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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!
		I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang
		Southern chain gangs, notorious across the rest of the nation, had their origins in the scandalous convict lease system of the late nineteenth century.
		But the state of Georgia was unrelenting, and Burns once more faced the hardships of the chain gang, this time at a prison in Troup County.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-793 (1187 words)

	Chain gang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A chain gang is a group of prisoners chained together to perform a menial or physically challenging labor, such as chipping stone, often along a highway.
		A traditional chain gang is almost universally regarded as being a form of cruel and unusual punishment, and that view combined with the economic cost of operating chain gangs led to their decline in the 1950s.
		American Chain Gang is a 1999 is documentary about male and female inmates in the recently revived prison chain gangs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chain_gang (782 words)

	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
		While I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang makes its case efficiently, it suffers from a sense that the events portrayed are far removed from the present.
		This is entirely false, given that gangs are being re-introduced in certain states, nevertheless the distance remains.
		This is a shame since I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang manages to build a picture of the situation rapidly, utilising tools such as the changing face of Jim's wage slips to impart information.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Fugitive_Chain.html (882 words)

	PennTags /hennefem
		Although Chain Gang’s racial politics can be read as more subtle and nuanced, the film constructs its arguments through the individual example of a white man, even though the injustice of the chain gang system deeply reflects Southern histories of slavery and post-slavery economic exploitation of forced fl labor.
		Chain Gang depicts spectacular escapes while advertising its own denial of narrative closure at the end, even though Great Depression film was always expected to provide an outlet for escapism and release from financial hard times.
		Foucault recounts the replacement of the chain gang in France in 1837 “by inconspicuous fl-painted cell-carts.” Thus, “punishment gradually ceased to be a spectacle” (Foucault 8-9).
	tags.library.upenn.edu /hennefem (4356 words)

	1930: The fugitive from a chain gang
		After fleeing to New Jersey, he got his story told as a classic movie: "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang." Then he made a dramatic bid to clear his record at the State House in Trenton.
		Millions read the horrifying story or saw the film version, "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang." The movie, an early classic of social realism, starred Paul Muni as the beleagured inmate, decrying the injustice of it all.
		They were left arguing that chain gangs weren't so bad and that Burns had made up the stuff about whippings.
	www.capitalcentury.com /1930.html (1826 words)

	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932 b 93') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932 b 93')
		He is chained in the barracks, wears a striped uniform, and is given "grease, pig fat, and sorghum" for breakfast.
		He pays the state's expenses and a lawyer, but he is put back on a chain gang.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1932/IAmaFugitive.html (577 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang at Epinions.com
		"I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" is an action-packed, sensationalist film that succeeds in conveying a mood of urgency and desperation.
		Unluckily, he is captured and sentenced to ten years in a Georgia chain gang.
		"I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" was based on the best-selling 1932 biography by Robert E. Burns, "I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!".
	www.epinions.com /mvie-review-E21-DFB8E6A-3936FEE3-prod1 (521 words)

	FilmJudge - I Am A Fugitive from the Chain Gang (1932)
		Mervyn LeRoy’s I Am A Fugitive From The Chain Gang is one of the most influential social conscience films ever made despite the strict studio system in which it was made and the political influences which caused it to be altered so as not to offend the sizeable southern audience.
		This also could allow the MMPDA to argue that "it is not a preachment against the chain gang system in general, but a strongly individualized story of one man’s personal experiences arising from one particular miscarriage of justice" before the state censor boards (Maltby, p 368).
		Using sophisticated cinematic techniques, such as those in I Am A Fugitive From The Chain Gang, they could also claim that their political statements were not a direct reflection of their own views and thereby avoid censorship.
	www.filmjudge.ca /i/iamafugitive.htm (784 words)

	The Fugitive
		Burns requested a transfer to the Campbell County chain gang where he felt his chances of escape were greater.
		The conditions on this chain gang were equally deplorable, except that, unlike Fulton County, the workers were not chained together while working the roads.
		While he was able to escape from the chain gang and survive on the lam for many years, Burns could not escape the ravages of life itself.
	home.nycap.rr.com /useless/fugitive/index.html (1960 words)

	goatdog's movies - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932
		He winds up accompanying another homeless man to a diner where he is unwillingly enlisted in a failed robbery; he is arrested and sentenced to ten years of hard labor on the chain gang.
		Much of the first half of the film is a still-shocking expose of the brutal conditions of southern chain gangs (the film played a large part in their being outlawed across the south).
		Allen quickly realizes that the chain gang system will kill him before he can serve out his sentence for a crime he did not commit.
	goatdog.com /moviePage.php?movieID=302 (900 words)

