I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Duration: 90 min.

Genre: Crime Drama Film Noir

Year Published: 1932

Creator: UA

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: One of Hollywood's earliest social protest films, it concerns the cruelty suffered by an ex-soldier wrongly condemned to hard labor on a Georgia chain gang. The brutalities of the chain gang were so emphatically exposed that there was public outcry when it was shown, resulting in reforms of the system. Based on the novel by Robert Elliott Burns. Stars Paul Muni., World War I is over. Johnny has come marching home. But there's little fanfare and no meaningful work for one war vet. There's only the desperate life of an unjustly convicted fugitive. Twice he is sentenced to a chain gang. Twice he escapes. They can put his hands and feet in irons, but not his will to be free.

Complete Record: , A seething indictment against the chain gangs in southern penal institutions. (Does not circulate) , , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.