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Fury (1936)

Based on the story "Mob Rule" by Norman Krasna. Joe Wilson
and Katherine Grant are in love, but he doesn't have enough money
for them to get married. So Katherine moves across the country to
make money. Through the course of the movie, Fritz Lang shows
us how a decent and once civilized man can become a ruthless
and bitter man.

Directed by Fritz Lang

Writing credits: Bartlett Cormack, Norman Krasna ,Fritz Lang

Cast:

Sylvia Sidney ....  Katherine Grant
Spencer Tracy ....  Joe Wilson
Walter Abel ....  District Attorney Adams
Bruce Cabot ....  Kirby 'Bubbles' Dawson
Edward Ellis ....  Sheriff Thaddus Hummel
Walter Brennan ....  'Bugs' Meyers
Frank Albertson ....  Charlie Wilson
George Walcott ....  Tom Wilson
Arthur Stone ....  Richard Durkin
Morgan Wallace ....  Fred Garrett
George Chandler ....  Milton Grimes
Roger Gray ....  Stranger Edwin
Maxwell ....  Will Vickery, District Attorney
Howard C. Hickman ....  Bert, the Governor (as Howard Hickman)
Jonathan Hale ....  Defense attorney
Leila Bennett ....  Edna Hooper
Esther Dale ....  Mrs. Whipple
Helen Flint ....  Franchette
Ricca Allen ....  Horsefaced Woman
Herbert Ashley ....  Oscar
Harry Bowen ....  Baggage clerk
Edward Brady ....  Dawson's friend
Raymond Brown ....  Farmer
Frederick Burton ....  Judge Daniel Hopkins
Ralph Bushman ....  Young Teacher
Nora Cecil ....  Albert's mother
Harvey Clark ....  Mayor Pippen
Jane Corcoran ....  Praying woman
Gino Corrado ....  Reporter in Courtroom
Jules Cowles ....  Lockup Keeper
Alexander Cross ....  Outgoing Watchman
Jack Daley ....  Factory foreman
Belle Donovan ....  Sheriff's Secretary
Mary Foy ....  Angular Woman
Ben Hall ....  Goofy
Sherry Hall ....  Court clerk
Edna Mae Harris ....  Black Woman
Harry Harvey ....  Jasper Anderson, Defendant
Lew Harvey ....  Mug in Poolroom
Raymond Hatton ....  Hector, a Barber
Harry Hayden ....  Lem (jailer)
Sam Hayes ....  Radio announcer
Daniel L. Haynes ....  Taxi driver
Fay Helm
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian ....  Miner
Al Herman ....  Dawson's friend
Robert Homans ....  Incoming Watchman
Arthur Hoyt ....  Grouch
Si Jenks ....  Uncle Billy
Clarence Kolb ....  Durkin's friend
Gwen Lee ....  Mrs. Garrett
Murdock MacQuarrie ....  Dawson's friend
Wally Maher ....  Chief newsreel cameraman
Tom Mahoney ....  Bailiff
Pat McKee ....  Mob Defendant
Mira McKinney ....  Hysterical defendant
Frank Mills ....  Dawson's friend
Esther Muir ....  Girl in nightclub
Elsa Newell ....  Roadside diner owner
William Newell ....  Roadside service station owner
George Offerman Jr. ....  Youthful defendant
Dennis O'Keefe ....  Reporter, Bud Flanagan
Franklin Parker ....  Newsreel cameraman
Jack Perry ....  Man in Poolroom
Victor Potel ....  Jorgeson, Barber Shop Customer
Eddie Quillan ....  Peanut vendor
James Quinn ....  Dawson's friend
Ruth Renick ....  Sally Humphries
Bert Roach ....  Waiter
Christian Rub ....  Sven Ahern, Barber
Lucille Stafford ....  Gossip
Will Stanton ....  Drunk
Carl Stockdale ....  Hardware man
Everett Sullivan ....  New deputy
Frank Sully ....  Dynamiter
Gertrude Sutton ....  Mrs. Tuttle
William Tannen ....  Governor's aide
Albert Taylor ....  Old man
Terry ....  Rainbow, Joe's Dog
Tommy Tomlinson ....  Reporter
Minerva Urecal ....  Fanny
Guy Usher ....  Assistant defense attorney
Billy Wayne ....  Newsreel cameraman
Dick Wessel ....  Bodyguard
Huey White ....  Bus driver
Dorothea Wolbert ....  The barber's wife
Duke York ....  Taxi driver

Produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Original Music by Franz Waxman
Cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg
Film Editing by Frank Sullivan
Art Direction by Cedric Gibbons
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director.... Horace Hough
Lesley Selander ....  assistant director
Art Department William A. Horning ....  associate art director
Edwin B. Willis ....  associate art director
Sound Department Douglas Shearer ....  recording director
Other crew:
Dolly Tree ....  wardrobe
Paul Marquardt ....  orchestrator
Clifford Vaughan ....  orchestrator

Also Known As:Mob Rule (USA) (working title)
The Mob (USA) (working title)
Runtime: 90 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification: Argentina:13 / Finland:(Banned)
(1937) / Sweden:15 / USA:Approved (PCA #2229) /
Spain:13 / Germany:12

Trivia: Terry, better known as Toto from The Wizard of Oz (1939),
appears in this film as the dog that Spencer Tracy takes in from
the rain at the beginning of the movie, becoming his traveling
companion into the netherworld of small-town America.

Quotes: Joe Wilson: I'll give them a chance that they didn't give
me. They will get a legal trial in a legal courtroom. They will have
a legal judge and a legal defense. They will get a legal sentence
and a legal death.

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