Ron Ormond

{{Short description|Vaudeville performer, author, and film producer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2013}} {{Infobox person | name = Ron Ormond | image = Ron Ormond.jpg | alt =  | caption = Ron Ormond | birth_name = Victor Narro | birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|08|29}} | birth_place = Baldwin, Louisiana | death_date = {{Death date and age|1981|05|11|1910|08|29}} | death_place = Nashville, Tennessee | spouse = June Carr (m. 1935–1981) | children = Tim Ormond, Victor Ormond | other_names = | occupation = {{hlist|Actor|author|film director|film producer|screenwriter|showman}} | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}

'''Ron Ormond''' (August 29, 1910 – May 11, 1981) was an American filmmaker, showman, and author known for producing and directing Western, musical, and exploitation horror films.

Ormond began his career as a stage magician and vaudeville performer. After settling in southern California, he collaborated with Lash LaRue on a series of B-Westerns. He later began writing, directing, and producing exploitation films such as ''Untamed Mistress'' (1956), which were popular in the grindhouse and drive-in style of the era. In 1965, Ormond moved to Nashville and produced country music films featuring stars from the Grand Ole Opry.

Following his survival of a 1968 plane crash, Ormond embraced Christianity and began making Christian films. He collaborated with Estus Pirkle on ''If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?'' (1971), ''The Burning Hell'' (1974), and ''The Grim Reaper'' (1976). Often labeled as "Christploitation", Ormond's films of this era retained his grindhouse style, with graphic depictions of damnation in an evangelistic attempt to reach church audiences.

Ormond's efforts included family collaboration, and much of his work included his wife Judy and son Tim.

==Early life== Ron Ormond was born Victor Narro.{{Sfn|Tosches|2009}}{{Sfn|Doviak|2015|p=84}} He took his surname from his friend, magician and hypnotist Ormond McGill.{{Sfn|Duncan|Ridley|1996}}

In 1935, Ormond, who had been performing a magic act under the name "Rahn Ormond" was booked as an act at the Capitol Theater. Also performing at the venue was vaudvillian June Carr (1912–2006). When June say Ormond, she determined that she would marry him. They were married three weeks later.{{Sfn|Duncan|Ridley|1996}}

June Ormond's father actor, former nightclub owner and burlesque comic Cliff Taylor, also appeared in many of the Ormond's films.{{Sfn|Lewis|2002|p=70}} June's parents had been vaudeville performers, and after retiring from the road, opened a nightclub in the basement of the Mayfair Theater called "Coffee Cliff's".{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=38}}

In 1950, June Ormond gave birth to their only son, Tim.{{Sfn|Duncan|Ridley|1996}} Tim acted in several of their films.{{Sfn|Beck|2006}}

<span class="anchor" id="Western Adventure Productions"></span> ==Early career==

Ron and June began packaging variety shows and touring with them, especially in the Southern states. In between tours, they spent time with family in Southern California.{{Sfn|Duncan|Ridley|1996}} The Ormonds eventually settled in Hollywood, living across the street from Roy Rogers.{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=38}} According to Judy Carr, Lash LaRue showed up at their house one evening and asked Ormond to write a touring show for him.{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|pp=38–39}}

Ormond formed '''Western Adventure Productions, Inc'''. in 1948 to write, produce and eventually direct Lash LaRue's films.{{Sfn|Boggs|2013|p=96}}{{Sfn|Beck|2006|pp=38–39}} The films were shot on a short schedule, typically five days, with minimal sets and cast.{{Sfn|Boggs|2013|p=96}} They were originally distributed by Screen Guild.{{Sfn|Boggs|2013|p=96}} Ormond's first credit was 1948's ''Dead Man's Gold''. Ormond made his directing debut in ''King of the Bullwhip'' with La Rue in 1950.{{Sfn|Doviak|2015|p=82}} ''Son of a Bad Man'' (1949) was the last Screen Guild release. After parting ways with Screen Guild, Western Adventure Productions went to Realart Pictures Inc. for distribution.{{Sfn|Miller|1993|p=267}}

In 1950, Ormond partnered with Robert L. Lippert to produce a series of Westerns starring former Hopalong Cassidy sidekicks James Ellison and Russell Hayden. The idea was to film all six films at the same time, using the same actors, wearing the same costumes. The entire series was shot in 21 days.{{Sfn|Lewis|2002|p=46}}

Western Adventure acquired reissue rights to a number of Hal Roach's Laurel and Hardy comedies, and distributed them along with its own productions.

