Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol. 3 Soundtrack CD Robot Monster, Devil Girl From Mars and Cat-Women of the Moon Elmer Bernstein

Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol. 3 Soundtrack CD Robot Monster, Devil Girl From Mars and Cat-Women of the Moon Elmer Bernstein:

CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON (1953) was an early work by legendary composer Elmer Bernstein, who went on to score such popular movies as STRIPES and GHOSTBUSTERS. Released September 3, 1953, this film shares a plot similar to a movie released just five months earlier, ABBOTT AND COSTELLO GO TO MARS, where an alien society led by beautiful women who seduce visiting Earth astronauts. This has now become a familiar and overused trope in science-fiction films.

CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON stretched its limited budget with costumes and Chesley Bonestell lunar background paintings recycled from DESTINATION MOON (1950), plus the space ship interior set was borrowed from PROJECT MOONBASE (released to theaters just one day later).

ROBOT MONSTER, released 2 months after the original INVADERS FROM MARS, shares a similar theme of an alien invasion as seen through a young boy’s dream. Fi...