AaronCapenBanner Fritz Lang directed this powerful story starring Spencer Tracy as a decent man named Joe Wilson, who is struggling to find work, and his girlfriend Katharine(played by Sylvia Sydney) who does find work out-of-state. While Joe is on his way to visit her, he stops at a gas station and is mistaken for a killer, leading to his arrest, though the law is unable to prevent an angry mob from storming the jail, and destroying it. Joe escapes, but is believed dead, and lets the public think he is so that the mob that tried to kill him can be punished, though Katharine tries to stop him... Well-acted and directed drama shows how cruel fate(and a mindless mob) can turn a good man vindictive and bitter, and the ending is thoughtful rather than a cop-out, since it was the best thing for Joe's soul.

anthony-rigoni There is no other actor who can portray Joe Wilson like Spencer Tracy. This film is so powerful, so intriguing, and so wonderful, I've never seen any movie like it.Spencer Tracy stars as Joseph Wilson, an innocent man who was supposedly killed by a group of blood-thirsty vigilantes. Now, the tables have been turned because 22 members of the vigilantes are standing trial for Joseph Wilson's "death" and Joe is itching to get even with the same people who not only did him wrong, but also killed his beloved dog, Rainbow. Will Joe's conscious make him reveal to the members of the trial and the 22 defendants that he is alive or will he let his 22 "murderers" die? There is no other film that can depict a story about vigilantism gone wrong like Fury. Spencer Tracy and everyone else in the movie has put effort into their acting and the story is phenomenal. Also starring Sylvia Sidney as Katherine Grant, Walter Abel as the district attorney, Bruce Cabot as Kirby Dawson, Edward Ellis as the Sheriff, Walter Brennan as "Bugs" Meyers, Leila Bennett as Edna Hooper, Frank Albertson as Charlie, Helen Flint as Franchette, George Walcott as Tom, and Terry(the dog who played Toto in The Wizard of Oz) as Rainbow.

Claudio Carvalho The hard worker Joseph "Joe" Wilson (Spencer Tracy) and the teacher Katherine Grant (Sylvia Sidney) are in love with each other, but they do not have enough money to get married. Katherine gets a better job in Washington and together with Joe, they save money to get married one year later. Joe quits his job in the factory and uses his savings to buy a gas station, working with his brothers Charlie (Frank Albertson) and Tom (George Walcott). He makes enough money to get married with Katherine and buys a car. While driving with his dog Rainbow to meet his fiancée, Joe is stopped in Strand by the redneck Deputy "Bugs" Meyers (Walter Brennan) as suspect of kidnapping a boy in the Peabody Case. When they find peanuts in his pocket and a five-dollar bill in his pocket with the numeration of the money paid for ransom, Joe is arrested in jail for investigation."Bugs" Meyers makes a comment in the barbershop about the prisoner and sooner the gossip is spread in the little town. As a tale never loses in the telling, Joe is accused by the population of kidnapper and they try to invade the police station to lynch him. For political reason, Governor Burt (Howard Hickman) does not send the National Guard to help Sheriff Tad Hummel to protect Joe and the Police Station is burnt down by the vigilantes. Katherine witnesses the action and has a breakdown. Joe is presumed dead but out of the blue he appears at his brothers' apartment seeking justice. He had learnt that in accordance with the laws, Lynch Law is murder in the first degree and his brothers open a case against twenty-two dwellers of Strand. The prosecutor Mr. Adams accepts the case and Katherine Grant is the prime witness. Joe's revenge is set in motion. "Fury" tells the heartbreaking story of dehumanization of a good man and hard worker that believes in the justice and loves his country through the imprisonment and subsequent lynching by despicable people moved by gossip. Fritz Lang makes another excellent feature in his first American work, and I enjoyed the gossip sequence that ends in a brood of hens.The story is engaging with a great revenge of the bitter Joe. I would love to see the twenty-two defendants going to the gallows, but the moralist conclusion works perfectly in the story. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Fúria" ("Fury")

sme_no_densetsu "Fury", Fritz Lang's first American film, is a story of revenge told from a couple of different viewpoints. The film examines mob justice and also how obsession over revenge can be more damaging than the original injustice.The always reliable Spencer Tracy plays Joe Wilson, a law-abiding citizen in the wrong place at the wrong time. After he's imprisoned for suspected links to a kidnapping case rumours begin to run rampant. Soon the so-called upstanding citizens of the town decide to take matters into their own hands. Their lynching attempt seemingly succeeds but Wilson survives and hatches a plot to send 22 people to the gallows for his apparent murder.The story is thought-provoking since it presents two sides of the supposed justice of revenge. On one hand we have the group mentality that leads to mob justice and on the other we have the fury of a wrongly persecuted man who isn't satisfied with an eye for an eye and instead wants two eyes (or in this case, 22). The screenwriters' deft use of this material resulted in a well-deserved Oscar nomination.Besides the aforementioned Spencer Tracy, the film features Sylvia Sidney in the lead female role. She didn't impress me as much as Tracy but her character is indispensable to the film. The supporting cast is stocked with capable character actors like Walter Brennan, Walter Abel & Edward Ellis, giving the film a solid foundation to build from.Lang's direction is eye-catching, the cinematography is crisp and the film is briskly edited. Franz Waxman's score ably supports the action without drawing attention to itself.All in all, "Fury" is a quality crime film that deserves to be better known. There's a bit of a feeling that studio interference may have softened the film's tone a little but what's on the screen makes for a compelling, thought-provoking crime drama.