Director Raoul Walsh's Gun Fury is a rough and tumbleweed tale of a psychotic gunman and the hero determined to stop him. As the story opens, civil war veteran Ben Warren (Rock Hudson) no longer has the stomach for further bloodshed. Eager to give peaceful means a try, he aims to build a new life out West with his fiance (Donna Reed). But when an outlaw ex confederate (Phil Carey) and his gang (including Lee Marvin, The Big Heat) kidnap Ben's bride to be, his life is blown apart, forcing him into the world of violence he left behind.