I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Drama
Crime
Six sticks of dynamite that blasted his way to freedom … and awoke America’s conscience!
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
1932-11-09
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Cast
Director
Mervyn LeRoy
Paul Muni as James Allen
Glenda Farrell as Marie Woods
Helen Vinson as Helen
Noel Francis as Linda
Preston Foster as Pete
Allen Jenkins as Barney Sykes
Berton Churchill as The Judge
Edward Ellis as Bomber Wells
David Landau as The Warden
Hale Hamilton as Rev. Allen
Sally Blane as Alice
Louise Carter as Mother
Everett Brown as Sebastian T. Yale - Strong Prisoner
Willard Robertson as Prison Board Chairman
Robert McWade as F.E. Ramsey
Robert Warwick as Fuller
Charles Middleton as Train Conductor (uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe as Café Chateau Dancer (uncredited)
Wallis Clark as Chicago Lawyer (uncredited)
Erville Alderson as Police Chief (uncredited)
Irving Bacon as Bill - Barber (uncredited)
Reginald Barlow as Mr. Parker (uncredited)
James Bell as Red (uncredited)
Charles McAvoy as Cop (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler as Job Foreman (uncredited)
G. Pat Collins as Wilson (uncredited)
George Cooper as Vaudevillian (uncredited)
Harry Woods as Prison Guard (uncredited)
John Marston as Prison Commissioner (uncredited)
Douglass Dumbrille as District Attorney (uncredited)
J. Frank Glendon as Arresting Officer (uncredited)
Lee Shumway as Arresting Officer (uncredited)
Lew Kelly as Diner Cook (uncredited)
Jack La Rue as Ackerman (uncredited)
Edward LeSaint as Chamber of Commerce Chairman (uncredited)
Walter Long as Blacksmith (uncredited)
Edward McNamara as Second Warden (uncredited)
William Pawley as Doggy (uncredited)
Charles Sellon as Hot Dog Stand Owner (uncredited)
William H. Strauss as Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Sheila Terry as Allen's Secretary (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Marine on Ship (uncredited)
John Wray as Nordine (uncredited)