Can anyone tell me which film is spoofed during the "Amazon Women"/"Movies till Sunrise" segements?? My understanding is that the scenes are practically lifted from a cheap 50s sci-fi flick.
shareI've just gotten the answer from the "Need to Know" boards. Should be "Cat Women of the Moon." Several other films are suspected inspirations, such as "Destination Moon."
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The outfits themselves are lifted from some old flick called Forbidden Planet that was actually serious with Leslie Nielsen.
The plot - I don't know. But Forbidden Planet was on AMC recently and my first, and yes, sad, thought was - THOSE ARE THE OUTFITS FROM AMAZON WOMEN!
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To some degree they all had some influence; but Cat Women is the inspiration for the females down to the multicolored short skirts and spears, and Destination Moon for the men down to the space suits and the characters. A truly funny movie and for those of us who remember these earlier films (and have them on DVD like me) they really hit the mark.
shareThe outfits themselves are lifted from some old flick called Forbidden Planet that was actually serious with Leslie Nielsen.
Funny, but until "Airplane," picturing Leslie Nielsen in a comedy would have been extremely hard to do.
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cat women on the moon billymac72!
shareAlthough inspiration was gotten from the movies already mentioned, it seemed to be a more direct parody of
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It's an amalgamation of various 50's Sci-Fi movies, nit just one...as the many different answers here prove.
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The announcer seems to indicate that there are several movies being spoofed because each time the upcoming movie "Amazon Women of the Moon" is announced he gives a different date - first 1954, then 1958, then a date inbetween which I forget. The TV movie also switches from black-and-white to color which makes it look like more than one movie.
I haven't seen every 1950s moon movie, but from what I have seen I can say that the 1953 black-and-white movie "Cat-Women of the Moon" is the inspiration for the title, the shot of the flying rocket ship and its enormous interior with bunk beds, and the idea that there is a civilization of women living on the moon. But the Amazon Women look nothing like the cat-women who wore only black leotard outfits.
The ship's interior, the women on the moon, and the landing (especially the large rock formations and the visible vegetation) are also inspired by the 1958 black-and-white re-make of Cat-Women, "Missile to the Moon." The landing might also be inspired by the landing in the 1950 color movie "Destination Moon" but in that movie they didn't encounter any moon women. The helmet-removing to discover breathable oxygen on the moon comes from Cat-women and from Missile to the Moon.
When the TV movie switches to color the women and their costumes are also inspired by the 1958 Zsa Zsa Gabor movie "Queen of Outer Space" which takes place on Venus and is filmed in color. There is even a thank you credit to Zsa Zsa Gabor at the end of the Amazon Women credits. The romance between some of the extra-terrestrial women and the astronauts was part of Cat-women, Missile to the moon, and Queen of Outer Space.