	Troup County Archives - History - Robert E. Burns: Chain Gang Fugitive
		Answer: In I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, actor Muni portrays Robert Elliot Burns, an almost-innocent man who was "brutally victimized" by the Georgia prison system.
		The movie and the book on which it was based, I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang, almost single-handedly led to the elimination of chain gangs from the South.
		Chain gangs were an old form of punishment in use for centuries and had been especially popular in the South after the Civil War and the freeing of slaves.
	www.trouparchives.org /burns.html (2437 words)

	I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) Starring: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson - Three Movie Buffs Review
		James agrees to go back to the chain gang with a promise that it is only temporary.
		I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a look at a prison system no longer in existence.
		She gives the politically incorrect response, "I am free, white and 21." Also it shows a guard keeping track of the inmates by having one list of whites and one of Negroes.
	www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=iamafugitivefromachaingang (547 words)

	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
		I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang [Warner]
		Mervyn LeRoy's "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" (1932) is a film that Alfred Hitchcock might have enjoyed making, for it develops the wrong man scenario with impeccable panache in vestiges of the human condition turned on its end.
		Reduced to hobo status, he is accidentally framed from a train robbery and put to work on one of the most ruthless chain gangs.
	www.mediascreen.com /i/iamafugitivefromachaingang.htm (363 words)

	LIBERTAS » Blog Archive » I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang on DVD
		I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932) is the best of the early Warner Brothers crime dramas.
		A chain gang that puts the Delta-House-On-Pledge-Night that was Abu Ghraib into some perspective.
		Fugitive’s only 93 minutes long and so packed with story and emotional moments that upon watching it you’ll realize that over the last 75 years we haven’t gotten better at making movies, we’re forgetting how to make movies.
	www.libertyfilmfestival.com /libertas/?p=858 (888 words)

	Amazon.com: I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang: DVD: Paul Muni,Glenda Farrell,Helen Vinson,Noel Francis,Preston ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I AM A FUGITIVE is the story of James Allen, a character closely modeled on the real individual named Robert Burns, who, along with two other men, in 1922 robbed an Atlanta grocer of $5.80 Burns was tried, convicted, and sentenced to serve six to ten years of hard labor on a Georgia chain gang.
		Fugitive Burns sold his story to True Detective magazine, where it ran as a serial and was soon published as a book, a best-seller, entitled I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang.
		I don't need a mediocre film to instigate that "chain gangs are evil", I should know that from my own knowledge, and further more, this film contradicts itself because capitalism itself is slavery and there is so much insane dialog about the "virtues of work" in the beginning.
	www.amazon.com /I-Am-Fugitive-Chain-Gang/dp/B0007TKNJ2 (3195 words)

	I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932)
		The film reflected the dire effects of the Great Depression on the common man in its story of a WWI veteran who faced unemployment, was unjustly convicted of a petty robbery, and then twice served and escaped from a southern chain gang as a hunted fugitive during the 1920s.
		The fugitive was betrayed by his estranged first wife (an Hispanic divorcee), who disclosed his identity in 1929 to the Georgia authorities when he asked for a divorce (after he had fallen in love with another woman)
		Wearing the horizontally-striped uniform of a prisoner on a chain gang, he is assigned to hard labor in County Camp No. 2 - a primitive, forbidding labor camp with armed guards and a stockade.
	www.filmsite.org /iama.html (2037 words)

	Chain Gang - Moviefone
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		I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932) Val Kilmer starred in a made-for-TV movie re-creation, The Man Who Broke 1000 Chains (1987), about a man sentenced to work on a chain gang after WWII for a...
		Chain Gang - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /movie/chain-gang/1054716/main (181 words)

	I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932)
		Our chain gangs are beneficial to the convicts, not only physically but morally.
		These are the guys that were too tough for the chain gang.
		The life of a convict in a chain gang is one of hard labor.
	www.filmsite.org /iama3.html (1812 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
		It put national pressure on the state of Georgia to reform its chain gangs, which were derived from slave labor, and legislators actually buckled.
		Ironically, for a tool of torture that cinema helped curb, the chain gang has since become a cinematic staple to show how tough prison life is. And yet for a film that brought about change, it wouldn't be as effective if it wasn't also entertaining.
		I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang was directed by studio journeyman Mervyn LeRoy, and (to put it nicely) LeRoy's a director who's never inspired a cult following.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/i/iamafugitivefromacg.q.shtml (583 words)

