VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Konterr Brilliant and touching

dougdoepke Please, if you're an MIT graduate, maybe you can explain the plot to me. Between mysterious feline powers, the Greek alphabet, who wants what, and giant moon spiders, I'm still scratching my head. Okay, after all what can be expected of such a catchpenny title, certainly not Citizen Kane or even Citizen Clunk. Actually, I thought the first part was pretty good, more like Rocketship XM (1950) than a Roger Corman shlock-fest. The rivalries among the rocketship crew are engaging and pretty well done. But then the cast is more distinguished than usual-- Jory, Windsor, Fowley, and Phipps, while even perennial joke Sonny Tufts manages a good turn. But once the ship reaches the moon, things pretty much fall apart. It's like the script has no firm idea of where to go from there; so they make it up as they go along. Whatever the case, the movie's a mess from that point on. Maybe what really bothered me was the cat women had no change into bikinis which I was expecting. The black leotards are form fitting, but why give us a guy-stuff title unless you give us good titillating guy-stuff visuals. Anyway, the movie's too good in the first part, but too bad for most parts to qualify as laughable camp. So I guess I won't be traveling to the cat woman moon, after all.(In passing-- sadly, actor William Phipps (Doug) passed away just the other day (June, 2018) at age 96! He was merely one of those unsung Hollywood grunts who carry the industry on their backs. RIP, Bill.)

Idiot-Deluxe "Probably just a touch of Space Madness." "It ain't true, there can't be another world in the bowels of the moon. / That's exactly what it is." Well first of all if you're one who expects to be entertained by the movies you watch, don't expect that here. In light of the over-all lameness of this movie you'd be much better off looking else where."Cat Women of the Moon" is an early entry in the Sci-Fi genre and unfortunately once you get past the snappy title, this film has very little to offer it's audience. As you'll quickly deduce this is a Sci-Fi adventure film of very modest make, it was filmed in black and white on a minimal budget and runs in at just over an hour in length. Having little in the way of frills, Cat Women of the Moon generates very little in terms of excitement or intrigue and ultimately it fails to make much of an impression. Though in it's favor it does star the lovely Mary Winsor (who no doubt was cast because of her distinctive cat-like eyes) and upon it's release in 1953 I have no doubt that this movie was thought of as being "hi-tech" or "cutting-edge", but by the standards of today the outlook is not too favorable, due to the fact that absolutely everything about it looks laughably dated; and to say that it shows it's age (antiquity) is an understatement. Having recently seen this little bit of badly-dated Sci-Fi cheese/throw-away entertainment, it would seem to me that most of it's budget went into the sets and honestly speaking for a low-budget Sci-Fi film from the early 50's they look pretty good, which includes a modestly impressive rocket-ship control-room and an opulent palace set made of white marble columns and a checkerboard floor. The cast of Cat Women of the Moon is capable one, but hardly distinctive, the film features a small gaggle of B-lister's who aren't anything remotely memorable and who are for the most part completely interchangeable, with the exception of the distinctively unique beauty Mary Winsor. If one were to speak of the movies atmosphere and mood Cat Women of the Moon seems to project a cold and sparse atmosphere, which to me has a look and feel to it that is very similar to that of an early black and white episode of Star Trek (which this film predates by several years). For the added element of tension, there is dissension among certain members of the crew and it's chain of command is often in question. Also tucked into the flow of things is the spark of romance, which as you'll see blossoms into a sort of "lunar-based love triangle", which all to predictably involves Mary Winsor's fetching character. If there's one scene that I must mention specifically it would have to be the scene involving the giant lunar spiders. This is some really pathetic stuff right here, first off these so called spiders are hilariously cheap and fake looking and secondly once they've been dropped to the ends of their strings they exhibit very little in the way of movement. Apparently the films director thought by merely adding lots of shrill yelling and lot's commotion (and by underlying the scene with a cartoon "tippy-toe" sound-effect, combined with Bernstein's music which kicks into high-gear), that the sound aspect of the film would distract the viewers attention away from the ridiculously phony-looking giant spiders. In any case, it didn't work and apart from that laughably lame minute's worth of cheap frills, this film has precious few in the way of stand-out scenes.Now on a musical note this movie is great and it's score is easy it's strongest point. For this particular Sci-Fi excursion, it's producers secured the services of the famed Hollywood-maestro Elmer Bernstein (Cat Women of the Moon is only one of several Sci-Fi films he would go on to score throughout his long career) and ultimately Bernstein put together an extremely catchy and impressively varied score. One which, as these ears hear it at least, is way "too good" for this otherwise completely unremarkable movie.Sadly what you have here with "Cat Women of the Moon" is a bad movie (which is also very dated), with great music and going by that logic it would seem that Elmer Bernstein is the films real star.

Michael_Elliott Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) ** (out of 4) Five astronauts (four men and a woman) land on the moon only to discover that there's oxygen on the thing but not only that but there's some "cat women" who want to steal their ship and go to Earth. For every masterpiece like The Day the Earth Stood Still you had fifty movies like this one and if you have a sense of humor towards bad films then you should enjoy this one. The film runs a very short 63-minutes and it's the type of film where you keep waiting for something to happen and it never does. I'm really not sure what the idea behind this film was other than to cash in on the sci-fi genre as the screenplay offers up nothing. I guess the so-called story deals with the cat women wanting to get back home but none of this really takes place until ten minutes to go and everything leading up to that point is just the astronauts walking around being amazed at what they see. There are some really campy moments including one sequence where the group walks into a cave only to be attacked by giant spiders on strings. Other campy moments include the cat women trying to seduce the men as well as a laughable scene where the astronauts learn that there is oxygen on the moon. Another funny thing is that there are several instances where the astronauts come off so stupid you really have to wonder if they were just homeless men on the street who were picked up and sent on a space mission. Another error happens in the gold cave when the actress accidentally calls the character she's talking to under the actors name. Heck, even future Oscar winner Elmer Bernstein did the score here. If you hate low budget, bad films then you'll hate this one as well but if you like bad movies then there's enough here to make this one "so bad it's good".

Chuck Straub What we have here is a good old 50's sci-fi B movie that's a great example of the expression "It's so bad it's good". The conflict here is that when this movie was made, it was meant to be serious stuff. Man breaking the confines of the earth, exploring the moon and encountering hostile alien life forms. It's not exactly how the movie seems today. You have a hard time taking a space ship equipped with lockers, a desk, and old office chairs too seriously. There are all sorts of scientific bloopers in this film. Three men and a woman embark to land and explore the moon. What last minute preparations do you make? Well, naturally the woman has to fix her hair and another astute astronaut is thinking of selling souvenirs when he gets back home. It gets even funnier; they bring along cigarettes and for protection against who knows what, a revolver. The conversations are equally amusing. They sound as if the space explorers were picked up off the streets and asked, hey! you want to go on a trip to the moon? The landscapes and backgrounds are mostly painted but actually they did a pretty good job at that. They're not bad at all. Times have changed though and this film doesn't quite hit the mark that it was once intended to attain. If you try watching this as a serious sci- fi drama, You will be extremely disappointed. You can find faults and pick this movie apart until it is shredded to bits and you would be rightfully so in doing it. I suggest watching it with the understanding that it's a part of sci-fi movie history. View it with an easygoing fun attitude. Look for the blunders. Laugh at the cheapness and corny dialogue. How can you not love a line like, "You're too smart for me, baby, I like em stupid". I mean, come on, it was made in 1953 and the title is "Cat-Women of the Moon" what do you really expect? It's a fun movie. Relax and enjoy it for what it is.