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The wasp woman / a Film Group presentation ; screenplay by Leo Gordon from a stroy by Kinta Zertuche ; produced and directed by Roger Corman.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: English, Spanish Original language: English Publisher: [Hollywood, CA] : Santa Cruz Productions, Inc., [1959]Distributor: [Los Angeles, CA] : [Cinetel Films]Copyright date: ©1959Description: 1 online resource (2 video files (72 min. each)) : sound, black and whiteContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Other title:
  • Spanish title: Mujer avispa
  • Insect woman
  • Bee girl
  • Mujer insecto
Uniform titles:
  • Wasp woman (Motion picture : 1959)
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Zertuche, Kinta. Wasp woman
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: Production credits:
  • Cinematographer, Harry C. Newman; editor, Carlo Lodato; music, Fred Katz.
Cast: Susan Cabot, Fred Eisley, Barboura Morris, William Roerick, Michael Mark, Frank Gerstle, Bruno Ve Sota, Roy Gordon.Summary: Researcher Zinthrop, has been exploring the possibilities inherent in "royal jelly," a substance produced by wasps. To his frustration, everyone writes Zinthrop off as an oddball, even as he is on the verge of a "great discovery." It's a process allowing him to extract the jelly from the queen wasp. The result is that he has learned how to "slow down the process of aging." He sells the process to Janice, a past forty cosmetics firm executive, who has built an empire on youth & beauty. Afraid of growing old and intent on holding back time, Janice becomes a human guinea pig for Zinthrop. The only trouble is, what about the side effects!
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Susan Cabot, Fred Eisley, Barboura Morris, William Roerick, Michael Mark, Frank Gerstle, Bruno Ve Sota, Roy Gordon.

Cinematographer, Harry C. Newman; editor, Carlo Lodato; music, Fred Katz.

Researcher Zinthrop, has been exploring the possibilities inherent in "royal jelly," a substance produced by wasps. To his frustration, everyone writes Zinthrop off as an oddball, even as he is on the verge of a "great discovery." It's a process allowing him to extract the jelly from the queen wasp. The result is that he has learned how to "slow down the process of aging." He sells the process to Janice, a past forty cosmetics firm executive, who has built an empire on youth & beauty. Afraid of growing old and intent on holding back time, Janice becomes a human guinea pig for Zinthrop. The only trouble is, what about the side effects!

In English or Spanish.

Online resource; title from opening/closing credits (Digitalia Film Library, viewed August 21, 2015)

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