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"An ex-soldier wrongly condemned to hard labor on a Georgia chain gang suffers cruelty and misery. The brutalities of the chain gang were so emphatically exposed that there was a public outcry when this film was shown, resulting in drastic reforms of the system. The film was adapted from a novel by Robert Elliott Burns who in real life was sentenced to a chain gang after taking part in a minor robbery."@en
"The story of the cruelty and misery suffered by an ex-soldier wrongly condemned to hard labor on a Georgia chain gang."@en
""World War I is over. Johnny has come marching home. But there's little fanfare and no meaningful work for one war vet. There's only the desperate life of an unjustly convicted fugitive. Twice he is sentenced to a chain gang. Twice he escapes. They can put his hands and feet in irons, but not his will to be free."--Container."@en
"An ex-soldier wrongly condemned to hard labor on a Georgia chain gang suffers cruelty and misery. The brutalities of the chain gang were so emphatically exposed that there was a public outcry when it was shown, resulting in drastic reforms of the system. The film was adapted from a novel by Robert Elliott Burns who in real life was sentenced to a chain gang after taking part in a minor robbery."@en
"Based on the autobiographical writings by chain-gang escapee, Robert E. Burns, this is the story of an unemployed ex-soldier after WWI, unjustly sentenced to a chain gang."
"One of Hollywood's earliest social protest films, it concerns the cruelty and misery suffered by an ex-soldier (Paul Muni) wrongly condemned to hard labor on a Georgia chain gang. The brutalities of the chain gang were so emphatically exposed that there was a public outcry when it was shown, resulting in drastic reforms of the system."@en
"One of Hollywood's earliest social protest films, it concerns the cruelty and misery suffered by an ex-soldier (Paul Muni) wrongly condemned to hard labor on a Georgia chain gang. The brutalities of the chain gang were so emphatically exposed that there was a public outcry when it was shown, resulting in drastic reforms of the system."
""Returning from World War I, Sergeant James Allen decides to go into construction work to build something positive after the destruction of the war. There are not enough jobs, however, and soon he unsuccessfully tries to pawn his war medals. By accident, Jim gets involved in a robbery in which the actual thief is killed, and he gets sentenced to ten years on a southern chain gang. The brutal conditions drive him to escape. He slips off his shackles with the help of another prisoner and takes off, dogs baying at his heels. He manages to reach Chicago and, under the name Allen James, works his way up in the construction business. Marie, his landlady, discovers the truth about him, and now that he is successful, blackmails him into marrying her. Their marriage is a disaster. One night at a party, Jim meets Helen and they fall in love. He asks Marie for a divorce, but she refuses and out of revenge, turns him in. When Illinois will not extradite him, southern prison officials offer to pardon him after ninety days if he turns himself in. Anxious to clear his name before he marries Helen, Jim agrees, but when he arrives in the South, he discovers that they lied to him. After his pardon is refused twice, he escapes again, ironically blowing up a bridge during his getaway. This time he must live in hiding. One night he returns to tell Helen goodbye. Completely distraught, she asks him, 'How do you live?' 'I steal, ' he answers before he disappears into the shadows"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."@en
"An itinerant ex-soldier is sentenced to a chain gang after he is wrongly implicated in a hold-up. An early social protest film based on a true story, the film helped initiate reform of the prison system."@en
"An itinerant ex-soldier is sentenced to a chain gang after he is wrongly implicated in a hold-up. An early social protest film based on a true story, the film helped initiate reform of the prison system."