Entertainment & Sports
Jun. 10, 2022
Stream It Tonight! Fury (1936)
This was Fritz Lang’s first American film after fleeing Nazi Germany. He based the story on an odious chapter in California history that took place in San Jose. A mob dragged two accused kidnappers from their jail cells and hanged them in a public park.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
Why watch? Director Fritz Lang’s powerful attack on prejudice and mob violence focuses on a courageous prosecutor whose clever courtroom ploy emphasizes that lynching is a community disease.
Joe Wilson (Spencer Tracy) is a stranger passing through the town of Strand. The police mistakenly arrest him as a suspected kidnapper. No sooner does Wilson become the jail’s lone occupant than a mob burns the jail to the ground. No trace of Wilson i...
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