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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Hailed as one of the most influential films of the 20th century, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a 1932 drama/crime film released by Warner Bros., directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni.Muni plays Sergeant James Allen, who on his return home from World War I knows he is now a changed man, and leaves home to go work in construction. However, along the way, he manages to talk to the wrong man at the wrong time, and on a trip to go get a bite to eat he is caught up in a robbery. Held at gunpoint, Allen is forced to steal 5 dollars from the restaurant (that's about $85 today), and when the man holding the gun on him is shot by police, he flees in a panic, but barely gets out the door before he is caught. He is sentenced to serve ten years on a Deep South chain gang.Allen decides he's had enough, and with the help of two other men he is able to escape to Chicago. He becomes a success in the construction business under the name Allen James, but when femme fatale Marie Woods discovers he is an escapee, she blackmails him into marriage for his money. However, it's clear that they are not in love in the slightest; after discovering that she is unfaithful, Allen cheats on her with the beautiful and kind Helen. When Allen asks Marie for a divorce, she is so outraged she tells the authorities that Allen James is James Allen, and he is caught once more.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Allen is told that if he turns himself in, he will be out of the chain gang in 90 days, but after the 90 days he learns this was just a ruse to get him behind bars, and he must now serve the 9 years he missed. Brutally upset, he manages to escape again, and is able to find Helen once more, telling her he can never see her again, and will be on the run for the rest of his life, before disappearing into the shadows. (Director Mervyn LeRoy claimed that the final scene was an idea that came to him after a fuse blew on the set, plunging it into darkness, but in fact that was always part of the script.)Based on the true story of Robert Elliott Burns, and with the help of this movie Burns—who was still on the run at the time this was made—was freed in 1945, and lived free until his death ten years later. (Burns would later be the subject of a 1987 made-for-TV biopic called The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains, in which he's played by Val Kilmer).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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A Taste of the Lash | |
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A Taste of the Lash: Prisoners are routinely whipped for getting out of line or not working hard enough. | |
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Became Their Own Antithesis | |
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Became Their Own Antithesis: James Allen made a life for himself in Chicago as a hard-working construction worker who would build bridges and eventually earn respect from the entire city... that same man would eventually disregard his morals and blow up a bridge with dynamite, literally burns those bridges to society and become an elusive fugitive with unknown whereabouts. | |
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All Crimes Are Equal | |
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All Crimes Are Equal: Allen is staying the same amount of time, doing the same labor, and living in the same conditions as hardened murderers. Most notably mentioned is a man who killed his wife, mother-in-law, and sister-in-law, which makes Allen reasonably unwilling to say he's only in for stealing five dollars at gunpoint. | |
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Exploding Calendar | |
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Exploding Calendar: Probably the Trope Codifier with its extensive use of this trope. Months fly off a calendar several times, like when Allen is waiting out the months during his second stint on the chain gang. | |
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Emerging from the Shadows | |
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Emerging from the Shadows: Allen when he seeks out Helen one more time. He goes back into them. | |
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She Is All Grown Up | |
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She Is All Grown Up: James notices this about Linda when he returns to his home town. | |
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Clothesline Stealing | |
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Clothesline Stealing: Allen has just escaped prison and, while the guards are still after him, comes across a farm where clothes are hanging out to dry. He "harvests" the clothesline and runs away with his new garments that turn out to fit perfectly, tossing his prison clothes away to throw the hounds off the scent. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: The big intimidating black inmate who turns out to be quite helpful. | |
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Fantasy-Forbidding Father | |
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Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Jim's older brother doesn't want him to pursue his dream of working in Engineering, but to stay with the safe, reliable clerk job in town. | |
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Hollywood Law | |
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Hollywood Law: Averted—the practices you see in this movie were lawful until the 1950s. This movie helped bring them to an end. | |
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Double Meaning | |
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Double Meaning: After escaping the first time, Allen gets himself a suit of clothes and a shave. During the shave, a cop comes into the barbershop and chats with the barber about the fugitive his department is chasing, giving an accurate description of Allen as he lies there helpless in front of them. He hurriedly gets up, pays and leaves. As he's going out the door, the barber asks if the shave was "close enough?" "Plenty," Allen says, referring to the very close shave he just experienced with the cop. | |
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Pursue the Dream Job | |
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Pursue the Dream Job: Jim wants to be an engineer instead of a clerk (the Army Corps of Engineers taught him the basics) and he works hard to achieve that goal, both before his first arrest and after his first escape. | |
