The Sound of Fury (film)

Infobox Film
name = The Sound of Fury


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director = Cy Endfield
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writer = Joe Pagano
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starring = Frank Lovejoy
Kathleen Ryan
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released = 1950
runtime = 85 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English
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amg_id = 1:51185
imdb_id = 0043075

"The Sound of Fury" (also known as "Try and Get Me") is a 1950 black-and-white film noir directed by Cy Endfield, starring Frank Lovejoy and Kathleen Ryan. The film is based on Joe Pagano's novel "The Condemned", who also wrote the screenplay.

The film is based on factual events that occurred in 1933, when two men were arrested in San Jose, California, for kidnapping and murdering a man, Brooke Hart. The suspects confessed and were lynched by a mob of locals. The Fritz Lang-directed 1936 film "Fury" was about the same incident.

Plot summary

Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is a family man, living in California, who can't seem to get by financially. He meets up with a small-time, but charismatic, hood Jerry Slocum (Bridges). Soon, Slocum convinces Tyler into participating in gas station robberies to get by. Later, they kidnap a wealthy man in hopes of getting a huge ransom. Things go wrong when the man is murdered by Slocum then thrown in a lake. Tyler reaches his limit emotionally, and he begins drinking heavily. He meets a lonely woman and confesses the crime while drunk. The woman flees and goes to the police.

When the two kidnappers are arrested, a local journalist (Carlson) writes a series of hate-filled articles about the two prisoners which eventually lead to a brutal lynching.

Main cast

*Frank Lovejoy as Howard Tyler
*Kathleen Ryan as Judy Tyler
*Richard Carlson as Gil Stanton
*Lloyd Bridges as Jerry Slocum
*Katherine Locke as Hazel Weatherwax
*Adele Jergens as Velma
*Art Smith as Editor Hal Clendenning

External links

*imdb title|id=0043075|title=The Sound of Fury
*amg title|id=1:51185|title=Try and Get Me