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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a 1932 American pre-Code crime tragedy 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.
- (15K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1932-11-19
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...
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. The...
- (28)
- Paul Muni
- Mervyn Leroy
- Drama
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Grease, Fried Dough, Pig Fat And Sorghum Director Mervyn LeRoy chronicles the first day for Jim (Paul Muni), the wrongly-convicted hard-luck would-be engineer, on a southern chain gang, a scene noted for its accuracy, comments from Bomber (Edward Ellis), in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain ...
- Mervyn Le Roy, Al Alborn
- Paul Muni
• Synopsis: Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.• Director: Merv...
- 93 min
- 473
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A film based on the true story of Robert Elliot Burns, who served on a brutal chain gang in Georgia after a wrongful conviction. The film follows his escape, his rise and fall in Chicago, and his final fate.
