
In Queen of Outer Space
(1958), three American astronauts -- wearing the exact same spacesuits
as the astronauts in Forbidden
Planet
-- are on a routine mission to drop a professor
off at a space station
orbiting 20,000 miles above Earth when the station is blown up by a
mysterious ray.
The ray also damages their spaceship, which winds up
crash-landing on Venus. To their surprise, the planet is inhabited
solely by shapely women who speak English, prance around in short
skirts and high heels, and wield standard 1950s-issue ray guns.
Apparently, the men were wiped out in a war between the
sexes. And although the astronauts insist they mean no harm, the evil,
masked Queen Yllana brands them as spies and declares her intentions to
destroy Earth with her weapon of planetary destruction, the fearsome
beta disintegrater.
Our
heroes find an ally in a scientist named Talleah, played by Zsa Zsa
Gabor, who leads an underground resistance force against the wicked
queen. Gabor does manage to show off some of the charisma that made her
star -- and rich husband collector -- despite her limited acting
abilities.
Of course, Talleah and the astronauts' leader, Captain
Neil Patterson (Eric Fleming), fall in love. Meanwhile, the other
astronauts get hot 'n' heavy with the super-horny babes from Talleah's
rebel band, and they all work together to defeat man-hating Queen
Yllana.
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flying saucer back
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