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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

Drama Crime

Six sticks of dynamite that blasted his way to freedom … and awoke America’s conscience!

Release Date: 1932, November 9
Directors: Mervyn LeRoy
Countries: United States of America
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures, The Vitaphone Corporation
Cast: Douglass Dumbrille, Everett Brown, Irving Bacon, Louise Carter, Eddy Chandler, Wallis Clark, Charles Middleton, John Wray, Jack Wise, Preston Foster, Edward LeSaint, Jack Low

Overview:

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

Keywords:

based on true story prison fugitive blackmail escaped prisoner tradesman war veteran chain gang reverend prison life prison brutality reformed criminal innocent in jail pre-code forced labor hamburger prison reform prison system escapee