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1936, 90 MINS, US
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1936, 90 MINS, US
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Spencer Tracy, Fury, 1936 |
Punchy story [by Norman Krasna] has been
masterfully guided by the skilful direction of
the Viennese Fritz Lang. It's his first in
America and represents the culmination of a
year and a half of waiting, while being carried
on the Metro payroll, until finally finding
something to his liking. It coincides also with
the debut efforts of Joseph L. Mankiewicz as
a Metro producer.
Spencer Tracy gives his top performance as
the upright young man until he's involved in
a kidnapping mess through mistaken identity,
Escaping a necktie lynching party, the jailhouse is burned down, despite the meagre
protective efforts of the constabulary, and
legally he is dead. But somehow he had managed to escape and he is intent on vengeance
on the 22 (including one woman who had
whirled the igniting torch into the kerosened
pyre at the jailhouse door), who are ultimately brought to trial.
Walter Abel, as the state attorney, virtually
walks away with the proceedings during the
courtroom scene. Sylvia Sidney, whose tender
love scenes in the early motivations are relatively passive, rises to the proper heights in
the dramatic testimony. Tracy is capital during the somewhat slowly pacing scenes up until the pseudo-lynching; then he becomes the
dominating character in the scenes where he
hides out and permits the trial to proceed.
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