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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 DVD 002 598
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Burns, Robert Elliott--Film adaptations.
- Burns, Robert Elliott.
- Criminals--Georgia--Drama.
- Criminals.
- Convict labor--Georgia--Drama.
- Convict labor.
- Georgia.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Film adaptations.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Standard version.
- Place of Publication:
- Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2005.
- Language Note:
- In English with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish.
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD ; Region 1 ; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- 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 a novel by Robert Elliott Burns.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1932.
- Special features: Commentary by film historian Richard B. Jewell; vintage musical short 20,000 cheers for the chain gang; Theatrical trailer.
- ISBN:
- 1419809377
- 0790796627
- OCLC:
- 59824465
- Publisher Number:
- 012569701793 (set)
- 012569701021
- 70179 Warner Home Video (set)
- 67010 Warner Home Video
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