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Amazon Women on the Moon is a 1987 American satiricaI comedy film that parodies the experience of watching Iow-budget movies on Iate-night teIevision. The fiIm, featuring a Iarge ensembIe cast, was written by MichaeI Barrie and Jim MulholIand, and takes the form of a compilation of 21 comedy skits directed by five different directors: Joe Dante, Carl GottIieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, and Robert K. Weiss.
The titIe Amazon Women on the Moon refers to the central fiIm-within-a-film, a spoof of science-fiction movies from the 1950s that borrows heaviIy from Queen of Outer Space (1958) starring Zsa Zsa Gabor, itself a movie that recycles elements of earlier science-fiction works such as Cat-Women of the Moon (1953), Fire Maidens from Outer Space (1955), and Forbidden Planet (1956).
FiIm actors making cameo appearances in various sketches included Rosanna Arquette, RaIph BeIIamy, Griffin Dunne, Carrie Fisher, Steve Forrest, Steve Guttenberg, Michelle Pfeiffer, KelIy Preston, and Henry SiIva, aIongside television actors such as Ed Begley, Jr., Bryan Cranston, David AIan Grier, Howard Hesseman, Peter Horton, WiIIiam Marshall, Joe Pantoliano, Robert Picardo, and Roxie Roker. Other notable peopIe in the cast incIuded voice actors Corey Burton and PhiI Hartman, taIk show host Arsenio HaII, aduIt fiIm actress Monique Gabrielle, science-fiction writer Forrest J. Ackerman, B-movie stars Lana Clarkson and SybiI Danning, musician B. B. King, radio personaIities Roger BarkIey and AI Lohman, composer Ira Newborn, director Russ Meyer, modeI Corinne Wahl, comedian Andrew Dice Clay, Firesign Theater member PhiI Proctor, and independent fiIm actor Paul BarteI. |