Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Good idea lost in the noise

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

"I saw a satellite!" I take it this film was made -before- the universally known term "UFO" was around.Wow, what a lame load of garbage. Is this EVER a movie from the 50's - lots of cigarettes, lot's booze, lot's of convertibles and lot's of painfully shrill hysterics, but more Boredom then anything. I bet there are at least a handful of nostalgic souls out there, who consider this to be a classic. However, with complete confidence, I can tell you that it wasn't good then and it sure as hell isn't good now. Just another lame and tedious, vintage, low-budget Sci-Fi flick - which now, nearly 60 years later, is even less impressive. This movie actually started out well, but VERY briefly, I like it's title screen - but after that it's all downhill from there. Here's yet another example where a movie might have been good, had a completely different group of people worked on it.Included here is an incomplete list of things you can expect to see when watching Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Right out of the gates you have the shrill and over-wrought acting from Allison Hayes, a gold digger husband and a cast of dull, paper-thin characters, painfully dated photographic effects (that you can literally see through that which is intended to be solid), hokey attempts at slapstick - that usually miss there mark and capping things off is a short-lived, very tepidly paced and entirely unspectacular finale. When she goes on her so-called rampage through town, the movements of our 50 foot maiden wield very little weight and even less speed, she emotes practically no emotion (a pleasant countenance if anything) and an overall VERY tame approach was taken. In short, this movie sucks. This stinking scrap of celluloid by-product currently maintains a (laughably inaccurate) 5.0 rating. After having seen the movie I can quickly and easily arrive at this conclusion, which is: Anyone who rates this weak and dated schlock above one or two stars, is obviously basing their rating from a purely and -completely- NOSTALGIC point-of-view (you can bet money on it) and that often has a way of over-riding people's logic and any critical assessment they might of had. Sorry to sound like a snob, but Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is exquisitely lame and those effects! Wwhheewww och! There are many good old black and whites out there, that are plenty worthy of nostalgic attachment, but with Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.................well, not so much.Another thing that I've noticed over the years, is that no Sci-Fi from the 50's is all that exciting (if they are, it's usually because of how terrible they are) and most Sci-Fi from the 50's (and beyond) are throw-away's. Sci-Fi is the hardest genre to excel in, evidently not everyone has the mind of George Lucas.Interesting Contrast's: The Incredible Shrinking Man vs. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. When you compare these two films, you'll find that they are absolutely the -exact opposite- of each other and here's why. Made only a year apart, in one the lead is played by man, the other by a WOman, one involves micro-nized size (1 inch tall or so), the other involves gigantism (50 feet tall) but most importantly, one of these vintage films is great - while the other is terrible. One is fun, the other a total bore.Did anyone notice that funny continuity? When the hubby was going to over-dose her with a syringe, then the nurse walks in, she turns on the lights, screams (of course) and he's suddenly holding a vastly smaller syringe.

An alcoholic rich woman(Allison Hayes) is abducted by a giant alien and exposed to radiation. Soon after her return, she grows into a giantess. Now fifty feet tall, she wreaks destruction all over town looking for her unfaithful husband and his floozy (Yvette Vickers). So much fun. Busty beauty Allison Hayes' theatrics are a hoot to watch ("Why did I take you back? Why? WHY?!?"). I love a lot of her work and this is the highlight of her B career. Everybody rags on this movie but it's one of my favorite B movies. Normally I don't rate up for movies like this but some movies are just so enjoyable, even if it's for what some consider the wrong reasons, that I feel I have to. With everything else I take into account when rating a movie, entertainment value is at the top of my list. This one is undeniably entertaining. Full of unintentionally hilarious lines, cheesy effects, and campy performances. One of the all-time 'so bad it's good' classics. Oh, and one of the best movie posters from the '50s. And remember: "When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism..."

Allison Hayes plays the title character, a spurned woman named Nancy Archer, whose husband Harry(played by William Hudson) has been unfaithful to her, having a repeated affair with Honey Parker(played by Yvette Vickers). When she has two bizarre encounters with a UFO(manned by a giant) she finds herself growing to(you guessed it) 50Ft. tall, going on her "attack" in the last few minutes, trying to get Harry and Honey for revenge, before the police shoot her. Not a Bert I. Gordon production, though just as shoddy and inept, only more so this time. Only good for laughs, though attractive Allison Hayes became something of a "B" movie queen.

This movie is fun mainly for the over-the-top characterizations of a neurotic socialite whose slimy husband is cheating on her with the most vulgar floosie in town.The storyline is beyond strange...A giant human-like alien touches the neglected woman and thereby causes her to grow to 50 feet tall. Er...OK.Hysterical in nearly every previous scene, our heroine remains inexplicably mute about her bizarre transmutation, wanting only to channel her new-found strength into rubbing out her spouse and smooshing his paramour. Her work in these regards complete, it seems somehow tragic to see the giantess killed in the final frame. (Hadn't she suffered enough?)I looked up the extremely voluptuous actress who played Nancy on Wikipedia and was surprised to learn that this former Miss America contestant died as an invalid at age 47, apparently the victim of a similarly peculiar fate!