Mesa of Lost Women
a.k.a. Lost Women of Zarpa, Tarantula
Director:
Ron Ormond, Herbert Tevos
Cast:
Jackie Coogan, Richard Travis, Allan Nixon, Mary Hill
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- DVD Release Date: 12/26/2000
- Original Release: 1953
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- Sales Rank: 51,818
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Chapter Index
0. Chapter Index
1. Main Title; The Desert of Death [4:17]
2. The Whole Story [6:32]
3. A Very Poor Choice [8:00]
4. Dance of Death [13:30]
5. A Very Short Flight [5:07]
6. "So Close to Heaven" [5:52]
7. The Mysterious Mesa [9:17]
8. Fireside Confessions [8:43]
9. A Spy [3:09]
10. Spider Bite [:59]
11. Desperate Measures [2:05]
12. The End? [1:42]
Editorial Reviews
Mutated spiders, mad geniuses, childlike mental patients, gold-digging blondes, and vengeful little people are only part of the madness in this legendary bit of oddball science fiction. Grant (Robert Knapp) and Doreen (Mary Hill) wander into a shack in the wastelands of Mexico's Muerto Desert, where the sunburned and dehydrated pair tell their tale to a surveyor for an American petroleum firm. Grant was working as a pilot for millionaire businessman Jan Van Croft (Nico Lek), who was to marry the much younger Doreen when engine trouble stranded them in a Mexican border town. Jan and Doreen were killing time in a roadhouse when they were joined by the eccentric Dr. Leland Masterson (Harmon Stevens), who had recently escaped from a mental hospital. Before Masterson's nurse, George (George Barrows), can lure his patient back to the hospital, Masterson pulls a gun and shoots entertainer Tarantella (Tandra Quinn) while she performs a wild dance routine; Masterson then takes Jan and Doreen hostage and demands that Grant fly them away. Further engine trouble strands the traveling party on a mesa, where they discover a handful of strange, tiny men and statuesque women. In time, we discover that Masterson knows the story behind the Mesa's unusual residents -- they're the products of a series of experiments by Dr. Aranya (Jackie Coogan), whose research into the pituitary glands of spiders has produced unusual results. The only screen credit for screenwriter and co-director Herbert Tevos (who helmed the project with Southern exploitation icon Ron Ormond), Mesa of Lost Women also features a memorably irritating guitar-and-piano score and a brief appearance by Dolores Fuller, best known for her work with one-time beau Edward D. Wood Jr. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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