Hello!

On Tuesday the 3-D Film Archive announced that they are working with the Blu-ray boutique Film Masters on a 3-D release of the 1953 camp classic Cat-Women of the Moon. It’s the very first movie about astronauts that meet ‘space babes,’ the kind that either crave men or want to kill them. Revisits of the same formula, all mostly terrible but highly entertaining, appeared throughout the decade, directed by    Charles Lamont, Cy Roth,  Edward L. Bernds, and  Richard E. Cunha. In the 1988 spoof  Amazon Women on the Moon director Robert K. Weiss devoted a segment to the down-market subgenre.

The original  Cat Women of the Moon is a title we’ve only seen flat on a so-so Wade Williams disc; the 3-D Archive says that not many people saw it in 3-D when it was new. We’re hoping that the depth effects will enhance the movie the same way that 3-D augments the, uh, unique experience of  Robot Monster. I mainly remember top-flight actors Victor Jory and Marie Windsor playing the whole movie in earnest, like real pros. Then, there’s the spaceship decor that includes normal office chairs and 16mm film reels on the walls … and a funky wrinkled curtain backdrop to depict the lunar surface. When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon and the TV news wanted to depict man’s earlier visions of moon landings, they didn’t broadcast film clips from this show.

We’re hoping for another 3-D party movie … like  The Mask or the 3-D retrofit of The Wizard of Oz.

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson