凯思琳·赖安

故事发生在二十世纪初的北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特，刚刚出狱没多久的约翰尼（詹姆斯·梅森 James Mason 饰）参与了一次抢劫行动，并且为了掩护队友而遭到了警察的枪击，约翰尼失手打死了警察，惹上了重罪，成为了全城通缉的对象，身负重伤的约翰尼体力不支，昏了过去。　　穷的叮当响的无赖汉谢尔（F.J.麦考密 F.J. McCormick 饰）发现了约翰尼的踪迹，在他的身上看到了发财的法子，他将情报通告给神父汤姆（W.G. Fay 饰），却被凯瑟琳（凯思琳·赖安 Kathleen Ryan 饰）发现。凯瑟琳赶在谢尔之前找到了躲在疯画家鲁奇（罗伯特·牛顿 Robert Newton 饰）家中的约翰尼，就这样，两个人踏上了逃亡的旅途。

Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is a family man, living in California, who can't seem to get by financially. He meets up with a small-time, but charismatic, hood Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges). Soon, Slocum convinces Tyler to participate 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 hate-filled articles about the two prisoners which eventually lead to a brutal lynching.　　The despair of the lower middle-class A family man ashamed of being unemployed allows himself to be convinced by a gangster to take part in a kidnapping. The police arrests them both and the anger of the small town’s population is unforgiving. THE SOUND OF FURY is a dark crime movie that builds up to an apocalyptic storm, but never loses sight of social realities, thus telling a lot about the daily despair of the working-class. A masterpiece, it was Cy Endfield’s last film before he felt compelled to move to Britain.