for him, doing all sorts of jobs as well as acting. Based on his behind the scenes help and his role, he would go on to appear in about 15 Corman productions. He returned to Louisiana to film another low budget movie, Bayou, shot near Barataria Bay. Reception and legacy The film was released on a double bill with Gunslinger, also directed by Corman with Garland. The Los Angeles Times said both movies "take ones credulity firmly by the neck, shake it, twist it, and finally bend it double before the action, such as it is, ends." Another reviewer for the same paper said it had "stock tropic terrors." While called "weak filler exploitation fare" by Variety, they cited that Corman's full use of the bayou was a plus. The Monthly Film Bulletin agreed, liking the setting of the film in the swamps as giving a clichéd story a new aspect and said it was "not to be recommended for the fainthearted". The Los Angeles Examiner found the film to be bogged down in cliche and apathy. The CEA Film Report found both the swamp setting and the footage of Mardi Gras to be a positive, but found the film as a whole uneventful. Sight and Sound called it "more bizarre than accomplished" but thought it had "some rather diverting sidelights on female psychology." The film was listed in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time by political pundit Michael Medved. The Woolners later went on to finance Teenage Doll for Corman. Then in the early seventies they helped finance Corman's first movies for New World Pictures, The Student Nurses and The Big Bird Cage, before setting up their own company, Dimension. In July 1993, the film was featured in the movie-mocking television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 under the title Swamp Diamonds and with the instructional short What To Do on a Date. Home media The MST3K version of the film was released by Rhino Home Video as part of the Collection, Volume 10 (out-of-print on both Rhino's and MST3Ks official websites) and Collection, Volume 10.2 DVD sets. As of January 2010, Volume 10.2 is out-of-print on Rhino's official website, but still available on MST3Ks official website. See also List of American films of 1956 List of American films of 1955 List of films in the public domain in the United States References External links Said