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Fury is a 1936 drama film which tells the story of the descent of a decent man into ruthlessness when he narrowly escapes being lynched, and of the revenge he seeks on the people of the small town who persecuted him. Directed by Fritz Lang, the film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and stars Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney and features Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis and Walter Brennan. Loosely based on the events surrounding the Brooke Hart murder, the movie was adapted by Bartlett Cormack and Lang from the story Mob Rule by Norman Krasna.
Fury was Lang's first American film, and is considered by critics to have been compromised by the studio, which forced Lang to make the protagonist innocent of the crime he's nearly lynched for, and to tack on a reconciliation between him and his girlfriend. The film was a major departure for MGM, which at the time was known for lavish musicals and glitzy dramas – its style is more in keeping with the social issue films associated with Warner Brothers, such as I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. [1]
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Krasna received an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Original Story.
In 1995, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
- ^ Peter Bogdanovich, audio commentary for Fury, Warners Home Video, 2005.
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