Wealthy heiress Nancy Archer (Allison Hayes) has a lot of money but she also has a lot of problems. For one thing, despite being a very beautiful woman, the inheritor of a 50 million dollar financial empire and owner of one of the world’s largest diamonds she just can’t seem to keep a man. Her husband Harry (William Hudson) likes the money and all of the trappings that come with it, he just doesn’t happen to like his wife. He prefers to keep the company of local hussy Honey Parker (Yvette Vickers) while Mrs. Archer stays at home pining for her philandering husband and hitting the bottle like there is no tomorrow. In addition to her drinking problem she also spent some time in the “booby hatch”, so it comes as very little surprise when absolutely no one will believe her when she begins telling people that she was accosted out on a deserted highway by a giant alien with his own “flying satellite” (UFO). Yes, the whole town is talking about nutty Mrs. Archer, especially Mr. Archer; all that he and Honey can talk about is shoving her right back into the nuthouse so they can have all that money for themselves. But Nancy isn’t ready for the asylum, not just yet anyway. First she makes her husband drive them all over the desert trying to find her alien admirer. After a full day of driving and nearly at the point of giving up Nancy finally does stumble across her strange visitor again. It seems that Nancy’s boyfriend from outer space needs that extra large diamond of hers to power his ship (which coincidently happens to look like a light bulb with silver spray paint on it). Nancy is not worried about her diamond though, she is ecstatic because now there is proof that she’s not crazy! Harry on the other hand has the more typical reaction when facing a giant monstrous alien from another world, he starts shooting at it and when that doesn’t work he takes off running leaving his wife in the monster’s clutches. Back in town Harry gets Honey packing and they get ready to get out of town, but fast. But not fast enough before the local sheriff (George Douglas) has them brought in for questioning about the now missing Mrs. Archer. Back at the Archer estate Nancy is found unconscious (with strange radioactive marks on her neck) on top of the pool house! Sedated and kept under the watchful eye of her personal physician Nancy begins growing, but when she occasionally does regain consciousness there is only one thought in her ever enlarging cranium, she wants her Harry! Meanwhile, good old Harry does what any dutiful husband would do when their wife is at home, unconscious and growing to the size of King Kong, he makes plans to kill her in her sleep! But before he can do the deed his plans are ruined and he slithers back to town (and Honey). It would seem that you need a lot of sedatives to keep a 50-foot woman down so it is not long before Mrs. Archer is back on her feet again and looking for that cheating husband of hers. She tears her way out of the house (now only wearing a bikini-like outfit made out of bed sheets) heading for town and looking for Harry and his hussy girlfriend who are at the local bar having a grand old time. She’s tired of his cheating ways and wants him all to herself, and now that she is 10 times his size, maybe, just maybe he’ll pay attention to what she wants.

There have been volumes written about this classically bad movie so there isn’t much more that I can add. I’ll just say that if you enjoy bad films, laughably bad films you are going to like this one for sure. Allison Hayes as Nancy Archer is the very best part of this film. Watching her chew up the scenery makes for a very enjoyable 66 minutes of your time. To be honest it’s really hard to tell if she was a bad actress or just got stuck in a really awful film. Since even the greatest actress in the world would look rather talentless in this production you can’t really hold it against her. From her other work that I have seen I believe that she did indeed have some acting talent and obviously she was a beautiful woman with definite screen presence. It’s a shame that Hollywood didn’t give her a real chance to show her talents, unfortunately most of her other films are of a similar quality to this production. All of the other actors seem to fit their parts well, especially William Hudson as her slimy, cheating hubby and Yvette Vickers who seems perfectly cast as Harry’s conniving, bohemian mistress. Director Nathan Juran seemed to be a hit or miss kind of guy, directing several very good films as well as some really bad ones. It’s hard to believe that he directed the wonderful fantasy adventure The 7th Voyage of Sinbad the very same year that he made this. Attack of the 50ft woman – one of the worst (and funniest) of all times!