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    I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang

    1932 · Docudrama · 1h 33m

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  1. 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.

  2. A 1932 crime drama film based on the true story of Robert E. Burns, who was wrongly convicted and forced to work on a chain gang. The film depicts his struggles, escapes, and the social impact of the brutal system.

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    • Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
    • Mervyn LeRoy
    • 1932-11-19
  3. 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.

    • Lee Pfeiffer
  4. 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.

    • Mervyn Le Roy, Al Alborn
    • Paul Muni
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  5. A film based on the true story of Robert Elliot Burns, who served on a brutal chain gang in Georgia after a wrongful conviction. He escapes twice and tries to rebuild his life in Chicago, but his past catches up with him.

  6. 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 gang....

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    • Drama
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  8. Watch a 1932 crime drama based on a true story of a man wrongly convicted and imprisoned in a chain gang. He escapes and tries to start a new life, but faces a new threat of blackmail.

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