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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790792156
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 079079215X
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 22331
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 29, 1936
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Film adaptation of Norman Krasna's 'Mob Rule'. Young lovebirds Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant want to get married but don't have the money. Katherine moves to another city where she can make more money.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569690424
Amazon.com essential video:
Tough stuff from director Fritz Lang (M), making his first American film with this 1936 story of an innocent man (Spencer Tracy) who escapes a lynch mob and then orchestrates his apparent murder at their hands. Tracy is superb, and the film is uncompromising, until studio interference takes some of the wind out of Lang's sails right at the end. But as the portrait of a character who comes to reflect the destiny he is trying to avoid, this is still essential Lang and a pre-noir classic. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Mob Mentality Yes, But This Film is Also About "The Other"
I agree with the many reviewers who focus on the lynching aspect of the morality tale spun so expertly by Fritz Lang. But having watched this recently, I also found much that was directly relevant to our modern times. In particular, the film really exposes how the heartland, the community, can be exclusionary and vicious to those it perceives as "the Other," whether that person is a suspected kidnapper, a gay person, or some other person selected by the town elders to be the subject of ridicule, ... Read More
Rating: - INDICTMENT OF MOB RULE!
German born diector Fritz Lang's first American film tells the story of how mass hysteria can led to tragic results.Joe Wilson (Spencer Tracy) driving West,from Chicago,to meet his bride-to-be Katharine,touchingly played by Sylvia Sidney,is arrested on kidnapping charges.Lies and whispers spread thru the small town which leads to a mob marching on the city jail,which results in Tracy being lynched(?),a body is not found and the "leaders" of the mob are put on trial.Lang,who also co-wrote the screenplay,captures ... Read More
Rating: - Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
Spencer Tracy is an innocent man accused of kidnapping, and then he becomes the victim of mob violence: a crazed town mob storms the jail he's being held in and burn it down. But, unknown to the mob, Tracy escapes and goes into hiding; when the real kidnapper is caught, a defense lawyer brings 22 of the townspeople up on murder charges. After an exciting courtroom trial, most of the 22 are found guilty - at which point Tracy strolls into court "unable to live with myself."
Fritz Lang directed ... Read More
Rating:  - Blind "Fury"
Are people essentially good or evil? This is an age old question that Fritz Lang's movie tries to explore. But it's a difficult question to answer. Take a look throughout history and it seems to be filled with violence, wars, and assassinations. But then an event like 9\11 or hurricane Katrina happens and we see an outpour of goodwill and generosity. And again we must ask ourselves are the fundamental impulses of man good or evil?
"Fury" tells the story of Joe Wilson (Spence Tracy) a man who is about ... Read More
Rating: - Dead Man's Revenge
Fury is three pictures in one. It starts off as a romance. Joe Wilson (Spencer Tracey) and his girl Katherine (Sylvia Sidney) are engaged but are waiting until they get enough money. He lives in Chicago and she in Washington. Joe is a straight shooter and will not do anything dishonest to get ahead, so it takes time for Joe to save any money.
Finally, Joe and his brothers save enough to buy a gas station and be their own bosses. Joe saves enough is going to fetch his bride. On the way to her in California, ... Read More
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