The making and influence of I am a fugitive from a chain gang /

Robert E. Burns, a World War I veteran coerced into taking part in a petty crime, was sentenced to hard labor on a chain gang in 1922. This book traces the making and influence of the film, which launched a string of imitators, and the Burns brothers' efforts to obtain a pardon for Robert, whic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nollen, Scott Allen (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
Subjects:	I am a fugitive from a chain gang (Motion picture) Burns, Robert Elliott > Film adaptations. Burns, Robert Elliott. > I am a fugitive from a Georgia chain gang. Imprisonment in motion pictures. Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Robert Elliott Burns
I am a fugitive from a Georgia chain gang! the memoir
The making of the film
The reception of the film
Out of these chains: the continuing saga of Robert E. Burns and the Warner Bros. film
The historic influence of the film.