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Fury (1936) 7.8
When a prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murder. Director:Fritz Lang |
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Cast
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| Sylvia Sidney | ... |
Katherine Grant
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| Spencer Tracy | ... |
Joe Wilson
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| Walter Abel | ... |
District Attorney
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| Bruce Cabot | ... |
Kirby Dawson
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Edward Ellis | ... |
Sheriff
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| Walter Brennan | ... |
'Bugs' Meyers
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| Frank Albertson | ... |
Charlie
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George Walcott | ... |
Tom
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Arthur Stone | ... |
Durkin
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Morgan Wallace | ... |
Fred Garrett
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George Chandler | ... |
Milton Jackson
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Roger Gray | ... |
Stranger
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| Edwin Maxwell | ... |
Vickery
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Howard C. Hickman | ... |
Governor Burt
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Jonathan Hale | ... |
Defense Attorney
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
Based on the story "Mob Rule" by Norman Krasna. Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant are in love, but he doesn't have enough money for them to get married. So Katherine moves across the country to make money. Through the course of the movie, Fritz Lang shows us how a decent and once civilized man can become a ruthless and bitter man. Written by Andre'a M. Thompson <athompso@ziggy.st.hmc.edu>
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TWO LOVERS...VICTIMS OF MOB VIOLENCE! (original 1936 window card poster)Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
29 May 1936 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Mob Rule See more »Filming Locations:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USACompany Credits
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Technical Specs
Runtime:
| (Turner library print)Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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(1843) (uncredited)
from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
In the score during the opening scene
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Trivia
This was Fritz Lang's first American movie, having arrived from a year in Paris after he fled the Nazi regime in Germany. See more »Goofs
During a montage that shows the passing of several days, Sylvia Sidney is wearing the same dress the entire time. See more »Quotes
Katherine Grant: [to Joe] If those people die, Joe Wilson dies too; you know that, don't you? Wherever you go, whatever you do.See more »
Soundtracks
"The Wedding March"(1843) (uncredited)
from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
In the score during the opening scene
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The hard worker Joseph "Joe" Wilson (Spencer Tracy) and the teacher Katherine Grant (Sylvia Sidney) are in love with each other, but they do not have enough money to get married. Katherine gets a better job in Washington and together with Joe, they save money to get married one year later. Joe quits his job in the factory and uses his savings to buy a gas station, working with his brothers Charlie (Frank Albertson) and Tom (George Walcott). He makes enough money to get married with Katherine and buys a car. While driving with his dog Rainbow to meet his fiancée, Joe is stopped in Strand by the redneck Deputy "Bugs" Meyers (Walter Brennan) as suspect of kidnapping a boy in the Peabody Case. When they find peanuts in his pocket and a five-dollar bill in his pocket with the numeration of the money paid for ransom, Joe is arrested in jail for investigation.
"Bugs" Meyers makes a comment in the barbershop about the prisoner and sooner the gossip is spread in the little town. As a tale never loses in the telling, Joe is accused by the population of kidnapper and they try to invade the police station to lynch him. For political reason, Governor Burt (Howard Hickman) does not send the National Guard to help Sheriff Tad Hummel to protect Joe and the Police Station is burnt down by the vigilantes. Katherine witnesses the action and has a breakdown.
Joe is presumed dead but out of the blue he appears at his brothers' apartment seeking justice. He had learnt that in accordance with the laws, Lynch Law is murder in the first degree and his brothers open a case against twenty-two dwellers of Strand. The prosecutor Mr. Adams accepts the case and Katherine Grant is the prime witness. Joe's revenge is set in motion.
"Fury" tells the heartbreaking story of dehumanization of a good man and hard worker that believes in the justice and loves his country through the imprisonment and subsequent lynching by despicable people moved by gossip. Fritz Lang makes another excellent feature in his first American work, and I enjoyed the gossip sequence that ends in a brood of hens.
The story is engaging with a great revenge of the bitter Joe. I would love to see the twenty-two defendants going to the gallows, but the moralist conclusion works perfectly in the story. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Fúria" ("Fury")