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Attack
of the 50 Foot Woman
- Director:
Nathan Juran
- Genre: Science Fiction
- Movie Type: Creature Film, Alien Film
- Themes: Human Giants, Infidelity
- Main Cast: Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers, Roy Gordon, George Douglas
- Release Year: 1958
- Country: US
- Run Time: 72 minutes
Plot
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman may well be one of the worst science-fiction
films of all time, but that's not to say that it isn't thoroughly
enjoyable. Allison Hayes achieved screen immortality as Nancy Archer, the wealthy, dipsomaniac wife of shameless philanderer Harry Archer (William Hudson).
When she witnesses the crash landing of a alien spaceship -- whose
occupant is a 30-foot giant, dressed in the manner of a medieval
Frenchmen! -- Nancy goes to the local sheriff (George Douglas) with her
story, only to be laughed off as a drunken crank. Even the local TV
anchorman makes cruel fun of Nancy on his nightly newscast. Meanwhile,
hubby Harry is making whoopee at a roadhouse with his latest tootsie,
Honey Parker (Yvette Vickers).
Not long afterward, Nancy, who's been exposed to the radiation of the
spaceship, begins to feel queasy. Within a few days, she has grown to
the height of 50 feet and is lumbering around the countryside clad only
in a gigantic towel, smashing houses and trees in search of her
faithless husband ("HARRY-HARRY!!!") Hilarious in its ineptitude (the
special effects are particularly shoddy), Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is
impossible to dislike, which cannot be said of its slicker but less
entertaining 1993 cable-TV remake (with Darryl Hannah in the title
role). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Review
Nathan Juran's
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is an astonishingly enduring piece of
cinema from the low-budget end of its genre and decade. Shot in less
than two weeks, on a budget of under $100,000, the movie has been
laughed at as a title and ridiculed as a film for more than 40 years,
and not even the made-for-cable remake in 1993, starring Darryl Hannah,
has done much to raise the reputation of the original. Yet Juran's
movie, with all of its flaws, has managed to keep its place in the
hearts of cineastes and 1950s pop-culture enthusiasts for close to a
half-century. The reason may lie in the currents that run through the
fabric of its script and images, revealing aspects of the era in which
it was produced that give it a power over viewers far greater than the
cheap special effects. Those seeking an explanation must arrive at the
conclusion -- unfathomable at the outset -- that Attack of the 50 Foot
Woman is a far more thoughtful film on a subliminal level than its
script or plot summary would lead one to believe.
Its script is steeped in concerns that were the stuff of article and
newspaper headlines in 1958: unfair divorce laws in a hypocritically
puritanical 1950s United States; a fascination with unidentified flying
objects and the early phase of the "space race" ("Everybody's seeing
satellites these days," William Hudson's
Harry Archer remarks derisively, a reference to the real-life existence
of and panic over the Soviet Union's Sputnik and its successors); and,
in Harry Archer's philandering, Yvette Vickers'
sluttish Honey Parker, and the sleazy tavern where their affair is
carried out (with the neglectful sheriff and the admiring deputy as
onlookers), an admission that there were fatal rips running through the
social fabric of American life. The pitiful special effects aren't
entirely as ineffective as one thinks -- the obvious use of a doll to
replace William Hudson
at the denouement of Nancy Archer's murderous attack on her unfaithful
husband, and the inadequacy of the alien giant's one lengthy appearance,
are almost made up for by former art director (and architect) Juran's
effective use of smoke, metal conduit, sound effects, and a few
oversized magnifiers in the brief vignette aboard the alien ship; and Ronald Stein's
larger-than-life scoring patches a lot of other holes that the budget
and the resulting tight shooting schedule left onscreen. As
entertainment, the movie ends up being far more potent than its makers
could have hoped, leavening its sci-fi and horror elements with a
certain degree of humor, both as depicted on screen in the guise of the
inept deputy (Frank Chase, in a role that stands midway between Dennis Weaver's Chester on Gunsmoke and Don Knotts' Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show), and arcing over the preposterous story. Allison Hayes is sympathetic as the heroine, William Hudson
is convincingly smarmy as her homicidal husband, and George Douglas is
believable as the sheriff. If Nancy Archer's home doesn't look like it's
worthy of someone with $50 million, the tavern where much of the action
takes place is nicely sleazy and realistic, down to Stein's solid rock
& roll dance music. And somewhere in there is the kernel of a
proto-feminist message in the overall story arc. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie
Guide
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