Black Fury

I have not space for the various elements that actively contribute to the general effect of this picture -- Muni gets into his part a mixture of brawn and puzzlement and fury that is grand to see. And the whole line of direction is vivid.

Though not, on the whole, up to the standard of I Am a Fugitive, this film has definite importance as an index of America's increasing absorption with her sociological problems.

In a class by itself, this picturization of a strike in a coal-mining town has Paul Muni, America's best actor, portraying a Polish-American worker who is good natured when let alone, but terrific when aroused.

Regarded as a sociological explanation, it is pretty nonsensical. But looked on simply as a story, it is vivid, exciting and brilliantly dramatic.