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starring: Jerry Bergen, Novia, The Pickens Sisters, Patti Pickens, Helen Pickens directed by: Roy Mack, Mervyn LeRoy See Larger Image List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 (10%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $3.00 Third Party New Price: $3.96 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790796628 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 0790796627 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 10, 2005 Running Time: 92 minutes Sales Rank: 35791 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: August 12, 1933 Related Items: Scarface (Universal Cinema Classics) The Life of Emile Zola (Special Edition) The Public Enemy Fury TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 1 (Waterloo Bridge [1931] / Baby Face / Red-Headed Woman) see more Editorial Review: Description: Classic fact-based drama about an innocent man brutally victimized by the Depression-era criminal justice system. Amazon.com: 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 Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - engrossing biopic i purchased this film in the first part of January this year. i remembered seeing this film many years ago on tv. when it was first released i was hesitant to buy it due to the inflated pricing of Amazon. i finally conceded, however, and bought it. it was well worth the price. i am an avid conisseur of classic films, but only a few are engrossing enough to warrant multiple viewings. this is one of those. from the opening credits to the final chilling climax it seizes your attention and never ceases ... Read More Rating: - Paul Muni, an independent mortal. What an insightful film from mid-film to the end. It is hazy and quite controversial, which resonates today about the classes and the power within the jail system. Like Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, all films mentioned have an elastic irritability that you can't turn away from. Down on his luck, Paul Muni is accused of a crime he did not commit and placed in a chain gang where he escapes to be captured with some stipulations that are not granted. He then pursues to escape again with a ... Read More Rating: - Socially Relevant but Entertaining This film really surprised me by holding my attention despite its age. Paul Muni gives a tremendous performance as a slight above average kind of guy that ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time. He fills the character with a lot of emotion and when he is in his "fugitive" stage the tension is visible in him at all times. The movie is based in the 1920s but yet it very much has Depression era themes that fit more with when it was filmed. The 1920s are normally portrayed ... Read More Rating: - Good Classic Almost perfect classic by Mervyn LeRoy. A man returned from fighting WWII decides not to go back to his routine job at the factory. His experience doing some engineering work in the Army inspires him to look into the construction business, study and maybe become an engineer. But society has other plans for him. One little mistake will start him in the opposite direction he had planned. Social realism, without being preachy or melodramatic, is the best description for this film's style. ... Read More Rating: - some history surrounding a timeless classic I'd avoided this film for decades, since I was generally unimpressed with Muni's stuffy biopic films--George Arliss he ain't. But Muni absolutely delivers the goods in CHAIN GANG, forcing me to re-view and possibly reassess his other film efforts. This movie is HBO quality, without the gratuitous profanity. A word about the ending. Late in life, Mervin LeRoy fessed up that the blackout BEFORE delivery of the last line was a fluke. Previous scripts ended the movie with James Allen graphically ... 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