I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 123movies

Watch: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 123movies, Full Movie Online – Having returned from fighting in World War I, James Allen doesn’t want to settle into a humdrum life and decides to set off to find his fortune. He travels the length and breadth of America, working as a skilled tradesman in the construction industry. When times get tough however, he finds himself living in a shelter where an acquaintance suggests they go out for a hamburger. What the friend really has in mind is to rob the diner and Allen soon finds himself working on a chain gang with a long jail sentence. Allen manages to escape however and heads to Chicago where over several years he slowly but surely works his way up the ladder to become one of the most respected construction engineers in the city. His past catches up with him and despite protestations from civic leaders and his many friends in Chicago, he finds himself again on the chain gang. Escaping for a second time, he accepts that to survive, he must lead a life of crime..
Plot: 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.
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	8.2/10 Votes: 13,414
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I’m hungry. What would you say to a hamburger?
“Boy. I’d take Mr. Hamburger by the hand and say, “Pal, I haven’t seen you for a long, long time.” and with that line begins one of the darkest most refreshing moments in cinema history. This film is like a film that I haven’t seen in a long long time, it’s not a happy story or even a sad story, it’s portrayed and shot in such a way that it’s a story dipped in grit, reality, dirt and dust, a film where our hero loses at the game of life, he loses his love, his passion, his profession, his peace of mind and better yet we don’t see how that turns out for him. The films portrayal of law and order is surprising especially for its time, I was truly frightened by the faces of the judges and sound of the chains and the hounds chasing our fugitive, about the fragility of any one mans peace in society, the viciousness and perhaps even the lasciviousness of certain women, the film oh how wonderfully it topples the notion of our old boy coming back home from the war, finding love and finding a job and making pa and pa proud and happy. Paul Muni’s acting is superb as well especially his awkwardness at the train station when he’s greeted by family and friends and his face of anarchy at the dinner table later that night and let us not forget the look of misery and finally utter deep desperation at the end all of which he acts out so skillfully. The ending and its final lines pack a wallop and is one of the best endings I’ve ever seen.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 32 min (92 min) (Turner library print)
Budget 195845
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Director Mervyn LeRoy
Writer Robert E. Burns, Howard J. Green, Brown Holmes
Actors Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 3 Oscars. 3 wins & 3 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (original release)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Warner Bros. Studio Laboratory, USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm