This film marked a major change in the career of Roger Corman. Instead of producing two low-budget black-and-white films for release as a double feature, American International agreed that he could use the budget to produce one higher-budget movie, in Cinemascope and color, instead. Some of the footage from the fire sequence would be reused in later films. Roger Corman never expected the audience to recognize this footage. The stark landscape that Mark Damon rides through was the site of ...[Read Story ]