Fury (1936) | |
| Director(s) | Fritz Lang |
| Producer(s) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz, J.J. Cohn (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Crime, Drama, Film Adaptation, Romance, Thriller/Suspense |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Courtroom, True Story (based on) |
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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)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Writing | Norman Krasna | Nominated |
BlogHub Articles:
Classic Films in Focus: BLANCHE FURY (1948)
By Jennifer Garlen on Sep 27, 2023 From Virtual ViragoOf 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 FilmsThe 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 FilmsThe 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 ButtonThe 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, not at al... Read full article
The Divine Fury (2019, Kim Joo-hwan)
By Andrew Wickliffe on Nov 12, 2019 From The Stop ButtonThe 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, not at al... Read full article
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Quotes from
Joe Wilson: I am legally dead!
District Attorney: [after several witnesses had lied on the stand] I wonder if I haven't been calling the defense witnesses by mistake.
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Facts about
Several cast members in studio records/casting call lists for this movie were not seen in the final print. These were (with their character names): Ralph Bushman (Young Teacher), Lew Harvey (Mug in Poolroon), Jack Perry (Man in Poolroom), Duke York (Taxi Driver), Erville Alderson (Plumber), Edward LeSaint (Doctor), Clara Blandick (Judge's Wife), Ward Bond (First Objector in Movie Theater) and Charles Coleman (Innkeeper)
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.
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