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The quintessential space-explorers-discover-a-planet-inhabited-entirely-by-beautiful-women 1958 Creator/AlliedArtists BMovie (for other examples, see ''Film/CatWomenOfTheMoon'', ''Film/FireMaidensOfOuterSpace'', or ''Film/MissileToTheMoon'').

Captain Neal Patterson (Eric Fleming) and his space crew of Lt. Mike Cruze (Dave Willock), Lt. Larry Turner (Patrick Waltz) and Professor Konrad (Paul Birch) leave on a mission to [[ExcusePlot do something pertaining to a space station]]. Upon arrival however, they witness the station being destroyed by a mysterious ray. They are then caught in the ray themselves, and crash land on Venus. Setting out into the jungle, the four are beset upon by minidress-clad beautiful women armed with rayguns. They are taken to the palace of tyrannical Queen Yllana (Laurie Mitchell), and thrown in prison, where they are given the scoop; in the midst of a nuclear war between Venus and a planet called 'Mordor' ([[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings no, really]]), Yllana led an uprising in which she wrested control of the planet from men and banished said men to Venus's moon (not that Venus has a moon). She believes that the astronauts are spies gathering intelligence for an attack on Venus by Earth, and plans to destroy Earth with the same ray that destroyed the space station. Luckily for the men, it seems that there's a rebel faction, lead by Talleah (who is played by '''''Creator/ZsaZsaGabor'''''), who long for the return of the company of men and are thus plotting to depose Yllana, and are willing to aid them.

Joi Lansing has an uncredited role as the Earth girlfriend of one of the astronauts.

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!!This film provides examples of:
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The film takes place in 1985. You know, back when they had Big Wheel space stations and rocketships to Venus.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The Venusians speak English because they have been [[AliensStealCable monitoring our "electronic waves"]]. Strangely the Venusians who first capture our heroes speak (albeit accented) English to their leader, yet use GratuitousForeignLanguage when addressing the Earthmen.
-->'''Brunette Venusian:''' ''(into [[CommLinks communicator]])'' We have found the intruders.
-->'''Yllana:''' ''(offscreen)'' Good, [[BringHimToMe bring them in]].
-->'''Lt. Turner:''' They speak English!
-->'''Redheaded Venusian:''' Go, go, go!
-->'''Prof. Konrad:''' I believe we better accept the invitation.
-->'''Lt. Cruze:''' Yeah, the way those [[DisintegratorRay shooting irons of theirs work]], I'm with you, Doc.
-->'''[[BlondeBrunetteRedhead Blonde Venusian]]:''' ''(RemonstratingWithAGun)'' Bacchino. ''Bacchino!''
-->'''Lt. Turner:''' Well, you heard what the babe said. Bacchino.
* AllAmazonsWantHercules: This is actually more justified than other LadyLand examples, as the absence of men has been imposed by Yllana and her followers, rather than a feminist culture that evolved over time. So the reason gorgeous dames are throwing themselves at our heroes is because they want love or [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter babies]].
* ArtificialGravity: After crashlanding on an unknown world, the astronauts turn off the artificial gravity to get some idea from the reading which planet they are on.
* ArtisticLicenseSpace:
** The surviving men of Venus have been [[PenalColony banished to a moon]] orbiting Venus...of which there are apparently several, which you can't see from Earth because of the dense atmosphere.
** Apparently, a planet's size determines the breathability of its atmosphere.
* BeneathTheMask: Literally. [[spoiler:After Patterson removes Yllana's mask and sees her scarred face, she taunts him over whether he still wants to embrace her. He is unable to. Outraged she has him removed by her guards, [[IJustWantToBeLoved breaking down in tears once he's gone]].]]
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Some creature that looks like a cross between a beetle and a spider ambushes one of the astronauts in a cave.
* BigRedButton: Averted as the Beta Disintegrator has a tiny red button. I guess the queen isn't CompensatingForSomething.
