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starring: Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson, Lloyd Bridges, Katherine Lockedirected by: Cy Endfield
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301039000
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6301039009
Label: Republic Pictures
Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Republic Pictures
Release Date: June 23, 1995
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 20794
Studio: Republic Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 12, 1950
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Rating: - "I want to die. It's no use to live when you're no good."
1950's "Try and Get Me!" was originally released as "The Sound of Fury" but was renamed after a disappointing initial release. It was directed by Cy Endfield, who also directed "The Underworld Story" and "The Limping Man". Although adapted from Jo Pagano's novel "The Condemned", the film was based on a true story that took place in California during the 1930's (It was the same case that inspired Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film "Fury" in 1936). What this classic film noir captured so perfectly was ... Read More
Rating: - Try to get it
I was searching for this flick for a long time and finally got my hands on it. Let me just say, it was worth the effort. This noir gem stands along side Fritz Lang's "Fury" as the best presentation of mob violence on film. I don't want to give away too much of the plot, but all the crucial elements of prime noir are present: exceptional lighting, imaginative framing, taunt acting and an ending that doesn't compromise. Also of note is Lloyd Bridges. He gives an outstanding performance as a slick ... Read More
Rating: - Fearless political noir.
'The Sound of Fury' (a.k.a. 'Try and Get Me') surpasses those three classics of lynch-mob terror - Lang's 'Fury', Wellman's 'The Ox-Bow Incident' and Corman's 'The Intruder' - in its savage melodramatic power; its determination to galvanise its audience; its political integrity (the journalist who influences the mob is a civilised bourgeois cosy with the corrupt elite; with the anti-hero an ex-army prole in a near-Depression small-town, with an immigrant wife), its visual sense of America, its forgotten, ... Read More
Rating: - Wrenching
Despite a catch-penny tile, "Try and Get Me" remains a truly frightening movie whose disturbing imagery lingers long after the voice-over reassurances subside. The director, Cy Endfield, was one of the lower profile victims of the Mc Carthy purges. Viewing this movie , it's easy to see why. Family man and returning vet Howard Tyler (played by the always low-key Frank Lovejoy) is recruited into a life of crime by no more than ordinary desires for the American Dream. Desperate and enemployed, he falls into ... Read More
Rating:  - Try and Get Me
This film includes some classic noir story lines. The protagonist (Frank Lovejoy) is drawn into a world of petty crime when his search for a blue collar job results in despair,confusion, and rejection. Lovejoy's conscious becomes embroiled in turmoil when the values and convictions of an honest man fall short of providing security for his wife and son. Lovejoy meets a two bit hood in a bowling alley who convinces him that the workingmans' plight is a life filled with nothingness and unfulfilled dreams. ... Read More
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