I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
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ยป I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoyGenre: Crime,Film-Noir,DramaUser Rating: 8.3/10 (3,004 votes) Runtime: 93 minAwards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 winsCast (first 5): Paul Muni, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster, Berton Churchill, David Landau
IMDB: http://imdb.com/title/tt0023042/
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is one of the toughest and most uncompromising movies to ever come out of Hollywood. Paul Muni stars as a regular Joe, just back from World War I, who is unjustly convicted of a crime and sentenced to 10 years of bruisingly unfair treatment on a chain gang. Even a successful escape can’t shake the spectre of the chains, nor the amazingly fatalistic twists the screenplay has in store. This picture could only have been made at Warner Bros., where social-justice movies flourished in the 1930s and criticism of judicial systems and [...]