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Rating: 7.5/10 by 216 users

Fury (1936)

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

Directing:
  • Fritz Lang
  • Horace Hough
  • Lesley Selander
Writing:
  • Norman Krasna
  • Bartlett Cormack
  • Fritz Lang
Stars:
Release Date: Fri, Jun 05, 1936

Rating: 7.5/10 by 216 users

Alternative Title:
Furia - ES
Blinde Wut - DE
Furie - FR
Fúria - PT
Mob Rule - US
The Mob - US

Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 32 minutes
Budget: $604,000
Revenue: $1,300,000

Plot Keyword: small town, kidnapping, trial, love, money, revenge, film noir, murder, jail, presumed dead, lynch mob, engaged couple, fury, innocent man, rush to judgment
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Sylvia Sidney
Katherine Grant
Walter Abel
District Attorney
Bruce Cabot
Kirby Dawson
Frank Albertson
Charlie Wilson
Morgan Wallace
Fred Garrett
George Chandler
Milton Jackson
Jonathan Hale
Defense Attorney
Leila Bennett
Edna Hooper
Esther Dale
Mrs. Whipple
Helen Flint
Franchette
Erville Alderson
Plumber (uncredited)
Ernie Alexander
Peanut Vendor (uncredited)
Ricca Allen
Townswoman Gossip (uncredited)
Herbert Ashley
Oscar (uncredited)
B.F. Blinn
Juror (uncredited)
Ward Bond
Man (uncredited)
Harry Bowen
Baggage Clerk (uncredited)
Ed Brady
Dawson's Friend (uncredited)
Raymond Brown
Farmer (uncredited)
Harry Burkhardt
Sheriff's Deputy (uncredited)
Eugene Burr
Man at Elevator (uncredited)
Frederick Burton
Daniel Hopkins (uncredited)
Nora Cecil
Albert's Mother (uncredited)
Harvey Clark
Mayor Pippen (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
Reporter in Courtroom (uncredited)
Jules Cowles
Frank (uncredited)
Alexander Cross
Outgoing Watchman (uncredited)
Jack Daley
Factory Foreman (uncredited)
Sidney De Gray
Jury Member (uncredited)
Helen Dickson
Townswoman Gossip (uncredited)
Robert Dudley
Store Owner (uncredited)
Oliver Eckhardt
Juror (uncredited)
Edgar Edwards
Tomato Thrower / Arsonist Defendant (uncredited)
Adolph Faylauer
Reporter (uncredited)
Mary Foy
Townswoman Defendant (uncredited)
Raoul Freeman
Sheriff's Deputy (uncredited)
Jack Grey
Dawson's Friend (uncredited)
Ben Hall
Walter "Goofy" Gordon (uncredited)
Sherry Hall
Court Clerk (uncredited)
Edna Mae Harris
Black Woman (uncredited)
Harry Harvey
Jasper Anderson (uncredited)
Raymond Hatton
Hector (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
Lem (uncredited)
Sam Hayes
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Daniel L. Haynes
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Fay Helm
Townswoman (uncredited)
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian
Miner (uncredited)
Al Herman
Dawson's Friend (uncredited)
Robert Homans
Incoming Watchman (uncredited)
Arthur Hoyt
Grouch (uncredited)
Sydney Jarvis
Court Bailiff (uncredited)
Si Jenks
Uncle Billy (uncredited)
Clarence Kolb
Durkin's Friend (uncredited)
Gwen Lee
Mrs. Fred Garrett (uncredited)
Murdock MacQuarrie
Dawson's Friend (uncredited)
Wally Maher
Ted Fitzgerald (uncredited)
Tom Mahoney
Bailiff (uncredited)
Paul McAllister
Passerby (uncredited)
Harry McCoy
Adams' Assistant (uncredited)
Pat McKee
Townsman Mob Defendant (uncredited)
Mira McKinney
Hysterical Townswoman at Trial (uncredited)
Robert Milasch
Townsman Deputy (uncredited)
Frank Mills
Dawson's Friend (uncredited)
King Mojave
Walter Judd (uncredited)
Roger Moore
Adams' Assistant (uncredited)
Esther Muir
Girl in Apartment Listening to Radio (uncredited)
William Newell
Service Station Owner (uncredited)
Field Norton
Court Bailiff (uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe
Reporter (uncredited)
George Offerman, Jr.
Youthful Mob Defendant (uncredited)
Franklin Parker
Newsreel Cameraman (uncredited)
Victor Potel
Jorgeson (uncredited)
James Quinn
Dawson's Friend (uncredited)
Ruth Renick
Sally Humphries (uncredited)
Bert Roach
Waiter (uncredited)
Ronald R. Rondell
Reporter (uncredited)
Christian Rub
Sven Ahern (uncredited)
Cy Schindell
Townsman (uncredited)
Will Stanton
Drunk Leaving Bar (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale
Hardware Man (uncredited)
Mark Strong
Court Bailiff (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
Townsman Mob Defendant (uncredited)
Denny Sullivan
Townsman Mob Defendant (uncredited)
Frank Sully
Dynamiter (uncredited)
Gertrude Sutton
Miss Tuttle (uncredited)
William Tannen
Governor's Aide (uncredited)
Albert Taylor
Old Man (uncredited)
Minerva Urecal
Fanny (uncredited)
Guy Usher
Assistant Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Billy Wayne
Newsreel Cameraman (uncredited)
Dick Wessel
Bodyguard (uncredited)
Huey White
Bus Driver (uncredited)
Florence Wix
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Dorothea Wolbert
Hector's Wife (uncredited)
Buck Woods
Bartender (uncredited)
Janet Young
Prim Townswoman (uncredited)
Terry
Joe's Dog Rainbow (uncredited)

