I Heard
Dean Martin's dead son backed this and wanted a sequel but died before he could write a script he liked.
Nothing exists more beautifully than nothing.
Sounds about right: the actual director, David Cass, was a fairly high profile stuntman who probably knew all sorts of people in the industry. From what I heard Frank Q. Dobbs more leant his name to the production to get location permissions in Texas & New Mexico, where he had a certain amount of prestige as a television producer. He and Cass are credited with the writing but it wouldn't surprise me at all that somebody else had a hand in it, especially with the financing end.
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