Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958Americanscience fictionfeature film produced by Bernard Woolner for Allied Artists Pictures. It was directed by Nathan H. Juran (credited as Nathan Hertz) from a screenplay by Mark Hanna, and starred Allison Hayes, William Hudson and Yvette Vickers. The original music score was composed by Ronald Stein. The film was a take on other movies that had also featured size-changing humans, namely The Amazing Colossal Man and The Incredible Shrinking Man, but substituting a woman as the protagonist.

The story concerns the plight of Nancy Archer, a wealthy heiress whose close encounter with an enormous alien being causes her to grow into a giantess. She uses her new size and power to seek revenge against her philandering husband Harry and his mistress, Honey Parker.

A television announcer (Dale Tate) tells of people around the globe spotting a floating red ball. Nancy Archer (Allison Hayes) is a wealthy but highly troubled woman. She has been speeding along the desert roads at night, fleeing her problems. A glowing ball settles on the highway in front of her. A giant reaches for her, but she runs back to town. No one believes in her story because of her drinking problem and having been institutionalized before. Her shifty husband (William Hudson) is more interested in his floozy (Yvette Vickers). Nonetheless, he pretends to be the good husband in hopes that Nancy will ‘snap’ and return to the ‘booby hatch’. She convinces him to search the desert with her, looking for the “satellite”. Eventually, they find it, and as the giant emerges Harry flees, leaving Nancy behind. Later, Nancy is found on the roof of her pool house. She has been sedated by her doctor. Harry thinks to give her a lethal injection of sedative, but when he goes up to her room, he finds she has grown into a giant.

The sheriff and Nancy’s butler find and explore the alien’s spherical ship. Seems the giant alien needs diamonds, perhaps fuel. The giant alien interrupts, wrecking their car, so they walk back. Nancy awakens and breaks free. Determined to find her wayward husband, she breaks through the roof of her house, and stomps off to town. In town, she takes the roof off the bar. A beam falls on the floozy, killing her. Nancy picks up Harry and walks away, The sheriff shoots at her to no apparent effect, but accidentally hits a power line transformer. The transformer blows up near Nancy and kills her, with Harry lying crushed in her hand.

delete reply sanssouciblogs wrote on Oct 31, ’10 “The sheriff shoots at her to no apparent effect, but accidentally hits a power line transformer. The transformer blows up near Nancy and kills her, with Harry lying crushed in her hand.” Oy vay! This is funny. Bad case of pms, too. The jokes are endless–I mean if you were driving on a highway and looked up a 50 foot woman’s dress, wouldn’t YOU plotz?

delete reply parsonsblvd wrote on Oct 31, ’10 LOL…how could I ever forget this movie….used to be on Chiller Theater WPIX. Miss those days!

delete reply gileson wrote on Nov 1, ’10 And they say size doesn’t matter.

delete reply catfishred wrote on Nov 1, ’10 sanssouciblogs said “The sheriff shoots at her to no apparent effect, but accidentally hits a power line transformer. The transformer blows up near Nancy and kills her, with Harry lying crushed in her hand.” Oy vay! This is funny. Bad case of pms, too. The jokes are endless–I mean if you were driving on a highway and looked up a 50 foot woman’s dress, wouldn’t YOU plotz? I’d hide for sure! A modern ‘grown up’ take on Alice in Wonderland? LOL

edit delete reply lauritasita wrote on Nov 1, ’10 I was a little kid when I first saw this, but at the time, it was really scary!

delete reply welshdoug wrote on Nov 1, ’10 This was actually one of the better 1950s B movies.

delete reply welshdoug wrote on Nov 1, ’10, edited on Nov 1, ’10 sanssouciblogs said The jokes are endless–I mean if you were driving on a highway and looked up a 50 foot woman’s dress, wouldn’t YOU plotz? I have an “upskirt” photo of the Statue of Liberty, and all I can see is a staircase……not scary at all.

edit delete reply lauritasita wrote on Nov 1, ’10 welshdoug said I have an “upskirt” photo of the Statue of Liberty, and all I can see is a staircase……not scary at all. LoL, Doug, you always had a way with words!