I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang

TCM's Dave Karger introduces I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, 1932.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, 1932.

Director Mervyn LeRoy chronicles the first day for Jim (Paul Muni), the wrongly-convicted hard-luck would-be engineer, on a southern chain gang, a scene noted for its accuracy, comments from Bomber (Edward Ellis), in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932.

Landlady and casual girlfriend Marie (Glenda Farrell), arguably the only actor in the picture working on a par with star Paul Muni, turns on him, as now-successful prison escapee "Allen James," as he gets ready to move out in, Mervyn LeRoy's I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, 1932.

Wrapping up an unemployment sequence for well-intentioned WWI veteran Jim (Paul Muni) brings him to St. Louis where he meets fellow struggler Pete (Preston Foster), whom, he doesn’t know, has trouble in mind, Lew Kelly the diner man, in Warner Bros.’ landmark I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, 1932.

Jim (Paul Muni) learns about breaking rocks the hard way with some counsel from Bomber (Edward Ellis) and Sebastian (Everett Brown) in director Mervyn LeRoy's II Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, 1932.

A World War I veteran (Paul Muni) faces inhuman conditions when he's sentenced to hard labor in I Was a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), directed by Mervyn LeRoy.