27.2.10

queen of outer space (1958)

"Why don't you girls knock off all this Gestapo stuff and try to be a little friendly."
Capt. Patterson (Eric Fleming) and his crew are on a routine trip to Earth's space station when it is destroyed by a ray from deep in outer space. They are then targeted and to avoid it end up crashing onto Venus. Despite everything they learned at school Venus is very much like earth, only populared by miniskirted beauty queens who are ruled over by Queen Yllana (Laurie Mitchell). She intends to take over Earth, but they are helped by an anti-war faction led by scientist Talleah (Zsa Zsa Gabor) as they try to stop her.
Like much of this production everything, from the costumes to the plot is recycled from other films, in this entertainingly campy sci-fi. You'll gasp as the giant spider attacks, and you'll puzzle over Zsa Zsa Gabor's acting style, which has only one look - haughty, no matter what the situation!

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