Bill Barstad Arrogant space lesbians, confident of their superiority, subvert humanity's first mission to the Moon, and lay in wait with their plan for world domination. Lured into the trap by the mission's only woman, three of the four male crew members are wined, dined, and corrupted, revealing all the cat-women need to know to fly the spaceship. One astronaut is killed after revealing what he knows. The one man who has been wary throughout ruthlessly digs out the plot. Yet another has the plot revealed to him out of love. Ah, love. These two then inform the captain. After the cat-women are killed, the crew return to Earth.On their way to the moon, the ship is struck by a whistling meteor, which looks much more like a comet. It damages the atom chamber, spilling nitric acid. Would you find nitric acid anywhere in an atomic reactor? No. A fire extinguisher is used during the emergency, but there are no flames. Let that pass. The mission apparently hadn't been planned with a landing site chosen, so the cat-women's proxy convinces the captain, her main squeeze, to land on the dark side, though he's concerned that it's too cold there. The temperature on the dark side is the same as on the light side, which is the temperature of space itself. To make his point, after leaving the ship the captain drops a cigarette onto the light side, where it bursts into flame. Since there's no oxygen on the Moon, the Sun's heat couldn't have ignited it. Oh well, on with the show! The crew are lured into exploring a nearby cave. They discover an oxygen atmosphere, and are attacked by giant spider puppets. What's preventing the atmosphere from disappearing out of cave opening into the hard vacuum of space? We never learn. While the rest are distracted, a cat-women touches the female astronaut, leaving a moon mark on her left hand and making her one with the cat-women. Or so they think. When Victor Jory's caveman-like character confronts her, he embraces her and grabs that hand, breaking the hold the cat-women have on her, at least temporarily. She reveals her love for him while spilling the beans on the cat-women. He does this again later, but caught by the captain, fights with him over her affections. The captain gives up easily, though. No great love there. The cat-women do a mildly sensual dance, with musical accompaniment from some mysterious source, once they have the information they want. Preparation, celebration, pandering, or padding, you decide. The driving force behind the cat-women's desire to leave the moon is the continual loss of atmosphere there, which they say has lead to the necessity of a slow genocide over the centuries. There are only a handful of cat-women left. Adding the fact that only cat-women and giant spiders are still living on the moon, one can guess the gruesome method by which the population has been winnowed.I'm thankful for the lack of exposition on the extremely implausible and impossible in this movie. It often was and still is a real problem with scriptwriting. Not that this movie had a good script. Best to just let those things slide, and keep moving. Enjoy the corny dialog on the way to the moon. Revel in the anachronistic attitudes. Ponder the cat-women's nonsensical plot for world domination. Some would call this movie campy or kitschy. I just call it a lot of fun. Enjoy!

MartinHafer CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON is a truly terrible movie, but it is so bad and so horribly produced that it is a must-see for bad movie fans. In fact, it was so bad that it was the inspiration for the main plot for AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON. However, oddly, the plot idea was actually originally in ABBOTT AND COSTELLO GO TO MARS! The film begins on board a space ship bound for the moon that is captained by the great Sonny Tufts. In typical schlocky sci-fi fashion, the inside of the ship looks ridiculous--with lots of inappropriate equipment, no zero gravity, etc.. However, the real action didn't begin until the ship landed on the moon--at which point it's painfully obvious to everyone but this brain damaged crew that their female crew member (Marie Windsor) is working for the aliens living on the moon. It seems they have used their superior intellects to steer the ship there--in the hope that they could steal the ship and invade the Earth. Considering there only appears to be about four of these "cat women", such an undertaking does seem a bit silly, but this is a film you best watch without thinking too hard! Eventually, after battling horrible giant spiders suspended from very visible wires as well as watching the cat-women's exotic and seductive dance, the humans are able to escape their imprisonment and return to Earth safely--minus one crew member who was stabbed. How did they manage this? Well, one of the men is heard yelling off screen that he killed the cat-women as you hear gun fire! Wow, talk about sparing no expense in the final showdown!!This film epitomizes schlocky 50s sci-fi. The plot is childish, the sets silly and the space suits comical--so much that the film turns out to be a great comedy--unintentional, of course. Bad, silly, poorly done in every way--this film is one of the worst films of the decade BUT is also strangely campy and worth watching--especially if you are a bad movie freak like me.PS--I still have no idea what a cat-woman is. The film didn't explain this at all and I saw nothing feline in the film.

yourdeadmeat69 First, I'll swear that it is Charles Bronson doing an uncredited narration in the beginning of this movie, right down to the rolling S's, or Phipps with a nose cold.Well. Such shlock as this became a haven for a bunch of actors now relegated to C movie productions, some of whom didn't deserve that kind of fate. Fowley and Jory were the Western villains you loved to hate, Tufts was a pretty boy up and comer of the forties, you get the drift.Moving right along, don't view this as a movie as much as a time capsule of the fifties, when all girls were either good or bad femme fetales, and male dominance was, well, the macho joke it now shows itself to be.As such, it is right up there with Plan 9 of Outer Space and way below Destination Moon. It is not a bad place to be. Even the bad parts are fun, so, don't take this one to heart. Just kick back with a Bag of M and M's plain, and enjoy.For the record, it didn't even get to the mainstream showplaces of the late fifties, like Zacherley or Shock Theatre.

Chris Gaskin Cat-Women of the Moon is another of those movies that is so-bad-it's-good. I quite enjoyed it.A crew of five people, four men and one woman go on an expedition to the Moon and during this expedition, they face several dangers including meteorites, giant spiders and the Cat-Women. These people plan to hijack the ship and take over Earth! All are killed at the end and a member of the crew dies too.The special effects on the Moon are actually quite good considering the very low budget. The music score is by Elmer Bernstein, who of course went on to do the music for huge hits like The Magnificent Severn and The Great Escape. Well, he had to start somewhere! The cast includes Sonny Tufts (Serpent Island), Marie Windsor (The Jungle, The City That Never Sleeps), Victor Jory and The Hollywood Cover Girls as the Cat-Women.Another thing: Cat-Women of the Moon certainly has nothing to do with the 2004 movie Catwoman, so don't expect to see Halle Berry! This is a must for any 1950's sci-fi or bad movie fan. Great fun.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.