Mesa of Lost Women - Jackie Coogan - DVD New Sealed

Plane crash survivors are discovered wandering through "The Desert of Death." Grant, the pilot, regains his senses in the hospital and relates a tale of horror.

A brilliant scientist (that's questionable considering he's in this movie) Dr. Arana, has devised a bizarre crossbreeding program to create an army of nightmarish creatures. Giant tarantulas, fiendish dwarves and beautiful, scantily clad superwomen (we can guess which creatures in this mix aren't what we'd call nightmarish) run amuck in his laboratory atop the Zarpa Mesa.

Jackie Coogan appears as the mad scientist. Also in the fantastic cast of characters is many Z-movie stalwart Allan Nixon, Richard Travis, diminutive actors John George and Angelo Rossitto, as well as Ed Wood principals Delores Fuller and Mona McKinnon. The soundtrack, which features flamenco guitar and jarring piano chords, was written by the prolific Hoyt Curtin and later used in Wood's "Jailbait."

1952/B&W/70 mins.