I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932 · 1h 32m · Drama · United States of America · Rated 16 (DE)
Six sticks of dynamite that blasted his way to freedom … and awoke America’s conscience!
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.
Directed by
Mervyn LeRoyStory by
Robert E. Burns7.3Smart score
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based on true storyblackmailchain gangescaped prisonerescapeeforced laborfugitivehamburgerinnocent in jailpre-codeprisonprison brutalityprison lifeprison reformprison systemreformed criminalreverendtradesmanwar veteran
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