Flesh and the Spur
Flesh and the Spur is a 1956 Western film directed by Edward L. Cahn. The movie stars John Agar as Lucius Random, Marla English as Wild Willow and Mike Connors billed here as Touch Connors as Stacy Tanner. The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with Naked Paradise. The plot is about a young cowboy who searches for the killer of his twin brother.
Although he does not know the identity of the killer, Random knows that he is part of the nefarious Checker Gang and can be identified by the gun he stole from Matthew, which is one of a unique set of two that the brothers Matthew and Lucius owned between them.Mike Connors also acted as executive producer and raised the money with Charles Lyons from Armenian friends for the films 117,000 budget. He recalled being called in to a meeting with AIPs James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff and Alex Gordon. They showed him a poster of leading lady Marla English tied to a stake with fire ants crawling on her. Connors remarked that there was no such scene in the script. The AIP heads replied that the movie had been presold on the basis of Albert Kallis artwork and that the anthill torture scene would be written in later. This was a marketing ploy frequently used by AIP to promote films during preproduction, often before the screenplay had been written. Alex Gordon recalled dropping ants on the bound and gagged Marla. However, the ants would promptly run away from her. The ungagged Marla finally asked Gordon Look, youve got six ants there, isnt that enough?? ........
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