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Auction History Result 2c179 I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG TC 1932 best Paul Muni prison escape classic, very rare! Date Sold 12/12/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (LC TC; measures 11" x 13" [28 x 33 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. This is only the second time we have ever auctioned it in all our years of auctioning (the first one sold for $1,870)! Note that this lobby card has been trimmed and it now measures 11" x 13" [28 x 33 cm]. 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: good to very good. Someone trimmed off most of the left and right blank borders, and the card now measures 11" x 13", but only blank white paper was affected. The card has faint smudges and some dot stains around the edges. It also had a few dot stains scattered in some of the letters of the title, and in the black area by the "AM A", and someone performed slight touch up to those, but did not touch up any of the stains and smudges around the edges, and they also did not back the card in any way. It can be displayed and enjoyed as it is, or certainly, additional restoration could be performed, but either way, the new owner of this card will have a really cool (and rare) title card to display on their wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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