Tanner is a desperate prisoner who escapes from jail and promptly murders an innocent farmer named Matthew Random.

[2] Mike Connors also acted as executive producer and raised the money with Charles Lyons from Armenian friends for the film's $117,000 budget.

They showed him a poster of leading lady Marla English tied to a stake with fire ants crawling on her.

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.

Although popular it was the last Western made by AIP who preferred to concentrate on genres more specifically targeted at the teenage audience.