Fury (film)

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Fury
Directed by Fritz Lang
Produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Written by Bartlett Cormack
Fritz Lang
Starring Spencer Tracy
Sylvia Sidney
Walter Abel
Bruce Cabot
Walter Brennan
Music by Franz Waxman
Release date(s) May 29, 1936
Running time 90 min.
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
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Fury is a 1936 drama film which tells the story of a decent man who descends into ruthlessness when he narrowly escapes a lynching and seeks retribution on the people of the small town who persecuted him. Directed by Fritz Lang, it stars Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis and Walter Brennan.

Loosely based on the events surrounding the Brooke Hart murder, the movie was adapted by Bartlett Cormack and Lang from the story Mob Rule by Norman Krasna.

Fury was Lang's first American film, and is considered by critics to have been compromised by the studio, MGM, which forced Lang to make the protagonist innocent of the crime he's nearly lynched for, and to tack on a reconciliation between him and his love. The film was also a major departure for MGM, which at the time was known for lavish musicals and glitzy dramas. The movie is more in keeping with the social issue films associated with Warner Brothers, like I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. [1]

Krasna received an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Original Story.

In 1995, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

  1. ^ Peter Bogdanovich, audio commentary for Fury, Warners Home Video, 2005.
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