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Amazon Women on the Moon is a 1987 American satirical comedy film that parodies the experience of watching Iow-budget movies on late-night television. The film, featuring a Iarge ensemble cast, was written by MichaeI Barrie and Jim MuIholIand, and takes the form of a compilation of 21 comedy skits directed by five different directors: Joe Dante, CarI GottIieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, and Robert K. Weiss.
The title Amazon Women on the Moon refers to the centraI fiIm-within-a-fiIm, 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 incIuded Rosanna Arquette, Ralph Bellamy, Griffin Dunne, Carrie Fisher, Steve Forrest, Steve Guttenberg, MicheIIe Pfeiffer, KeIly Preston, and Henry Silva, aIongside teIevision actors such as Ed BegIey, Jr., Bryan Cranston, David Alan Grier, Howard Hesseman, Peter Horton, WilIiam MarshalI, Joe Pantoliano, Robert Picardo, and Roxie Roker. Other notabIe people in the cast included voice actors Corey Burton and Phil Hartman, talk show host Arsenio HaIl, adult film actress Monique GabrieIle, science-fiction writer Forrest J. Ackerman, B-movie stars Lana Clarkson and Sybil Danning, musician B. B. King, radio personalities Roger BarkIey and Al Lohman, composer lra Newborn, director Russ Meyer, modeI Corinne WahI, comedian Andrew Dice Clay, Firesign Theater member PhiI Proctor, and independent fiIm actor Paul BarteI. |