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...EXPLOSIVE HATE DRAMA OF THE FURY OF A LYNCH-MAD MOB!! ...A STORY YOU'LL NEVER FORGET!
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
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Death in the Deep South, Им не забыть, La ville gronde, Vendetta, Ellos no olvidarán, Они не забудут, Esquecer, Nunca!
Theatrical limited
14 Jul 1937
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09 Oct 1937
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Courtroom drama based on the trial and lynching of Leo Frank that conspires to omit any reference to anti-semitism (or indeed racism) and as such seems to be an out and out attack on the south for refusing to give up anti-northern prejudice. There's nothing really here beyond a crusading liberalism so when that liberalism is as lily livered as this there's not really much to enjoy. There isn't even really any attempt to put forward an alternative case or argue for the innocence of the victim, he's just seen to be innocent because the forces against him are corrupt because they are southern politicians.
Lana Turner is in there briefly as the murder victim, Elisha Cook Jr overacts incredibly…
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Forget-Me-Knots: Hollywood’s Tangled-Up and “Sweater Girl” Whitewashing of Leo Frank’s Lynching
Ignore that opening legal statement that, “No identification with actual persons, living or deceased, is intended or should be inferred.” The obliviously-titled “They Won’t Forget” is an obvious fictionalization of the real-life 1913-to-1915 Mary Phagan murder case and lynching of Leo Frank that manages to forget all manner of controversial evidence in its relitigation. That Frank was Jewish and how that played into anti-Semitic tropes of the lascivious Other. Indeed, it was the cause célèbre for the nascent Anti-Defamation League. That he was a factory owner, not a teacher, and Phagan was a thirteen-year-old former employee, so the case played into class resentments and issues of child labor and…
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After noting that Ben Platt's understudy would be performing all weekend in "Parade" on Broadway, my wife and I knew it was the perfect time to see the show. I had seen the original production in 1999, which had been my first real exposure to the Leo Frank case, but since went on to take in more cultural pieces that examined the story, such as the 1988 television mini-series "The Murder of Mary Phagan" and this 1937 film that fictionalizes the story, changes the names, but certainly hits the beats you expect from it, other than Frank's Jewish faith as the reason as to why he was such an easy target to pin this on. Due to cultural and religious…
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Based on a horrible, tragic true story. I'm glad Warner Bros. made it, but it's too bad the filmmakers didn't think they could call out the antisemitism behind the story. Instead, we get a few references to north south hate, even equating the two in the final speech made by Edward Norris as Robert Hale, the man charged with the murder. The references are vague and quick as if they're trying to avoid exploring it.
I also wish more time had been spent on the trial instead of the lead up to it. I'm probably alone in that. A more powerful film could have been made but, all in all, a good film given the time it was made. And, again, I'm glad Warner Bros. at least took it on.
I love Claude Rains so much I admit to hating seeing him as a villain. Also, Gloria Dickson is very good as Sybil Hale.
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They won’t forget, but save a few fine supporting performances, you probably will!
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Only watched this for baby Lana Turner, but it was actually quite interesting; I'd never heard of the true story before
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Feels very much ahead of its time, and a sort of a predecessor to films like Ace in the Hole. Good script and story.
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Based on the true murder trial of Leo Frank in 1915, but removes the Jewish aspect of what makes the real story most interesting.
This is a haunting story of the bigots of the South. Kind of like Fritz Lang's Fury (1936), how mob mentality can get out of hand. It's got such a feeling of unjust, that it almost makes a bigot out of the viewer about those nasty Southerners. Claude Rains, as the man taking advantage of the heat to build his own career, is remarkable! They way he handles his case in the court room gets the climax of the movie.
What keeps it down is the very one-sidedness of it all. And that they didn't dare…
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I have been anxious to see this film as I’ve heard it compared to Fritz Lang’s Fury, which I have enormous respect for. Maybe my expectations were too high, but They Won’t Forget doesn’t get near the bar set by Fury.
Many reviewers have covered the problems with the story very well. I’ll just call out the strange casting choices. With Warners’ fine stable of contract players, I’m baffled at the assortment of dull and otherwise miscast actors. I am on record as loving Claude Rains and never thought I could dislike him. In They Won’t Forget, I hate him twice! First for playing such a reprehensible asshole, and second, for the absolute most outrageously terrible Southern accent I’ve ever…
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This is probably a poor substitute for getting to see Ben Platt in Parade on Broadway but it's a decent enough "based on a true story" crime drama.
Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, and Clinton Rosemond all get to deliver powerful performances near the end, but I would have preferred even more time devoted to the trial. It's a little amusing and detracting to see Rains give his angry closing arguments while his Southern accent quickly morphs into British. They Won't Forget fails to address the antisemitism in the real life trial and lynching of Leo Frank, instead making it a Northerners vs Southerns enmity. That decision leaves the film on a rather toothless moral ground, but Mervyn LeRoy still manages to make this an interesting watch.
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Compelling story with great performances.
