History Film / TheLeechWoman

* ButNotTooBlack: The actresses who played Old and Young Nalla (Estelle Hemsley and Kim Hamilton, respectively). All of the background tribswomen, as well, are noticeably lighter-skinned than the males.

* AllMenArePerverts: Depressingly so; every single male in the movie seems motivated by lust (And greed). [[UnfortunateImplications And the women are completely defined by their ability to attract men]].

* HumansAreBastards: The ultimate moral of the film; There is not a single honorable character in the entire cast, and in fact most of the cast is appallingly petty, occasionally outright [[MurderIsTheBestSolution murder]]

* AllMenAreLustful: Depressingly so; every single male in the movie seems motivated by lust (And greed). [[UnfortunateImplications And the women are completely defined by their ability to attract men]].

* JerkAss: Paul Talbot

* {{Yandere}}: Sally. Pulling a gun on your ex's new flame isn't exactly normal.

** Neil Foster probably counts too. A supposedly intelligent lawyer lets himself be instantly seduced away from his fiancee by a client's niece whom he'd never heard of until she appears, and who looks and sounds exactly like a younger version of his client.

[[folder:Synopsis (From the MST3k wiki)]]

!!Tropes used in ''TheLeechWoman'':

* JerkAss: Paul Talbot, verging on CompleteMonster.
** Verging?

** After 'several' minutes of Africa footage, it's declared to be "more like stock 'mileage' at this point."

* PlayingGertrude: June's implied to be approximately in her mid-fifties or so, and much older then Paul. At the time of filming, Coleen Gray was about 37 or 38 - 13 years younger then the man who played her husband.

--> '''Tom Servo:''' Why? This comes completely out of nowhere!

--> '''Mike:''' Defender of truth, friend to children!

!!The ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' presentation has examples of:

* EnforcedMethodActing: And we do mean ''enforced''.
* RunningGag: "'''[[TheBeverlyHillbillies JED]]!!!'''"
** Also an OverlyLongGag, as he does one huge yell that goes on throughout the ending credits.
** Sally's attempts to get Neil's attention away from "Terry": "Neil! Neil! '''NEIL!'''"

* ValuesDissonance: This movie is a great step sideways in racial sensitivity.
** The Africans in this film are not idiots, but actually [[ChessMaster cunning]], and are actually the most likeable characters in the film. Keep in mind this film was released in TheFifties.

* FridgeLogic: If you ''know'' naipe slows aging, why not at least ''try'' seeing if taking it alone will slow your aging down to a decent rate instead of letting yourself get old and then killing people?
** Actually this may be averted since I don't think June ever learns about taking it alone slowing the aging process. Malla only demonstrated that fact to Talbot.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: "Old women are evil!"

!!Synopsis (From the MST3k wiki):

* TooDumbToLive: Apparently the restoration of her youth shaved off a few dozen of Malla's IQ points. "Well, I ''had'' been having psychic dreams about you becoming a murderer, but since I'm young now, I don't really care any more. Think I'll go get laid - seize the day, you know. Anyway, you've got free reign of the village 'til we execute you and your heavily-armed boyfriend tomorrow! Ta!"

* DespairEventHorizon: June, after drinking Sally's pineal juice and having her aging ''accelerate" rather than reverse.

** The Africans in this film are not idiots, but actually [[XanatosGambit cunning]], and are actually the most likeable characters in the film. Keep in mind this film was released in TheFifties.
* XanatosGambit: Malla.