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Auction History Result 2m248 I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG TC 1932 best Paul Muni prison escape classic, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/16/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (LC TC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, the classic 1932 Mervyn LeRoy southern-U.S.-prison-camp escape crime thriller ("If you Liked 'Scarface You'll Rave about 'I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang'"; "The fury of a scorned woman Sent Him Back To Hell!"; based on the autobiography "By Robert E. Burns"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about the real-life man who through misfortune ended up in a Georgia prison working on a chain gang; against all odds, he escaped and returned to his hometown of Chicago, where he became a major success, hiding his past; his prison escape was discovered, and in the movie, he agrees to serve a short amount of time in the prison, but he is double-crossed, and he escapes again, but this time, his future is very bleak) starring Paul Muni (as James Allen/Allen James; nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster, Everett Brown (as the black African American convict Sebastian, who hits Paul Muni's shackles with a sledgehammer!), Noel Francis, Allen Jenkins, Edward Ellis, and Harry Woods. Note that this is one of the rare cases where Hollywood took a happy ending and made it unhappy! In real life, Robert Burns refused to return to the prison, and Illinois refused to extradite him to Georgia, and he lived out his life without ever returning to prison. But apparently, Warner Bros. wanted a more dramatic ending to the story, and so they invented their ending, where Burns returns, is double-crossed, and escapes a second time! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this first release title card is extremely rare. While we have auctioned some first release scene cards from this movie (the last one was 11 years ago!), we have never before auctioned this 1932 first release title card! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: very good. The card had small stains and smudges around the edges, but the image area of the card was in nice condition. Someone put some touch up paint in many parts of the blank borders. The card had creases in the left of the top border (both extending into the green border) that the restorer left alone (or they were acquired after the restoration occurred). The card was in "good to very good" condition prior to restoration, but now it will display really well on the new owner's wall, and the restoration was only in the borders (there was no restoration on the back of the card, and the card was not backed in any way). Learn More about condition grades 
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