I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang - (Original Trailer)

I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Hard Labor

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.

I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932) -- (Movie Clip) What Would You Say To A Hamburger?

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.

I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Can You Hit My Shackles?

With the calendar marking months passed, Unjustly convicted inmate Jim Allen (Paul Muni) takes a few well-aimed whacks from Sebastian (Everett Brown) as he plans his escape, remarkable early-talkie shooting and editing, in Mervyn LeRoy's I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, 1932.

I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Where He Probably Belongs

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.

I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Grease, Fried Dough, Pig Fat And Sorghum

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.