In a career spanning a quarter of a century, Arnold Miller worked as a film director, producer and writer and is probably best known for the exploitation titles he made in association with the companies Compton and Tigon, many made with Stanley Long.

In the 1950s, Miller worked in comics, producing titles that were frowned upon by the growing UK anti-comics campaign, including reprints of the US comics Black Magic and Tales From the Crypt, and his company was prosecuted under the 1955 Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act. When his business folded, he moved into glamour magazines, joining forces with a young Stanley Long to produce Photo Studio. In time the pair began shooting 8mm ‘nudie’ shorts released under the Stag Films banner.

Miller and Long went on to make risqué documentaries. One of the first films of its sort, the 27-min short Nudist Memories (1960) expounded on the benefits of nudism and exploited the opportunity to show naked flesh ostensibly outside of a sexual context. It was Miller’s first film to gain a cinema release.

Miller, again with Long, followed this with Nudes of the World (1961) and West End Jungle (1961), an exposé of prostitution that was accurately marketed outside the capital as the “sex-film that London banned!” (The London Country Council had refused a certificate.)

Digging further into the world of the sordid and the bizarre, they then came up with London in the Raw (1964) and Primitive London (1965), part-produced and distributed by Compton, a company run by Michael Klinger and Tony Tenser. When Tenser subsequently set up his Tigon company, Miller was a regular contributor to its output, notably producing The Blood Beast Terror (1967) and Witchfinder General (1968).

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