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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a 1932 American pre-Code crime-drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni as a wrongfully convicted man on a chain gang who escapes to Chicago. It was released on November 10, 1932.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis. Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
Academy Award-winner Paul Muni ("Scarface," "The Story of Louis Pastor") received an Oscar-nomination as a World War I vet who is wrongly convicted of armed robbery and is sentenced to hard labor...
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, American dramatic film, released in 1932, that was an exposé on the life of inmates on chain gangs. It awoke social interest in and helped bring an end to the widespread use of chain gangs in the American South. James Allen (played by Paul Muni) is an impoverished.
Sergeant James Allen is returning home by boat to New York City after having served a stint in the Army and in World War One in Europe, being awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre. After taking part in a welcome home parade with fellow soldiers, he travels by train to his hometown in New Jersey.
Jaded World War I veteran James Allen (Paul Muni) dreams of creating a new life, but those dreams are shattered when he is implicated in a robbery and sentenced to 10 years on a chain...
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I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang. 1932 · 1 hr 33 min. TV-14. Crime · Drama. A wrongly convicted would-be architect-turned-chain gang member manages to escape and carve out a new life only to end up in a prison of blackmail.
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), the film that marked the beginning of Warner Bros. Studios' Depression-era style of message filmmaking, is based on the true-life story of Robert Elliot Burns, who in 1920, burglarized a store of $5.29 on which to eat. He was sent to a Georgia chain gang, escaping two years later.
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932) is a gritty, uncompromising, critical, and combative look at the unjust and barbaric treatment of criminals in a southern state's prison system following World War I.
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
