Mesa of Lost Women

Mesa of Lost Women is a 1953 American lowbudget blackandwhite science fiction film directed by Ron Ormond and Herbert Tevos from a screenplay by the latter and Orville H. Hampton.

During this narration, the film introduces its protagonists Grant Phillips Robert Knapp and Doreen Culbertson Paula Hill. The narrator explains that the two of them are lost in the great Mexican desert, the Muerto desert. They are nearly dead from dehydration and sunburn when discovered by an American surveyor and his Mexican companion. These characters are identified as Frank John Martin and Pepe Chrispin Martin. The two victims of the desert recover their senses in AmerExico Field Hospital, somewhere in Mexico. Grant starts narrating his story to Doc Tucker Allan Nixon, foreman Dan Mulcahey Richard Travis, and Pepe.The film flashbacks to events occurring a year earlier in Zarpa Mesa. Famous scientist Leland Masterson Harmon Stevens arrives, having accepted an invitation Dr. Aranya Jackie Coogan. Aranya name derived from the Spanish araa for spider has reportedly penned brilliant scientific treatises, and Masterson looks forward to meeting him in person. Masterson is genuinely intrigued by Aranyas theories, but his host informs Masterson that his work is not theoretical. He has already completed successful experiments, creating both humansized tarantula spiders and human women with the abilities and instincts of spiders. His creation Tarantella has regenerative abilities, sufficient to regrow severed limbs. He seriously expects her to have a lifespan of several centuries. His experiments have had less success in male humans, who simply turn to disfigured dwarfs. ........

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