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I am a fugitive from a chain gang / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. & the Vitaphone Corp. ; directed by Mervyn LeRoy ; screenplay by Howard J. Green and Brown Holmes.
LIBRA VHS HV6248.B79 A32 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- MGM/UA vintage classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burns, Robert Elliott--Film adaptations.
- Burns, Robert Elliott.
- Criminals--Georgia--Drama.
- Criminals.
- Convict labor--Georgia--Drama.
- Convict labor.
- Georgia.
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Turner Entertainment Co. ; [Santa Monica, CA] : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, [1999]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC; Hi-fi; stereo.
- analog
- magnetic
- stereo
- VHS
- NTSC
- Summary:
- One of Hollywood's earliest social protest films, it concerns the cruelty and misery suffered by an ex-soldier (Paul Muni) 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.
- Participant:
- Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster.
- Credits:
- Edited by William Holmes; photography by Sol Polito.
- Notes:
- Based on I was a fugitive from a Georgia chain gang / by Robert Elliott Burns.
- Videocassette release the motion picture produced in 1932.
- ISBN:
- 0792841018 :
- OCLC:
- 42031210
- Publisher Number:
- 027616734433
- M207344 Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
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