| Flesh and the Spur | |
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Original film poster by Albert Kallis |
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| Directed by | Edward L. Cahn |
| Written by | Charles B. Griffith |
| Starring | John Agar Marla English Touch Connors |
| Music by | Ronald Stein |
| Cinematography | Frederick E. West |
| Editing by | Robert S. Eisen |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | United States: 1957 |
| Running time | 78 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Flesh and the Spur is a 1957 Western film directed by Edward L. Cahn. The movie stars John Agar as Lucius Random, Marla English as Wild Willow, and future Mannix star Mike Connors (billed here as Touch Connors) as Stacy Tanner.
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Tanner is a desperate prisoner who escapes from jail and promptly murders an innocent farmer named Matthew Random. Stealing Random's horse and gun, the outlaw promptly makes his escape. Finding his twin brother murdered, Lucius Random (Agar) vows revenge and sets off to find the killer.
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 from Armenian friends for the film's $117,000 budget. He recalled being called in to a meeting with AIP's 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.[1] (This was a marketing ploy frequently used by AIP to promote films during pre-production, 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, you've got six ants there, isn't that enough??"[2]
On October 27, 2009, Alpha Video released Flesh and the Spur on Region 0 DVD.[3]
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