Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Direction
Lang's first American film — his German Expressionism meets American savagery.
Acting
Tracy's transformation from everyman to something colder than death.
Editing
The lynching sequence — still shocking, still technically flawless.
Director
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney
Katherine Grant
Spencer Tracy
Joe Wilson
Walter Abel
District Attorney
Bruce Cabot
Kirby Dawson
Edward Ellis
Sheriff
Walter Brennan
Bugs Meyers
Frank Albertson
Charlie Wilson
George Walcott
Tom Wilson
Arthur Stone
Durkin
Morgan Wallace
Fred Garrett
George Chandler
Milton Jackson
Edwin Maxwell
Vickery
Howard Hickman
Governor
Jonathan Hale
Defense Attorney
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lang fled Nazi Germany in 1933; Fury is his scream about the mob violence he escaped. The film was banned in several countries for being 'anti-American.'
The lynching scene uses real newsreel footage and miniature burning buildings so detailed they fooled critics. Lang personally lit matches for close-ups of the mob.
US
