Rent Fury (1936)
3.9 of 5 from 80 ratings
1h 29min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Joe Wilson, a wrongly jailed man thought to have died in a blaze started by a bloodthirsty lynch mob, is somehow alive. And dead to all he ever stood for and perhaps ever will be. Because Joe aims to ensure his would-be executioners meet the fate Joe miraculously escaped. Spencer Tracy is Joe, Sylvia Sidney is his bride-to-be and "Fury" lives up to its volatile name with its searing indictment of mob justice and lynching.
- Actors:
- Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis, Walter Brennan, Frank Albertson, George Walcott, Arthur Stone, Morgan Wallace, George Chandler, Roger Gray, Edwin Maxwell, Howard C. Hickman, Jonathan Hale, Leila Bennett, Esther Dale, Helen Flint, Erville Alderson, Ernie Alexander
- Directors:
- Fritz Lang
- Producers:
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Writers:
- Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang, Norman Krasna
- Others:
- Norman Krasna
- Aka:
- Mob Rule / The Mob
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
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- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 01/01/2024
- Run Time:
- 92 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Various
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Commentary by Peter Bogdanovich, with Audio Interview Excerpts of Director Fritz Lang
- Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews (1) of Fury
Crime Melodrama. - Fury review by Steve
Fritz Lang’s Hollywood debut begins a trilogy of crime melodramas about the insecure working poor in the depression. They all star Sylvia Sidney as an intelligent woman in love with a blue-collar striver haunted by misfortune. Here the fiancé is Spencer Tracy, the owner of a gas station who is chased down by a lynch mob for a crime he didn’t commit.
When he makes a fortuitous escape, he lays low while the guilty are tried for murder. The schematic plot takes up most of the short running time, so regrettably the performances are secondary. But the stars are compelling, and Sidney is, as usual, a heartbreaker. She only wants a home and a husband with a job. But fate is unforgiving.
So this is social protest aimed at the still common practice of lynching in the US. Hell, this is only a generation away from the wild west. Lang gives it a pre-noir look with the shadows and funky camera angles, and there are some amazing extreme closeups. Despite the realism, there is his usual impression of visual poetry…
And the agony of the ordinary person caught in the grip of malign destiny. Lang fled Nazi Germany in ’33 and it’s really tempting to suppose that this reflection on mob hysteria is carried over from his Berlin period. The ending is weak, due to interference from MGM and the meaning gets lost, yet this is still an impressive start to the director’s second act.
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