Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)

Director:

Arthur Hilton

Writers:

Al Zimbalist (based on a story) and
Jack Rabin (based on a story) ...

Release Date:

3 September 1953 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Horror | Romance | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

They're fiery...fearless...ferocious!

Plot:

Astronauts travel to the moon where they discover it is inhabited by attractive young women in black tights.

Plot Keywords:

Astronaut | Moon | Rocket Ship | Earth | Cavern

Cast

Sonny Tufts	...	Laird Grainger
Victor Jory	...	Kip Reissner
Marie Windsor	...	Helen Salinger
William Phipps	...	Douglas 'Doug' Smith
Douglas Fowley	...	Walter 'Walt' Walters
Carol Brewster	...	Alpha
Susan Morrow	...	Lambda
Suzanne Alexander	...	Beta
Bette Arlen	...	Cat-Woman (as Betty Arlen)
Roxann Delman	...	Cat-Woman
Ellye Marshall	...	Cat-Woman
Judy Walsh	...	Cat-Woman

Also Known As:

Rocket to the Moon

Runtime:

64 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

USA:Approved

Company:

Z-M Productions

Trivia:

William Phipps told interviewer Tom Weaver, "When I saw that spaceship set, I thought I was workin' for Soupy Sales! And that giant spider! They held it up with big ropes above us on the cave set and dropped it down on our heads. At the time, I thought it was the most outrageous, absurd thing in the world - how did spiders get on the Moon?! It was all just incredible - I thought, 'How can anybody put this in a movie? It's gonna ruin it!'"

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Alone with Walt in the gold cave, the Cat-Woman Beta's voice is heard replying to his exclamations - she calls him "Doug".

Quotes:

Alpha: Four of us will be enough. We will get their women under our power, and soon we will rule the whole world!

Movie Connections:

References Project Moon Base (1953)

3-D and Elmer Bernstein music! (and still it stinks . . . )

Mission Commander Sonny Tufts and his crew of space explorers brave the perils of a hostile Moon. They are threatened by a giant Moon spider and captured by telepathic lunar Amazons in black tights. A love triangle develops between Sonny, one of the Moon women, and a fellow crew person (Marie Windsor).

Okay, so it's not a great movie, but it was originally filmed in 3-D, and the music is by Elmer Bernstein (who scored both `The Ten Commandments' and `Robot Monster'. What a career!).

The 1958 film `Missile to the Moon' is essentially a remake, complete with the giant spider. The only improvement it makes is to give the girls more colorful costumes.

Just for the record, the other films with all-girl alien worlds are `Queen of Outer Space', `A & C go to Mars', and `Fire Maidens from Outer Space'. The girls in `World Without End' are from Earth, and there are a few men, but they're wimpy compared to the astronauts who show up to romance them.