Fury (1936 film)

Fury is a 1936 American film about a prisoner who barely survives a lynch mob attack and, after being presumed dead, vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murder.
 * Directed by Fritz Lang. Written by Bartlett Cormack and Fritz Lang, based on the story "Mob Rule" by Norman Krasna.

TWO LOVERS...VICTIMS OF MOB VIOLENCE!

Joe Wilson

 * The mob doesn't think. It has no mind of its own.


 * I'll give them a chance that they didn't give me. They will get a legal trial in a legal courtroom. They will have a legal judge and a legal defense. They will get a legal sentence and a legal death.


 * "I got you a little momentum." (He meant memento.)

Katherine Grant

 * [to Joe] If those people die, Joe Wilson dies too; you know that, don't you? Wherever you go, whatever you do.

Other

 * District Attorney: [after several witnesses have lied on the stand] I wonder if I haven't been calling the defense witnesses by mistake.

Dialogue

 * Joe Wilson: Your honor, I am Joseph Wilson.
 * Court Bailiff: Keep your seat!
 * Judge Daniel Hopkins: Go on.
 * Joe Wilson: I know that by coming here, I saved the lives of these 22 people, but that isn't why I'm here. I don't care anything about saving them. They're murderers. I know the law says they're not because I'm still alive, but that's not their fault. And the law doesn't know that a lot of things that were very important to me, silly things maybe, like a belief in justice, and an idea that men were civilized, and a feeling of pride that this country of mine was different from all others. The law doesn't know that those things were burned to death within me that night. I came here today for my own sake. I couldn't stand it anymore. I couldn't stop thinking about them with every step and every breath I took, and I didn't believe Katherine when she said... Katherine is the young lady who was going to marry me. Maybe someday after I've paid for what I did, they'll be a chance to begin again, and then maybe Katherine and I...
 * Katherine Grant: Joe.

Cast

 * Sylvia Sidney - Katherine Grant
 * Spencer Tracy - Joe Wilson
 * Bruce Cabot - Kirby Dawson
 * Walter Abel - District Attorney
 * Edward Ellis - Sheriff
 * Walter Brennan - "Bugs" Meyers
 * Frank Albertson - Charlie
 * Morgan Wallace - Fred Garrett
 * Gwen Lee - Mrs. Fred Garrett
 * George Chandler - Milton Jackson
 * Edwin Maxwell - Vickery
 * Howard C. Hickman - Governor
 * Jonathan Hale - Defense Attorney
 * Leila Bennett - Edna Hooper
 * Esther Dale - Mrs. Whipple