Daily Movie Rec 4/15/2023
Fury (1936)
"My dear young woman, in this country people don't land in jail unless they're guilty."
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cinematography by: Joseph Ruttenberg
Country: United States
Plot:
22 members of a small town stand trial after forming a lynch mob and burning down a jailhouse where a wrongfully accused man was trapped inside.
Reasons to watch:
Fury is the first movie the renowned German director Fritz Lang made in the U.S. after fleeing the rising tide of Nazism in his home county. While it doesn’t have the budget that had previously been afforded his station, the movie is full of Lang’s distinctive visual ideas, and he puts his new denizens just as fiercely under the microscope as he formerly did his native countrymen, vehemently lambasting mob mentality and humanity’s need for vengeance over justice. Also 3 years after this, the dog in the movie would go on to play Toto in the Wizard of Oz - talk about a screen legend in action!
I rented it for $1.99 on YouTube
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