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The Wasp Woman (1959)
(a.k.a Insect Woman, The Bee Girl)
Directed by Roger Corman
Susan Cabot stars in The Wasp
Woman as Janice Starlin, who owns a large cosmetics
company and is worried about the company's flagging sales. Sales for the
last fiscal quarter are down by fourteen and a half percent; she tells her
senior staff members and demands an explanation. To one member of her
team, Bill Lane, the problem is obvious and he tells her so: it is
her. Miss Starling had always been the face of Starling Cosmetics,
but that is no longer the case. Janice is getting older and now, after
sixteen years, a new and younger face features in the company's
advertising campaigns. The company was built, he tells her, on the
strength and appeal of one person: Janice Starling and Janice Starling
Cosmetics should have Janice Starling's picture advertising them.
Enter Scientist Eric Zinthrop.
Zinthrop's last employer was paying him to research the
values of Royal Jelly and Royal Jelly comes from bees. So, as you can
imagine, the people signing Zinthrop's paycheck were less than impressed
to discover that he was actually working with wasps. Zinthrop tried to
explain that he'd made some significant success in reversing the aging
process and it was all because of wasp royal jelly. His employers
are not interested though, and tell him to buzz off which is just what the
nutty professor does and he makes a beeline for Starlin Cosmetics.
Zinthrop needs somewhere to continue his
experiments and Janice Starlin needs a way to turn back her biological
clock, so, after a little demonstration with a guinea pig, Janice gives
Zinthrop a job and tells her people to provide him with everything he
needs. Janice does impose one condition on Zinthrop though:
she is to be his first human guinea pig. The professor agrees and
is soon injecting his concoction into his new employer on a regular basis.
The treatment is a success and Starlin's secretary is soon telling her
that she could pass for twenty three, or maybe even twenty-two. If this
sounds like a happy ending, I am sorry to disappoint you, it is only the
start because the treatment has some rather nasty side effects and the
queen bee of Starling Cosmetics is winging her way to disaster.
Lame is not a word that I normally use, but it is the first
word that comes into my head when thinking about The Wasp Woman.
I found the film very disappointing. The original version is 73 minutes
long and mine has been cut to just 54 minutes, but I still felt like fast
forwarding through it. It is hard for me to say exactly why I didn't like
it. The story is very basic, but so are a lot of stories. The special
effects are minimal, but the same can be said of a lot of older films and
yet they don't bore me. One problem that I can put my finger on
is that I found it very hard to feel sympathetic towards any of the
characters. To be honest, I didn't even like the characters and so that is
probably one of the biggest reasons why I didn't enjoy watching
The Wasp Woman.
Different people have different tastes though, and just
because I didn't like the film it doesn't mean that you won't. You can
download it from the link below and watch it for free. All it will cost
you is 54 minutes of your time and if you want to you can delete the file
even quicker.
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CAST
Susan Cabot ... Janice
Starlin
Anthony Eisley ... Bill Lane
Barboura
Morris ... Mary Dennison
William Roerick ...
Arthur Cooper
Michael Mark ... Eric
Zinthrop
Frank Gerstle ... Les Hellman
Bruno
VeSota ... Night watchman
Roy Gordon ...
Paul Thompson
Carolyn Hughes ... Jean
Carson
Lynn Cartwright ... Maureen
Reardon
Frank Wolff ... Man
Lani
Mars ... Secretary
Phillip Barry ...
Man
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