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I Am a Fugitive From Chain Gang
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | November 19, 1932 |
| Running time: | 93 minutes |
| Cast: | Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis, Preston Foster |
| Director: | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Producer: | Hal B. Wallis |
| Writer: | Robert E. Burns, Howard J. Green |
| Distributor: | Vitaphone Corporation |
Description: Based on a true story, a Depression-era drama following the return of WWI veteran James Allen into a brutal Southern prison, after he's falsely accused of theft. Warner Brothers won box office success and a reputation for hard-hitting social commentary: Allen's prison life was so harrowingly realistic that massive chain gang reforms were instituted as a result and the character upon whom Allen was based was eventually pardoned.
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