I liked Larry Buchanan's movie The Naked Witch. It was an hour long, ostensibly a horror movie but really a disappointing nudie film. It was produced by a Texas drive-in theater owner and cost about the same as a new Cadillac at the time to make. A young fellow in Texas impulsively digs up the grave of a witch who had been burned at the stake by German immigrants in the 1840's. He pulls out a stake that had been driven through her heart and the witch comes back to life. Her body is reconstituted but her clothes aren't so lucky. She walks around naked looking for descendants of the jerk who got her killed.
It's not clear when it was made or released, but the copyright date was 1961.
It turns out there is a 1952 Finnish movie, The Return of the Witch aka The Witch, available free on Tubi with a similar plot. Archeologists pull the stake out of a mummified witch and she comes back to life, sort of. They find a woman lying naked in the empty grave.
Black and white, much better-made than The Naked Witch. The setting is more interesting. The nudity was more impressive but the film does drag on a little. It was released in the United States.
If you scour microfilm of Texas newspapers at the time, my guess that you'll find the 1952 film played at Claude Alexander's drive-ins.
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