Fever (1989 film)

Fever
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Craig Lahiff
Written by	John Emery Craig Lahiff Joe Toppe
Produced by	Terry Jennings
Starring	Bill Hunter Gary Sweet Mary Regan
Cinematography	Robert Cribbett David Foreman
Edited by	Denise Haratzis
Music by	Frank Strangio
Distributed by	J.C. Williamson Film Distributors
Release date	10 May 1990 (1990-05-10)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	AU $875,000

Fever is a 1989 Australian thriller film about an Australian policeman who finds a suitcase full of money, and the course of events which unfold when he decides to keep it. The film was directed by Craig Lahiff, and stars Bill Hunter, Gary Sweet, and Mary Regan.

Plot

Sergeant Jack Wells, a tough country cop, discovers a bag of cash after a shoot out. He decides to keep the money so he and his wife Leanne can start a new life. However Leanne has a lover.

Cast

• Bill Hunter
• Gary Sweet

Production

The movie was the second of three low budget thrillers Craig Lahiff made in succession.

Writer Josephine Emery had made a short feeature with Craig Lahiff. She says Lahiff's telemovie Coda sold well at the American Film Market and JC Williamson’s approached Lahiff "with an offer of money to finance a 90-minute thriller, ‘if a suitable script were written’. Craig came to me and I wrote a treatment for a thriller based around desperate people in an ugly mining town who would do almost anything to get out. We called it, Fever. Williamson’s liked it, put the money up, and we were away."

The film was made with the assistance of the South Australian Film and Television Financing Fund.

The film was meant to be shot in Port Pirie but the budget did not stretch to location shooting so it was filmed in Port Adelaide.

Release

The film was never released theatrically in Australia but sold widely around the world on video. It made a comfortable profit.

External links

• Fever at IMDb
• Fever at Oz Movies