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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is an American pre-Code crime-drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni as a wrongfully convicted convict on a chain gang who escapes to Chicago. [1]

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Academy Award for Best Actor

The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing

The Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing or recording and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Allen Jenkins

Allen Jenkins (born Alfred McGonegal; April 9, 1900 – July 20, 1974) was an American character actor and singer who worked on stage, film, and television.

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Berton Churchill

Berton Churchill (December 9, 1876 – October 10, 1940) was a Canadian stage and film actor.

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Blackmail

Blackmail is an act, often criminal, involving unjustified threats to make a gain—most commonly money or property—or cause loss to another unless a demand is met.

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Brown Holmes

Brown Holmes (December 12, 1907, Toledo, Ohio – February 12, 1974, Los Angeles County, California) was an American screenwriter who worked for several major Hollywood studios in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Chain gang

A chain gang is a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment.

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Counsellor at Law

Counsellor at Law is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by William Wyler.

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Crime film

Crime cinema, in the broadest sense, is a cinematic genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.

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Darryl F. Zanuck

Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era.

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David Landau (actor)

David Landau (born David H. Magee; March 9, 1879, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – September 20, 1935, Hollywood, California) was an American stage and film actor who appeared in 33 films between 1931-35.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Edward Ellis (actor)

Edward Mayne Ellis (November 12, 1870 – July 26, 1952) was an American actor.

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Glenda Farrell

Glenda Farrell (June 30, 1904 – May 1, 1971) was an American actress of film, television, and theater.

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Hal B. Wallis

Harold Brent Wallis (born Aaron Blum Wolowicz; October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer.

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Hale Hamilton

Hale Rice Hamilton (February 28, 1880 – May 19, 1942) was an American actor, writer and producer.

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Helen Vinson

Helen Vinson (born Helen Rulfs, September 17, 1907 – October 7, 1999) was an American film actress, who appeared in 40 films between 1932 and 1945.

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I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a book written by Robert Elliott Burns in 1932 and published by Grosset & Dunlap.

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Jack L. Warner

Jack Leonard "J.

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Jack La Rue

Jack La Rue (born Gaspere Biondolillo, May 3, 1902 – January 11, 1984) was an American film and stage actor.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes

On the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, films which are reviewed by at least five critics, and which all of these critics consider to be good films, have a 100% approval rating.

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Lloyd Bacon

Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955) was an American screen, stage and vaudeville actor and film director.

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Louise Carter

Louise Carter (1875–1957) was an American stage and film actress.

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Mervyn LeRoy

Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 – September 13, 1987) was an American film director, film producer, author, and occasional actor.

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Nathan Levinson

Nathan Levinson (July 15, 1888 – October 18, 1952) was an American sound engineer.

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National Board of Review Award for Best Film

The National Board of Review Award for Best Film is one of the annual awards given (since 1932) to the producer of a film by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

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National Film Registry

The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) selection of films deserving of preservation.

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Noel Francis

Noel Francis (August 31, 1906 – October 30, 1959) was an American actress of the stage and screen during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Paul Muni

Paul Muni (born Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund; September 22, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an American stage and film actor who grew up in Chicago.

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Pre-Code Hollywood

Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in pictures in 1929LaSalle (2002), pg.

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Preston Foster

Preston Stratton Foster (August 24, 1900 – July 14, 1970), was an American actor of stage, film, radio, and television, whose career spanned nearly four decades.

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Robert Elliott Burns

Robert Elliott Burns (May 10, 1892 – June 5, 1955) was a World War I veteran who gained notoriety after escaping from a Georgia chain gang and writing his memoirs, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!, exposing the cruelty and injustice of the chain gang system.

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Roy Del Ruth

Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1895, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – April 27, 1961) was an American film director.

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Sally Blane

Sally Blane (born Elizabeth Jane Young; July 11, 1910 – August 27, 1997) was an American actress.

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Sol Polito

Sol Polito, A.S.C. (born Salvatore Polito, November 12, 1892 — May 23, 1960) was an American cinematographer.

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The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains is a 1987 American drama film directed by Daniel Mann and written by Michael Campus.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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True Detective (magazine)

True Detective (originally True Detective Mysteries) is an American true crime magazine published from 1924 to 1995.

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TV Guide

TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes.

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University of Wisconsin Press

The University of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated as UW Press) is a non-profit university press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals.

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Val Kilmer

Val Edward Kilmer (born December 31, 1959) is an American actor.

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Vanguard Press

The Vanguard Press (1926–1988) was a United States publishing house established with a $100,000 grant from the left wing American Fund for Public Service, better known as the Garland Fund.

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Vitaphone

Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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William Holmes (film editor)

William Holmes (February 23, 1904 – February 2, 1978) was an American film editor.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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42nd Street (film)

42nd Street is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film, directed by Lloyd Bacon.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Fugitive_from_a_Chain_Gang

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