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Fury
Fury is a 1936 American crime film directed by Fritz Lang that tells the story of an innocent man (Spencer Tracy) who narrowly escapes being burned to death by a lynch mob and the revenge he then seeks. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and stars Sylvia Sidney and Tracy, with a supporting cast featuring Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis and Walter Brennan. Loosely based on the events surrounding the Brooke Hart murder in San Jose, California, the film was adapted by Bartlett Cormack and Lang from the story Mob Rule by Norman Krasna. Fury was Lang's first American film.
Plot
En route to meet his fiancée Katherine Grant, gas-station owner Joe Wilson is arrested on flimsy circumstantial evidence for the kidnapping of a child. Gossip soon travels around the small town, growing more distorted through each retelling, until a mob gathers at the jail. When the resolute sheriff refuses to give up his prisoner, the enraged townspeople burn down the building, throwing dynamite into the flames as they flee the scene. Unknown to anyone else there, the blast frees Joe but kills his little dog Rainbow, who had run in to comfort him in the cell.
Awards
Cast
- Arthur Hoyt
- Arthur Stone
- Bert Roach
- Bruce Cabot
- Charles Sullivan
- Clarence Kolb
- Dennis O'Keefe
- Eddie Quillan
- Edward Ellis
- Edwin Maxwell
- Esther Dale
- Fay Helm
- Florence Wix
- Frank Albertson
- Frank Mills
- Frank Sully
- Frederick Burton
- George Chandler
- Gino Corrado
- Gwen Lee
- Harry Harvey
- Harry Hayden
- Helen Flint
- Howard Hickman
- Jonathan Hale
- Minerva Urecal
- Morgan Wallace
- Nora Cecil
- Paul McAllister
- Raymond Hatton
- Spencer Tracy
- Sylvia Sidney
- Victor Potel
- Walter Abel
- Walter Brennan
- Ward Bond
- William Tannen
More details
| author | Fritz Lang |
|---|---|
| award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| director | Fritz Lang Lesley Selander |
| editor | Frank Sullivan |
| events | capital punishment |
| genre | crime drama |
| keywords | arrest build district attorney dynamite false alibi help kidnap little dog newsreel newsreel footage retell small town |
| musicBy | Franz Waxman |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Story |
| producer | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| theme | prison |