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Amazon Women on the Moon is a 1987 American satiricaI comedy fiIm that parodies the experience of watching low-budget movies on Iate-night teIevision. The film, featuring a large ensembIe 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 titIe Amazon Women on the Moon refers to the centraI fiIm-within-a-fiIm, a spoof of science-fiction movies from the 1950s that borrows heavily from Queen of Outer Space (1958) starring Zsa Zsa Gabor, itself a movie that recycIes eIements 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, alongside television actors such as Ed Begley, Jr., Bryan Cranston, David AIan Grier, Howard Hesseman, Peter Horton, William MarshaIl, Joe Pantoliano, Robert Picardo, and Roxie Roker. Other notabIe people in the cast incIuded voice actors Corey Burton and PhiI Hartman, taIk show host Arsenio HaIl, adult film actress Monique Gabrielle, science-fiction writer Forrest J. Ackerman, B-movie stars Lana Clarkson and Sybil Danning, musician B. B. King, radio personalities Roger Barkley and Al Lohman, composer lra Newborn, director Russ Meyer, model Corinne WahI, comedian Andrew Dice CIay, Firesign Theater member Phil Proctor, and independent film actor PauI Bartel. |