Season 4: Episode 182 - NATURE VS MAN: Attack of the 50 Ft Woman (1958)/Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

The Attack of the 50ft Woman (1954)

 

The 1958 science fiction film directed by Nathan H Juran and starring Allison Hayes, William Hudson and Yvette Vickers, was released as other giant monster films were being released.  Originally considered just a concept, the film would be put in production independently and released by Allied Artist.  The film dealt with a heiress who has an encounter with a UFO and is grown much to her philandering husband’s dismay.

 

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

 

The science fiction comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Lily Tomlin and life partner Jane Wagner, stars Elizabeth Wilson, Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty and John Glover, a take off of the 1957 classic film The Incredible Shrinking Man.  Lily Tomlin plays four parts in the film.  Interestingly enough, the film deals with chemicals that we use in our food and cleaning products and the adverse effect these have. 

 

Opening Credits/Introduction (4.05); Man Messes With Nature (22.10); Attack of the 50 Foot Woman Trailer (23.54); Why God? (25.43); Final Thought (52.33); Nature Messes With Man (59.23); The Incredible Shrinking Woman Trailer (1:00.51); Mother Nature’s Revenge (1:03.22); Nature Lives To Fight Another Day (1:30.08); End Credits (1:40.57); Closing Theme (1:41.48) 

 

Opening Credits– Planet Synth by Dan Hughes

 

Closing Credits – There’s Always A Woman by Kate Ballard and Sally Mayes taken from the album Unsung Sondheim.  Copyright 1993 Varèse Sarabande. 

 

Original Music copyrighted 2020 Dan Hughes Music and the Literary License Podcast. 

 

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