The Astounding She-Monster is a 1957 science fiction

Science fiction film

Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic...

 horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 starring Robert Clarke

Robert Clarke

Robert Irby Clarke was an American actor best known for his cult classic science fiction films of the 1950s.-Early life:...

 and directed, written and produced by Ronald V. Ashcroft. The film focuses on a scientist and a gang who have kidnapped a rich heiress and their encounter with an alien who has crashed to Earth.

Plot

A group of criminals who have kidnapped an heiress take over a geologist's home in a secluded forest to hide in. Then a UFO crashes nearby and out emerges an alien resembling a beautiful woman- however, she's highly radioactive and can kill with her bare touch. She starts stalking and killing the other characters. In the end, the alien herself is killed, but not before the scientist realizes she was only trying to ask for help, apparently unaware of how dangerous she was to humans. He fears what the reaction of her race will be towards Earth after the incident.

Cast

Actor	Role
Robert Clarke Robert Clarke Robert Irby Clarke was an American actor best known for his cult classic science fiction films of the 1950s.-Early life:...	Dick Cutler
Kenne Duncan Kenne Duncan Kenne Duncan , born Kenneth Duncan MacLachlan, was a well-known B-movie character actor. Hyped professionally as "The Meanest Man in the Movies," the vast majority of his over 250 appearances on camera were Westerns, but he also did occasional forays into horror, crime drama, and science fiction...	Nat Burdell
Marilyn Harvey	Margaret Chaffee
Jeanne Tatum	Esther Malone
Shirley Kilpatrick	The She-Monster
Ewing Miles Brown Ewing Miles Brown Ewing Miles Brown began his career as an actor in Hollywood. His first role was a small part in the comedy, Our Gang. In the early 50's he decided to integrate the production domain...	Brad Conley
Al Avalon	Radio Newscaster
Scott Douglas	Narrator