I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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The muckraking social drama has a long, proud tradition in American movies, from "I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang" to "Norma Rae" to "Erin Brockovich."
Dragging its feet between I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (released the same year that Life finds its "murderers" caught up in the criminal injustice system) and the camaraderie and bleakness of The Shawshank Redemption, Life instead is a sailboat stranded in a windless sea, a comedy slant on The Bridge on the River Kwai sinking without the bridge or the river.
It's very "I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang" - but with baguettes.