The Making and Influence of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang EPUB
by Nollen Scott Allen Nollen
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Robert E. Burns, a World War I veteran coerced into taking part in a petty crime in Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to hard labor on a chain gang in 1922. Twice escaping and on the lam for decades, he was aided only by his minister-poet brother, Vincent G. Burns. Their collaborative work, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! was the basis for Darryl F. Zanuck's and Mervyn Leroy's hard-hitting 1932 film adaptation from Warner Bros. This book traces the making and influence of the film--which launched a string of imitators--and the Burns brothers' efforts to obtain a pardon for Robert, which never came.
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- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
- Publication Date:04/10/2016
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- ISBN:9781476626789
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
- Publication Date:04/10/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781476626789