Fury (1936)
Joe Wilson, a young man, is on his way to meet the woman he plans to marry when he gets caught up in a kidnapping incident in a small town. He is falsely arrested as a suspect and thrown into jail. The townspeople form a lynch mob and attack the jail, burning it down. This is recorded by newsreel cameras. Joe is believed to have been killed, but he has actually escaped and is in hiding. He contacts his brothers and asks them to retrieve the film footage as evidence, and to arrest the members of the mob so they can be charged with his murder. The trial is held and the film identification makes conviction almost certain. His brothers plead with him to reveal himself, as the mob was not guilty of his murder, but Joe is determined to seek revenge. Eventually, his fiancée is able to change his mind and he appears in court. The case against the mob members is dismissed.
Books with substantial mentioning of Fury
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David Thomson Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films New York, 2008 |
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| Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.) International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000 |
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Tom Gunning The films of Fritz Lang, Allegories of vision and modernity London, 2000 |
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Donald Descher The Films of Spencer Tracy New York, 1968 |
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Articles on Fury
| Nick Smedley, Fritz Lang's trilogy: the rise and fall of a European social commentator, in: Film History, vol. 5, 1993 pp. 1-21 |
Articles with substantial mentioning of Fury
| Alain Silver and Robert Porfirio, Fritz Lang (1890-1976), in: Robert Porfirio, Alain Silver and James Ursini (eds.), Film noir reader 3, New York, 2002 |