The Making and Influence of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

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The Making and Influence of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is written by Scott Allen Nollen and published by McFarland. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0786466774 (ISBN 10) and 9780786466771 (ISBN 13).

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.