Rush agreed to direct The Savage Seven in exchange for the opportunity to make the psychedelic film Psych-Out.

[3] Kisum, the leader of a motorcycle gang, is in love with waitress Marcia Little Hawk.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Richard F. Shepard wrote: "The movie is one continuous uproar of unmuffled motors and head-cracking and emphasized cruelty from one and to another.

It is colorful and technically competent but completely cheap in its primitive, uninquiring, kick'-em-in-the-groin sensationalism, too serious to be lusty and too one-note to be interesting.

The film's soundtrack album was released 1968 on Atco Records as 33-245 (mono) and SD-33-245 (stereo).