WOS - Ruth Adams

"My mind is my own, and nobody's going to change it!"

WOS = Women of Science.

I'm not expecting many to know this one. Dr. Ruth Adams from classic B movie, This Island Earth... which was also riffed for Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie.
At the time it was released in '55, I guess it was pretty well received by critics. Now it's mostly viewed as a goofy but entertaining little scifi flick. I've actually never seen it without the MST3K riffs, or read the novel, but I'm kinda interested in reading the book some day.
I'm not exactly sure what Ruth is a doctor of. I know in the book she's a psychologist, but in the movie it seems she's some sort of physicist or engineer.

She's sitting on an interocitor here (which I scaled down a bit to fit into the picture), and behind her is a mutant--beasts bred for alien labor on the planet Metaluna.

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