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A crew of five (Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor, William
Phipps, Douglas Fowley) goes to the moon, where female navigator Helen
(Marie Windsor) develops inexplicable instincts in finding an unknown
valley on the dark side of the moon where the atmosphere is actually
breathable. But then our astronauts space suits are stolen, so they can't
return to their spaceship. Instead they find a lunar village inhabited by
lunar women with names like Alpha (Carol Brewster) - their leader -, Beta
(Suzanne Alexander), and Lambda (Susan Morrow). The women, who seem to
have a weird link to Helen (which is later revealed to be hypnotic) prove
to be the perfect hosts, and soon every male crewmember has picked his
favourite moonwoman - everybody but Kip (Victor Jory), who doesn't trust
the whole situation one bit. And he's right, because actually, the
moonwomen just want to hijack our heroes' spaceship to go and conquer
earth or something. Helen is already under their spell, because the lunar
women can hypnotize only women, but the men have to do all the explaining
of their ship's inner workings, so the girls charm them. Then one of our
lunar expedition disappears after sneaking off with a moongirl, Kip
somehow manages to force the truth out of Helen, and Lambda, who has
fallen in love with one of the astronauts turns against her people. In
the end, our heroes manage to shoot the evil lunar women, Lambda is
allowed to die a heroine'S death, and the astronauts leave moon to the
moonwomen. Cat-Women of the Moon, originally presented
in 3D, is pretty much your typical science fiction movie of the space
opera variety, based on a simplistic story full of macho attitudes, and
fueled by pulp motives of its time, brought to life by cheap special
effects and a bunch of sexy women doing weird pseudo-ritualistic dances
and the like - so no, it's not a very good movie, it's actually pretty
bad, objectively speaking - but it's also a ton of fun!
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