratches her throat, but then takes the unconscious woman back to home & leaves her on the roof of the poolhouse. Her doctor explains she has apparently been exposed to some kind of radiation.
Egged on by Honey, Harry schemes to give Nancy a lethal dose of a "serum" with which she's being treated. Approaching her in the dark with Nancy's private nurse surreptitiously following him, he discovers that Nancy has grown to an enormous size. Nancy's doctors want to operate to stop her growth, but they need Harry's permission to begin the procedure. Imagining his wife to be incapacitated, he leaves home & spends the evening drowning his sorrows in a bar with Honey while awaiting Nancy's demise. Doctors manage to sedate & restrain her massive form as the sheriff & the Archers' butler follow the giant's footprints & discover his satellite. When they attempt to reclaim the stolen diamond, they are chased away & their car demolished before the spacecraft takes off. By nightfall Nancy is too large to restrain. Wrapping sheets around her body, she escapes by tearing the roof off her own mansion. "I know where my husband is!" she exclaims, heading toward town. "He's with that woman! I'll find him." Cornering the cheating lovers, she rips the roof off the bar in which they're hiding & hurls a beam onto Honey, killing her. She then picks up Harry & carries him away like a rag doll (which is the prop that was actually used in this scene). The sheriff fires a riot gun at an electrical transformer as she passes it & she falls to the ground, electrocuted along with the husband she only wanted to herself.
1993 remake
The
movie was remade in 1993 as Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, starring Daryl Hannah
in the leading role. Although it was a low-budget production, the 1990s special
effects were sufficient to make Hannah a convincing giantess. Whenever she gets
angry, she starts to grow. & this movie is a little more revealing. One memorable
scene showed her using a swimming pool for a bathtub, whilst talking to her normal-sized
husband (played by Daniel Baldwin) on the poolside. The movie also had a strong
feminist undercurrent; the heroine's "enlargement" is a metaphor for
her emancipation from the men who previously had controlled her life. The ending
had also been changed, where it is revealed that the aliens responsible for giving
her the ability to grow also gave it to two unnamed women with similar husbands.
They are taken onboard the alien ship, & their husbands are placed inside
a cylinder & will only be released when they learn to be better husbands.
Hannah's husband is the only one not making any progress. Attack of the 50 ft
woman. that is that.
1995 parody
Attack Of The 60 Foot Centerfold
parodied the original film. In 1995, Fred Olen Ray produced a parody entitled
Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold, starring J.J. North & Tammy Parks. Beyond
the basic premise, the plot had little in common with the original movie, being
concerned with the side-effects of a beauty-enhancing formula on two ambitious
girl models. The movie was deliberately farcical & made on an extremely low
budget; the illusion of size-difference was achieved using forced perspective,
unlike the earlier movies which used composite imaging.
2006 DVD Release
Attack
of the fifty foot woman was most recently released as part of AC Comics Gargantarama
DVD available at accomics.com. Gargantarama — Giant Women In the Movies is
an original production which examines the phenomena of giantess women in fantasy
cinema. Giant women is a popular fantasy often explored in the pages of AC Comics'
Femforce, Giantess & Big 'Uns. This is the video equivalent showing fantasy
scenes of well-endowed women such as Anita Ekberg, Joy Harmon & J. J. North
(among others) as giant women on the silver screen. This production is the precursor
to an all new giant woman video coming from Galaxy International in 2006 &
includes special effects test scenes showing how to make an actress into a giantess.
Run in its entirety is the 1958 cult sci-fi classic Attack Of the 50-Foot Woman
starring Allison Hayes, which was not previously available on DVD. Special added
attraction is a new 22 minute production, THE AMAZING COLOSSAL WOMAN starring
BRENNA BARRY as Garganta. Initially designed to be a three-minute trailer to display
giantess effects, this production was expanded as a homage to the low-budget sci-fi
thrillers of the 1950's. To make it even more retro, it is released in glorious
black & white.
Trivia
Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" book
Moving Pictures climaxes with a giant, 50 foot woman carrying a screaming ape
up a tall tower, where she is confronted by flying wizards.
The German title
of this film gives the height as 20 meters.
Volcom released a shirt with a
design similar to the original poster reading "Attack of the 50-foot Volcom"
Attack
of the 50 foot woman 1993 was colour, the first was in black and white, other
people sometimes think it is called attack of the 50 foot women or attack of the
60 foot woman, and attack of the 40 foot woman. Plus attack of the 5 foot woman
was once a newpaper headline somewhere. Actually she just pushed someone over,
in fury.
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