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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790792156
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 079079215X
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 25282
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 29, 1936
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Film adaptation of Norman Krasna's 'Mob Rule'. Young lovebirds Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant want to get married but don't have the money. Katherine moves to another city where she can make more money.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569690424
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Tough stuff from director Fritz Lang (M), making his first American film with this 1936 story of an innocent man (Spencer Tracy) who escapes a lynch mob and then orchestrates his apparent murder at their hands. Tracy is superb, and the film is uncompromising, until studio interference takes some of the wind out of Lang's sails right at the end. But as the portrait of a character who comes to reflect the destiny he is trying to avoid, this is still essential Lang and a pre-noir classic. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - Mob Mentality Yes, But This Film is Also About "The Other"
I agree with the many reviewers who focus on the lynching aspect of the morality tale spun so expertly by Fritz Lang. But having watched this recently, I also found much that was directly relevant to our modern times. In particular, the film really exposes how the heartland, the community, can be exclusionary and vicious to those it perceives as "the Other," whether that person is a suspected kidnapper, a gay person, or some other person selected by the town elders to be the subject of ridicule, disdain, and marginalization.
Consider those who raised objections to the war in Iraq, and how they were treated by the media and the "town elders" in Washington. They were reviled, shunned, marginalized, and forgotten, victims of a mob mentality that drove us to war and to celebrate on the nightly news our conquests and destruction.
Lang's point is a larger one, and one that applies as much today as it did when the noxious practice of lynching was rampant across our country. As the barber slyly notes, it is the "impulse" that must be controlled, lest it burst out and consume us all.
Rating: - INDICTMENT OF MOB RULE!
German born diector Fritz Lang's first American film tells the story of how mass hysteria can led to tragic results.Joe Wilson (Spencer Tracy) driving West,from Chicago,to meet his bride-to-be Katharine,touchingly played by Sylvia Sidney,is arrested on kidnapping charges.Lies and whispers spread thru the small town which leads to a mob marching on the city jail,which results in Tracy being lynched(?),a body is not found and the "leaders" of the mob are put on trial.Lang,who also co-wrote the screenplay,captures the essence of small town bigotry and the effects that"group think" can have a society,large or small.Edward Ellis,Walter Brennan,Bruce Cabot,and Frank Albertson lend excellant surpport.Commetary by Peter Bogdanovich,with inserts from director Lang,culled from interviews,over the years,by Bogdanovich is OK.
Rating: - Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
Spencer Tracy is an innocent man accused of kidnapping, and then he becomes the victim of mob violence: a crazed town mob storms the jail he's being held in and burn it down. But, unknown to the mob, Tracy escapes and goes into hiding; when the real kidnapper is caught, a defense lawyer brings 22 of the townspeople up on murder charges. After an exciting courtroom trial, most of the 22 are found guilty - at which point Tracy strolls into court "unable to live with myself."
Fritz Lang directed (his first American movie), and it helped make Tracy a star. The first half hour is slow and a bit hokey as Tracy and his bride-to-be (played by the rather mediocre Sylvia Sidney) establish for the audience how much they love each other and how decent they are. Things pick up after Tracy is arrested, though Lang's stagey connection to German Expressionism is still in the forefront during the mob violence scenes. The trial is excellent, and we are kept in suspense as the townspeople perjure themselves to save their necks. The ending is somewhat hokey again. Graham Greene called the movie "great" at the time it came out; that's a bit of an overstatement, but it's a classy, well-made movie just the same.
Rating:  - Blind "Fury"
Are people essentially good or evil? This is an age old question that Fritz Lang's movie tries to explore. But it's a difficult question to answer. Take a look throughout history and it seems to be filled with violence, wars, and assassinations. But then an event like 9\11 or hurricane Katrina happens and we see an outpour of goodwill and generosity. And again we must ask ourselves are the fundamental impulses of man good or evil?
"Fury" tells the story of Joe Wilson (Spence Tracy) a man who is about to get married to Katherine (Sylvia Sidney). Katherine has found a high paying job in another town and has agreed to take it so she can save up enough money for the two to get married. Joe promises once he gets enough money as well he will travel out to Katherine. A year goes by and the two are still apart. But through Joe's hard work he finally has enough money to marry Katherine.
Early on in the film the theme of right and wrong is presented. Joe is a nice guy. Always trying to do the right thing. When we first meet his brothers, who he lives with, one of them is doing work for the mob (though this is never really played out) and the other brother comes home drunk. Joe strongly protest their behavior. Joe even saves a stray dog in another scene.
Now when Joe drives out to Katherine he is pulled over and suspected to be involved in a kidnapping scandal that has affected the small town. Things are made worst when the find out Joe eats peanuts, because so does ... Read More
Rating: - Dead Man's Revenge
Fury is three pictures in one. It starts off as a romance. Joe Wilson (Spencer Tracey) and his girl Katherine (Sylvia Sidney) are engaged but are waiting until they get enough money. He lives in Chicago and she in Washington. Joe is a straight shooter and will not do anything dishonest to get ahead, so it takes time for Joe to save any money.
Finally, Joe and his brothers save enough to buy a gas station and be their own bosses. Joe saves enough is going to fetch his bride. On the way to her in California, he is stopped and arrested in a small town on suspicion of kidnapping. The word spreads in the town and a mob surrounds the jail. The townspeople will not let an outsider get away with such a crime (a crime that did not happen in their town nor affected their town.) They break into the jail but cannot get past the bars to the prisoner. They set the jail on fire and when that doesn't yield the prisoner; they throw dynamite in the fire to bring the jail down.
This is where you might expect the film to end. But it doesn't this is no ordinary film about the mob mentality and death of an innocent man. It turns out that Joe wasn't killed but the dynamite broke open the jail and he escaped. But no knows this and he wants revenge. He goes back to his brothers and gets them to have the state prosecute those at the lynching under a statute that equates lynching with first degree murder. This is easier said than done as the town wants to forget their shame and rallies ... Read More
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