I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a 1932 American pre-Code crime tragedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni as a convicted man on a chain gang who escapes to Chicago. It was relea
Paul Muni and Glenda Farrell in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
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Robert Elliott Burns was an American World War I veteran known for escaping from a Georgia chain gang and publishing the memoir, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!, exposing the cruelty and in
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
…was nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor for Muni. The film was written by Howard J. Green and Brown Holmes from Robert Elliott Burns's 1932 autobiography of a similar name, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!, originally serialized in the True Detective magazine. In 1991, the…
Paul Muni portraying Burns in the film version of his memoirs