Donate & keep LugaTv alive
Based on the story "Mob Rule" by Norman Krasna. Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant are in love, but he doesnt have enough money for them to get married, so Katherine moves across the country to make money. But things go disastrously wrong for Joe when he stops in a small town and is mistaken for a wanted kidnapper. Through the course of the movie, Fritz Lang shows us how a decent and once civilized man can become a ruthless and bitter man.
Hard worker Joseph "Joe" Wilson and teacher Katherine Grant are in love with each other, but they do not have enough money to get married. Katherine gets a better job in Washington and together with Joe, they save money to get married one year later. Joe quits his job in the factory and uses his savings to buy a gas station, working with his brothers Charlie and Tom. He makes enough money to get married with Katherine and buys a car. While driving with his dog Rainbow to meet his fiancée, Joe is stopped in Strand by the redneck deputy "Bugs" Meyers as a suspect in the kidnapping of a girl in the Peabody case. When they find peanuts in his pocket and a $5 bill in his pocket with the numeration of the money paid for ransom, Joe is arrested in jail for investigation. "Bugs" Meyers makes a comment in the barbershop about the prisoner and sooner the gossip is spread in the little town. As a tale never loses in the telling, Joe is accused by the population of kidnapping and they try to invade the police station to lynch him. For political reasons, Governor Burt does not send the National Guard to help Sheriff Tad Hummel to protect Joe and the police station is burnt down by the vigilantes. Katherine witnesses the action and has a breakdown. Joe is presumed dead but out of the blue he appears at his brothers apartment seeking justice. He had learned that in accordance with the laws, Lynch Law is murder in the first degree and his brothers open a case against 22 inhabitants of Strand. The prosecutor Mr. Adams accepts the case and Katherine Grant is the prime witness. Joes revenge is set in motion.
Sylvia Sidney
Katherine Grant
Spencer Tracy
Joe Wilson
Walter Abel
District Attorney
Bruce Cabot
Kirby Dawson
Edward Ellis
Sheriff
Walter Brennan
'Bugs' Meyers
Frank Albertson
Charlie
George Walcott
Tom
Arthur Stone
Durkin
Morgan Wallace
Fred Garrett
George Chandler
Milton Jackson
Roger Gray
Stranger
Edwin Maxwell
Vickery
Howard Hickman
Governor
Jonathan Hale
Defense Attorney
Leila Bennett
Edna Hooper
Esther Dale
Mrs. Whipple
Helen Flint
Franchette
Related Movies
Donate & keep LugaTv alive