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I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
August 6, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

It’s Paul Muni night (and day) on TCM, and the evening part of the tribute begins with one of his most important starring roles. Made in 1932, it told the based-on-fact story of a man who was wrongly imprisoned, and, at the time the movie was released, still on the run from authorities, like a true-life Richard Kimble. And the reaction to this film, and Muni’s performance, was so potent that, as happened decades later with the subject of the sympathetic biopic Hurricane, its protagonist was pardoned.

 
 
 
 
 
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