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I am a fugitive from a chain gang /

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One of Hollywood's earliest social protest films, it concerns the cruelty and misery suffered by an ex-soldier wrongly condemned to hard labor on a Georgia chain gang. The brutalities of the chain gang were so emphatically exposed that there was a public outcry when it was shown, resulting in d...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Turner Entertainment Co, MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Other Authors: Muni, Paul, 1895-1967, Farrell, Glenda, 1904-1971, Foster, Preston, 1900-1970, Burns, Robert Elliott
Format: Video VHS
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Santa Monica, Calif. : Turner Entertainment Co. ; MGM Home Entertainment, [1999]
Series:MGM/UA vintage classics.
Subjects:
Criminals > Georgia > Drama.
Convict labor > Georgia > Drama.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
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Summary:One of Hollywood's earliest social protest films, it concerns the cruelty and misery suffered by an ex-soldier wrongly condemned to hard labor on a Georgia chain gang. The brutalities of the chain gang were so emphatically exposed that there was a public outcry when it was shown, resulting in drastic reforms of the system.
Item Description:Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Videocassette release of the 1932 motion picture.
Based on the book by Robert Elliott Burns.
"M207344."
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videocassette (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Format:VHS.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Sol Polito ; editor, William Holmes ; art, Jack Okey ; music, Leo F. Fobstein and Bernard Kaun ; costumes, Orry Kelly.
ISBN:0792841018