-->'''Yllana:''' One touch of a tiny red button, and Earth will become a wasteland!
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The Venusians who first capture our heroes include women of every color. [[MonochromeCasting Hair color, that is]]. Both Yllana and Talleah [[EveryoneLovesBlondes are of course blondes.]]
* BMovie: Released as a double feature with ''[[Film/Frankenstein1970 Frankenstein]]'' (1970).
* BoundAndGagged: Yllana is tied up and gagged, so Talleah can steal her mask and [[DressingAsTheEnemy impersonate her]]. [[spoiler:But when her guards enter the room, Yllana kicks down the screen she's been hidden behind, exposing the deception.]]
* BringHimToMe: Queen Yllana accuses the astronauts of being spies for an impending attack and sentences them to death, but later sends her guards to bring Patterson for a private audience. His crew suggests that [[VillainessesWantHeroes Yllana fancies him]] and urge their captain to play along. Turner is more than willing to volunteer in his stead, but Patterson girds his loins and faces his duty. It doesn't turn out the way he expects.
* ButNowIMustGo: Once the ''Starfire'' is repaired the astronauts must depart to Earth, much to the disappointment of Queen Talleah and her followers. Then a message from Earth tells them the decision has been made not to risk using a damaged spacecraft; instead they are ordered to wait for a rescue mission that could take up to a year to arrive. Our heroes are not particularly bothered by this news.
* {{Camp}}: Creator/ZsaZsaGabor in a painted-on gown and heels exclaiming "I hate dat qveen!"
* TheCasanova: Lt. Turner is introduced smooching a gorgeous blonde moments before the mission. He spends the rest of the movie leering shamelessly at all the eye candy. At the end of the movie he's quite happy to stay with his girl on Venus rather than return to MyGirlBackHome.
* ComputerEqualsTapedrive: Justified as they are specifically said to be loading a tape onto the rocket's autopilot.
* CovertPervert: While fleeing Yllana's guards, the rebels find a lot of excuses for SecurityCling and HoldingHands. Not that the men are complaining.
* DecapitatedArmy: Once Yllana dies, Talleah becomes queen and everything ends happily ever after. Never mind that Yllana had a ruling Council and soldiers who shared her misandrist views, which should have led to a CivilWar.
* DelegationRelay: When the fire starts going out, the astronauts keep passing the buck on who's going to stop kissing and relight it again. Eventually [[ThirdWheel Konrad]] says he'll fetch more firewood as he's the only one who "[[DistractedByTheSexy isn't busy]]".
-->'''Motiya:''' We don't really need any more [[AccidentalInnuendo wood]].
* DisintegratorRay:
** The [[WeaponOfMassDestruction Beta Disintegrator]]. Wouldn't Alpha Male Disintegrator be more appropriate?
** Odeena is hauled before the queen, who shoots her InTheBack with a RayGun that [[GoryDiscretionShot turns the victim into a puff of colored smoke]].
** When Turner is attacked by the giant spider creature, it's shot and bursts into flame. By the time he's crawled out from under it the creature has turned to dust. [[RecklessGunUsage Good thing overpenetration isn't a problem]] with these rayguns!
* DontYouDarePityMe: When Patterson tries a KirkSummation, Yllana responds bitterly, "Is that understanding, or pity?"
* DoesNotLikeMen: Yllana, who blames all men for the war [[spoiler:that lead to her disfigurement.]]
* DoomsdayDevice: The Beta Disintegrator projects "nuclear energy" to destroy space stations and planets.
* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:Patterson tears off Yllana's mask while seducing her, only to recoil in horror because her face is hideously scarred by radiation burns from the war.]]
* EatingTheEyeCandy
-->'''Cruze:''' Well, what now?
-->'''Konrad:''' My guess is they want to look us over.
-->'''Peterson:''' That's fair enough. Larry's sure looking them over.
-->'''Turner:''' [[ImAManICantHelpIt You're not fooling.]] ''(checking out Motiya)'' [[EveryoneLovesBlondes Look at that blonde!]]
