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Ron Ormond
Director 1910 - 1981

Ron Ormond

Baldwin, Louisiana, USA

Ron Ormond (August 29, 1910 – May 11, 1981) was an American author, showman, screenwriter, film producer, and film director of Western, musical, and exploitation films. Following his survival of a 1968 plane crash, Ormond began making Christian films.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

19 titles
It's About the Second Coming

It's About the Second Coming

Tim Ormond, Ron Ormond 1980 57m 3.0

Depictions of famous Biblical stories as well as the end times accompany the overarching plot of a man who continues to avoid church even as the end of the world looms ever closer.

39 Stripes

39 Stripes

Ron Ormond 1979 1h 1m 4.0

The true story of Ed Martin, former chain gang convict who converted to Christianity in prison in 1944 and formed the HopeAglow Prison Ministries.

The Believer's Heaven

The Believer's Heaven

Ron Ormond 1977 1h 3.0

While holding a sermon for his followers, the real-life fire-and-brimstone preacher Estus W. Pirkle portrays what Christian Heaven looks like, according to his interpretation of the Bible.

The Grim Reaper

The Grim Reaper

Ron Ormond 1976 1h 3.0

A mother is worried about her husband and her older son, who no longer go to church and begin to communicate with dead spirits. Worst of all, the son wants to be a stock-car racer.

The Burning Hell

The Burning Hell

Ron Ormond 1974 58m 3.0

Pastor Estus W. Pirkle preaches about hell, where all non-Christians will suffer eternal torment. He's also visited by two self-professed "Christians" who don't believe in hell.

If Footmen Tire You What Will Horses Do?

If Footmen Tire You What Will Horses Do?

Ron Ormond 1971 53m 3.0

Americans don't forsake sin and embrace God, Communist infiltrators will weaken society, leading to persecution of Christians and a totalitarian regime. Faith in the Bible is essential.

The Exotic Ones

The Exotic Ones

Ron Ormond 1968 1h 29m 4.0

In the Louisiana bayous, a trio of hunters captures a monster called the Swamp Thing and take it to New Orleans, where--naturally--they display it in a strip joint. When the monster's favorite stripper gets into a fight with another stripper, he breaks loose and starts killing.

White Lightnin' Road

White Lightnin' Road

Ron Ormond 1967 1h 35m 4.0

Snake is a low-down cheating rural stock-car race driver who works for Slick – a gangster running a crooked auto parts syndicate – and makes life hell for his rival Joe.

Girl from Tobacco Row

Girl from Tobacco Row

Ron Ormond 1966 1h 27m 4.0

Born into an impoverished family in a Southern community of tobacco growers, Nadine Bolton tries to escape from the only life she knows. But her abundance of persistent and shiftless boyfriends makes that endeavor difficult. When an escaped convict arrives on the scene, however, everything changes.

Forty Acre Feud

Forty Acre Feud

Ron Ormond 1965 1h 25m 4.0

Overlooked when the Tennessee legislature reapportioned the state, the 40-acre community of Shagbottom is discovered and notified to elect a state representative. The ensuing power struggle results in both fussin' and feudin'.

Please Don't Touch Me

Please Don't Touch Me

Ron Ormond 1963 1h 7m 5.0

A woman who is unable to have sex with her husband goes to a psychiatrist for help. He sends her to a hypnotist, who discovers that she has a deep, dark secret.

Mesa of Lost Women

Mesa of Lost Women

Ron Ormond, Herbert Tevos 1953 1h 9m 6.5

A mad scientist, Dr. Aranya (Jackie Coogan), has created giant spiders in his Mexican lab in Zarpa Mesa to create a race of superwomen by injecting spiders with human pituitary growth hormones. Women develop miraculous regenerative powers, but men mutate into disfigured dwarves. Spiders grow to human size and intelligence.

The Frontier Phantom

The Frontier Phantom

Ron Ormond 1952 50m

Lash Larue seeks to arrest his twin brother, known as the Frontier Phantom

The Black Lash

The Black Lash

Ron Ormond 1952 54m

Having sent Deuce Rago to prison in Frontier Revenge (1948), Lash finds he's out and his outlaw gang are at it again. This time he has the Lawyer Leonard and Joan to help him out and Lash and Fuzzy must bring him in once more.

Outlaw Women

Outlaw Women

Ron Ormond, Sam Newfield 1952 1h 15m

This rather unusual 50s western is set in a town where men may not enter. The town is controlled by a woman gambler who eventually succumbs to the allure of a handsome and persistent cowboy.

Untamed Mistress

Untamed Mistress

Ron Ormond 1951 1h 13m 4.0

Two men search the jungle for a woman who has been captured by a tribe of murderous gorillas. When they finally find her, they must fight off attacks by the gorillas, who are determined to keep her.

The Vanishing Outpost

The Vanishing Outpost

Ron Ormond 1951 56m

This series of Lash La Rue "Western Adventure Productions".

The Thundering Trail

The Thundering Trail

Ron Ormond 1951 55m

Lash and Fuzzy have been sent to escort the new Governor to the Capitol City. West and his outlaw gang are out to stop them. When Lash's first attempt is foiled, he realizes the Governor's supposedly deaf and dumb servant is the informant and sets a trap for the gang.

King of the Bullwhip

King of the Bullwhip

Ron Ormond 1950 58m

A whip-cracking federal marshal goes under cover as a masked bandit to ferret out a gold-bullion thief.

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