Black Fury

Based on real-life events, Black Fury brings viewers deep into Depression hard times and into the heart of Joe Radek, a simple, hardworking coal miner used and thrown away by racketeers eager to muscle in on the unions. Paul Muni, who personified 1930s anguish as the doomed hero of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, makes Joe an unforgettable character: likeable, headstrong, too easily led and finally a towering force for justice as he takes on company goons single-handed. As sinewy and visceral as the overworked men it celebrates, Black Fury pulls no punches, which may explain why it was banned in Pennsylvania, the state where this classic from Casablanca director Michael Curtiz is set.

Director: Michael Curtiz
Producer: Robert Lord
Actor: Paul Muni
Actor: Karen Morley
Actor: William Gargan
Actor: Barton MacLane
Actor: John Qualen
Actor: Joe Crehan
Actor: Sarah Haden
Actor: Willard Robertson
Actor: Effie Ellsler
Actor: Wade Boteler
Actor: J. Carrol Naish
Actor: Vince Barnett
Actor: Tully Marshall
Actor: Henry O'Neill
Actor: Mae Marsh
Actor: Egon Brecher
Actor: George Pat Collins
Actor: Ward Bond
Actor: Akim Tamiroff
Actor: Purnell Pratt
Actor: Eddie Shubert
Actor: George Offerman Jr.
Actor: John M. Bleifer
Actor: Harry Hastings
Actor: Harry Tyler
Actor: Mitchell Ingraham
Actor: Herbert Heywood
Actor: Samuel S. Hinds
Actor: Katherine Clare Ward
Actor: Pedro Regas
Actor: Patrick Moriarity
Actor: Nick Copeland
Actor: Mary Russell
Actor: Claire McDowell
Actor: Christian Rub
Actor: Ferike Boros
Actor: Dick French
Actor: William H. Turner
Actor: Addison Richards
Actor: Don Brodie
Actor: Edith Fellows
Actor: Bobby Nelson
Actor: Wally Albright Jr.
Actor: Dorothy Gray
Actor: Charles C. Wilson
Actor: Mickey Rentschler