Movie Information
Overall Rank: 33669
Average Rating: 1.7/4
# of Ratings: 18
Theatrical Release Date: 05/19/1958
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nathan Juran
Actors: Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers, Roy Gordon, George Douglas, Ken Terrell
Plot: The wife of an adulterous husband encounters a alien, grows into a giant, and terrorizes a small town to seek revenge on her husband and lover. -- SmokeScreener
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1/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 05/26/2021
Remove the camp factor and it’s just a dirt cheap B-movie. The lead actress is pretty. The special effects work for her growing huge is terrible.
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2/4
Gabe - wrote on 05/27/2008
This film is better than it's rating suggest. It has a lot to do with gender roles in film and society as a whole. Most films of this era were made by men, for men. And, this was also the early stages of the women's lib. movement. The film depicts a woman fighting for what she believes in, yes the effects are corny, but it's also 1958, not 2008.
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1/4
Attack of the Really Bad Movie
SmokeScreener - wrote on 02/25/2009
"Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman" is a truly awful movie. The film clocks in at 66 minutes, but it felt like it took three hours to get through it.
The plot involves a love triangle in which a husband (William Hudson) is having an affair with a sleazy woman (Yvette Vickers), which is making his wife (Allison Hayes) mentally unstable. As if that isn't enough, the wife encounters a spacecraft piloted by a giant alien, but her reports of the encounter just make her look more insane.
As a result of her encounter with the alien, the wife grows into a giant herself. We finally see the 50 foot woman in the last 10 minutes of the movie when she goes on a rampage to seek revenge on her husband and his lover.
I watched this movie, along with several other B-movies from the 1950s, with my …
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