The Wasp Woman (1959)

Roger Corman, Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris · 1959 · 73 min

A cosmetics executive tests her own anti-aging serum, derived from wasp enzymes, and becomes precisely what the title promises. Susan Cabot plays it with real conviction, and Corman gets a sharper film out of the premise than the poster suggests: a straight-faced sting aimed at an industry that sells youth to the women it has already discarded. Made, as usual, in a handful of days and for almost nothing.

Chosen print (2026-08-17): Archive.org item The_Wasp_Women, file The_Wasp_Women.mpeg — 1.79 GB, 640x480, 72.5 min.

1.79 GB MPEG-2, 177k downloads, running 72.5 minutes — the 73-minute television version including the added prologue, which is the cut the catalog lists. Culled along the way: two 16:9 re-crops and a RARBG-tagged Blu-ray rip.

The WATCH link points at the item's h.264 derivative (The_Wasp_Women.mp4) because browsers cannot play MPEG-2; the torrent carries the source file above.

Selected from our vetted candidate queue after the automated reject rules and the owner eye-pass. Torrent generated from this exact file on 2026-08-17; that torrent is what the swarm carries.

Print upgraded (2026-08-22). Replaced The_Wasp_Women (640x480 @ 3.3 Mbps) with Archive.org item the.-wasp.-woman.-1959 — 1920x1024 @ 2.3 Mbps, 1.24 GB, 73.0 min.

Found by the 2026-08-22 catalogue-wide print sweep, after the rule change that allows restoration transfers. Candidates were scored on resolution and bits per pixel, then compared frame-by-frame against the incumbent before this one was taken. Broadcast captures, AI upscales, colorised and frame-interpolated copies were rejected outright; where a candidate's frame was a different shape, cropdetect was used to tell a genuinely wider picture from a crop hiding in a wide container.

The superseded print stays in the catalogue as a superseded edition and keeps seeding — its torrent has its own info_hash and its own swarm, and anyone part-way through a download of it is unaffected.

Public domain by long-standing distribution consensus: published 1959, renewal required in the 28th year and by all accounts never filed. One extra check is specific to this film: our print is the 73-minute television version, whose added prologue was shot later than the 1959 theatrical release — the additions' own status is verified alongside the feature before the torrent publishes. The renewal window (1986–87) falls in the Copyright Office's post-1977 online records rather than the scanned CCE volumes, so the online renewal search is the named remaining verification step before the torrent publishes.