I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)




Paul Muni - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang




Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.


Vintage magazines

Photoplay , December 1932
Photoplay , December 1932
Photoplay , February 1933


Books with substantial mentioning of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

James Robert Parish
Prison Pictures from Hollywood, Plots, Critiques, Casts and Credits for 293 Theatrical and Made-for-Television Releases
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1991

Stanley Hochman (editor)
From Quasimodo to Scarlett O'Hara, A National Board of Review Anthology 1920 - 1940
New York, 1982

David Zinman
50 Classic Motion Pictures, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
New York, 1970

Books with an entry on I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Larry Langman and David Ebner
Hollywood's Image of the South, A Century of Southern Films
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001

Larry Langman and David Ebner
Hollywood's Image of the South, A Century of Southern Films
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001

Larry Langman and Daniel Finn
A Guide to American Crime Films of the Thirties
Westport, Connecticut - London, 1995

Articles with substantial mentioning of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Simon Braund, The Top 10 Prison Breaks, in: Empire, nr. 210 (December), 2006 pp. 184-185