Product Description
Classic fact-based drama about an innocent man brutally victimized by the Depression-era criminal justice system.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is one of the toughest and most uncompromising movies to ever come out of Hollywood. Paul Muni stars as a regular Joe, just back from World War I, who is unjustly convicted of a crime and sentenced to 10 years of bruisingly unfair treatment on a chain gang. Even a successful escape can't shake the spectre of the chains, nor the amazingly fatalistic twists the screenplay has in store. This picture could only have been made at Warner Bros., where social-justice movies flourished in the 1930s and criticism of judicial systems and prisons was sanctioned. Muni's weird acting style (he was recently off Scarface) somehow fits the film's furious tone, and director Mervyn LeRoy--as in his earlier Little Caesar--was dexterous enough to build the action to an unforgettable ending. It's a film that filters the American Dream through Depression realities and noirish pessimism (with a streak of pre-Code sexual frankness--note the one-night "friend" Muni makes the night of his escape). This one holds up, folks; it's a stunner. --Robert Horton
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 ounces
- Director : Mervyn LeRoy, Roy Mack
- Media Format : Subtitled, Multiple Formats, Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 32 minutes
- Release date : May 10, 2005
- Actors : Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis, Preston Foster
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Language : Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
- Studio : Warner Home Video
- Writers : A. Dorian Otvos, Brown Holmes, Cyrus Wood, Howard J. Green, Robert E. Burns
- Number of discs : 1
