量子资源网提供本资源 <> Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is a family man, living in California, who can't seem to get by financially. He meets u with a small-time, but charismatic, hood Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges). Soon, Slocum convinces Tyler to articiate in gas station robberies to get by. Later, they kidna a wealthy man in hoes 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 olice. When the two kidnaers are arrested, a local journalist (Richard Carlson) writes a series of hate-filled articles about the two risoners which eventually lead to a brutal lynching. The desair of the lower middle-class: A family man ashamed of being unemloyed allows himself to be convinced by a gangster to take art in a kidnaing. The olice arrests them both and the anger of the small town’s oulation is unforgiving. THE SOUND OF FURY is a dark crime movie that builds u to an aocalytic storm, but never loses sight of social realities, thus telling a lot about the daily desair of the working-class. A masteriece, it was Cy Endfield’s last film before he felt comelled to move to Britain.
