Gordon says Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson, who ran ARC, decided a Western would be a safe commercial bet.

[12] Male star Lloyd Bridges was best known for Sea Hunt and Joan Taylor had been in a number of Howard Koch-Aubrey Schenck pictures.

It was shot in two weeks, mostly at the Iverson Ranch in the San Fernando Valley, where Corman had previously made Five Guns West.

[13] Alex Gordon later recalled: After the fiasco with The Lawless Rider, I was ab-so-lute-ly just thrilled and amazed and grateful when I came on The Apache Woman set.

[17] Although the movie came out in 1955, in September 1958 Samuel Z. Arkoff said he expected his company to break even on Apache Woman only at the end of the next year.

They had a great success doing this with their first double bill, Day the World Ended and The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues which secured the future of the company.

[18] Alex Gordon confirmed that saying "it soon became obvious that single B-pictures like these first three [Fast and Furious, Five Guns West, Apache Woman] would not work out for the new company— they played the bottom of twin- bill programming at $25 per booking.

[3] The Monthly Film Bulletin called it "competently made second-feature Western, unremarkable but of slightly above average calibre.

[20] Another critic called it "competent, unremarkable... it needed some of that [regular Corman writer Charles B] Griffith flair.