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I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang [DVD] [1932] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Price: £7.81
Average customer rating: 4.5

Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780790796628
ISBN : 0790796627
Label : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Release date : 2005-05-10
Title : I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang [DVD] [1932] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
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Number of items : 1
Original release date : 1932-01-01
Region code : 1
Running time : 92
Studio : Warner Home Video
Theatrical releaseDate : 1933-08-12
MPN : WARD67010D

Customer reviews

review by: I.J. Parnham date: 2009-03-23 rating:

A classic
When a down on his luck man gets caught up in a robbery, he's sentenced to toil on the chain-gangs. At the mercy of the cruel bosses, he reckons he'll rot in there forever and so a plot to escape is hatched... br / br /This film may be very old but it's not one that you have to make allowances for to enjoy. Originally made to highlight the cruelty of the chain gang penal system it succeeds by never flinching away from the hardship. It's helped that this movie predates the Hays code, which put stringent rules on what could be shown, so that the life of a prisoner is no less harrowing than you'd expect if you're a fan of Cool Hand Luke. br / br /The moralising perhaps gets a little too obvious and cloying in the way the film develops in the second half, but bearing in mind there's a certain expectation of how plots should develop in the tale of a decent man trying to escape from a cruel prison regime, the fact that it does take an original slant makes this film worth seeking out. The ending is quite rightly acclaimed as being one of cinema's greatest.

review by: date: 2007-03-18 rating:

3 stars??
Did you actually watch this film or just turn it off after you got to your precious little sample? br / br /This is a magnificent early example of the social conscience picture, with a startlingly modern performance from Paul Muni and vigorously directed by Mervyn LeRoy. If you like some of Lang's early impassioned Hollywood efforts like 'Fury' or 'You Only Live Once', as well as later classics like Dassin's 'Brute Force', then you'll like this a lot.

review by: underscore date: 2006-02-05 rating:

Straw
More of a bit of trivia as it made me want to watch it, but if anyone's listened to the album 'Shoplifting' by 'Straw' then the sample at the end of 'Moving to California' is from this film. Really rather good!

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