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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. 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. In his first American film, director Fritz Lang (Metropolis, The Big Heat) combines a passion for justice and a sharp visual style into a landmark of social-conscience filmmaking. In the 49 years before this movie's release, some 6,000 people in the U.S. were victims of lynch mobs. The Fury over those tragedies -- and over other injustices to come -- remains.
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- Package Dimensions : 17.3 x 13.6 x 1.1 cm; 64 Grams
- Media Format : Blu-ray
- Studio : BBC
- ASIN : B09HMZGY1Q
- Number of discs : 1
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What's remarkable about this film is that it was made and distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer, a studio normally hostile to message movies. Its head was Louis B Mayer, an authoritarian who ruled the studio for twenty five years and preferred fluff over substance. But Metro's real genius was Irving Thalberg, its vice president in charge of production, a man who oversaw the making of several prestige pictures in his short lifetime. At the time of his unexpected death in 1936 -the same year FURY was made- Thalberg was supervising the production of Pearl S Buck's THE GOOD EARTH, which was released to considerable acclaim posthumously.
Fritz Lang was among the great German filmmakers who flourished during the Expressionistic period of the 1920s. By 1930, FW Murnau, Ernst Lubitsch, and William Dieterle had caught Hollywood's attention and were already lured over to America. Lang was another who'd been courted by Tinseltown, but was resistant at first. When the Nazis took over Germany in 1933, Lang finally realized it was time to get the hell out. Initially fleeing to England, he eventually took the transatlantic trip to America to ply his trade in safety.
Despite being a director of vision, Lang proved himself just as personally unpopular in Hollywood as he was in Germany. Sporting a monocle with the mannerisms of a Prussian autocrat, Lang's tyrannical style of direction and disregard for such things as lunch breaks made him one of the most disliked directors around. He got on very poorly with his male lead Spencer Tracy, and in the riot scene, he personally threw smoke bombs at the crowd to get them appropriately riled. When one of the objects struck cast member Bruce Cabot, the actor had to be restrained from assaulting him. Lang found himself just as loathed by the executives in the front office as well; luckily for him he was a talented filmmaker.
FURY starts off with Joe Wilson (Tracy) walking down a Chicago sidewalk with fiancée Katherine Grant, played by top-billed Sylvia Sidney. They've put their wedding on hold because Katherine has a teaching position waiting for her in another city. And during the Depression, if you've got any job at all, let alone a good paying one, you go for it. Joe will remain behind employed as a gas jockey until they both earn enough money to tie the knot and buy a home together. They continue to correspond for several months until he can afford a car and join her when he gets time off.
The ransom kidnapping of a young girl is making headlines at the same time as Joe is driving in the country to meet Katherine at a prearranged halfway spot. A checkpoint stop results in him being taken as a person of interest to the police station in the nearby town of Strand. With very flimsy circumstantial evidence against him, the cops nevertheless hold him, but unfortunately, word of his apprehension spreads like wildfire. So does the unsubstantiated gossip which makes Wilson look like the devil incarnate.
Almost the entire town's population have become an angry mob, led by perennial troublemaker Dawson (Cabot). Out for blood, they're determined to see Joe hang for a crime he's not only not charged with, but totally innocent of. The police chief, worried over the mood settling in, asks the governor to send in the National Guard, but His Excellency is more worried about antagonizing voters during an election year and therefore refuses to help.
Even with smoke bombs and weapons, Strand's small police force is no match for the mob, who batter their way into the barricaded station house and assault some of the officers. Because Wilson is locked in his cell with no way to be reached -and strung up- the rabble do the next best thing: set the jail on fire. By the time Katherine has learned of what's happened and reached the town, the police station is engulfed in flames with Wilson screaming to be set free.
After the lynching has made nationwide headlines, the district attorney is determined to see the rioters prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And now that the girl's real kidnappers have been apprehended and Wilson has been posthumously vindicated, the lawyer is even more resolute. Joe's grieving brothers arrive for the trial, but Katherine is still in a state of shock after having seen her fiancé burned alive. Joe's siblings are later stunned to discover that he's still alive!!
It turns out Wilson was able to escape before the burning building came crashing down. Filled with the same vigilante anger as those who persecuted him, he prefers everyone to think he's still dead. Joe is hell-bent on seeing his would-be murderers receive the trial he never had and then pay dearly for their crime. Worried about Katherine's emotional state, he instructs his brothers not to tell her he's still alive, at least not until justice has taken its course.
Tracy is magnificent as the blue collar mechanic, a man who goes from easygoing average Joe to a bitter avenger out for blood. FURY made him a star, which he would remain up to his death in 1967. Sylvia Sidney is very good too; apparently Lang personally requested for her to be cast in the female lead. She may have been one of the few actors to have gotten along with the mercurial director. Besides Cabot, other Hollywood mainstays to appear in the movie include Walter Brennan, Walter Abel (as the D.A.) and a terrier named Terry who was later immortalized as Toto in THE WIZARD OF OZ.
Worried about FURY's box office chances, the front office forced Lang to tack on a happy ending where Tracy's Joe comes to his senses, with him and Sylvia Sidney sharing a kiss in the film's last frame. Understandably, it stuck in Lang's craw, but he always remained unhappy about it, even though it was the only way to get the movie released. After all, it's not everyday that Metro Goldwyn Mayer has the courage to bankroll a message picture. FURY is still a powerful film, happy ending or not.


Looking quite good in HD, porting over the extras from the 2005 DVD, though nothing new was added. Compelling anti-lynching film has fine acting and direction, only let down by a too abrupt ending.