* EverybodySmokes: Averted; Captain Patterson reprimands Konrad as he's about to light up [[NoOshaCompliance when they're refueling with liquid oxygen]].
* EyesNeverLie: When asked if she believes the Earth men, Motiya says his eyes indicate he (Lt. Turner) is telling the truth. Given that Turner was eyeing her hungrily, they no doubt were.
* {{Fanservice}}: The AmazonBrigade in their miniskirts and Creator/ZsaZsaGabor in her side-split dress ShowSomeLeg and run about in high heels.
* {{Gendercide}}: Yllana killed off the Venusian men, [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou except for the useful scientists and mathematicians]] who she [[PenalColony banished to a nearby moon]].
* GirlyRun: Which rather offsets the menace of being chased by a man-hating AmazonBrigade armed with disintegrator guns.
* [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen God Save Us From The Qveen!]]: Yllana is a [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds tyrannical ruler physically and psychologically damaged by man's warlike ways]]. Even though no-one on Earth knows that the Venusians even exist, she's so paranoid she's convinced the Earthmen intend to invade her planet and so [[OmnicidalManiac she intends to destroy Earth first]].
* GoldColoredSuperiority: Talleah emerges in a figure-hugging gold dress to show she's become the new Qveen of Venus.
* GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks filled with [[TechnicolorScience colored fluids]] and bunsen burners [[NoOshaCompliance left on for no apparent reason]] are shown in Talleah's laboratory to cue the audience that [[InformedAbility she does science stuff]], given that she's wearing a side-split dress instead of a LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine.
* GreenEyedMonster: Talleah gets a bit miffed when Patterson is brought to see the qveen (the men crowing about it in front of her doesn't help). They conclude that dolls are the same on any planet.
* TheGrotesque: [[spoiler:The Queen of Outer Space is a Queen Without A Face.]]
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy:
** Cruze falls asleep on guard duty, enabling the Venusians to sneak up on them. On seeing himself surrounded by a bevy of beautiful babes toting rayguns, his first instinct is to assume he's dreaming and go back to sleep again.
** While hiding in a cave the astronauts are too busy snogging hot babes to post a guard. Only Konrad (the only one who's left out) leaving the cave to look for more firewood prevents them from being taken by surprise by a search party.
* {{Hallucinations}}: Cruze's first response on waking up and seeing them surrounded by babes toting rayguns is that he's been away from Earth too long.
* HellIsThatNoise: The astronauts are startled by a strange electronic warbling, which is [[TakeOurWordForIt apparently the sound of the aircraft used by the Venusians]].
* HeWentThatWay: The Venusians are about to find our heroes hiding in Talleah's laboratory, when Odeena rushes in shouting in Venusian and pointing elsewhere. The soldiers rush out, but they soon find they've been tricked. Odeena is then hauled before Yllana who has her RewardedAsATraitorDeserves.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Yllana is determined to destroy the Earth, but the rebels have sabotaged the Beta Disintegrator. When she runs inside and starts throwing levers, it [[DefeatEqualsExplosion explodes and kills her]].]]
* HoldingHands: The beautiful babes of LaResistance when fleeing Yllana's guards. As least they have a better excuse than usual for this trope, as these are the first men they've been able to grab hold of for some time.
* HotWind: The blast from the rocket taking Lt. Turner into space tussles the blonde hair of the ditzy dame he left behind.
* HomingLaser: The Beta Disintegrator appears to be this, as beams keep coming at the space station [[SpecialEffectsFailure from completely different directions!]] Finally one locks on and the space station is toast.
* HumanAliens: When our heroes realise they've crashlanded on Venus, they speculate on what form of intelligent life might inhabit it. InsectoidAliens? LittleGreenMen with [[EyeOnAStalk eyes on stalks]]? They're later captured by a society consisting entirely of hot babes in miniskirts and high heels.
