DieEisernaJungfrau I too watched this movie several times on WBKB (now WLS) in the Chicago area back in the late 50's and early 60's. Yea, there was the "thrill" of these guys finding a "German" (actually a fairly current American tank, painted-up to look like, well, just like a painted-up American tank!) at the bottom of a sound stage sand dune. Entertaining stuff for the ten to twelve year old screen watchers, none-the-less.However, they got the name WRONG. As I recall, the ugly woman painted on the tank's turret had the name beside it that read "Die Eiserne Jungfrau". The translation they gave in the movie, and the title of the film, was "The Steel Lady". Not so! "Die Eiserne Jungfrau" translates as "The Iron Maiden". I think that if the script writers had bothered to translate the name correctly, then the concept of an ancient torture device (the "Iron Maiden", where the victim is ENCLOSED inside a metal human like form, with spikes aiming in towards him as the cage is closed tight), well, that would better explain the "battlefield humor" the "German tank crew" had when they named the tank in this story.Eisen Hund

l_rotto Like (most) of the others commenting here, I really loved this flick. We oughta form a fan club! Like some others, I saw it on TV back in the early 60s and it's stuck with me ever since. The guy with the 16mm print and all the other stuff is one lucky dude. I'm checking NetFlix continually for it-- but no go. I wonder if we all hit Turner or Movie Channel with e-mails if they could get it on the air again?? Anyways, I endorse all the comments (but for Mr. Lone Grumpy-Pants) that appear here so far.What I'd like to know (being a bit of a WWII history buff) is just how accurate the tank they used was. So many war movies use USA tanks, etc., from the 50s made to 'look' like the German vehicles (TV's Combat and MOST Hollywood productions suffer for me because of that, with Spielberg's films being the significant exceptions). I saw this movie before I became a student of WWII hardware and so a tank was a tank.But the pictures I still see in my mind now seem to be that the tank was either an authentic or very close mock-up of the Mk III or IV Panzers actually used by the German Afrika Korps. Anyone else recall? I'd love to see the film again just to find out that little tidbit.

ksm51746 Saw this film with my buddies as a kid many, many years ago. We were 5th and 6th graders, and we all loved the movie. Though perhaps a little contrived, the story was quite original, and kept us glued to our seats. "The Steel Lady" was one of the best action/adventure "B" movies I saw back in the 1950s. Now I'm 60, and my movie preferences are somewhat more sophisticated than they were 50 years ago, but I still would like to see this movie one more time before I'm watching flicks on the big screen in the sky... I'd love to buy it, but for some reason I have not been able to find it on the Internet.I might add, that before passing judgement on a movie from the past, one should probably take into consideration when the movie was made, and the viewing audience it was made for.

Guglielmo The previous review is ridiculous. This was a fascinating adventure yarn that had me riveted when I saw it at age 12. It is about a plane crash in the desert where the survivors discover a buried WWII tank after a storm exposes the turret. The idea of fixing up a tank that has been in the desert for 10 years with the remnants of a plane crash, (oil gas, parts,) is totally possible. Our government stores planes, tanks, trucks etc. in the desert because they do not rust or deteriorate. I have not been able to see it since as it is not available anywhere, as far as I know. For a '50s adventure movie it is great.