This British sci-fi film ‘Devil Girl from Mars’ 1954 was done on the cheap and that is why I like it because I am a sucker for naff films. In America, this film would be in the B-movie gene in the UK these types of films would just a low-budget movie quickly turned around for a speedy cinema release.
After a war between the sexes’ on Mars, the female of the species manages to shoot themselves in the foot by turning what men were left sexually impudent owing to the shame of the defeat. So what do you do? You look enviously towards planet Earth and sends someone to the aforementioned planet to kidnap a virile man for breeding and testing purposes.
Martian Nyah (Patricia Laffan) is sent to Earth accompanied by the daftest robot built for a movie even for the 1950s to begin her search. Nyah is dressed in what looks like dominatrix -type gear, black PVC cape, mini-skirt, and boots, looks like she stepped out of a 1950s fetish magazine.
The plan was to land her spaceship close to London but misses her original target after some damage to her spaceship entering Earth's atmosphere and then colliding with an aircraft. She ends up landing in Scotland so there goes the gene pool. She didn’t have to go far on landing in her search for a man has she was within spitting distance of a village pub.
In the pub, you find the normal film bar flies you never see in a real pub well maybe in some. A husband nagged to death and back by his wife who would surely enjoy a relaxing trip to Mars just to get away from her. A London fashion model who turns up hoping to escape her married boyfriend who turns up as well, and there is a murderer freshly escaped from prison after killing his wife. There just happens to be some guy from the ministry an appointed expert on meteors and an assortment of locals.
Much of the film unfolds in the bar where Nyah occasionally enters, makes threats, then leaves so the residents can contemplate her words. It becomes clear that the local Scotsmen aren't the least bit interested in going with her to Mars, and the local women aren't about to give them up without a fight. She kidnaps the barkeeper’s young grandson, and then turns her robot loose to vaporize everything in sight.
A plan is hatched to get him back but that would mean someone would have to sacrifice himself. The murderer puts himself forward, volunteers, surrendering to Nyah who is happy to have her sample of male humanity. The craft is soon on route to Mars but after take-off, he successfully sabotages Nyah's flying saucer comes crashing to the ground.
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