Horse opera movie producer/director Ron Ormond (Outlaw Women) was tasked by Howco Productions to complete an unfinished sci-fi feature by German businessman and bold fabricator Herbert von Schoellenbach. The result was 1953's Mesa of Lost Women, with future Uncle Fester Jackie Coogan as a deranged scientist who transforms spiders into dancing women. Also with hot-headed Allan Nixon (Prehistoric Women), Richard Travis from Blonde Bait, "tarantula girl" Tandra Quinn (Problem Girls), and nutty narration by prolific character actor Lyle Talbot (Trapped by Television). The maddening faux-flamenco soundtrack was by Downey, California's Hoyt Curtin, who later spent decades writing themes for Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
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