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Woman Scorned | |
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Woman Scorned: Allen's wife takes a terrible revenge. | |
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And Now You Must Marry Me | |
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And Now You Must Marry Me: Allen's landlady demands that he marry her, or she'll turn him in. | |
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Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook | |
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Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook: James Allen is arrested after being coerced into participating in a robbery, and fleeing in a panic with the money after seeing his captor gunned down in front of him. Despite the circumstances, the judge throws the book at him: ten years of hard labor. After escaping—twice—he is forced into hiding, and in the film's memorable final scene, bids farewell to his former fiancée. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Allen is left on the run, living a life of petty crime and desperation, with no hope for the future. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "I steal." | |
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Working on the Chain Gang | |
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Working on the Chain Gang: The Movie. | |
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Spinning Paper | |
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Spinning Paper: There is a newspaper headline montage with the public's reaction to James facing extradition. | |
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What Are You in For? | |
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What Are You in For?: James is asked this by a fellow inmate but refuses to answer in full, though his sardonic reply is true enough—because he was gazing hungrily at the food, he didn't notice his new friend pull a gun until it was too late. | |
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Driving a Desk | |
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Driving a Desk: Most obvious during Allen and Bomber's flight from the guards in a stolen dump truck. | |
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Returning War Vet | |
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Returning War Vet: James fought in World War I, and not far into the film, he's riding the rails looking for any kind of employment. It often gets overshadowed by the film's penal reform themes, but this movie also deals with how American war vets had been abandoned by the government. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: A police officer is once still entering a barber shop, where the recently escaped fugitive James Allen is get his hair cut. The officer perfectly describes his appearance and yet somehow doesn't recognize him, meaning he just let the culprit get away. | |
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Travelling Salesman Montage | |
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Travelling Salesman Montage: Around the beginning, there's a montage of James travelling America looking for a job. | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In a reverse Shoo the Dog, Jim leaves Helen forever, cutting her off from him permanently, so she won't be caught up in his wrecked life. | |
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Hellhole Prison | |
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Hellhole Prison: The film doesn't sugarcoat the novel writer's ordeal in prison. 15 hours of backbreaking labor 6 days a week, a diet of pig fat with a dough ball made of flour and lard, and of course lashes with the strap if the guards think you didn't work hard enough. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: James' brother who, in a letter to his brother, reveals his identity as a fugitive. No writing in code, just spill it all out about the police still looking for him. | |
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold | |
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Linda takes good care of James on his first night after his initial escape. That likely would not have played out that way had the film been made after The Hays Code went into effect in 1934. | |
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Caper Rationalization | |
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Caper Rationalization: Unlike the book's author, the protagonist in this adaptation is coerced at gunpoint into stealing the money, so as to not lose any sympathy with the audience. | |
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Moving the Goalposts | |
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Moving the Goalposts: First they promise to pardon Allen after 90 days, then 1 year, but it becomes apparent they will never let him go. | |
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Small Role, Big Impact | |
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Small Role, Big Impact: Pete, the man who offers James to a hamburger at a diner and turns out to be a burglar, dies after less than five minutes of screentime, and yet you can thank him for James Allen getting falsely accused of murder, going to prison, and slowly turning to a fugitive and a thief. | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield? | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield?: While Robert Elliott Burns' real-life incarceration took place in Georgia, and his book (on which the film was based) was titled I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!, the state is never named in the film. This did not stop numerous lawsuits being filed against the filmmakers by various Georgia prison officials, the film being banned in Georgia, or the studio head and the director of the film being threatened with firsthand experience on a chain gang if they ever set foot in Georgia. | |
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No Communities Were Harmed | |
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No Communities Were Harmed: The film is based on the autobiographical book by Robert E. Burns entitled I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!, published in 1930. The title was changed so as not to offend anyone from Georgia, and the state Allen escapes from is never named (the Travel Montage of his return fades out over Kentucky). Still, the film outraged the Georgia authorities so much that they refused to let the book's author off until 1945. | |
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Travel Montage | |
