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Fury Overview:

Fury (1936) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Fritz Lang and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and J.J. Cohn.

SYNOPSIS

Joe Wilson, an ethical young man, is forced to confront his own mortality and morality after he is wrongly accused and jailed for kidnapping. A lynch mob burns down the jail, and believes he died in the inferno. He survives to exact revenge on the vigilantes.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Fury was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1995.

Academy Awards 1936 --- Ceremony Number 9 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best WritingNorman KrasnaNominated
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Fury BlogHub Articles:

Classic Films in Focus: BLANCHE FURY (1948)

By Jennifer Garlen on Sep 27, 2023 From Virtual Virago

Of all the films I have watched so far in the Criterion Channel's Gaslight Noir collection, Blanche Fury (1948) is the darkest, even though it's also the brightest thanks to its use of gorgeous Technicolor. This adaptation of the 1939 novel by Marjorie Bowen (under the pseudonym Joseph Shearing) emp... Read full article

The Sound of Fury – Try and Get Me (1950)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Nov 17, 2022 From 4 Star Films

The Sound of Fury opens with a kind of portent. A demonstrative street preacher yells out at the pedestrians walking by to “Prepare to meet thy God and Repent of their sins.” He pretty much gets trampled with all his pamphlets ending up on the ground in a sea of humanity. It’s real... Read full article

Desert Fury (1947): Small Town Melodrama in Technicolor

By 4 Star Film Fan on Nov 27, 2021 From 4 Star Films

The draw to Desert Fury must begin with its intriguing cast running the range of personalities. John Hodiak and Wendell Corey (in his film debut) are driving into town. There’s this sense that their relationship is familiar but they feel like out-of-towners, somehow bringing a ting of noirish ... Read full article

The Divine Fury (2019, Kim Joo-hwan)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Nov 12, 2019 From The Stop Button

The Divine Fury is a very bad film. It’s not poorly made; director Kim is mediocre, Cho Sang-yun’s photography is good, Koo Ja-wan’s score is fine. Yes, the editing is wanting, but often more because Kim’s mediocre than anything else. Like the big fight scene at the end? The big, very bad, n... Read full article

The Divine Fury (2019, Kim Joo-hwan)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Nov 12, 2019 From The Stop Button

The Divine Fury is a very bad film. It’s not poorly made; director Kim is mediocre, Cho Sang-yun’s photography is good, Koo Ja-wan’s score is fine. Yes, the editing is wanting, but often more because Kim’s mediocre than anything else. Like the big fight scene at the end? The big, very bad, n... Read full article

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Fury Quotes:

District Attorney: [after several witnesses had lied on the stand] I wonder if I haven't been calling the defense witnesses by mistake.
Joe Wilson: The mob doesn't think. It has no mind of its own.
Joe Wilson: I am legally dead!
Joe Wilson: I'll give them a chance that they didn't give me. They will get a legal trial in a legal courtroom. They will have a legal judge and a legal defense. They will get a legal sentence and a legal death.
Katherine Grant: [to Joe] If those people die, Joe Wilson dies too; you know that, don't you? Wherever you go, whatever you do.
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Fury Facts
According to modern sources, Fritz Lang was the first filmmaker to use newsreel footage as a courtroom device in a motion picture, and may have done so before it was used in an actual court case.
This was actress Sylvia Sidney's only film for MGM, and according to the papers of director Fritz Lang, he stipulated that she be cast in the part before he signed his contract with the studio.
Terry, better known as Toto from The Wizard of Oz, appears in this film as the dog that Spencer Tracy takes in from the rain at the beginning of the movie, becoming his traveling companion into the netherworld of small-town America.
Fritz Lang wanted Spencer Tracy's character to be a lawyer, but the producers thought he should be more of a working man, so he became an auto mechanic.
This was Fritz Lang's first American movie, having arrived from a year in Paris after he fled the Nazi regime in Germany.
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