The Pretenders - "Back On The Chain Gang" (1982)

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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a pre-Code 1932 crime/drama film in which Paul Muni stars as a wrongfully convicted convict on a chain gang who escapes to Chicago. The film was written by Howard J. Green and Brown Holmes from Robert Elliott Burns's autobiography, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang that was serialised in True Detective magazine. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

In 1991, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Sergeant James Allen (Paul Muni) returns to civilian life after World War I but has a hard time finding work. He accidentally becomes caught up in a robbery and is sentenced to ten years on a brutal Southern chain gang.

He escapes and makes his way to Chicago, where he becomes a success in the construction business. He becomes involved with the proprietor of his boardinghouse, Marie Woods (Glenda Farrell), who discovers his secret and blackmails him into an unhappy marriage. He then meets and falls in love with Helen (Helen Vinson). When he asks his wife for a divorce, she betrays him to the authorities. He is offered a pardon if he will turn himself in; Allen accepts, only to find that it was just a ruse. He escapes once again.

In the end, Allen visits Helen in the shadows on the street and tells her he is leaving forever. She asks, "Can't you tell me where you're going? Will you write? Do you need any money?" James repeats "no" as his answer as he backs away. Finally Helen says, "But you must, Jim. How do you live?" In the film's final line and shot James replies chillingly, "I steal", and disappears into the dark. The composition and lighting of the final scene, considered to be one of the best in film history, was reportedly accidental. The lights on the set supposedly either failed or were turned off earlier than intended. The studio liked what it saw and kept the ending.

Audiences in the United States who saw the film began to question the legitimacy of the United States legal system, and January 1933 the film's protagonist, Robert Elliot Burns, who was still imprisoned in New Jersey, and a number of different chain gang prisoners nationwide in the United States were able to appeal and were released. In January 1933, Georgia chain gang warden J. Harold Hardy, who was also made into a character in the film, sued the studio for displaying "vicious, brutal and false attacks" against him in the film.

Artist - The Pretenders
Song - Back On The Chain Gang
(Lyrics)

I found a picture of you oh
what hijacked my world that night
to a place in the past
we've been cast out of oh
now we're back in the fight
we're back on the train yeah oh.
A circumstance beyond our control oh
the phone, t.v. and the news of the world
got in the house like a pigeon from hell oh
threw sand in your eyes and descended like flies
put us back on the train yeah oh
back on the chain gang.
The powers that be
that force us to live like we do
bring me to my knees
when I see what they've done to you.
But I'll die as I stand her today
knowing that deep in my heart
they'll fall to ruin one day
for making us apart.
I found a picture of you oh
those were the happiest days of my life
now we're back on the train
oh back on the chain gang.
Like a break in the battle was your part oh
in the wretched life of a lonely heart
now we're back on the train
oh back on the chain gang.

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[daltonagre]

I found a picture of you oh what hijacked my world that night to a place in the past we've been cast out of oh now we're back in the fight we're back on the train yeah oh. A circumstance beyond our control oh the phone, t.v. and the news of the world got in the house like a pigeon from hell oh threw sand in your eyes and descended like flies put us back on the train yeah oh back on the chain gang. The powers that be that force us to live like we do bring me to my knees when I see what they've

[PampersPete]

Love this song, Joe! Thanks.

[camiledruzian2011]

é legal mas é o duro que é que não ta indo na lista de reprodução é chato

[camiledruzian2011]

não gostei



[ConfuseACatLtd2]

Great movie :)

[leandroanan]

i love this song ^^

[Mykittyisaninja]

good song, good book!

[sandhogy]

I was on a chain gang in florida ! and again in georgia ! my crime was to worship a false god ! It was at this time , evident that i was nondescriptive ! LOL

[6456fito]

Pija de rola.



[daltonagre]

Good art doesn't gets older. I live in Brazil.