Fury

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Fury is a 1936 American crime drama film directed by Fritz Lang, often regarded as his first major Hollywood work and a powerful critique of mob justice.

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instanceOf crime drama film
film
basedOn story by Norman Krasna
blackAndWhite true
cinematographyBy Joseph Ruttenberg
countryOfOrigin United States
director Fritz Lang
distributedInFormat 35 mm film
distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
editedBy Frank Sullivan
filmingLocation California
genre crime film
drama film
hasCriticalReputation powerful social critique
hasFilmRating Passed by Production Code Administration
hasSetting small American town
includedIn American crime drama canon
language English
mainCharacter Joe Wilson
Katherine Grant
musicBy Franz Waxman
narrativeFocus attempted lynching
wrongful accusation
notableFor Fritz Lang’s first major Hollywood film
critique of mob justice
originalLanguageTitle Fury
partOfCareerStageOf Fritz Lang’s early Hollywood period
portrayedBy Spencer Tracy
Sylvia Sidney
producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz
productionCompany Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
productionStudioLot MGM studios
linked to: MGM
releaseDate 1936-06-05
releaseYear 1936
runningTime 92 minutes
screenwriter Bartlett Cormack
Fritz Lang
setInPeriod 1930s
starring Bruce Cabot
Edward Ellis
Spencer Tracy
Sylvia Sidney
Walter Abel
theme lynching
mob justice
rule of law
vigilantism

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Fritz Lang notableWork Fury
Fritz Lang directed Fury
Fury (1936 film) originalLanguageTitle Fury
subject linked to: Fury
Fritz Lang notableWork Fury
subject linked to: Friedrich Christian Anton Lang