Ormond prospered when Lippert released several of his productions to theaters. These economically made features were generally musical comedies, often in revue format, featuring vaudeville, nightclub, and minstrel acts. Titles like ''Square Dance Jubilee'' (1949), ''Hollywood Varieties'' (1950), and ''Varieties on Parade'' (1951), were welcomed by theater owners, especially in rural areas and smaller towns.

Western Adventure Productions ceased operating in 1951 after completing eight films, but four more films were made into 1952 using large amounts of footage from the previous films with various names credited for the screenplays such as Ormond's young son Tim and associate producer Ira Webb.{{Sfn|Lewis|2002|p=33}}

== Howco era == As the economics of producing B picture Westerns changed in the era of television, Ormond formed a company named Howco. The name was derived from the initials of Ormond, and his collaborators, drive-in movie owners Joy Houck and J. Francis White.{{Sfn|Lewis|2002|p=68}} Howco's initial plan was to get into television. They began with a short, fifteen-minute series called ''Lash of the West'', which was cut from old Lash LaRue pictures. The series was initially launched in syndication, and then sold to ABC, for Saturday morning filler.{{Sfn|Lewis|2002|p=68}}

Ormond recognized the days of the B-Western were being taken over by television, and he was looking for new opportunities. Through Howco, he produced a television pilot for a jungle series with Sabu Dastigar. Houck and White backed the Ormond directed pilot, most of which was shot in a rented studio.{{Sfn|Lewis|2002|pp=69–70}} Before the pilot could sell, Sabu disappeared, having been suspected of arson in an insurance scam, and the project was shelved.{{Sfn|Lewis|2002|pp=69–70}}

Howco had an ambitious beginning, producing a moderately expensive Western filmed in Cinecolor with familiar Hollywood players, ''Outlaw Women'' (1952). Ormond and his partners soon targeted the teenage drive-in audience with quickie exploitation features, such as ''Mesa of Lost Women''.

Ormond eventually returned to the unused footage from the Sabu pilot. Irritated by the waste of invested funds, he decided to rework the footage into a full length feature film. He cast Jacqueline Fontaine, Allan Nixon, and June Ormond's father, Cliff Taylor, for new scenes which were shot outdoors, on location. Ormond was also able to license 16mm footage of African safari from Mickey Rooney's doctor. During this time, Sabu had returned to the United States, and hearing of the project, he asked for significantly more money. Unwilling to work with Sabu, Ormond re-edited the film to remove all of Sabu's footage, filling in with additional scenes with the new actors as well as more African safari footage. The resulting film was ''Untamed Mistress.''{{Sfn|Lewis|2002|pp=70–72}}

Additional Howco productions included ''Please Don't Touch Me'' (also known as ''Teenage Bride'') and country-music movies such as 1965's ''40 Acre Feud'', featuring country-music stars George Jones, Bill Anderson and Skeeter Davis, and 1967's ''White Lightnin' Road'', a racetrack melodrama starring country singer and frequent Ormond actor Earl "Snake" Richards.

In the 1950s, Ormond directed an unsold television pilot of ''Gulliver's Travels'' starring Allan Nixon.{{Sfn|Wagner|2025|p=209}} The series was a Howco production with the working title ''The Little People''. Richard Carr wrote the script.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Film Report |journal=Broadcasting |date=1952-08-18 |publisher=Broadcasting Publications |volume=43 |pages=90 |language=en}}</ref>

During the 1950s Ormond spent eight months with Ormond McGill in Asia writing the book ''Into the Strange Unknown''. In 1976, they revised and expanded the material and published it as ''Religious Mysteries of the Orient.'' The books discussed their travels in the Philippines and eastern countries and included discussion of what they called "fourth dimensional operations", referring to psychic surgery.{{Sfn|Ang|2004|p=216}} Other works by Ron Ormond include a home study course titled ''The Master Method of Hypnosis'' and the book ''The Art of Meditation: The Oriental Method Of Entering The Kingdom Of Heaven While Still Living In The Human Body.''

