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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

This article is about the 1958 film. For the remake, see Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1993 film).
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
Poster art. A giant woman clad in a white bikini straddles an elevated, 4-lane highway. She has an angry expression, and she's holding one smoking car in her left hand as if it were a toy. She is reaching down to grab another. There are several car crashes on the highway, and people are fleeing from her as if they were small insects.
Theatrical release poster by Reynold Brown
Directed byNathan Hertz
Written byMark Hanna
Produced byBernard Woolner
Starring
CinematographyJacques R. Marquette
Edited byEdward Mann
Music byRonald Stein
Production
company
Distributed byAllied Artists Pictures Corporation
Release date
  • May 19, 1958 (1958-05-19)
Running time
66 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$65,000[1]-$89,000[2]
Box office$480,000 (USA)[3]

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958 independently made[4] American science fiction horror film directed by Nathan H. Juran (credited as Nathan Hertz) and starring Allison Hayes, William Hudson and Yvette Vickers. It was produced by Bernard Woolner. The screenplay was written by Mark Hanna, and the original music score was composed by Ronald Stein. The film was distributed in the United States by Allied Artists as a double feature with War of the Satellites.

The Allied Artists television 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 film's 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 which is already troubled by a philandering husband.[5]

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a variation on other 1950s science fiction films that featured size-changing humans: The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), its sequel War of the Colossal Beast (1958), and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957); in this case, a woman is the protagonist.[6] The film's popularity and cult status[7] has spawned numerous parodies and homages in popular media.[8]

  1. ^ Swires, Steve (May 1989). "Nathan Juran: The Fantasy Voyages of Jerry the Giant Killer - Part Two". Starlog. No. 142. p. 55.
  2. ^ Smith, Richard Harland. "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)". TCMDb. Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
  3. ^ "TMe: Box Office Tops from 1950-1959".
  4. ^ Screening American Independent Film - Google Books
  5. ^ eMoviePoster.com
  6. ^ Keep Watching The Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the 1950s, Vol. 2, 1958-1962 (New York: McFarland & Co, 1986), 16.
  7. ^ Hedash, Kara (2024-02-18). "Tim Burton's Remake Of 66-Year-Old Movie Can Finally Break His Sci-Fi Streak". ScreenRant. Retrieved 2024-05-26.
  8. ^ Stedman, Alex (2024-02-01). "Tim Burton Attached to Direct Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman Remake". IGN. Retrieved 2024-05-26.

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