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THE MAKING AND INFLUENCE OF I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GAN IBD

MCFARLAND AND COMPANY, INC.
09 / 2016
9780786466771
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Sinopsis

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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