Black Fury

film by Curtiz [1935]

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"Black Fury" is a 1935 film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Paul Muni. Muni portrays a coal miner involved in a union dispute, a role for which he received an Academy Award nomination. The film was produced by Warner Brothers.12

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…in a union dispute in Black Fury, and for his performance he earned his third Oscar nomination (as a write-in candidate). He then fought with Warner Brothers to make The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936). Despite a shoestring budget, the biopic of the French microbiologist was a major hit, and…
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…in a union dispute in Black Fury, and for his performance he earned his third Oscar nomination (as a write-in candidate). He then fought with Warner Brothers to make The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936). Despite a shoestring budget, the biopic of the French microbiologist was a major hit, and…
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