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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a american film of genre Drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy released in USA on 19 november 1932 with Paul Muni

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
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Released in USA 19 november 1932
Length 1h33
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime
Themes Prison films,    Évasion
Rating81% 4.096024.096024.096024.096024.09602

This article is about the 1932 film. For the book, see I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!




I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) is an American Pre-Code crime/drama film starring Paul Muni as a wrongfully convicted convict on a chain gang who escapes to Chicago.

The film was written by Howard J. Green and Brown Holmes from Robert Elliott Burns's autobiography of a similar name, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!, serialised in True Detective magazine. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The true life story was later recreated in the television movie, The Man Who Broke a 1,000 Chains (1987), starring Val Kilmer.

In 1991, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Synopsis

Sergeant James Allen (Paul Muni) returns to civilian life after World War I but his war experience makes him restless. His family feels he should be grateful for a tedious job as an office clerk, and when he announces that he wants to become an engineer, they react with outrage. He leaves home to find work on any sort of project, but unskilled labor is plentiful and it's hard for him to find a job. Wandering and sinking into poverty, he accidentally becomes caught up in a robbery and is sentenced to ten years on a brutal Southern chain gang.

Actors

Paul Muni

(James Allen)Glenda Farrell

(Marie Woods)Helen Vinson

(Helen)Preston Foster

(Pete)Noel Francis

(Linda)
And :
Allen Jenkins
Douglass Dumbrille
Edward Ellis
Sally Blane
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