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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!
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Important Added Info: Note that the majority of this movie shows Paul Muni in his pre-prison life, in prison, and after escaping from prison, and there are only small sections of the movie that show him with women. One is when he first escapes and Jenkins sets him up with a prostitute, played by Noel Francis, and that scene lasts a couple of minutes. His wife after he rebuilds his life is Glenda Farrell, and his girlfriend at the end is Helen Vinson. But Warner Bros. wanted to push the "romantic angle" of the movie, so they released lots of stills showing Muni with these three women, and on several of the stills we have seen, the captions on the back are incorrect as to who is on the front (including this one, where Francis is incorrectly identified as Glenda Farrell!).

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