He wrote screenplays for three films, two of them with B-movie director Ed Wood, Jail Bait (1954) and Bride of the Monster (1956).
[2] In Hollywood, Gordon met Ed Wood and they collaborated on a script for a low-budget Western for John Carpenter, The Outlaw Marshall.
The production was a difficult one and Gordon needed a lawyer; he ended up hiring Samuel Z. Arkoff who later established American International Pictures.
Gordon was one of their most important producers in the early days, usually collaborating with writer Lou Rusoff and director Edward L. Cahn.
Gordon and Corman collaborated again on Day the World Ended (1955), a science fiction film that was very successful, and The Oklahoma Woman (1956), another Western.
(1956), a musical with Connors and Margaret Dumont and Douglas Dumbrille (film buff Gordon always liked to put older actors in his movies), and Runaway Daughters (1956), with English, Anna Sten and John Litel.