I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 is an American PreCode crimedrama film starring Paul Muni as a wrongfully convicted convict on a chain gang who escapes to Chicago.

Sergeant James Allen Paul Muni returns to civilian life after World War I but his war experience makes him restless. His family feels he should be grateful for a tedious job as an office clerk, and when he announces that he wants to become an engineer, they react with outrage. He leaves home to find work on any sort of project, but unskilled labor is plentiful and its hard for him to find a job. Wandering and sinking into poverty, he accidentally becomes caught up in a robbery and is sentenced to ten years on a brutal Southern chain gang.He escapes and makes his way to Chicago, where he becomes a success in the construction business. He becomes involved with the proprietor of his boardinghouse, Marie Woods Glenda Farrell, who discovers his secret and blackmails him into an unhappy marriage. He then meets and falls in love with Helen Helen Vinson. When he asks his wife for a divorce, she betrays him to the authorities. He is offered a pardon if he will turn himself in Allen accepts, only to find that it was just a ruse. He escapes once again. ........

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