Mark Stevens and John Lupton play a pair looking for a white renegade who is stirring up the Sioux. Stevens and Lupton each have their own reasons and own agenda for being on this ques.
Mark Stevens and John Lupton play a pair looking for a white renegade who is stirring up the Sioux. Stevens and Lupton each have their own reasons and own agenda for being on this ques.
Gun Fever is directed by Mark Stevens and Stevens co-writes the screenplay with Stanley Silverman. It stars Stevens, John Lupton, Larry Storch, Maureen Hingert and Aaron Saxon.
Yes it's low budget but deserves watching for it's gritty, no nonsense and uncompromising violence, especially when compared to other westerns of this period.
I came across this film by chance on the Encore Westerns Channel and despite its low budget and occasional slow pace, I found this to be an entertaining movie based on relationships: good, bad, strained, and warped. The black & white photography (a budgetary necessity, no doubt) and the blowing wind added to the atmosphere.
This is the worst Western, and maybe even the worst movie ever made. I kept watching it hoping that it had to get better , but alas it continued in a downward spiral.
Two reasons to comment on this ultra-cheapo made at the height of TV's Western craze. The film's biggest star is the wind machine that blows for almost the entire 70 minutes, even gusting away the ghostly-looking credits as they crawl by!
Gun Fever is a good example of the sort of very low budget western that was once a Hollywood staple from late in the era when going to the movies for many Americans meant going to see a western. By the time the picture came out (1958) television, with its literally dozens of western series had largely replaced movies as the primary source of filmed westerns except at the A and very high budget level.
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