Movie review – “Attack of the 50 Foot Woman” (1957) **1/2

Enormously fun science fiction film with two iconic performances – the stunning Allison Hayes as the poor old fifty foot woman, and Yvette Vickers as the archetypal Woman of Easy Virtue. She’s running around with Hayes’ hubby; Hayes then runs into an alien pod and grows fifty feet tall and develops a huge paper mache hand which remains the film’s best know special effect (the poster is also famous). It’s totally possible to do a feminist interpretation of this movie, with its wronged heroine getting revenge on her no-good man. Many memorable moments.