‘They’re fiery… fearless… ferocious!’
Cat-Women of the Moon is a 1953 American sci-fi-fi monster film, produced by Jack Rabin and Al Zimbalist, and directed by Arthur Hilton. The musical score was composed by Elmer Bernstein.
The 3-D film was released by Astor Pictures and, bizarrely, remade five years later (1958) as Missile to the Moon.
The movie stars Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory (The Man Who Turned to Stone; Kolchak: The Night Stalker; Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell), Marie Windsor (Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy; Salem’s Lot; Tales from the Darkside), Marie Windsor, William Phipps, Douglas Fowley, Carol Brewster, Suzanne Alexander, Susan Morrow, Bette Arlen, Roxann Delman, Ellye Marshall and Judy Walsh.
Having been attacked by giant spiders, an expedition to the moon encounters a race of “Cat-Women”, the last eight survivors of a two-million-year-old civilisation, deep within a cave where they have managed to maintain the remnants of a breathable atmosphere that once covered the Moon. The remaining air will soon be gone, and they must escape to survive. They plan to steal the expedition’s spaceship and migrate to Earth.
Through the use of their telepathic ability, the Cat-Women have been subliminally controlling Helen Salinger (Marie Windsor) so she can win the navigator slot on the expedition and lead the crew to their location. Once Helen and the male members of the crew arrive on the moon, the Cat-Women take complete control of her mind.
They are unable to control the men’s minds, but they work around this obstacle, with Helen’s help, and the use of their superior abilities and feminine wiles…
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Trailer:
Full film – free to watch online:
Choice dialogue:
“It’s whoey! You can’t turn love on and off like a faucet.”
“Helen, they speak English!”
‘You’re too smart for me, baby, I like ’em stupid!”
Film facts:
Project Moonbase, released a day after this movie, used the same rocket ship and some of the same sets.
