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 (Lloyd Bridges). Soon, Slocum convinces Tyler to participate 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 (Richard Carlson) writes a series of hate-filled articles about the two prisoners which eventually lead to a brutal lynching. The despair of the lower middle-class: A family ma
n ashamed
of being unempl
oyed al
lows himsel
f to be convinc
ed by a gangst
er to take
part in a k
idnapping.
The police
arrests the
m both and the
anger of t
he small
town’s pop
ulation is un
forgiving.
THE SOUND
OF FURY is
a dark cri
me movie
that build
s up to an ap
ocalyptic
storm, but
never
loses si
ght of social r
ealities,
thus t
elling a lot a
bout the daily
despair
of the
working-c
lass. A master
piece, it
was Cy E
ndfield’s last
film befor
e he felt
compelle
d to mo
ve to Br
itain.　　
Howard Tyle
r (Frank
Lovejoy) is
a family man
, livi
ng in Calif
ornia, who
can&#
39;t seem
to get