Film review

One of the most far reaching of all social protest films. "I am a fugitive from a chain gang" 1932 shattered audiences with its harrowing depiction of the brutalities perpetrated  by the guards attached to the prison chain gang. It stared Paul Muni as James Allen an out of work war veteran who is framed in a lunch wagon holdup and finds himself serving a prison sentence in Georgia chain gang for a crime he did not commit. He escapes,makes his way to Chicago, gets a job with a construction firm and marries. But he is betrayed by his wife, and returns to prison on the understanding that he will be paroled in ninety days.  His parole is refused and he escapes once again, this time as a desperate broken man, destined to spend the rest of his life as a fugitive.