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The Wasp Woman (1959)

APPROVED 73 min  -  Horror | Sci-Fi  -   30 October 1959 (USA)
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A cosmetics queen develops a youth formula from jelly taken from queen wasps. She fails to anticipate the typical hoary side- effects.

Writers:

Leo Gordon (screenplay), Kinta Zertuche (story)
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Cast

Complete credited cast:
Susan Cabot Susan Cabot ...
Anthony Eisley Anthony Eisley ...
Bill Lane (as Fred Eisley)
Barboura Morris Barboura Morris ...
William Roerick William Roerick ...
Michael Mark Michael Mark ...
Frank Gerstle Frank Gerstle ...
Les Hellman
Bruno VeSota Bruno VeSota ...
Night Watchman (as Bruno Ve Sota)
Roy Gordon Roy Gordon ...
Paul Thompson
Carolyn Hughes Carolyn Hughes ...
Jean Carson
Lynn Cartwright Lynn Cartwright ...
Maureen Reardon
Frank Wolff Frank Wolff ...
First Delivery Man
Lani Mars Lani Mars ...
Secretary
Philip Barry Philip Barry ...
Second Delivery Man (as Phillip Barry)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gene Corman Gene Corman
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Storyline

Janice Starlin, the owner of a cosmetics firm, sees that her fading beauty is not only causing waves in her personal life but causing some prestige problems for her also-fading business. She becomes an easy mark for a pseudo-scientist, Eric Zinthrop, who claims to have developed a serum from the enzymes of wasps that will turn aging skin to youthful-looking skin. The second-best thing to a time machine. She, without any hesitation, agrees to be the first human to try the Zinthro injections. But, as her beauty returns, her secretary, Mary Dennison, and her advertising executive, Bill Lane, notices she is also having a personality change and it isn't for the better, albeit she was no Miss Congegeniality to begin with. Then, Zinthrop gets hit by an automobile, for plot-development purposes, and is somewhat incapacitated and not in any shape to be whipping up any new batches of Zinthrop's Wasp Enzyme Injection Serum and... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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Plot Keywords:

Wasp | Enzyme | Cosmetics | Injection | Serum  | See more »

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Strong men forced to satisfy a passion no human knows. See more »

Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

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Also Known As:

Insect Woman See more »

Box Office

Budget:

$50,000 (estimated)
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Sound Mix:

Mono

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1
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Trivia

This was Susan Cabot's final movie. See more »

Goofs

Continuity: When the Doctor is making the guinea pigs younger to show Janice Starlin, the position of the handle on the cage changes. See more »

Quotes

Janice Starlin: Something's happening to me. I can't control it.
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Connections

Featured in Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001) See more »