From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   Among the things Mark Leeper wrote:    
   >    
   > ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN was directed by Nathan Hertz, a    
   > pseudonym for Nathan Juran who the previous year directed THE 7TH    
   > VOYAGE OF SINBAD.   
   >If there is one place to look for    
   > quality in ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN, it is in the acting. In    
   > the title role is Allison Hayes, who had made four fantasy film the    
   > previous year, THE DISEMBODIED, THE UNDEAD, THE UNEARTHLY, and    
   > ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU. This is the role for which she is best known,    
   > though it probably was not much of a stretch for her.    
      
   Playing the 50 foot woman not a stretch! Humor!   
      
   >The script calls the spherical object a    
   > "satellite" again and again. Of course it is not a satellite, it    
   > is more similar to the bubble that Glinda the Good Witch of the    
   > North uses to zip around Oz.   
      
   After the 1957 launch of Sputnik, many people who knew what they were talking   
   about were quoted in the news talking about "satellites."  Other people--   
   these people,  saw the headlines and TV and thought they had a two dollar word   
   for "spaceship."  Roger    
   Corman famously produced "War of the Satellites" at a short schedule to be   
   released in 1958 while the iron was hot.   
      
      
   > There is not much film here to warrant a second viewing here.    
   > Certainly it seems an unworthy choice for HBO to remake as they did    
   > in 1993.   
      
   Haven't seen it,  I think I remember some hint that it was about female   
   empowerment.   Seems to have had more effort put into it than the original  --   
   even relative to their time periods, but they were still aiming at a lower   
   target than remaking one of    
   the A pictures of the era.   
      
   --    
      
   -Jack   
      
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