The Sound of Fury
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The Sound of Fury is a 1950 black-and-white film also known as Try and Get Me! The film is based on factual events that occurred in 1933, when two men were arrested in San Jose, California, for kidnapping and murdering a man, Brooke Hart. The suspects confessed and were lynched by a mob of locals. The Fritz Lang-directed 1936 film Fury was about the same incident. The film is based on Joe Pagano's novel The Condemned. The film was directed by Cy Endfield.
Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is a family man, living in California, who can't seem to get by financially. He meets up with a small-time, but charismatic, hood Jerry Slocum (Bridges). Soon, Slocum convinces Tyler into participating in gas station robberies to get by. Later, they kidnap a wealthy man in hopes of getting a huge ransom. Things go wrong when the man is murdered by Slocum then thrown in a lake. Tyler reaches his limit emotionally, and he begins drinking heavily. He meets a lonely woman and confesses the crime while drunk. The woman flees and goes to the police.
When the two kidnappers are arrested, a local journalist (Carlson) writes a series of hate-filled articles about the two prisoners which eventually lead to a brutal lynching.
[edit] Main cast
- Frank Lovejoy as Howard Tyler
- Kathleen Ryan as Judy Tyler
- Richard Carlson as Gil Stanton
- Lloyd Bridges as Jerry Slocum
- Katherine Locke as Hazel Weatherwax
- Adele Jergens as Velma
- Art Smith as Editor Hal Clendenning
