 In the mid-1950s, film producer and director Roger Corman, along with his brother and fellow producer Gene Corman, hired then theatre director Hellman to direct a film from a screenplay by Roger Corman regular Griffith.According to Griffith, Corman was motived by the success of "Naked Paradise".He said "Roger said "I want NAKED PARADISE using a gold mine instead of a pineapple plantation.