Fury

"Two lovers… victims of mob violence!"

1936 1h 32m EN

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7.5

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★7.5TMDB · 264

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Synopsis

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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.

“Two lovers… victims of mob violence!”

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Cast

Sylvia Sidney
Katherine Grant
Spencer Tracy
Joe Wilson
Walter Abel
District Attorney
Bruce Cabot
Kirby Dawson
Edward Ellis
Sheriff
Walter Brennan
Bugs Meyers
Frank Albertson
Charlie Wilson
George Walcott
Tom Wilson

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Fritz Lang
Writers: Norman Krasna, Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang
Languages: English, Latin
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.6M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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2 / 8

ERA

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90 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Latin.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Fritz Lang, shot by Joseph Ruttenberg. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Franz Waxman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Frank Sullivan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy and Walter Abel carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Two lovers… victims of mob violence!".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Fritz Lang directs. Joseph Ruttenberg behind the camera. Franz Waxman scores. Frank Sullivan cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Latin.

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Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $0.6M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
290 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Latin.
4Directed by Fritz Lang, shot by Joseph Ruttenberg. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Franz Waxman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Frank Sullivan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy and Walter Abel carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Two lovers… victims of mob violence!".
9IMDB entry: tt0027652 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 15 themes, including "small town", "kidnapping", "trial", "love".

The technical file

Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg
Original score: Franz Waxman
Editing: Frank Sullivan
Costume design: Dolly Tree
Runtime: 92 min · 1h 32m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $604,000
Box office: $1,300,000
Return: 215% of budget
Original language: EN
IMDB: Fury (1936)

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National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

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John Chard2015-12-16
★ 9/10
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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