Howa rd Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is a family man, li ving in California, who can't seem to get b y financially. He meets up with a small-time, but ch arismatic, hood Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges). Soon, Sl ocum convinces Tyler to participate in gas stat ion ro bberie s to ge t by. Later, they kidnap a weal thy man in hopes of getting a huge ransom. Th ings go wrong when the man is mur dered by S locum then throw n in a lake. Tyler re aches his limit emotiona lly, and h e begins drinkin g heavily. He mee ts a lo nely woman and confess es the crime while drunk. Th e woman flee s and goes to the police. When the two kidnapp ers are arrested, a lo cal journali st (Richard Carlson) writes a s eries of ha te-fill ed articles ab out the two prisoners which ev entually lead to a brutal lynch ing. The despair of the lower middle-class A family man ashamed of bei ng une mployed allows himself to be convinced by a gangster to take part in a kidnap ping. The police arrests them both a nd the anger of th e small town’s population is unforgiv ing. THE SOU ND OF FURY is a dark crime movie th at builds up to an apocalyp tic storm, but neve r loses si ght of social realities, thus telling a lot about the daily d espa ir of the working-class. A master piece, it was Cy Endfield’s last film before he felt compel led to move to Br itain.
精彩剧情/对白:“那算命的,顾家有福运和官运,那顾家老宅呢 ,非要觉得是 顾家大房的。我瞧着啊,就 是多意那一家子。你们看看啊,多意 自从清醒了 ,想起了自己的医术,还做 起了生意,那日子过的是红红火火的,这不是福运是什么。如今长意中了 ,还是第三,那不是官运是什么!”
“奶,我不是这个意思, 我没有怕,我 之所以想跟着去,是这么想的。他 的存在,是随 时可以威胁到我们的,而 且不给一点情面,可以直 接把你卖了。与其让我们这样委屈,倒是不如先发 制人,将他如今 的一切毁了, 日后也就 别想威胁我们了。”
“若是老乔家那 些人没有为难她,若是我们今日没有这样的日子,她定然不会后悔,也不会祈求什么原谅的。她其实依然没有后悔,也没有明白什么,她只是觉得如今在老乔家日子不好过,跟 我才好过而 已,她选择的只是对自己 有利的地方和事情。”
“你的的确是没有错 ,甚至也合乎常理,男人是可以三妻四妾,但 是你所的 这些,那都是建立在别人愿意的时候 ,如今乔木并不愿意娶你,在这样的情况下,还有什么好的?难不成你要逼迫不成? 王子犯法与庶 民同罪,就算是公主来了,也一样不能强迫别人 吧。”
“那大家 都竖起耳朵来听好了 ,当年我和 老二去都考过科 举,哪一年,老 二考上了秀 才,而我没樱我爹为了我将来可以官运亨通,便想办法,将我们的名字换了 ,然后我便是那个秀才 ,而老二什么都 不是,也正是因为如此, 老二和我们家分了家。”