==Nashville== In 1965, Ormond, his wife, and their son Tim, moved from Hollywood to Nashville. At the time, he had a reputation as "king of the B-movies", and upon arriving in Nashville, the Ormonds began looking for investors for country music films.{{Sfn|Gibson|Pierce|2011|p=133}} The first film made was 1966's ''The Girl from Tobacco Row''. Ormond used stars from the Grand Ole Opry like Tex Ritter and Minnie Pearl.{{Sfn|Gibson|Pierce|2011|pp=133–134}} ''The Girl from Tobacco Row'' featured country music acts like Fiddlin' Arthur Smith and the Dixieliners, the Haywood Mountaineers, and the Skylarks.{{Sfn|Gibson|Pierce|2011|p=134}} During this period, Ormond also produced ''Forty Acre Feud'', which was a Calhouns vs the Culpeppers showdown featuring Ferlin Husky, Minnie Pearl, Ray Price, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Roy Drusky, Skeeter Davis, Bill Anderson, and other country singers.{{Sfn|Gibson|Pierce|2011|p=134}} By 1966, the Hillbilly Hollywood fad was oversaturated, and the Ormonds continued to produce exploitation films such as ''White Lightnin' Road'' and 1968's ''The Exotic Ones'', which was also released under the title ''The Monster and the Stripper''.{{Sfn|Gibson|Pierce|2011|p=134}}

In the mid-1960s, Ormond produced roller derby on television for Leo Seltzer. At the time, roller derby was big business, at least for Leo Seltzer, a San Fernando Valley businessman.{{Sfn|Lewis|2002|p=198}} Ormond managed the derby, which held weekly skate-offs at the Olympic auditorium in downtown Los Angeles. Ormond ended up leaving the Derby after telling Seltzer, "I can't work for you and still remain your friend, and I consider you a good friend."

== Christian films == Ormond began making films about Christianity in the 1970s. He had crashed his single-engine airplane into a field near Nashville in 1966 while en route to a screening of ''The Girl from Tobacco Row'', and he seems to have emerged from the accident—he spent months recovering from serious injuries—a Christian.{{Sfn|Duncan|Ridley|1996}} Made with Mississippi evangelist Estus Pirkle, ''If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?'', ''The Burning Hell'' and ''The Believer's Heaven'' address the second coming of Jesus Christ, communism and American conformism, with Pirkle's preaching the basis of the films.{{Sfn|Broomer|2024}} In a 2007 interview, Ormond associate Tim Green said that Pirkle kept track of the number of conversions generated by the film, which at last count was 6 million.{{Sfn|Ridley|2010|p=295}} ''The Burning Hell'' cost $60,000 to produce and yielded a profit of $2 million.{{Sfn|Lindvall|Quicke|2011|p=179}} Ormond and Pirkle eventually parted ways after three films, reportedly over money.{{Sfn|Ridley|2010|p=299}}

Following his collaborations with Pirkle, Ormond continued to make Christian exploitation films. In 1976, he collaborated on ''The Grim Reaper''.{{Sfn|Ridley|2010|p=299}} John R. Rice had been looking for opportunities that would help promote Jerry Falwell as his successor. Rice, who lived near Ormond in Nashville, contacted Ormond to produce the film to feature Falwell and Jack Van Impe which they filmed on location in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.{{Sfn|Himes|2011|pp=281–282}} ''The Grim Reaper'' was part of a 1970s genre of horror films that became known as "Christploitation" films.{{Sfn|Himes|2011|p=281}}

In 1979 he directed ''39 Stripes'', the tale of a former chain-gang member who converts to Christianity. He also directed ''Surrender at Navajo Canyon'' for Pete Rice, and a travelogue for John Rice entitled ''The Land Where Jesus Walked''. ''The Second Coming'' was next on the agenda, but Ormond died of cancer before production. A shortened one hour version was eventually directed by his son Tim Ormond who also scripted, and produced by him and June Ormond. The film is dedicated to the memory of Ron Ormond and John Rice.

==Legacy== Biographer Jimmy McDonough published an exhaustive biography of the Ormond family titled ''The Exotic Ones: That Fabulous Film-Making Family from Music City, U.S.A. – The Ormonds'' in May 2023. It was produced by film director Nicolas Winding Refn. ''From Hollywood to Heaven: The Lost and Saved Films of the Ormond Family,'' a Blu-ray set of all the Ormond exploitation and religious titles, was released in conjunction with the book.

