Fury
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Short description
Joe Wilson runs a gas station with his brothers and is engaged to Katherine Grant, who lives in another town. Traveling to see her, he is arrested there after being mistaken for a child kidnapper, and circumstantial evidence, including a bill from the ransom payment in his possession, is enough to hold him. As word spreads, a crowd gathers outside the jail, and the sheriff struggles to prevent a lynching.
Fury was directed by Fritz Lang, the eighth of the twenty-four films he directed and his first American production, following The Testament of Dr. Mabuse and preceding You Only Live Once. Lang wrote the screenplay with Bartlett Cormack, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz and J.J. Cohn produced it for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Spencer Tracy plays Joe Wilson, with Sylvia Sidney as Katherine, Walter Abel as the district attorney, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis and Walter Brennan among a credited cast of 106. The film earned about 1 million dollars worldwide.
On TMDB it holds 7.5 out of 10 from 263 votes, while critics' reviews give it 8.9 out of 10 from 17 reviews, placing the critical response noticeably above the audience score. The story is a crime drama and thriller about mistaken identity, mob anger and the pressure of a small town's judgment.
What's left behind the scenes
- Sylvia Sidney was so eager to work with Fritz Lang that she agreed to a reduced fee.
- Fritz Lang's first film in the USA. He moved to America from Paris, where he had lived for a year after fleeing the Nazi regime in Germany.
- Fritz Lang's (1890-1976) first film shot in the United States. Having recently moved to the country, Lang did not know that, according to local law, actors and crew were entitled to a lunch break. Shortly after filming began, Lang himself had a quick bite to eat on the go, during a set change, and then continued shooting. Some members of the crew asked Spencer Tracy (1900-1967) when lunch was. The actor approached Lang with him and heard in response, "This is my set. There will be lunch when I decide." Tracy wiped his face, smearing his makeup, knowing that it would take at least an hour and a half to reapply it, shouted: "Lunch!" - and headed to lunch with the rest of the cast and crew.
- To really anger the actors for the scene with the frenzied crowd, Fritz Lang ordered smoke bombs to be thrown at them. One of the bombs hit Bruce Cabot (1904-1972). The director's plan was so successful that several members of the crew had to hold Cabot back so he wouldn't attack Lang with his fists.
- Fritz Lang wanted to end the film with a close-up of Sylvia Sidney's (1910-1999) tearful face. The MGM studio rejected this idea outright and forced Lang to shoot a different ending. The film ends with a kiss between the characters played by Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney.
- The screenplay was based on the 1933 story of the kidnapping and murder of Brooke Hart, the elder son of Alexander Hart, owner of a department store in San Jose, California. Two people were arrested on suspicion of the crime. A mob stormed the jail, dragged out the suspects, took them to a nearby park, and lynched them there.
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