Attack of the 50ft Woman – 1958 film poster

Attack of the 50ft Woman – 1958 film poster

This is a stunning poster of a colossal sized woman straddling a highway overpass, picking up vehicles from the wreckage of a multi-car pile-up. It was produced in 1958 for the film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. It has gone on to be a cult classic and the poster is highly desirable. An original copy sold in 2014 for £5000.

It’s a 1958 American black-and-white science fiction film directed by Nathan H. Juran and starring Allison Hayes, William Hudson and Yvette Vickers. It was produced by Bernard Woolner.

The film’s storyline concerns the plight of a wealthy heiress whose close encounter with an enormous alien in his round spacecraft causes her to grow into a giantess, complicating her marriage already troubled by a philandering husband.

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a variation on other 1950s science fiction films that featured size-changing humans: The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), its sequel War of the Colossal Beast (1958), and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). In this case, a woman is substituted for a man as the film’s protagonist.

The poster art of Reynold Brown

William Reynold Brown was a prolific American illustrator, and poster artist.He started his career inking the illustrations for Hal Forrest’s comic strip Tailspin Tommy. During World War II he worked as a technical illustrator at the Los Angeles-based aerospace manufacturer North American Aviation.

After the war, Brown turned his hand to creating advertisements and illustrations for magazines and journals such as Popular Science, Popular Aviation, Boy’s Life, The Saturday Evening Post and Argosy.

It is, however, mainly his prolific poster work for Universal Studios that he is best known today. He is responsible for more than 100 films. Brown was the artist behind the poster art of some of the world’s most well-known films. Several of which have become classics.

Film posters designed by Brown include: Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Tarantula (1955), This Island Earth (1955, The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), The Land Unknown (1957), Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Curse of the Undead (1959), Ben-Hur (1959), The Atomic Submarine (1959), House of Usher (1960), The Time Machine (1960), Spartacus (1960), Black Sunday (1960), The Alamo (1960), The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1961), King of Kings (1961), How the West Was Won (1962), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), Black Sabbath (1963), Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964), War of the Zombies (1964) and  Shenandoah (1965)

Reynold Brown’s film posters are some of the most desirable, valuable and sought-after movie posters of all time. His poster are often referenced in other films and television programmes. Several of Brown’s posters appeared in the drive-in theatre scenes of Back to the Future. Brown’s iconic 50 foot Woman poster was also used in Lana Lang’s apartment in Superboy.

Our posters are carefully and professionally created from vintage originals. Whilst great care is taken in the production of these posters, we also try to maintain a vintage feel, so there may be small imperfections, fold marks, scuffs, tears, or marks that were part of the original poster master. If these do appear they should be visible on the larger views of the item on this listing. The originals of many of the posters we offer can cost many thousands of pounds, so whilst these posters look great, especially framed and mounted on a wall, they are intended as fun, affordable reproductions and not intended fine art prints.

The 50x70cm version has been specially produced to be used in conjunction with Ikea’s 50x70cm Ribba picture frame which currently retails for around £15. So you can bag a print and frame for a great price.