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Travel Montage: As Allen travels for work, and later when he escapes and returns to the chain gang, scenes of passenger trains are superimposed over map shots. The map doesn't specify where the prison camp is beyond the Deep South, merely fading out as it passes over Kentucky. | |
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Sdrawkcab Alias | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_902ff525 | comment |
Sdrawkcab Alias: Or a version of it, anyway. Allen just switches his first and last names around. | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Marie is a Gold Digger who blackmails James into an unhappy marriage, cheats on him shamelessly, betrays him to the police the first time he (nicely) asks her for a divorce, and reads her tenants' mail. We never see her again after she turns James in; for all we know, she gets off scot-free for all the misery she caused him. | |
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Two First Names | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_a7f99c1f | comment |
Two First Names: James and Allen are both reasonable names for a person. | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_a90fff3 | type |
Based on a True Story | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_a90fff3 | comment |
Based on a True Story: The only two big differences are that in the film, Robert Burns was changed to James Allen, and in real life Burns stole the money on his own, he wasn't held at gunpoint. | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_b13a123 | type |
Fade to Black | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_b13a123 | comment |
Fade to Black: Happens in the final scene, as Allen retreats into the darkness. When the final line is uttered, the film is completely black. | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: The old inmate whom James escapes with. He leans out of the truck to observe the pursuers who are wildly shooting at them. Of course he gets hit by a bullet. | |
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Institutional Apparel | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_b70b1e3b | comment |
Institutional Apparel: The prison outfits with prominent black and white horizontal stripes. | |
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The Film of the Book | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_b9af5ef3 | comment |
The Film of the Book: I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! by Robert Burns. The book, and the film, were released while he was still in hiding after his second escape (hence the present tense in the title). | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_c3245c20 | type |
I Lied | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_c3245c20 | comment |
I Lied: The entire state of Georgia does this, luring James back with a promise of parole after 90 days, only to reimpose the full 10-year sentence. | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_c335b9ec | type |
Irony | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: Jim's second escape is very symbolic—the man who dreamed of building bridges blows one up to get away from the police. | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_c5249c79 | type |
Nice Hat | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_c5249c79 | comment |
Nice Hat: Why the hell did they let James keep his hat, anyway? | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_ce6555f0 | type |
Lighter and Softer | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: Chain gangs in the South were far worse than depicted in the film, and were mostly comprised of Black prisoners. | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_cf36f69d | type |
Reed Snorkel | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_cf36f69d | comment |
Reed Snorkel: James effects his first escape by submerging himself in a pond and breathing through a reed until the guards and their dogs pass by. One of the guards wades into the pond and nearly walks into him. | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_dbe4847b | type |
Conveniently Cellmates | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_dbe4847b | comment |
Conveniently Cellmates: When Allen returns to prison after several years, he ends up in the same quarter with the old prisoner who helped him out the first time around. Guess what the two are planning next. | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_dcbe8a6e | type |
Chekhov's Gunman | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_dcbe8a6e | comment |
Chekhov's Gunman: Allen's buddy mentions that one of the prisoners is an expert with a sledgehammer, never missing his target. That's the guy that Allen gets to take whacks at the shackles around his legs. | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_ddeaea82 | type |
Miscarriage of Justice | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_ddeaea82 | comment |
Miscarriage of Justice: First James is imprisoned for 10 years for a crime he was forced into committing. Then the verbal promise concerning the pardon is broken twice. | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_dfb71617 | type |
Male Gaze | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_dfb71617 | comment |
Male Gaze: When James musters the hooker being sent to his room, the camera pans down her figure, simulating James Eating the Eye Candy. | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_e34fc3c2 | type |
Poverty Food | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_e34fc3c2 | comment |
Poverty Food: The prison inmates get a disgusting dish of grease, fried dough, pig fat and sorghum to eat, day in and day out, which Jim has a hard time adjusting to. | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_e596f27b | type |
Star-Crossed Lovers | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_e596f27b | comment |
Star-Crossed Lovers: James and Helen, who part forever at the end. | |
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Shadow Discretion Shot | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_e602b55b | comment |
Shadow Discretion Shot: The warden's whipping the prisoners' backs is depicted in shadow on a wall. | |
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| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_ed503b22 | type |
Match Cut | |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang / int_ed503b22 | comment |
Match Cut: From the judge banging his gavel as he sentences James to prison, to a workman with a hammer pounding the shackles on James's leg closed. | |
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