* HystericalWoman: One Venusian babe attacks our heroes in a man-hating frenzy as soon as they're brought into the council room.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: GenderInvertedTrope; Yllana makes it clear to Patterson that his crew can be interrogated to get to the 'truth' of their mission, or he could become her HotConsort as its LonelyAtTheTop now she's banished all the men. In fairness [[AManIsAlwaysEager Patterson is entirely willing]] to go along with this ScarpiaUltimatum [[spoiler:until he takes her mask off. She does not take his subsequent rejection well.]]
* IJustWantToBeLoved: The thousands of women who yearn to be free of Yllana's tyranny because they cannot live without love form LaResistance. Clearly SituationalSexuality isn't working for them. Even the Queen implies that she's willing to be merciful if [[WeCanRuleTogether Patterson is willing to love her]]. [[spoiler:Unfortunately it appears that BeastAndBeauty is not a GenderInvertedTrope.]]
* KavorkaMan:
** Cruze is a bit startled when Kaeel tells him how attractive he is. It helps when there's only four men on the entire planet.
** Poor Konrad is the only man who doesn't have a girl, but the final scene of the movie shows him being glomped by all the other women who don't have a man. And he's got a whole year of this to look forward to.
* LaResistance: Talleah and her cohorts were already plotting to overthrow the qveen, so they form an EnemyMine alliance with the Earthmen.
* LadyInRed: Talleah is introduced in a white outfit (presumably a [[LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine nod to her being a scientist]]), but changes to red when going to meet the only males on the entire planet.
* LadyLand: Since Yllana killed or banished all the men.
-->'''Cruze:''' Professor, what do you make of all this? There's nothing but women.\\
'''Konrad:''' Perhaps this is a civilization that [[HideYourLesbians exists without sex]].\\
'''Turner:''' You call that civilization?\\
'''Konrad:''' Frankly, no.
* LudicrousSpeed: Expressions vary from "happily constipated" as they're taking off, to "strapped-to-an-operating-table-and-anal-probed" as their rocketship hurtles (well, [[OnlyAModel wobbles actually]]) towards Venus at [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale over a hundred miles a second]].
* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: The girls of LaResistance hand all their {{Ray Gun}}s over to the Earthmen, even though [[FauxActionGirl they should be more familiar with them]]. They only get them back for a TrojanPrisoner gambit.
* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat: When fleeing the queen's guards, one of the women says, "Yllana's detection devices are relentless. They might even track us down by our heartbeats." Cruze, huddled with her, says, "Boy, I'm really givin' her a target right now."
* MysteriousVeil: The queen's WhiteMaskOfDoom is compared to this. Turns out she wears it for another reason.
* NeverTrustATitle: She's actually [[ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale just the Queen of Venus]]. Mind you, it was originally ''Queen of the Universe'' before ExecutiveMeddling had the title changed [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant because it sounded like a beauty pageant]].
* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Averted by Patterson, who expresses disappointment that the women of Earth aren't as forward as Venusian women in [[BoldlyComing expressing their affections]].
* NoSeatbelts: Averted; the chairs deploy into couches and the crew and passenger are strapped down, which is just as well when their spaceship later goes out of control.
* OurDoorsAreDifferent: A closet door in Talleah's laboratory closes in a T-shape.
* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: After the rocket crashes, the crew note that the speedometer's needle is at the far end of the scale at 100 miles per second -- they can only speculate [[LudicrousSpeed how fast they might actually have been traveling]].
* OutOfTheFryingPan: Our heroes flee [[DeathFromAbove aerial bombing]] into a cave that radar and infra-red sensors can't penetrate, only to be attacked by a GiantSpider creature.
* RetroRocket: The ''Starfire''. Except [[StockFootageFailure when it's on the launchpad]].
* SecurityCling: The rebels seem [[CovertPervert rather eager to do this]]. Poor Konrad is the [[ThirdWheel odd man out]], as there's only three of them.