	Controversial ClassicsI Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang Fury Bad Day At Black Rock Blackboard Jungle A Face In The ...
		Muni goes from a bad job to a bad marriage with a little bad justice in between, and the unspoken message is that he becomes a fugitive the moment he starts to dream of something better than the daily grind.
		I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang heads up Warner's seven-disc DVD collection "Controversial Classics," a brief history of movies that have been considered un-American for one reason or another, and an incidental survey of evolving Hollywood style.
		There's a world of difference between Chain Gang and Otto Preminger's 1962 political melodrama Advise And Consent, about the tumultuous confirmation hearings of a Secretary Of State nominee played by Henry Fonda.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/9055 (1016 words)

	HRWIFF: Film Archive - I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Warner Brothers won box office success and a reputation for hard-hitting social commentary: Allen's prison life was so harrowingly realistic that massive chain gang reforms were instituted as a result and the character upon whom Allen was based was eventually pardoned.
		Now, 60 years later, chain gangs are being reintroduced.
		Alabama, Arizona and Florida are now using chain gangs, ignoring international human rights norms which prohibit degrading treatment of prisoners.
	www.hrw.org /iff-97/filmko/lero.html (157 words)

	the REEL WORLD: 1932 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Escaping from the gang, Burns fled to Chicago and built a respectable life for himself until a gold-digging woman found out his secret and flmailed him into marrying her.
		Eventually he was revealed, and voluntarily returned to the chain gang because he was promised a release within 90 days.
		The film is brutal in its depiction of life on chain gangs, which were still being used as a legal form of punishment in Georgia at the time.
	www.vex.net /~emily/film/1932.html (337 words)

	Movie Habit: Review of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (2005), *** 1/2
		Allen is quickly caught, and as the crook’s “accomplice” he is sentenced to ten years on a chain gang.
		For later chain gang movies, this is often the extent of the conflict.
		I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a roller coaster of both plot and emotion, and Muni, a trained stage actor who came to Hollywood when the sound era began, conveys they highs and lows to us through his swarthy good looks and everyman charisma.
	www.moviehabit.com /reviews/iam_fl05.shtml (1040 words)

	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Goofs: Continuity: After James Allen's second escape from the chain gang, the last newspaper article shown onscreen states that he escaped "A little more than a year ago...".
		He inadvetantly gets involved in a stickup and is (unjustly) sent to a chain gang for 9 years.
		I heard this was based on a true story.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0023042 (561 words)

	dOc DVD Review: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
		I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang changed minds and influenced attitudes like no other Hollywood film before it, and proved cinema could be a powerful instrument for righting society's wrongs.
		On the surface, I Am a Fugitive might seem like just another assembly line entry, but the nuanced script delves deeper, exploring hitherto uncharted themes (such as the plight of returning war veterans), and achieving a level of somber realism unique to Depression era films.
		Image Transfer Review: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is seven decades old, yet the wizards at Warner Home Video have fashioned a superb transfer that shaves years off the movie's age.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=7403 (1520 words)

	I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - Drama Classic Movies on DVD (1932) - WEA/Warner Bros. : Oldies.com
		I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG was one of the first talkies to foment for social change and justice.
		The unwitting fall guy for a crime he only witnesses, Allen is forced to toil on a chain gang and then to live a life on the lam after he escapes.
		I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1991.
	www.oldies.com /product-view/0022GD.html (667 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
		Nevertheless, they were able to have their cake and eat it too with films like I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, which was instrumental in swaying public opinion.
		The inhumanity and soul-crushing horrors of slave labor in the penal system, where the gruesome punishment didn't fit the crime, is neatly interwoven into a highly gripping plot that still holds up today.
		The prison scenes are blatantly manipulative—and effective—but Fugitive really takes off during an intense escape sequence, including a close shave where a near-doomed Muni hides underwater as his above-water captors are literally inches away from him.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1608 (486 words)

	i-am-fugitive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (1932) B/W 93m dir: Mervyn LeRoy
		A scathing indictment of life on a Southern chain gang which has become a film classic.
		The movie and the book on which it was based (Robert E. Burns' autobiography was scripted by Howard J. Green and Brown Holmes) caused quite a stir at the time and even led to some investigations.
	yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/i/i-am-fugitive.html (131 words)

	I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932) - Channel 4 Film review
		A war veteran wrongly convicted of murder is placed at the mercy of the sadisitic guards in a Georgia chain gang.
		The aching agony of this true story is heightened by the continued existence of such barbarity.
		Based on Robert E Burns' autobiography from the 1920s, it follows the tragedy of a World War One veteran, James Allen (Muni) who gets mixed up in a robbery and ends up on a Southern chain gang.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=104442 (219 words)

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