Gun Fury (1953)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Raoul Walsh

Writers:

Robert A. Granger (novel) and
Irving Wallace (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

11 November 1953 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Crime | Western

Tagline:

A WOMAN WRONGED...A MAN TO AVENGE HER!...and he rode south to do it!

Plot:

After a stagecoach holdup, Frank Slayton's notorious gang leave Ben Warren for deasd and head off with his fiancée...

Plot Keywords:

Gang | Stagecoach | Bride | Arizona | 1880s

Cast

Rock Hudson	...	Ben Warren
Donna Reed	...	Jennifer Ballard
Philip Carey	...	Frank Slayton (as Phil Carey)
Roberta Haynes	...	Estella Morales
Leo Gordon	...	Tom 'Jess' Burgess
Lee Marvin	...	Blinky
Neville Brand	...	Brazos
Ray Thomas	...	Doc
Bob Herron	...	Curly Jordan (as Robert Herron)
Phil Rawlins	...	Jim Morse
Forrest Lewis	...	Weatherby

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.75 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

UK:U | USA:Approved (certificate #16564) | West Germany:12 (f) (cut version) | West Germany:16 (nf) (original rating) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Finland:(Banned) (1954) | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Coffee Pot Rock, West Sedona, Arizona, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

This film was shot in 3-D. However, director Raoul Walsh only had one eye, so he was never able to see the film in the process in which he shot it. The same situation occurred when director André De Toth, who also had only on eye, shot the 3-D film House of Wax (1953).

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Holiday (2006)

Tough, solid, overlooked western drama

A rancher and an outlaw with a conscience pursue a band of kidnappers through the Arizona desert in a good western that never received its just due. Most of Rock Hudson's early films were westerns and he shows that he's handy with a six-gun and at home in the saddle as he and reformed bad guy Leo Gordon look for the outlaws but for very different reasons. The color scenery nearly upstages the drama and the fine cast of old-school character actors make an ordinary plot outline work quite well. Phil Carey and Donna Reed are major players here. Carey is suitably oily as a southern gentleman and Reed is the damsel in distress who waits for her betrothed to rescue her. Neville Brand and Lee Marvin, in one of his first film roles, score as hard cases.