Black Fury

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Black Fury

1935,

1h 35m,

Drama

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83%

6 Reviews

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50%

50+ Ratings

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83%

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Joe Radek (Paul Muni), an immigrant miner, unwittingly finds himself leading a union of striking workers. Tensions rise when the mining corporation brings in scabs to replace their protesting employees, along with a group of thugs to keep the union quiet. After Joe's best friend, Mike (John T. Qualen), crosses the hired hoodlums, tragedy follows. Mourning the loss of Mike, Joe decides he must take drastic measures to ensure that the mine owners recognize the demands of the strikers.

Otis Ferguson

The New Republic

May 8, 2024

I have not space for the various elements that actively contribute to the general effect of this picture -- Muni gets into his part a mixture of brawn and puzzlement and fury that is grand to see. And the whole line of direction is vivid.

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Campbell Nairne

Cinema Quarterly

Feb 4, 2021

Though not, on the whole, up to the standard of I Am a Fugitive, this film has definite importance as an index of America's increasing absorption with her sociological problems.

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Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy)

Esquire Magazine

Apr 16, 2020

In a class by itself, this picturization of a strike in a coal-mining town has Paul Muni, America's best actor, portraying a Polish-American worker who is good natured when let alone, but terrific when aroused.

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Ann Ross

Maclean's Magazine

Oct 8, 2019

Regarded as a sociological explanation, it is pretty nonsensical. But looked on simply as a story, it is vivid, exciting and brilliantly dramatic.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jul 9, 2011

C+

Paul Muni gives a dramatically intense, Oscar-nominated performance as a coal miner fighting union corruption.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Dec 11, 2006

C+

It's lively, probably good for its time period and is properly sympathetic to the hard-working miners; when viewed today it's badly outdated.

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Michael Curtiz

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Paul Muni

Joe Radek

Karen Morley

Anna Novak

William Gargan

Slim Johnson

Barton MacLane

McGee

John Qualen

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Synopsis

Joe Radek (Paul Muni), an immigrant miner, unwittingly finds himself leading a union of striking workers. Tensions rise when the mining corporation brings in scabs to replace their protesting employees, along with a group of thugs to keep the union quiet. After Joe's best friend, Mike (John T. Qualen), crosses the hired hoodlums, tragedy follows. Mourning the loss of Mike, Joe decides he must take drastic measures to ensure that the mine owners recognize the demands of the strikers.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Producer: Robert Lord
Screenwriter: Abem Finkel, Carl Erickson
Production Co: First National Pictures, Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 29, 2012
Runtime: 1h 35m

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