Fury, Lynching Sequence

Duration: 22

Year Published: 1952

Creator: Teaching Film Custodians

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: This excerpt from the feature film shows the stupidity, brutality,and perverted sense of justice that are involved in a lynching. Shows the arrest of a man on the basis of circumstantial evidence, the spreading of unfounded rumors in the community, the growing fury of the mob, and the eventual buring and dynamiting of the jail., Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1936 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film, “Fury”. Irresponsible emotional agitators inflame townspeople and lead a mob in burning the jail when the sheriff refuses to surrender a prisoner being investigated on suspicion of kidnapping.

Complete Record: This excerpt from the feature film shows the stupidity, brutality,and perverted sense of justice that are involved in a lynching. Shows the arrest of a man on the basis of circumstantial evidence, the spreading of unfounded rumors in the community, the growing fury of the mob, and the eventual buring and dynamiting of the jail., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.