* ScoobyStack: Albeit a horizontal version. [[spoiler:As Yllana is EvilGloating over the impeding destruction of Earth, she doesn't see Kaeel appear in a nearby doorway, followed by Motiya, then several other rebels all lining up alongside them. They exchange a FaceNodAction with Talleah, then rush in to rescue everyone once the Beta Disintegrator starts blowing up.]]
* SoundInSpace: The DeathRay trying to hit the SpaceStation.
* SpaceClothes: Minidresses and high heels. Such a likely choice of clothes in a society with no men. And such a practical choice of clothes for traipsing around in jungles and swamps.
* SpaceStation: The unimaginatively named Space Station A (though even its designer admits it's just a bus stop InSpace). It forms the classic wheel design, is shown spinning fast enough to give everyone on board space sickness, and took 22 years to build from the moment the first man stepped into space in the far-future of 1963.
* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Though the [[DistressedDude men get hauled around like this]] as well.
* TrojanPrisoner: When they see guards have tracked them to the cave, the astronauts realise that ResistanceIsFutile as the guards could simply starve them out. So they hand their rayguns back to LaResistance, who pretend they've just captured them. It works surprisingly well as Yllana has the prisoners brought to her private chamber instead of the Council room. Talleah orders the guards to wait outside and they capture the queen when she turns up for some EvilGloating.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: How Yllana went FromNobodyToNightmare.
-->'''Patterson:''' How did she manage to overthrow the men?
-->'''Talleah:''' Tey didn't take hair seriously. Tey vere preparing for var. After all, she vas only a voman.
* UselessProtagonist: Ironically it's the rebel women who save the day [[spoiler:by sabotaging the DoomsdayDevice,]] not our heroes. In fact the presence of the astronauts only makes things worse, fueling Yllana's paranoia and hatred. You could argue that they served as a catalyst for the rebellion, but it would have happened anyway.
* VenusIsWet: The Venusians live in a jungle, despite the rocketship landing on an icy planet so the movie can use StockFootage from ''Flight to Mars''.
* VideoPhone: The electronic televiewer.
* WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue: Used to HandWave the HollywoodScience.
** "Isn't Venus's atmosphere unbreathable?" "Yes, I formulated those theories myself. Obviously I was wrong."
** And this line...
--->'''Captain Patterson:''' But at its closest Venus is 26 million miles from Earth! [[LampshadeHanging You don't just accidentally land on a planet 26 million miles away!]]
--->'''Professor Konrad:''' That's what I would have said. But it appears all things are possible in space.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: While her soldiers want to shoot the Earthmen and traitors on the spot, Yllana has them brought to the Beta Disintegrator, so they will be ForcedToWatch the Earth's destruction. Talleah she declares will [[CruelAndUnusualDeath die last and slowly.]]
* WomenDrivers: Cruze expresses skepticism that a [[MenAreStrongWomenArePretty bunch of dames]] could have invented the ray gun that shot them down. Turner then asks how they could have even aimed it. "You know what women drivers are like." [[DudeNotFunny Even Cruze walks off in disgust]] at this lame comment. Mind you, that would explain why the beam was bouncing all over the place.
* WorthlessYellowRocks: When the one of the men comments that the whole planet must have lots of gold deposits Talleah doesn't understand why gold is important.
* YouHave48Hours: The queen plans to use her Beta Disintegrator to destroy Earth in two days.
* YoureInsane
-->'''Yllana:''' You will be interested to hear that the weapon will be ready to fire in a few minutes. Well, Captain? No comments?
-->'''Patterson:''' I think you're out of your mind!
-->'''Yllana:''' ''(to Professor Konrad)'' A person like you must [[ForScience appreciate this achievement.]] One touch of a tiny red button, and Earth will become a wasteland! Even the mountains will crumble into dust.
-->'''Prof. Konrad:''' [[YouMonster It's monstrous.]] Will nothing keep you from going through with this?
-->'''Yllana:''' [[OmnicidalManiac Nothing!]]
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