Bayou

In 1957, director Harold Daniels was hired by producer Michael A. Ripps to oversee BAYOU, a cheaply made, overly melodramatic tale of swamp life. The low budget film starred a pre-MISSION IMPOSSIBLE Peter Graves, Corman regular Jonathan Haze, and the effortlessly bizarre Timothy Carey. But despite this eclectic cast, BAYOU was a major flop at the box office. So Ripps recut the film, adding an off-camera rape scene and a new, bloody conclusion to its climatic fight. Of even greater importance was Ripp's new title: POOR WHITE TRASH.

• Harold DanielsDirector
• Edward I. FesslerScreenplay
• Gerald FriedOriginal Music Composer

• Peter GravesMartin Davis
• Timothy CareyUlysses
• Lita MilanMarie Hebert
• Douglas FowleyEmil Hebert
• Jonathan HazeBos
• Ed NelsonEtienne (as Edwin Nelson)
• Eugene SonfieldJean Tithe
• Evelyn HendricksonDoucette
• Milton SchneiderCousine
• Michael RomanoFelician