Fury (1936) coming from WAC

[Akijama]

Fury Blu-ray

[Akijama]

[gates70]

Day 1

[starman15317]

I literally just bought this on DVD a couple of weeks ago at a local shop. You're welcome, everyone.

[Deciazulado]

Fury Blu-ray

[Pecker]

I just love this film.

A quick look at my noir shelf shows it's the last 'tall' DVD case on a shelf full of otherwise 'short' Blu-ray Disc cases.

[ady_lister]

My story about this film is that it was one of the last Lang films I needed to see and I saw it was on TCM movies at some silly time like 2am.

Now I didn't have cable - but my downstairs neighbour did... and whenever she went on holiday she would give me her key and alarm code and ask if I could feed her cat... water the plants etc.

Now I knew she was away that night but coming back the next day - so I had to let myself into her apartment, take a VHS tape to put in her machine... work out how to set the timer... then let myself back in early the next morning... get my VHS tape out her player and put all the channel settings back to how she had them so that she wouldn't notice.

[Pecker]

No sign of a review yet?

[lilboyblu]

Originally Posted by Pecker

No sign of a review yet?

HTF posted one: https://www.hometheaterforum.com/fur...lu-ray-review/

[jacksonwalker]

Review up: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Fury-...302232/#Review

Did he really say the film may have been stronger with a more convincing actor than Spencer Tracy? What actor would that be, I wonder?

[lilboyblu]

Originally Posted by jacksonwalker

Review up: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Fury-...302232/#Review

Did he really say the film may have been stronger with a more convincing actor than Spencer Tracy? What actor would that be, I wonder?

James Cagney

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by jacksonwalker

Review up: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Fury-...302232/#Review

Did he really say the film may have been stronger with a more convincing actor than Spencer Tracy? What actor would that be, I wonder?

I’m biased since Tracy has long been my favorite actor but I always thought his performance here going from easygoing nice guy to someone with a bare sliver of humanity left was excellent. I do think he and Lang were letdown by

[Show spoiler]the semi-happy ending that was, I believe, studio imposed.

[romuald121]

Originally Posted by jacksonwalker

Review up: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Fury-...302232/#Review

Did he really say the film may have been stronger with a more convincing actor than Spencer Tracy? What actor would that be, I wonder?

To be fair, most Film Noir have a thin plots, nothing much is going in there other than the main purpose of the movie most of the time spoiled by the title itself, character development is pretty nil in most cases, they stick to developing the story more than give a character a presence, so having James Stewart or Spencer Tracy play the role does not really matter as actor performance takes a back seat in most of those movies.

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by romuald121

To be fair, most Film Noir have a thin plots, nothing much is going in there other than the main purpose of the movie most of the time spoiled by the title itself, character development is pretty nil in most cases, they stick to developing the story more than give a character a presence, so having James Stewart or Spencer Tracy play the role does not really matter as actor performance takes a back seat in most of those movies.

Most people wouldn't call Fury, a film noir. It came some 4 years before the first noir in 1940.

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by StarDestroyer52

Most people wouldn't call Fury, a film noir. It came some 4 years before the first noir in 1940.

I know the term now is Proto Noir on anything that predates Stranger on the Third Floor or The Maltese Falcon. Not to sound arrogant but to me, if it looks and talks like a Noir; that’s what it is. You Only Live Once or Port of Shadows for example check those boxes. I can see Fury and even something like I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang also being Noirs.

[Pecker]

Originally Posted by StarDestroyer52

Most people wouldn't call Fury, a film noir. It came some 4 years before the first noir in 1940.

Are you making a definitive statement there?

Link?

I'd disagree.

[BamaDullard]

I think film-noir is usually classified as a movement that began in the early 1940’s and ended in the early 1950’s. That doesn’t mean there weren’t similar films that preceded that era or came afterwards.

[Gunsnroses092789]

Originally Posted by BamaDullard

I think film-noir is usually classified as a movement that began in the early 1940’s and ended in the early 1950’s. That doesn’t mean there weren’t similar films that preceded that era or came afterwards.

Late 1950s, usually the final entries being considered either Touch of Evil or Odds Against Tomorrow.

[BamaDullard]

Originally Posted by Gunsnroses092789

Late 1950s, usually the final entries being considered either Touch of Evil or Odds Against Tomorrow.

Yeah, I actually meant to type “late” 1950’s. But I can see how typing the opposite of that might have been confusing.

[Pecker]

Originally Posted by BamaDullard

I think film-noir is usually classified as a movement that began in the early 1940’s and ended in the early 1950’s. That doesn’t mean there weren’t similar films that preceded that era or came afterwards.

I'm not being deliberately awkward when I say we probably need something more solid than 'usually classified'.

Perhaps the go-to, definitive reference tome on noir is Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide (Silver and Ward - 1980), which describes Fury as "...one of the earliest of film noir...".

It says the reason that it is considered a film noir is the comparison of the fury of the mob in the first part of the film with Wheler's own emotional state in the latter; perhaps permanently altered by the events of the film.

All the classic noir tropes are there. The role of fate in shaping the protagonist, coupled with the Lang's visual style (the cinematography is pure noir in parts) are more than enough to see it over the line.