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I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang 93 minutes, United States (1932), PG
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A war veteran wrongly convicted of murder is placed at the mercy of the sadisitic guards in a Georgia chain gang. A moving indictment of the US justice system's inhumanity and the legal system's worst failings

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I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang: The aching agony of this true story is heightened by the continued existence of such barbarity.

Based on Robert E Burns' autobiography from the 1920s, it follows the tragedy of a World War One veteran, James Allen (Muni) who gets mixed up in a robbery and ends up on a Southern chain gang. He escapes the stinking, brutal conditions and later marries, but the woman betrays him...
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