I Am A Fugitive From a Chain Gang

An uncompromising ‘docudrama’ portrayal of injustice, with Paul Muni giving a powerful performance as the World War I vet on the run from a chain gang in Depression era America. Based on Robert E. Burns’ autobiographical novel., The story of an innocent man’s persecution after being sent to prison on a holdup charge. Based on actual events., When broke, would-be architect James Allen is wrongly arrested and convicted for a small-time holdup, he is sent to prison to work on a chain gang. After enduring years of hard labor that kills many prisoners, Allen escapes and builds a successful new life., Wrongfully convicted for a hold-up, a war vet sentenced to a chain gang escapes and builds a new, respectable existence, only to realize he can never be free of his past. This classic, still-powerful reality-based indictment of the Depression-era prison system is the peak of Warner’s 1930s school of social realism., Based on actual events, an innocent man’s persecution after being sent to prison on a holdup charge., An uncompromising ‘docudrama’ portrayal of injustice, with Paul Muni powerful as the World War I vet on the run from a chain gang in Depression era America.