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

by Scott Allen Nollen

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786466774
• ISBN13: 9780786466771
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher