Amazon Women on the Moon
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Directed by	Joe Dante Carl Gottlieb Peter Horton John Landis Robert K. Weiss
Produced by	John Landis Robert K. Weiss
Written by	Michael Barrie Jim Muholland
Starring	Arsenio Hall Carrie Fisher Sybil Danning Griffin Dunne Kelly Preston Michelle Pfeiffer Phil Hartman
Music by	Ira Newborn
Cinematography	Daniel Pearl
Editing by	Malcolm Campbell
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	September 18, 1987
Running time	85 min.
Country
Language	English
Budget	$5 million
Gross revenue	$548,696
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The film is a compilation of twenty-one comedy skits of various lengths by a group of highly regarded directors. Many of the segments are parodies of late-night television and low-budget movies from the 1950s, meant to simulate an insomniac's aimless channel surfing through late-night television. Some of the skits are in black and white, including the "Reckless Youth" parody of Sex Madness (featuring a cameo by Carrie Fisher). Sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes, or sketches, commonly between one and ten minutes long. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... Channel surfing is the practice of quickly scanning through different television channels or radio frequencies in order to find something interesting to watch or listen to. ... Sex Madness, directed by Dwain Esper, is a 1938 sexploitation film (along the lines of Reefer Madness) supposedly to deal with venereal diseases, specifically syphilis. ... Carrie Frances Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an American actress, screenwriter and novelist. ...

The film pays tribute to some actual black and white "B" sci-fi movies of the 1950s with planets full of dangerous females, notably Cat-Women of the Moon (1953), Queen of Outer Space (1958), and Missile to the Moon (1958). Cat-Women of the Moon is a 1953 Science fiction 3-D film directed by Arthur Hilton. ... Queen of Outer Space is a science fiction movie filmed in 1958 starring Zsa Zsa Gabor as the Queen of Venus. ... Categories: Movie stubs | 1958 films | Science fiction films ...

The film is known in Europe as Cheeseburger Film Sandwich, as some consider it a sequel to The Kentucky Fried Movie, which was titled Hamburger Film Sandwich there. US movie poster The Kentucky Fried Movie is an American comedy film, released in 1977 and directed by John Landis. ...

The following directors filmed one or more of the segments:

• Joe Dante
• Carl Gottlieb
• Peter Horton
• John Landis
• Robert K. Weiss

Landis, incidentally, also directed Kentucky Fried Movie, a 1977 release that used the same anthology/faux broadcast format of Amazon Women. Joe Dante (born November 28, 1946 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American film director and producer of films generally with humorous and scifi content. ... Carl Gottlieb (born 18 March 1938 in New York City) is an American screenwriter, actor, comedian and executive. ... Peter Horton (born August 20, 1953) is an American actor and director. ... John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American movie actor, director, writer, and producer. ... Robert K. Weiss is an American film and television producer. ... The Kentucky Fried Movie is an American comedy film, released in 1977. ...

An in-joke title card for the film within a film Amazon Women on the Moon names Samuel L. Bronkowitz as director, who is credited as producer for several of the film parodies in Kentucky Fried Movie.

The film contains performances by some actors known for appearing in B-movies such as Jenny Agutter, Sybil Danning and Lana Clarkson. It also includes a number of then largely unknown actors who would later achieve stardom such as Ed Begley Jr., Arsenio Hall, Joe Pantoliano, Rosanna Arquette, Kelly Preston and David Alan Grier as "Donny No-soul Simmons", as well as Michelle Pfeiffer and Steve Guttenberg. There are cameos by B.B. King, television star Roxie Roker, Firesign Theatre's Phil Proctor and cult film director Russ Meyer. Los Angeles radio personality Al Lohman played the part of a film critic and was credited as simply "Lohman." Henry Silva appeared as himself as the host of the show within a show "Bullshit or Not?": a parody of In Search Of and Ripley's Believe it or Not. Monique Gabrielle spoofed her Penthouse Pet status in the "Pethouse Video" segment in which she does everything in the nude, including going supermarket shopping, to art museums and church completely naked. Jennifer Ann Agutter (born December 20, 1952) is an English actress. ... Sybil Danning (born May 24, 1947) is an Austrian actress known for her many roles in B-movies, science fiction films, and action movies. ... Lana Clarkson Lana Clarkson and Vincent Schiavelli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High Lana Clarkson (April 5, 1962 - February 3, 2003) was an American actress. ... Edward James Begley, Jr. ... Arsenio Hall at the 1989 Emmy Awards Arsenio Hall (February 12, 1955) is an American comedian, talk show host, and actor. ... Joseph Peter Joe Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951) is an American actor. ... Rosanna Lauren Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, film director, and film producer. ... Kelly Kamalelehua Palzis Preston-Travolta (born October 13, 1962) is an American actress, also known for being the wife of actor John Travolta. ... David Alan Grier (born June 30, 1955) is an American actor and comedian famous for his work on the Emmy Award winning sketch comedy show In Living Color. ... Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning, BAFTA-winning American actress. ... Steve Guttenberg (born on August 24, 1958), sometimes credited as Steven Guttenberg and Steven Robert Guttenberg, is an American actor. ... Riley B. King aka B. B. King (b. ... Roxie Roker Roxie Roker (August 28, 1929–December 2, 1995) was an American actress of Bahamian descent who was best known for her groundbreaking role as Helen Willis on the sitcom, The Jeffersons, one half of the first interracial couple to be shown on regular prime-time TV. She also... The Firesign Theatre are a comedy troupe consisting of Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, and Philip Proctor. ... Philip Proctor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... For the baseball player, see Russ Meyer (baseball player). ... Al Lohman (b. ... Henry Silva (born September 23, 1926) is an American actor who has played a wide variety of movie roles. ... A show-within-a-show is typically a fictional television show featured within the fictional universe of a real television show, or a montage/one theatrical show within another theatrical show (like Annie Get Your Gun ). Less frequently, the term may be applied to a fictional radio show within a... In Search Of was a syndicated television series narrated by Leonard Nimoy that aired from 1976 to 1982. ... Ripleys Believe It or Not! deals in the bizarre—events and items so strange and unusual that it is often hard to believe that they actually exist--but they do: believe it. ... Monique Gabrielle, byname of Katherine Gonzalez (born July 30, 1963) is an American model and actress. ... Penthouse, a mens magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and soft-core pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. ...

The title sketch "Amazon Women on the Moon" is presented as a late night B-Movie feature that suffers from technical breakdowns and is interspersed with the other sketches, in spite of repeated claims that there will be "no further interruptions". Every announcement for the movie gives a different production year.

Cast

• Arsenio Hall
• Carrie Fisher
• Sybil Danning
• Griffin Dunne
• Kelly Preston
• Michelle Pfeiffer
• Phil Hartman
• Joe Pantoliano
• Rosanna Arquette
• Steve Guttenberg
• Bryan Cranston
• Robert Picardo
• Phil Proctor
• Corey Burton
• Donald Gibb
• Ed Begley, Jr.
• Larry Hankin
• Terence McGovern
• Andrew Dice Clay
• Willard E. Pugh
• Bela Lugosi (archive footage)
• Ronny Cox (uncredited)
• Huey Lewis (uncredited)
• Robert Loggia (uncredited)
• Dick Miller (deleted scene)

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Trivia

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• Joe Dante proposed the title The Greatest Movie Ever Made, in order that the advertising could quote critics citing the title, but the idea was rejected by the other filmmakers.
• The second film in which both Joe Dante and John Landis direct a segment, the first being Twilight Zone: The Movie.
• The name of this film is parodied by the Futurama episode Amazon Women in the Mood.
• Numerous cut scenes found their way into the television version, as well as alternate takes of the nude scenes.
• In the "Titan Man" sketch, the boy is named George Bailey, the girl (Kelly Preston) is Violet and the druggist Mr. Gower -- shades of It's a Wonderful Life.

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See also

• The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), a similarly formatted anthology comedy
• The Groove Tube (1974), a similar TV-parodying low-budget comedy

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External links

• Amazon Women on the Moon at the Internet Movie Database
• Amazon Women on the Moon at All Movie Guide
• Amazon Women on the Moon at Rotten Tomatoes