John Chard

Tormentors and the tormented given Lang's gifted touch. Out of MGM, Fury is directed by Fritz Lang and stars Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney and features Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis and Walter Brennan in support. It's adapted by Lang and Bartlett Cormack from the story "Mob Rule" written by Norman Krasna. Loosely based around the events that surrounded both the "Brooke Hart" murder in 1933 and the "Lindbergh" kidnapping/murder case in 1932, the story sees Tracy as Joe Wilson, an innocent man who is jailed and apparently killed in a fire started by a rampaging lynch mob. However, as the lynch mob go on trial for his murder, Joe surfaces but is twisted by thoughts of revenge on those who happily watched him burn. Widely and rightly considered a classic, this first Hollywood outing from director Fritz Lang is a remarkable look at mob violence and one man's limit pushed to its breaking point - and then some. That Lang survived studio interference to craft such a penetrating study of injustice is a minor miracle. Fury is neatly put together as a story, the calm before the storm as Joe & Kath are brought to us as the happy face of Americana. Then it's the middle section as rumours run out of control, the dangers of idle prattling rammed home as things start to escalate out of control - culminating in the savage assault on the jail (a gusto infused action sequence indeed). Then the fall out of mob rule actions, the court case and Joe's malevolent force of vengeance, that in turn comes under scrutiny. The film was said to have been Lang's favourite American film, which is understandable given it bares all his trademarks. The expressionistic touches, shadow play dalliances and supreme cross-cutting between tormentors and the tormented, for sure this is prime Lang, with no frame wasted. While it's no stretch of the imagination to think that Lang, having fled Nazi Germany, was pondering what he left behind as he moulded the picture together. Of the cast, Tracy is majestic as our main protagonist, while Sidney is brightly big eyed and hugely effective as the moral centre of Joe's universe. Controversial at the time, the film has naturally lost some of that controversial power over the decades. However, as the film points out with the lynching statistics, there was once a time when inhumanity was able to rear its ugly head in the blink of an eye. Fury serves to remind two-fold that not only is it a potent social commentary, but also that it's a damn fine piece of skilled cinema. 9/10


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