Queen of Outer Space (1958)

Too much of everything

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Enjoyable, silly, dumb, but fun 50's sci-fi film. Must have been intended as camp from the get-go. A quartet of Earth astro-guys take off for a space station but it's destroyed by a mysterious energy beam as they watch. The same beam hurtles them to Venus where they meet the title man-hating queen, who took out the station. Venus had a gender war a some years back and all but a few men, scientists who were incarcerated, were eliminated. It seems she's convinced herself that Earth is a threat and wants to eliminate ALL men. How does she figure to reproduce little female Venusians? Now the Earth guys have to foil her plans. Not a problem with virile men and a planet full of man-hungry women. Zsa Zsa Gabor plays, get this, Venus's premier scientist, who aids the men in their quest. Goofy fun. Certainly not to be taken seriously. I recognized some costumes from Forbidden Planet. Highly recommended for bad movie fans.

The queen of outer space was certainly a man-hater. The captain of the crashed earth ship tries to give her the Captain Kirk/James Bond treatment, but fails when he takes off her mask. A victim of radiation burns, giving her the worst 'butter-face' ever! "Men did this to me...Men and their wars!" Unfortunately, the queen is revolting, and quite mad. This was always a fun movie for me to watch. It was released the year I was born, and I saw it many times over the years. So silly, but fun anyway. I always enjoy the beginning with the ship caught in a tractor beam from Venus! The same beam that destroys earth's space station pulls the earth ship 26 million miles in a matter of minutes, at least minutes of screen time. As the actors point out, they were unconscious for the trip, and have no way of knowing how long it took, or how fast they went.It is goofy, but I still give it 6 out of 10. Especially for the good- looking Venusian women. Definitely could only have been made in the fifties.

Zsa Zsa Gabor stars(but does not play the title character!) in this unbelievably stupid, poorly made science fiction film(a failed satire of the genre?) A manned spaceship flight to Venus finds it populated exclusively by beautiful women, under the reign of tyrannical queen Yllana, who hates men, and was responsible for leading the revolt against them, exiling the survivors to a penal colony on the moon. Some Venusian women want the men back, and so team up with the astronauts to take down the queen, and stop her from destroying the Earth with a "super weapon" as well. May be good for some camp value, but that is all this turkey is worth.

Well for me, I guess this is what you'd call a bonus day on Turner Classics - as they screened "The Cosmic Monsters" followed in quick succession by "Queen of Outer Space", neither of which I'd seen before, thus gluing me to the TV for a span of three hours. As 'Queen' progressed, it became pretty apparent to me that the story was an updated version of 1953's "Abbott and Costello Go to Mars" for a host of reasons. For starters, even though the name of the A&C romp has 'Mars' in the title, they actually wound up on Venus by way of New Orleans and the Mardi Gras. In both stories, the planet is ruled by women who have spurned men and banished them from their world. It would probably be a toss up between Zsa Zsa Gabor and Mari Blanchard as to who was the more beautiful co-star, but overall, I'd have to score one for A&C for having the better looking array of female Venusians. Theirs looked like they walked off the set of a Miss Universe contest, while the gals here were definitely cast for their gams and not their faces.One of things that really blew my mind here was seeing Eric Fleming in the picture as Captain Neal Patterson of the astronaut team. It's hard to imagine how coming off of this flick he would have been tapped to ramrod herds of cattle across the West in 'Rawhide'. In fact, I can't imagine how any of the principals managed to do this with a straight face. The sets are incredibly cheap looking, the Venusian backdrop is totally art deco, and the dialog is interchangeable with any Frankie and Annette beach flick from the following decade.You could probably put together a pretty long list of the incredibly goofy stuff going on here. As far as I could tell, the story takes place in the way distant future of 1979, since it was mentioned the American way station in outer space was built twenty two years ago in 1957. Since the picture came out in 1958, I was literally astounded to see the Queen's flat screen TV operated at one point by the Captain with a remote! My question - how come it took so long for us to get them?! Now if you're watching the picture with a critical eye, not something I'd recommend mind you but nevertheless, you'll marvel at the incredible coincidence of the hijacked astronauts landing on a planet where they don't need pressurized suits or an oxygen supply. What a lucky break! Then there's the whole business of Queen Yllana (Laurie Mitchell) looking to blow up Earth with that Beta-Disintegrator gizmo. When she finally got around to it, she kept punching that red button like one does on an elevator that fails to respond the first ten times. With all that, we never got to find out why the thing malfunctioned turning her into a crispy critter.You know, if you think about it, there's a natural progression in film making when you start connecting the dots here. You had that 1953 Abbott and Costello film, and then you had this one serving as a connecting bridge to that landmark of television Sci-fi - 'Star Trek'. The female crew members of the Enterprise got by on pretty much the same colorful mini-skirts that the women on Venus did, and Captain Kirk was just a more sophisticated version of Lieutenant Larry Turner (Patrick Waltz). With that in mind, I'd have to agree with Professor Konrad (Paul Birch), who at one point in the proceedings opined - "It appears all things are possible in space."