The Sound of Fury (film)

The Sound of Fury also known as Try and Get Me is a 1950 blackandwhite film noir directed by Cy Endfield and featuring Frank Lovejoy, Lloyd Bridges and Kathleen Ryan. The film is based on Jo Paganos 1947 novel The Condemned, who also wrote the screenplay.

Howard Tyler Frank Lovejoy is a family man, living in California, who cant seem to get by financially. He meets up with a smalltime, but charismatic, hood Jerry Slocum Lloyd 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 Richard Carlson writes a series of hatefilled articles about the two prisoners which eventually lead to a brutal lynching. ........

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