PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Criterion Films Ltd / Saturn Films Inc
Producer: George Fowler
Production Manager: Jack M. Martin

SCRIPT
Script: Cy Roth

DIRECTION
Director: Cy Roth
1st Assistant Director: John Pellatt

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Cameraman: Ian Struthers

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: A.C.T. Clair, Lito Carruthers

MUSIC
Music: Borodin (Dances From Prince Igor); Monia Liter (Oriental Suite); Trevor Duncan (Challenge of Space, Grand Vista)

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Artist: Roy Ashton
Hair: Bernadette Ibbetson
Costume Designer: Cynthia Tingey

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production and Art Supervisor: Scott MacGregor

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Renee Glynne

CAST
Anthony Dexter (Luther Blair)
Paul Carpenter (Larson)
Susan Shaw (Hestia)
Harry Fowler (Sydney Stanhope)
Sydney Tafler (Dr Higgins)
Jacqueline Curtis (Duessa)
Rodney Diak (Anderson)
Maya Koumani
Owen Berry (Prasus)
Richard Walter
Norma Arnould, Syvia Burrows, Ann Elsden, Marcella Georgius, Corrine Gray, Gloria Haig, Jan Holden, Eunice Jebbett, Sonia Martin, Kim Parker, Barbara Pinney, Dinah Ann Rogers (fire maidens)

British scientists have initiated Plan 13, an ambitious scheme to send men to the 13th moon of Jupiter which, they believe, may hold life. On On arrival the explorers are welcomed by the locals who initially incapacitate their ship, then guide them to a predestined landing point. After lots of running about and rescuing damsels in distress they are told by the planet's sole male inhabitant that this is what's left of the lost city of Atlantis. But there's something nasty in space-age Garden of Eden - The Creature, "the beast with the head of a man."

Even by low budget 50s standards, this is quite appalling. Poor scripting and dreadful acting are just the lesser crimes against humanity that this fiasco could be accused of. Technical credits are a bare minimum - the soundtrack is largely inaudible for much of the time and the camerawork is so static it leaves many of the actors standing around for ages looking embarrassed while waiting for someone else to finish their business. Uniquely British - one of the ground control scientists wears a bow tie and they keep in contact with the ship by telephone! - Fire Maidens From Outer Space lacks even the accidental charm of its American counterparts. Shoddy effects, amateur hour acting and some of the least convincing 'scientific' talk ever written conspire to give the film the allure of an extended home movie, shot by Roth and a few of his mates over the course of a couple of weekends.

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Eros Film Distributors Ltd