Earlier this same evening, TCM presents a groundbreaking outer-space movie in terms of themes and special effects (2001: A Space Odyssey), followed by an equally groundbreaking one in terms of gender (Alien, presenting Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley as a take-no-prisoners heroine). Stay up long enough, though, and those films from the Sixties and Seventies, respectively, will be crushed in counterpoint by this movie from the Fifties. Queen of Outer Space, made in 1958, is as laughably horrible in terms of special effects (so laughabkle it’s enjoyable) as it is in terms of its portrayal of women – who, in this outrageous space fantasy, rule a planet! Zsa Zsa Gabor stars, but not in the titular role.