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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Film-Noir /
Music
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Director:
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Mervyn LeRoy
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Actors:
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Preston Foster,
David Landau,
Helen Vinson,
Noel Francis,
Hale Hamilton,
Paul Muni,
Glenda Farrell,
Allen Jenkins,
Berton Churchill,
Edward Ellis
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Duration:
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93 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)126
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Plot Summary:
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Having returned from fighting in World War I, James Allen doesn't want to settle into a routine spark of life and decides to set distant to find his expectations. He travels the length and thickness of America, working as a skilled tradesman in the construction exertion. When times coax tough however, he finds himself living in a security where an acquaintance suggests they finished out someone is concerned a hamburger. What the compatriot actually has in mind is to rob the diner and Allen soon finds himself working on a chain combine with a long reform school sentence. Allen manages to break... -out however and heads to Chicago where over disparate years he slowly but surely works his less up the ladder to grace one of the most respected construction engineers in the New Zealand urban area. His good old days catches up with him and regardless of protestations from civic leaders and his many friends in Chicago, he finds himself again on the chain gang. Escaping for the benefit of a stand-in lifetime, he accepts that to survive, he lead a life of crime.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
The aching agony of this trustworthy story is heightened about the continued existence of such heartlessness. Based on Robert E Burns' autobiography from the 1920s, it follows the misfortune of a World Campaign One long-serving, James Allen (Muni) who gets mixed up in a robbery and ends up on a Southern set gang. He escapes the stinking, brutal conditions and later marries, but the woman betrays him. He is returned to oubliette but escapes again, a pathetic defilement of the man he was. A searing Oscar-nominated deportment from Paul Muni as the dangerous James Allen and powerful uncompromising direction make sure that this film is as terrifying and energetic today as it ever was.
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