Gun Fever

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. It is so bad that it is unintentionally funny .

It looked like it was photographed in someones back yard in an LA suburb.

Even the old quickie Westerns in the !930's were better than this .

Larry Storch's Mexican character set back Mexican - American relations 20 years

The Federales probably tried to have him arrested for insulting the Mexican culture .

Most of the dialog was amateurish drivel , and the acting was even worst .

View this film only if you are desperately lonely , and have absolutely nothing else to do .

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.

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.

This is a truly dull western and frankly the only time it comes to life is when Larry Storch gives a performance drawn from those old Frito Bandito commercials. I haven't heard that lousy an accent since Humphrey Bogart in Virginia City.

Few saw this because much better westerns were done on television at this time.

Rebuttal: who was Luke's mother, she is not on the playbill

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. Trench and Amigo are among the most bullet deserving villains around. Like a lot of the lower budget Western films of mid and late fifties, it much resembles the television Westerns of the time and might have been better off as an hour long episode.

And banned in Finland and Sweden? I suppose it would have passed if Sam and Tanana had been skinny dipping in Lake Tahoe.