Fury (Lynching Sequence)

Shows how circumstantial evidence involves an innocent man in a kidnapping charge. Tells how the temper of the townspeople becomes inflamed before proper investigation can be made, a mob forms and because the sheriff and deputies are unable to hold the mob at bay, the jail is stormed and burned with the victim trapped inside. Excerpted from the feature film, 'FURY.'. , Starring Spencer Tracy

An excerpt from Fritz Lang's 1936 feature film. Agitators inflame a mob into burning down the town jail when the sheriff refuses to surrender a prisoner suspected of kidnapping a child

Summary

Shows how circumstantial evidence involves an innocent man in a kidnapping charge. Tells how the temper of the townspeople becomes inflamed before .roper investigation can be made, a mob forms and because the sheriff and deputies are unable to hold th./iob at bay, the jail is stormed and burned with the victim trapped inside. Excerpted from the feature film, 'FURY.'.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.