Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a independently made 1958 American blackandwhite science fiction feature film, produced by Bernard Woolner, directed by Nathan H. Juran credited as Nathan Hertz, and starring Allison Hayes, William Hudson, and Yvette Vickers. The film was distributed by Allied Artists. The screenplay was written by Mark Hanna, while the original music score was composed by Ronald Stein.

A television announcer reports sightings of a red fireball around the world. Facetiously, he calculates its path will lead it to California. Nancy Archer Allison Hayes, a wealthy but highly troubled woman with a history of emotional instability and immoderate drinking, is driving on a road in an American desert that night. A glowing sphere settles on the deserted highway in front of her, causing her to veer off the road. When she gets out to investigate, a huge creature exits the object and reaches for her the viewer sees only an enormous hand falling upon the screaming woman. Nancy escapes and runs back to town, but nobody believes her story due to her known drinking problem and recent stay in a sanatorium. Her philandering husband, Harry Archer William Hudson, is more interested in his latest girlfriend, town floozy Honey Parker Yvette Vickers, but pretends to be the good husband in the hope that Nancy will snap and return to the booby hatch, leaving him in control of her 50 million.Nancy bargains with Harry, asking him to search the desert with her for the flying satellite, agreeing to a voluntary return to the sanatorium if they find no evidence. As night falls, they find the spacecraft. The alien creature, now seen as an enormous male humanoid, emerges. Harry fires his pistol at it, but the gunfire has no effect on the creature. Harry flees, leaving Nancy behind. ........

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