MESA OF LOST WOMEN (1953) ¢ 1/2
D: Ron Ormond, Herbert Tevos
Jackie Coogan, Robert Knapp, Mary Hill,
Harmon Stevens, Allan Nixon, Richard Travis,
Tandra Quinn, Delores Fuller, Nico Lek
Slow-moving sci-fi about some people who survive a plane crash in an area of Mexico called the Desert of Death, where a mad scientist played by Jackie Coogan has created a race of mutant spider women. One of the women performs a nightclub dance routine that's both sexy and silly, but then she gets shot, which is bad, only she doesn't die, which is good, because she's the best thing in the movie, and there's a giant spider and an escaped lunatic with a gun and portentous narration by Lyle Talbot.