RiffTrax, consisting of former ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' alumni Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett and Michael J. Nelson, spoofed ''Mesa of Lost Women'' on April 2, 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rifftrax.com/mesa-of-lost-women|title=Mesa of Lost Women|date=September 19, 2014|via=www.rifftrax.com}}</ref>

==Filmography== {{sticky header}} {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders sticky-header-multi" width="100%" |- ! scope="col"|Year ! scope="col"|Title ! scope="col"|Director ! scope="col"|Writer ! scope="col"|Producer ! scope="col"|{{abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}} |- |1948||''Dead Man's Gold''||{{no}}||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=39}}{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=123}} |- |1948||''Frontier Revenge''||{{no}}||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=174}} |- |1948||''Mark of the Lash''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=39}}{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=276}} |- |1949||''Ringside''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Okuda|1989|p=141}} |- |1949||''Outlaw Country''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Okuda|1989|p=138}} |- |1949||''Texas Manhunt''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=339}} |- |1949||''Rimfire''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=39}}{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=357}} |- |1949||''Son of a Bad Man''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=401}} |- |1949||''Son of Billy the Kid''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=402}} |- |1949||''Square Dance Jubilee''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=39}}{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=406}} |- |1949||''The Dalton Gang''||{{no}}||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=117}} |- |1950||''Hollywood Varieties''||||||||{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=39}} |- |1950||''Colorado Ranger''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=96}}{{Sfn|Pitts|2009|p=179}} |- |1950||''Crooked River''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{no}}||{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=111}}{{Sfn|Pitts|2009|p=179}} |- |1950||''The Daltons' Women''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=117}} |- |1950||''Fast on the Draw''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=150}}{{Sfn|Pitts|2009|p=180}} |- |1950||''Hostile Country''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Pitts|1997|p=189}}{{Sfn|Pitts|2009|p=180}} |- |1950||''Marshal of Heldorado''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Katchmer|1991|p=975}}{{Sfn|Pitts|2009|p=179}} |- |1950||''West of the Brazos''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=481}}{{Sfn|Pitts|2009|p=179}} |- |1951||''King of the Bullwhip''||{{yes}}||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=39}}{{Sfn|Drew|2013|p=1861}}{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=235}} |- |1951||''The Thundering Trail''||{{yes}}||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Drew|2013|p=1861}} |- |1951||''The Vanishing Outpost''||{{yes}}||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Drew|2013|p=1861}}{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=463}} |- |1951||''Yes Sir, Mr. Bones''||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=39}} |- |1952||''The Black Lash''||{{yes}}||{{no}}||{{no}}||{{Sfn|Drew|2013|p=1861}} |- |1952||''The Frontier Phantom''||{{yes}}||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Drew|2013|p=1861}}{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=173}} |- |1952||''Outlaw Women''||{{no}}||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=39}}{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=307}} |- |1953||''Mesa of Lost Women''||{{yes}}||{{no}}||{{no}}||{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=40}} |- |1955||''Frontier Woman''||{{yes}}||{{no}}||{{no}}||{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=527}}{{Sfn|Andreychuk|2024|p=79}} |- |1956||''Naked Gun''||{{no}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Fagen|2003|p=290}} |- |1957||''Untamed Mistress''||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=40}}{{Sfn|Schaefer|1999|p=382}} |- |1959||''Please Don't Touch Me''||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=42}}{{Sfn|Schaefer|1999|p=371}}{{Sfn|Weldon|1996|p=432}} |- |1965||''White Lightin' Road''||||||||{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=46}} |- |1965||''40 Acre Feud''||{{yes}}||{{no}}||{{no}}||{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=46}}{{Sfn|Weldon|1996|p=216}} |- |1966||''The Girl from Tobacco Row''||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|McDonough|1987|p=46}}{{Sfn|Weldon|1996|p=233}} |- |1968||''The Exotic Ones'' (also titled ''The Monster and the Stripper'')||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Albright|2012|p=295}}{{Sfn|Lentz|2001|p=1082}}{{Sfn|Weldon|1996|p=192}} |- |1971||''If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?''||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{no}}||{{Sfn|Albright|2012|p=295}}{{Sfn|Davies|2015|p=602}} |- |1974||''The Burning Hell''||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Albright|2012|p=295}}{{Sfn|Davies|2015}} |- |1976||''The Land Where Jesus Walked''||||||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Albright|2012|p=295}}{{Sfn|Lindvall|Quicke|2011|p=180}} |- |1976||''The Grim Reaper''||{{yes}}||{{yes}}||{{no}}||{{Sfn|Albright|2012|p=295}}{{Sfn|Davies|2015}} |- |1977||''The Believer's Heaven''|||||||| |- |1979||''39 Stripes''|||||||| |- |1984||''The Second Coming''||||||{{yes}}||{{Sfn|Lindvall|Quicke|2011|p=180}} |}

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==External links== *[http://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/Ron_Ormond Ron Ormond at GCDB] *[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0650259/ Ron Ormond at IMDB] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WVG9Z2o6Qo Commentary on ''The Believer's Heaven''] - The Cinema Snob *[https://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/Category:Ron_Ormond Ron Ormond] - Grindhouse database

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